Fruit Chan
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Fruit Chan Gor (born 15 April 1959) is a Hong Kong Second Wave screenwriter, film director, and producer who is best known for his style of film capturing Hong Kong people's everyday life.
He is well-known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong, Wong Yau-Nam in Hollywood Hong Kong) in his films.
After the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which received numerous local and international accolades, he became a household name.
Chan was greatly inspired by the heyday of sixties film in Japan for the simple reason that they were not hesitant to produce realistic films that reflected society's problems.
Particularly, Nagisa Oshima, a Japanese director, was someone Chan looked forward to and dreamed of while directing Made in Hong Kong. Durian Durian appeared in Hong Kong's credits.
Stanley Kwan also revealed that he was in talks with Lee's family to produce a film about the late action movie icon.
In addition, the Chinese state media revealed in April that it had begun filming a 40-part TV series on Bruce Lee to promote Chinese culture for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
Early life
Chan was born in Guangdong, China. He grew up and watched a number of films from Communist countries.
In July 1971, he and his family migrated to Hong Kong. Chan spent time in an electronics factory before graduating Forms 1 to 3 at night school because his family was poor and he worked in a electronics factory. He then worked as a projectionist in Hong Kong, where he developed an interest in international cinema.
He later enrolled in a one-year film studies program at the Film Culture Society, earning admission by lying about his secondary education experience and working odd jobs to pay for tuition.
Career
He continued his interest in film later on at the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre, a small film club, where he studied script writing and directing. In 1982, after only one year of working at the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre he started his career in the film industry. He began his career as an assistant director to David Lai Dai-Wai in the film Mid-Night Girls. He later worked as an assistant director to mainstream directors Jackie Chan, Kirk Wong, Ronny Yu, and Shu Kei.
His break came in 1991 when a film he was working with stopped its production. Chan took this as an opportunity; he used the same studio to direct Finale in Blood starring Hong Kong film star Andy Lau. However, the outcome of the first of his own films was highly praised by the critics rather than the public. In 1994 he collected a total of 500,000 HKD and film-materials left over by other productions to begin directing his award winning Made in Hong Kong. After Made in Hong Kong came out he was thought of as the hope for Hong Kong cinema by fellow Hong Kong filmmakers for challenging the stable model of Hong Kong filmmaking. He had become the first filmmaker to, independently of the big studios, challenge the genre of Hong Kong films and make realistic films about the political and social situations going on in Hong Kong at the time. The film was the first part to a trilogy that included The Longest Summer and Little Cheung.
In 2002, Chan was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.
Chan was selected to head the jury for the 2015 Taipei Film Festival.