Stanley Kwan | |||||||||||||
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| Chinese:關錦鵬 | |||||||||||||
 Kwan in 2008 | |||||||||||||
| Born | (1957-10-09)9 October 1957 (age 68) | ||||||||||||
| Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards –Best Director 1988Rouge Golden Horse Awards –Best Director 2001Lan Yu | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 關錦鵬 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 关锦鹏 | ||||||||||||
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Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957[1]) is a Hong Kongfilm director andproducer.
Kwan first landed a job atTVB after receiving a mass communications degree atHong Kong Baptist College. His first film,Women (1985) which starredChow Yun-fat, was a big box-office success.
Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with romantic affairs of the heart.Rouge (1987),Full Moon in New York (1989),Center Stage (1991), a biopic onsilent film starRuan Lingyu andEverlasting Regret (2005), are all such typical Kwan films.Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of anovella of the same name byEileen Chang. The film was entered into the45th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] His 1998 filmHold You Tight won theAlfred Bauer Prize andTeddy Award at the48th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]
In 1996, Kwancame out as agay man inYang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, his documentary looking at the history of Chinese-language film through the prism of gender roles and sexuality. He is one of the few openly gay directors inAsia and one of the very few to have worked on these themes.[4] HisLan Yu (2001) adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet.
Kwan is also an occasional lecturer at theCity University of Hong Kong, where he teaches directing and writing to students.[5][6]
In June 2025, Kwan was invited to join the Directors Branch of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[7]
Red Rose White Rose (1994), produced by Wong Cheuk-hon's First Film Organisation,[8] is an adaptation of a novella byEileen Chang.
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