In this conversation, recorded in Hong Kong in August 2021, director Ann Hui and assistant director Stanley Kwan discuss their longstanding friendship, the state of filmmaking past and present, and the collaboration early in their careers on the cherished landmark of the Hong Kong New Wave BOAT PEOPLE.
Although it was a domestic critical and box-office success and has since come to be regarded as a preeminent example of the Hong Kong New Wave, BOAT PEOPLE was initially given a mixed critical reception abroad. Its international premiere at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival was fraught with controver...
Directed by Ann Hui and Vincent Chui • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Ann Hui
AS TIME GOES BY is a rarely seen, deeply personal work of nonfiction by Ann Hui, made at the beginning of Hong Kong’s handover from colonial British rule to Mainland China in 1997, a year of unprecedented transformations. I...
Directed by Man Lim-chung • 2020 • Hong Kong
Starring Ann Hui, Ann Hui, Nansun Shi
This 2020 documentary, the directorial debut of Ann Hui’s longtime production designer and art director Man Lim-chung, is an intimate and candid portrait of Hui’s astonishing life and prolific career as one of Hon...
