Rachel Zen

Rachel Zen was born en Shanghai, en 1951 and estudian periodismo en Taiwan. She worked as a periodista for two years, going to the movies every Sunday and fostering de interés en la película. She later moved to Hong Kong, first working at the news departamento de Rediffusion Televisión (RTV, now ATV), but her lack of fluency en Cantonés lo obstáculo to her work in news. She thus applied to be a camerawoman en the departamento de fotografía. The news editor at the time thought the camera tripulación lo too dangerous for a woman and she lo sparingly used, until editor/productor 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 invitado de la her for an interview and hired her as assistant director. Her fellow ADs at the time included later New Wave incondicionales Patrick Tam Karming and Ann Hui as well as Llegó Kwok-leung. After two years at the job and amida a escasez en el staff at TVB, Zen lo promoted to director after her short film on toys became hugely popular with children. She continued her career as a director at Radio Televisión de Hong Kong (RTHK) for almost 20 years after she partió de TVB. Influenced by the organization's research-focused culture, Zen developed a penchant observing and analizar la humanidad en su trabajo. While at RTHK, ella lo involved with programs such as the When We Were Young series y Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Zen ventured into cine en los tempranos 1980s, debuting with Cream Soda and Milk (1982), a drama about problemas sociales de los niños", protagonizada por Eddy Chan and Deannie Yip and a key work in the influyentes de la New Wave. Her, estudiante de segundo año project, Love Bittersweet (1984) is a romantic comedy protagonizada por Sibelle Hu. Life Goes On (1989), a social drama based on a RTHK television series of the same title, lo que released to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the difusión station. Zen had así que 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 fondo en el documental, cine, she did not confine herself to any expectation, allowing narrativo, to develop organically en la búsqueda de la humanidad. Zen believes that today's visor are interested in the pursuit of truth, thus she harbors much for optimism el documental forma. Returned to Hong Kong after immigrating en el extranjero, Zen established a company that engaged en media writing and the production of drama and documentales. - http://www.hkfilmdirectors.