Northeast Film Studio or Northeastern Film Studio (Chinese: 东北电影制片厂; pinyin: Dōngběi Diànyǐng Zhìpiànchǎng) was one of the first formally established movie production company in the northeast part of China.
Following Japan's unconditional surrender in August 1945, the Soviet Red Army helped the Chinese communists to take over the Japanese colonial film establishment in Manchuria, the Manchukuo Film Association (Man-ei).
[2] Northeast Film Studio trained the first generation of communist Chinese documentary filmmakers.
[1]: 133 Many of its newly-trained documentary filmmakers were immediately sent to the front where they recorded the advance of the People's Liberation Army against the Nationalists.
The Wan brothers and the talents of Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Suzhou and many other big-name artists would all be concentrated in this studio for the first time to form the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.