Dante Lam

Dante Lam Chiu-Yin (simplified Chinese: 林超贤; traditional Chinese: 林超賢; pinyin: Lín Chāoxián) is a Hong Kong film director, writer and actor who is a major figure in Chinese action cinema.

Dante Lam
林超賢
Lam at the 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival
Born
Lam Chiu-Yin

(1964-07-01) 1 July 1964
British Hong Kong
Occupationdirector, writer, actor
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese林超賢
Simplified Chinese林超贤

Background

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 film Operation Red Sea is the second-highest-grossing Chinese film of all time and 9th in the international box office list of 2018. It won him the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director[2] and the award for Best Action Choreography at the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards.[3]

In the aftermath of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Lam was contracted by the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) to produce a video, Guarding Our City, intended to help rehabilitate the police force's public image. The 15-minute video was released on 23 January 2021.[4]

Filmography

Director

References
  1. "Hong Kong Film Awards" (in Chinese). Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  2. "《红海行动》斩获百花奖五项大奖 吴京拿下最佳男主角 成龙黄晓明亮相红毯". Mtime (in Chinese). November 10, 2018.
  3. Adriana Rosati (2019-04-15). Asian Movie Pulse https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/04/the-38th-hong-kong-film-awards-reveals-all-the-winners-here-the-full-list/. Retrieved 2019-04-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Ho, Kelly (6 March 2021). "Hong Kong Ombudsman to investigate HKFP complaint against police refusal to disclose promo video cost". Hong Kong Free Press.
  5. "Dante's dramas". The Straits Times. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  6. 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.
  7. Why Hong Kong director Dante Lam’s new movie highlights city’s inane attitude to cycling, SCMP, 31 July 2015
  8. Staff Reporter (September 16, 2015). "Dante Lam begins Mekong shoot". Film Business Asia. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  9. "Bona Film Seeks Status as Chinese Major Ahead of IPO". variety.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  10. "Eddie Peng to perform an 'Emergency Rescue' for Dante Lam". cityonfire.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  11. "Tsui Hark, Dante Lam and Chen Kaige prepare 'Wolf Warrior' star Wu Jing for 'The Battle at Lake Changjin' | cityonfire.com". Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  12. "Dante Lam to bring the pain with 'Operation Red Sea' sequel | cityonfire.com". Retrieved 2021-04-04.
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