Cinespot : Interviews

Documentary is a genre that is usually overlooked by Chinese audience. This time, we are glad to have the opportunity to talk to renowned documentary director Ruby Yang, who is best known as an Academy Award winner, In this interview, director Yang not only talks about her latest film A Moment in Time, ... by Kantorates

Gay and Lesbian films used to be a taboo in Chinese cinema. However, in the past decade, there have been a growing acceptability of this genre and a lot of quality films have been made. New director Kit Hung from Hong Kong is one of the most prominent filmmakers focusing on gay cinema, ... by Kantorates

2009 is a busy year for Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. After winning the Best Director Award at the Asian Film Award ceremony in early April, Kore-eda has been traveling again to promote his films. Before he headed to Cannes to attend the premiere of his latest film Air Doll, he spent a few days ... by Kantorates

As the spotlight filmmaker of this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is well known by the international audience as a master of horror film. Since the success of Cure in the late 1990s, Kurosawa has continued to make films ... by Kantorates

Award winning Hong Kong director/actor Daniel Wu visited San Francisco in March 2008. Wu, representing Blood Brothers, an action drama directed by newcomer Alexi Tan, served as a guest and panelist for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival ... by Cinespot

Featuring seven directors and a group of fledgling actors, See You in Youtuvbe successfully captured the attention of the media as well as general audience. We're fortunate to have the opportunity to talk to the lead director Oxide Pang (Pang Brother) and several of the lead actresses ... by Eric Liu

After winning the Best Director Award at HKFAA, vertern director Patrick Tam brought his award winning masterpiece After This Our Exile to San Francisco to take part at the namesake film festival. During his stay in San Francisco, director Tam generously shared his filmmaking visions, ... by Kantorates

This time we are glad to have our second Vietnamese American guest, Vu Le, a Vietnamese American filmmaker. Vu Le is enthusiastic about filmmaking, not only is he the executive producer of young and promising director Sam Akina's new film, he is also preparing to direct his first feature film, ... by K. Lui

Following the "combo" interview with director Pang Ho-cheung and Chapman To last week, here again we have two guests with us this time, they are the directors of Undercover Hidden Dragon, Gordon Chan and Dante Lam. As fans of Hong Kong cinema may know, Chan and Lam are long time collaborators, ... by Eric Liu

After winning the Best Original Score award at Berlin Film Festival, director Pang Ho-cheung's new film Isabella is set to come out to the theater in Hong Kong in early April. This time we are glad to have director Pang and his lead actor Chapman To (who also happens to be the producer of this film) as our guests, ... by Eric Liu

Please welcome our first guest this year, director Law Wing-cheong. To those who are familiar with Johnnie To's films, director Law should not be a stranger. Having worked in most of the recent To's films as the associate director, including the award winning Election, Law is a long-time collaborator with Johnnie To. This time, ... by Eric Liu

Director Chan Wing-chiu (aka: Ah Chiu), little known to the audience until recently, started his career in filmmaking in the 80s. Having been the assistant director and production manager for many movies, he eventually jumped into the directing stream. While director Chan has gained much experience in commercial filmmaking, ... by Eric Liu

Our latest guest is Benny Chan Muk-sing, the icon of new Hong Kong action cinema. From Big Bullet to Jackie Chan's New Police Story, Chan's works are almost always associated with the word "blockbuster". This time, we're glad to have director Chan to meet with us and talk about his latest movie Divergence, ... by Eric Liu

This time we are honored to have director Derek Yee, the winner of the Best Director Award at the 24th Hong Kong Film Academy Award Ceremony, as our latest guest. Currently, Director Yee just finished shooting his new film 2 Young which is scheduled to come out in late April. Therefore, in this interview, not only would he talk about ... by Eric Liu

Our first guest in 2005 is Hong Kong director / screenwriter James Yuen Sai-sang. Mr. Yuen's new movie Crazy n' the City, featuring Francis Ng and Eason Chan, is set to release next week. We are glad to have the opportunity to sit down and discuss it with him. Moreover, we also talked about director Yuen's screenwriting experience, ... by Eric Liu

Victor Vu is an up-and-coming director, producer and writer from Southern California. Vu is on a whirlwind promotional tour for his third film, Spirits (Oan H?n), which has already met with considerable success. Cinespot was able to sit down and chat with Vu at the UCLA Cinema Symposium 2 in November 2004, ... by Jenny Cho

As one of the pinoeers of gospel film (or Christian film, whatever you want to call it), Adrian Kwan Shun-fai is never tired of promoting a positive attitude of life to the audience. This time, we are glad to have the opportunity to sit down and talk with him, ... by Eric Liu

Pang Ho-cheung (aka. Edmond Pang) is one of the most promising young directors in Hong Kong now. We're glad to have the opportunity to meet and ask him about his new movie, Beyond Our Ken. Director Pang was generous enough to spend a good afternoon with us talking not only about his new movie, but also, ... by Eric Liu

This time, we have invited Hong Kong director Oxide Pang (Pang Brothers) to be our guest. In this interview, we talked about his new movie Ab-normal Beauty, a psychological thriller, as well as his filmmaking aesthetics and future works, We know that director Pang is having a very busy schedule lately, more... by Eric Liu

We know it has been a long time, but don't worry, the filmmaker's interview you guys are waiting is finally back again. This time we are lucky to have our first Singaporean guest as our latest "victim", Djinn, a Singaporean filmmaker based in Los Angeles now, Thanks to director Djinn's generous support, the content of this interview is very broad, more... by K. Lui

In 2003, our first guest is director Choi Kai-kwong. The primary topic is director Choi's latest film Lai Man-wai - Father of Hong Kong Cinema. In our interview, director Choi was also nice enough to talk about his career as a movie director, his previous works and a prospect of the future of Chinese cinema, more... by K. Lui

Cathy Chui is a very young actress in Hong Kong. She told us about her past, her recent life and what she would love to do in the future in this interview. She was very nice and it was very comfortable talking to her, that it was like chatting with a friend, more... by K. Lui

We had an exclusive interview with director Joe Ma in September 2002. It was a very pleasant and comfortable interview. Director Ma shared his vision and thoughts with us generously. Topics include his latest film The Lion Roars, his influences, unforgettable experiences, and more... by K. Lui

Thanks to Kima, Cinespot was able to conduct an exclusive interview with Korean director Ryu Seung-Wan on UC Berkeley campus in September 2002. As the primary guest of the film festival who was supposed to attend numerous events, director Ryu was very kind to share his valuable time with us. more... by K. Lui