Famous Chinese Americans Entertainment: Filmmaking

	Who	What
Buy @Amazon.com	Jon M. Chu b. 1979, Palo Alto, CA	Directed the popular dance film Step Up 2: The Streets. He is an alumnus of the USC School of Cinema-Television. Chu has said that he started making films in fifth grade when his family went on vacation and his parents allowed him to handle the camera. Chu said, “Rather than shooting our family in front of the London Bridge or the Eiffel Tower, I was making sci-fi thrillers and murder mysteries.”
Buy @Amazon.com	李安 Ang Lee b. 1954, Taiwan	Movie director. The first few films directed by Lee were about Chinese family relationships. The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman were very successful in the foreign film circuits. His skillful handling of human emotion in these two films earned him the opportunity to direct Sense and Sensibility.his transition into big time Hollywood filmmaking. He would go on to direct The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil. In 2000, he released Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an epic romance and martial arts fantasy which became the most successful foreign film released in the US. It also received 14 Oscar nominations and earned four Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film. More recent films include Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, for which he won the Best Director award, and the highly acclaimed Lust, Caution.
Buy @Amazon.com	林詣彬 Justin Lin b. 1972, Taipei	Movie director. Justin was raised in Orange County, CA and attended UCLA, where he graduated with a BA and MFA in film direction. In his first two movie efforts he collaborated with fellow student Quentin Lee in Flow (as a cinematographer) and later in Shopping for Fangs, which co-directed. However, it was his first solo effort that gained him attention and a distribution deal. Partially funding his effort by maxing out credit cards, Justin wrote the script and directed Better Luck Tomorrow, a critically acclaimed film about a group of Asian American high-schoolers who turn to crime.

Who

What

Jon M. Chu

b. 1979, Palo Alto, CA

Directed the popular dance film Step Up 2: The Streets. He is an alumnus of the USC School of Cinema-Television. Chu has said that he started making films in fifth grade when his family went on vacation and his parents allowed him to handle the camera. Chu said, “Rather than shooting our family in front of the London Bridge or the Eiffel Tower, I was making sci-fi thrillers and murder mysteries.”

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Ang Lee

b. 1954, Taiwan

Movie director. The first few films directed by Lee were about Chinese family relationships. The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman were very successful in the foreign film circuits. His skillful handling of human emotion in these two films earned him the opportunity to direct Sense and Sensibility.his transition into big time Hollywood filmmaking. He would go on to direct The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil. In 2000, he released Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an epic romance and martial arts fantasy which became the most successful foreign film released in the US. It also received 14 Oscar nominations and earned four Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film. More recent films include Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, for which he won the Best Director award, and the highly acclaimed Lust, Caution.

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林詣彬
Justin Lin

b. 1972, Taipei

Movie director. Justin was raised in Orange County, CA and attended UCLA, where he graduated with a BA and MFA in film direction. In his first two movie efforts he collaborated with fellow student Quentin Lee in Flow (as a cinematographer) and later in Shopping for Fangs, which co-directed. However, it was his first solo effort that gained him attention and a distribution deal. Partially funding his effort by maxing out credit cards, Justin wrote the script and directed Better Luck Tomorrow, a critically acclaimed film about a group of Asian American high-schoolers who turn to crime.