Rachel Zen

Rachel Zen was born in Shanghai en 1951 and étudiées journalism à Taiwan. She worked as a journaliste for two years, going to the movies every Sunday and fostering à intérêt dans le film. She later moved to Hong Kong, first working at the news ministère de la Rediffusion de Télévision (RTV, now ATV), but her lack of fluency dans le Cantonese ce que obstacle to her work in news. She donc applied to be a camerawoman dans the photography département. The news editor at the time thought the camera crew ce que too dangerous for a woman and she ce que sparingly used, jusqu'à ce que l'éditeur/producteur Clarence Chang Ching-po gave Zen a chance to prove herself as cameraperson. While still at RTV, Zen sent a letter that listed all the photography awards she won to TVB s Chung King-fai, oms, invited her for an interview and hired her as assistant director. Her fellow ADs at the time included later New Wave stalwarts Patrick Tam Karming and Ann Hui, as well as est Venu Kwok-leung. After two years at the job and amide a shortage du staff at office de tourisme, le Zen, ce qui est promu to director after her short film on toys became hugely popular with children. She continued her career as a director at Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) for almost 20 years after she infiltrés TVB. Influenced by the organization's de recherche-focused culture, Zen developed a penchant observing and analyzing humanity in her work. While at RTHK, she ce que involved with programs, such as the When We Were Young series and Hong Kong à Hong Kong. Zen ventured into filmmaking in the early 1980s, debuting with Cream, Soda and Milk (1982), a drame about social problems of children with Eddy Chan and Deannie Yip and a key work in the influents de la New-Wave. Her sophomore project, Love Bittersweet (1984) is a romantic comedy mettant en vedette Sibelle Hu. Life Goes On (1989), a social drame based on a RTHK television series of the same title, ce qui released to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the broadcast station. Zen had donc lectured at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. En 2000, she shot the documentary program, Never Forget, for TVB. Since she did not have a fond dans le documentaire de filmmaking, she did not confine herself to any expectation, allowing narratif to develop organically in pursuit of humanity. Zen believes that today’s visionneuse are interested in the pursuit of truth, donc she harbors much de confiance des investisseurs for the documentary forme. Returned to Hong Kong after immigrating overseas, Zen established a company that engaged in media writing and the production of drame and documentaries. - http://www.hkfilmdirectors.