Dante Lam

Dante Lam
Background information
Chinese name 林超賢 (traditional)
Chinese name 林超贤 (simplified)
Pinyin Lín Chāoxián (Mandarin)
Born May 11, 1965
Hong Kong

Dante Lam Chiu-Yin (simplified Chinese: 林超贤; traditional Chinese: 林超賢; pinyin: Lín Chāoxián) is a film director, writer and actor who is a major figure in Chinese action cinema. He was trained in the tradition of John Woo as an assistant director and worked as an actor and producer. He often writes and supervises his own choreography. In 2008 he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director for his work on Beast Stalker.[1] His 2018 release, Operation Red Sea is 2nd on the list of the highest grossing Chinese films of all-time and 9th in the international box office list of 2018.

Filmography

Director



References

  1. ↑ "Hong Kong Film Awards" (in Chinese). Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Dante's dramas". The Straits Times. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Rapold, Nicolas (2014-04-17). "'That Demon Within,' Dante Lam's Hong Kong Pulp". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  4. ↑ Why Hong Kong director Dante Lam’s new movie highlights city’s inane attitude to cycling, SCMP, 31 July 2015
  5. ↑ Staff Reporter (September 16, 2015). "Dante Lam begins Mekong shoot". Film Business Asia. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ ""Bona Film Seeks Status as Chinese Major Ahead of IPO"". variety.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  7. ↑ "Eddie Peng to perform an 'Emergency Rescue' for Dante Lam". cityonfire.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.


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