Dante Lam

Dante Lam
Lam at the 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival
Background information
Chinese name	林超賢 (traditional)
Chinese name	林超贤 (simplified)
Pinyin	Lín Chāoxián (Mandarin)
Born	May 11, 1965 Hong Kong

Dante Lam Chiu-Yin (simplified Chinese: 林超贤; traditional Chinese: 林超賢; pinyin: Lín Chāoxián) is a major figure and film director of the Hong Kong action cinema. He was trained in the tradition of John Woo as an assistant director and worked as an actor and producer. He often writes and supervises his own choreography. In 2008 he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director for his work on Beast Stalker.^[1]

Filmography

Director

• Option Zero (1997)
• Beast Cops (1998)
• When I Look Upon the Stars (1999)
• Jiang hu: The Triad Zone (2000)
• Runaway (2001)
• Hit Team (2001)
• Tiramisu (2002)
• The Twins Effect (2003)
• Naked Ambition (2003)
• Love on the Rocks (2004)
• Heat Team (2004)
• Undercover Hidden Dragon (2006)
• Sparkling Red Star (2007)
• The Sniper (2008)^[2]
• Beast Stalker (2008)^[2]
• Storm Rider Clash of the Evils (2008)
• Fire of Conscience (2010)^[2]
• The Stool Pigeon (2010)^[2]
• The Viral Factor (2011)
• Unbeatable (2013)
• That Demon Within (2014)
• To the Fore (2015)^[3]
• Operation Mekong (2016)^[4]

References

1. "Hong Kong Film Awards" (in Chinese). Retrieved 6 March 2011.
2. "Dante's dramas". The Straits Times. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
3. Why Hong Kong director Dante Lam’s new movie highlights city’s inane attitude to cycling, SCMP, 31 July 2015
4. Staff Reporter (September 16, 2015). "Dante Lam begins Mekong shoot". Film Business Asia. Retrieved September 21, 2015.

External links

• Dante Lam at the Internet Movie Database