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Peter Chan, or Chan Ho-sun (陳可辛; born in 1962 in Hong Kong) is a film director and producer.

He spent his teens in Bangkok, Thailand and studied in the United States, where he attended film school at UCLA. He returned to Hong Kong in 1983 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, The Protector 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 (UFO) 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, The Eye by Danny and Oxide Pang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Chan's 2005 film, 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.

Filmography

As producer

• Heroes Shed No Tears (1983)
• Tong (1986)
• News Attack (1989)
• Whampoa Blues (1990)
• Curry and Pepper (1990)
• Alan And Eric : Between Hello And Goodbye (1991)
• The Days Of Being Dumb (1992)
• Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday (1993)
• He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father (1993)
• He's A Woman, She's A Man (1994)
• Over The Rainbow, Under The Skirt (1994)
• Twenty Something (1994)
• Happy Hour (1995)
• The Age Of Miracles (1996)
• Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
• Who's The Woman, Who's The Man (1996)
• Twelve Nights (2000)
• Jan Dara (2001)
• The Eye (2002)
• Going Home (2002)
• Golden Chicken (2002)
• The Eye 2 (2004)
• Three...Extremes (2004)
• The Eye 10 (2005)
• The Eye (remake) (2006)

As director

• Alan And Eric : Between Hello And Goodbye (1991)
• He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father (1993)
• Tom, Dick And Hairy (1993)
• Trouble, I've Had It All My Days (1994)
• The Age Of Miracles (1996)
• Comrades, Almost A Love Story (1996)
• Who's The Woman, Who's The Man (1996)
• Three (segment Going Home) (2002)
• Project 1:99 (2003)
• Perhaps Love (2005)

References

• Koesnikov-Jessop, Sonia (January 12, 2006) Play it again, but with music and in Chinese, International Herald Tribune, retrieved January 19, 2006.
• Nassim and Francois (January 2003) A Conversation with Peter Chan, Cinemasie, retrieved January 21, 2006.
• Long Pao, Jin (2002), The Pan-Asian Co-Production Sphere: An Interview With Peter Chan. Harvard Asia Quarterly 6 (3), retrieved March 9, 2006.
• Kelly, Derek (January 14, 1998), 1998 10 to Watch, [Variety], retrieved January 21, 2006.

External links

• Applause Pictures

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