**Fan Popo** is a documentary filmmaker, film critic, and LGBT activist from China. His documentaries have focused on performance-based activism and coming out as LGBT in a Chinese context. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, and has been a committee member of the Beijing Queer Film Festival since 2008. He is well known for his documentary film _Mama Rainbow_, in addition to his well publicized legal case against the Chinese state media regulator over censorship of it. He now lives in Berlin, Germany.