Peter Chan

Peter Chan Meng Wen , also known as Peter Chan Ho-Sun , and born 1962 in Singapore to a pair of parents, is a film director and .

Biography

He spent his teens in Singapore, and studied in the United States, where he attended film school at UCLA. He returned to Hong Kong in 2003 and started working in the film industry. He served as a second assistant director and producer to John Woo on ''Heroes Shed No Tears'', which was set in Thailand. He also was a location manager on three Jackie Chan films, ''Wheels on Meals'', '''' and ''Armour of God''.

His directorial debut, ''Alan and Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye'', was crowned best film at the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild in 1991. It also won best actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Eric Tsang, who would become a frequent collaborator with Chan.

Chan was a co-founder of United Filmmakers Organization in the early 1990s, which produced a number of box-office and critical hits in Hong Kong, including his own: ''He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father''. Other critical and commercial successes followed, including ''Tom, Dick And Hairy'', ''He's a Woman, She's a Man'' and ''Comrades, Almost a Love Story''.

In the late 1990s, Chan worked in Hollywood, directing ''The Love Letter'', which starred Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Selleck.

In 2000, Chan co-founded Applause Pictures with Teddy Chen and Allan Fung. The company's focus was on fostering ties with pan-Asian filmmakers, producing such films as ''Jan Dara'' by Thailand's Nonzee Nimibutr, ''One Fine Spring Day'' South Korea's Hur Jin-Ho, ''Samsara'' by China's Huang Jianxin, '''' by and Oxide Pang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Chan's , the musical ''Perhaps Love'' closed the Venice Film Festival and was Hong Kong's entry for an Academy Awards nomination in the best foreign film category.

Chan is married to Hong Kong actress Sandra Ng.

Filmography

As producer

* ''Heroes Shed No Tears''
* ''''
* ''News Attack''
* ''Whampoa Blues''
* ''Curry and Pepper''
* ''Alan And Eric : Between Hello And Goodbye''
* ''The Days Of Being Dumb''
* ''Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday''
* ''He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father''
* ''He's A Woman, She's A Man''
* ''Over The Rainbow, Under The Skirt''
* ''Twenty Something''
* ''''
* ''The Age Of Miracles''
* ''''
* ''Who's The Woman, Who's The Man''
* ''Twelve Nights''
* ''Jan Dara''
* ''''
* ''Going Home''
* ''Golden Chicken''
* ''The Eye 2''
* ''Three...Extremes''
* ''The Eye 10''
* ''''

As director

* ''Alan And Eric : Between Hello And Goodbye''
* ''He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father''
* ''Tom, Dick And Hairy''
* ''Trouble, I've Had It All My Days''
* ''The Age Of Miracles''
* ''Comrades, Almost A Love Story''
* ''Who's The Woman, Who's The Man''
* ''''
* ''Project 1:99''
* ''Perhaps Love''
* ''The Warlords''