Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡明亮; pinyin: Cài Míngliàng) (born October 27, 1957) is a Malaysian Chinese and one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous film festival awards. Early life[edit] Tsai was born in Malaysia of Chinese ethnic background and spent his first 20 years of his life in Kuching, Sarawak, after which he moved to Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from the Drama and Cinema Department of the Chinese Culture University of Taiwan in 1982 and worked as a theatrical producer, screenwriter, and television director in Hong Kong. Career[edit] In 1995, he was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] All of his feature films have starred Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng. In 2003, he was voted by UK newspaper The Guardian as #18 of the 40 best directors in the world. Filmography[edit]
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Ang Lee
Ang Lee OBS(Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese-born American film director, screenwriter and producer.[1][2] Early life[edit] Childhood and education[edit] "I was never a citizen of any particular place... My parents left China to go to Taiwan. We were outsiders there. Lee studied in the Provincial Tainan First Senior High School (now National Tainan First Senior High School) where his father was the principal. After finishing Taiwan's mandatory military service, Lee went to the US in 1979 to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his bachelor's degree in theater in 1980. During graduate school, Lee finished a 16mm short film, Shades of the Lake (1982), which won the Best Drama Award in Short Film in Taiwan. Life after graduation[edit] Lee's NYU thesis drew attention from the William Morris Agency, the famous talent and literary agency that later represented Lee. Career[edit] Debut from Taiwan[edit] 1999 onward[edit]
Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director, actress and producer based in New York.[1] Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at the prestigious Miranda House of Delhi University and then at Harvard University.[2] Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India.[3] She often works with longtime creative collaborator screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. Career[edit] At the beginning of her career as a film artist, Nair directed four television documentaries. Personal life[edit] Awards[edit]
Zhang Yimou
Zhang has won numerous awards and recognitions, with Best Foreign Film nominations for Ju Dou in 1990 and Raise the Red Lantern in 1991, Silver Lion and Golden Lion prizes at the Venice Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.[5] In 1993, he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.[6] Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, which received considerable international acclaim. §Early life[edit] Zhang was born in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Zhang left his school studies and went to work, first as a farm labourer for 3 years, and later at a cotton textile mill for 7 years in the city of Xianyang.[8][9] During this time he took up painting and amateur still photography. §Early career[edit] §Film director[edit] §1980s[edit] §1990s[edit] §2000–present[edit]
East Asian cinema
East Asian cinema is cinema produced in East Asia or produced by people from this region. It is part of Asian cinema, which in turn is part of world cinema. World cinema is used in the English-speaking world to refer to all foreign language films. The most significant film industries categorizable as East Asian cinema are the industries of China, Hong Kong and Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. The terms 'Far Eastern cinema', 'Asian cinema', 'Eastern cinema' or 'Oriental cinema' are sometimes used synonymously with East Asian cinema, particularly in the United States, although their broader scope means that Asian cinema could equally well apply to the movies produced in other parts of Asia, particularly the cinema of India including the enormous Bollywood film industry. East Asia is highlighted in green on this map, which also includes South Asia (orange) and Southeast Asia (blue). Styles and genres[edit] History[edit] 1890s-1950s[edit] 1950s: global influence[edit] 1960s and 1970s[edit]
Chan-wook Park
Boksuneun naui geot (2002
On the Waterfront (1954
Nashville (1975
Peeping Tom (1960
