Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah

Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah

Historia

Born in Hong Kong, Aubrey Lam Oi-wah graduated from the University of Hong Kong, then studied film at Los Angeles. After attending directing classes of the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild, she joined UFO in 1995 as scriptwriter. Since then, she had established herself as one of Hong Kong’s noted women writers, with scripts for Yesterday You, Yesterday Me (1997, Love Trilogy (2004) and Wu Xia (2011). She also co-authored the scripts for Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man (1996), Purple Storm (1999), Golden Chicken 2 (2003), Perhaps Love (2005) and The Warlords (2007), the latter two films nominated for Best Screenplay by the Hong Kong Film Awards Lam began directing with Twelve Nights (2000), a meditative look at romance which she also wrote. Lam switched focus with her sophomore project, directing and writing the quirky comedy Hidden Track (2003). In 2002, she obtained a Master’s degree at�the University of Hong Kong.

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Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah

Películas

Twelve Days
Screenplay
Like her directorial debut Twelve Nights, Twelve Days depicts 12 scenes of a tumultuous marriage, from its blissful beginning through its bitter collapse. On day one, Jeannie and Simon seem to have the makings of a perfect marriage, but the following 11 vignettes reveal the various conflicts, both big and small, that slowly eat away at their bond. Love may build a marriage, but Twelve Days shows that reality can just as easily shatter it.
Twelve Days
Director
Like her directorial debut Twelve Nights, Twelve Days depicts 12 scenes of a tumultuous marriage, from its blissful beginning through its bitter collapse. On day one, Jeannie and Simon seem to have the makings of a perfect marriage, but the following 11 vignettes reveal the various conflicts, both big and small, that slowly eat away at their bond. Love may build a marriage, but Twelve Days shows that reality can just as easily shatter it.
Love Without Distance
Writer
The romantic comedy “Tuhao 520” or “Love Without Distance” is the newest film title that centers on the lives of China’s billionaires. The film attempts to dissect before the audience via creatively crafted scenes the meaning of "tuhao," which is a famous Chinese expression describing rich people who lack some grace and elegance.
Love Without Distance
Director
The romantic comedy “Tuhao 520” or “Love Without Distance” is the newest film title that centers on the lives of China’s billionaires. The film attempts to dissect before the audience via creatively crafted scenes the meaning of "tuhao," which is a famous Chinese expression describing rich people who lack some grace and elegance.
The Truth About Beauty
Director
A recently graduated and intelligent young woman sees plastic surgery as essential to succeeding in both her career and romantic aspirations.
American Dreams in China
Writer
Durante la época de la reforma económica en China, tres jóvenes y apasionados idealistas luchan para cambiar su vida mientras se esfuerzan por mantener vivo su sueño. Su espíritu inconquistable los transforma de don nadies a gigantes de un imperio multimillonario.
Xue di zi (The Guillotines)
Writer
Película de época que se centra en escuadrón secreto de asesinos del emperador chino. Remake de un clásico de la Shawn Brothers.
Dragon (Wu xia)
Writer
Bajo la dinastía Qing, Liu Jin-xi, fabricante de papel, lleva una vida apacible en un pueblo remoto con su mujer Ayu y sus dos hijos. Pero la llegada de un detective cambiará sus vidas...
A Decade of Love
Director
The Warlords: Los señores de la guerra
Screenplay
Ambientada en 1860, Warlords es una historia épica sobre tres hermanos de sangre que luchan en las legendarias contiendas bélicas y políticas hacia al final de la dinastía Quing (1644-1911).
Anna & Anna
Director
Anna & Anna is a movie about a Singaporean arts saleswoman / alpha female and her subdued doppelganger. Anna One (the arts saleswoman) is very successful in her job, and gets posted to Shanghai, where she used to live before. There, by a coincidence, she finds another woman who not only like her but IS her - Anna Two. This Anna has finished her studies, become a painter, and stayed with Oulang, a depressed musician - the life as Anna One's could have been, had she made another decision at one point of her life.
Anna & Anna
Writer
Anna & Anna is a movie about a Singaporean arts saleswoman / alpha female and her subdued doppelganger. Anna One (the arts saleswoman) is very successful in her job, and gets posted to Shanghai, where she used to live before. There, by a coincidence, she finds another woman who not only like her but IS her - Anna Two. This Anna has finished her studies, become a painter, and stayed with Oulang, a depressed musician - the life as Anna One's could have been, had she made another decision at one point of her life.
Men Suddenly in Black 2
Writer
Love Trilogy
Writer
Three pairs of lovers arrived at Yunnan at the same time, meets Shibo Yuan tourguide, Liu Hai.
Golden Chicken 2
Writer
The year is 2046 and 82 year old Golden Chicken Kum, spots a heartbroken man planning to take memory loss-pills. Claiming that Hong Kong people have a way of forgetting, she begins to recap part of her life story, starting in 2003 during a time where she was desperately looking for a husband and the SARS outbreak happened.
Hidden Track
Writer
Pu Pu is dumped by her boyfriend whom she loves. Before she moves out, she asks to listen to "their song" just one more time, that is the hidden track by Jay Chou. Then she leaves him and goes to her sister's place in Hong Kong. All the while she is there, she searches for the same song, the "hidden track", and from this it leads her onto a journey of discovering love and a new beginning. Despite the whole movie revolving around Jay Chou's song, Jay Chou plays only a cameo part.
Hidden Track
Director
Pu Pu is dumped by her boyfriend whom she loves. Before she moves out, she asks to listen to "their song" just one more time, that is the hidden track by Jay Chou. Then she leaves him and goes to her sister's place in Hong Kong. All the while she is there, she searches for the same song, the "hidden track", and from this it leads her onto a journey of discovering love and a new beginning. Despite the whole movie revolving around Jay Chou's song, Jay Chou plays only a cameo part.
Twelve Nights
Writer
This movie goes through 12 significant nights (not consecutive nights) in a relationship between two characters. The movie offers some insight into the repetion involved in relationship cycles from interest through various tensions to eventual disinterest.
Twelve Nights
Director
This movie goes through 12 significant nights (not consecutive nights) in a relationship between two characters. The movie offers some insight into the repetion involved in relationship cycles from interest through various tensions to eventual disinterest.
Who's the Man, Who's the Woman
Writer
Music producer Sam and his cross-dressing protege Wing have finally professed their love for another, but now what?
The Age of Miracles
Writer
A psychic widow (Anita Yuen) makes a bargain with Death (Roy Chiao) in order to save her son's (Alan Tam) life.
Heaven Can't Wait
Writer
Foreign - Tony is a wily, pessimistic scam artist who uses an ancient superstition to build a hilariously enterprising business. Lam is his sometime business cohort and Chan is the kind-hearted boy next door who falls victim to Tony's tricks.