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Ann Hui: Icon of Hong Kong’s ‘New Wave’ Cinema

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3 weeks ago

Twelve years ago today, A Simple Life was released in theaters. This film went on to become one of the most critically successful films in Hong Kong’s history, and it’s no surprise that it was created by one of the most important members of Hong Kong’s New Wave of filmmakers, Ann Hui. 

Ann Hui is a director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, who is known for social commentary about Hong Kong in her films, spanning a wide range of topics such as women’s issues and class struggles. … read more.

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Ann Hui—telling the stories of Hong Kong’s social issues through cinema

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3 years ago
Ann Hui is a director, screenwriter, producer, and actress, who has become one of the most influential figures of Hong Kong’s New Wave filmmakers. In the past decade, she has become a somewhat legend at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
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Ann Hui: The Star of the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards

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3 years ago
Ann Hui, one of the most critically acclaimed and influential figures of Hong Kong’s New Wave filmmakers, has swept the awards at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards. Our Time Will Come took five of the nineteen available awards in the categories for Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Film Score.
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FF2 Congratulates Ann Hui on her AMPAS Directors Branch Appointment

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6 years ago

Ann Hui, award-winning filmmaker from Hong Kong, is one of the women added to the AMPAS Directors Branch this month. Our Time Will Come is her new feature. Here’s what we think!

FF2’s Managing Editor Brigid K. Presecky:

Director Ann Hui’s third feature goes on an atypical journey with “Lan,” (Zhou Xun) a quiet leader who takes on an important role in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong during the 1940s.… read more.

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