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Stanley KWAN (director) Stanley KWAN (in Mandarin GUAN Jinpeng; in Cantonese KWAN Kam-Pang) was born in Hong Kong, 1957. After studying in the Department of Communications in Baptist College, he joined the television station TVB as a trainee actor but soon moved to the production training division. He found himself working as assistant to several of the young directors who went on to launch a 'new wave' in Hong Kong cinema - including Ann Hui, Yim Ho and Patrick Tam. He soon followed them in moving into the film industry and directed his own first feature in 1985. His second film Love Unto Waste was invited into competition in Locarno Film Festival and his third, Rouge, won him a substantial international audience. His 1991 film Actress (aka Centre Stage) won the Best Actress prize in Berlin Film Festival for Maggie Cheung, and in 1997 Hold You Tight won both the Alfred Bauer prize for innovation and the Teddy Award for best lesbian/gay feature, again in Berlin. In addition to the feature films, which have won him a worldwide art-house following, he has directed shorts, documentaries and a short play which was staged in both Hong Kong and London. Filmography: 1985 Nuren Xin (Women) 1986 Dixia Qing (Love Unto Waste) 1987 Yanzhi Kou (Rouge) 1989 Ren Zai Niu-Yue (Full Moon in New York) 1991 Ruan Lingyu (Actress aka Centre Stage) 1991 Liang ge Nuren... (Too Happy for Words) short 1993 Yi She Ren Liang Zimei (Two Sisters) short 1993 Siqin Gaowa Er-Dan Shi (Siqin Gaowa) documentary 1995 Hong Meigui, Bai Meigui (Red Rose, White Rose) 1996 Nan Sheng Nu Xiang (Yang + Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema) documentary 1997 Nian Ni Rushi (Still Love You After All) documentary 1997 Yue Kuai Le, Yue Duoluo (Hold You Tight) 1999 You Shi Tiaowu (The Island Tales) 2001 Lan Yu (Lan Yu) |