Chen Kuo-Fu

Chen Kuo-Fu
Born	May 13, 1958 (1958-05-13) (age 53) Taiwan
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter Film producer
Years active	1989 - present

Chen Kuo-Fu (born 13 May 1958) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Personals was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Born in 1958, Chen worked as a film critic before debuting as a director in 1989 with School Girl. In the 1990s, he continued to explore the world through a female perspective with Treasure Island, The Peony Pavilion and anti-romantic comedy The Personals. The latter, in which a single woman searches for Mr. Right on a series of blind dates, screened in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar and was distributed in Asia, Europe and North America.

In 2000, Chen became the head of the production unit of the Asian branch of Columbia Pictures. Here he accumulated experience in international film making and connections to young Chinese directors such as Feng Xiaogang. With these he would later join Huayi Brothers Media Corporation and continue his works in China.^[2]

In 2001, Chen began to concentrate on feature film production beginning with Su Chao-Bin's youth comedy Better Than Sex through his company Nan Fang Film Productions. The following year, he directed and produced the supernatural thriller Double Vision. The film was distributed internationally by co-producer Columbia Pictures.

In 2009 ,Chen produced China's highest grossing domestic film of all time, Feng Xiaogang's romantic drama If You Are the One.

Filmography

• School Girl (1989)
• Treasure Island (1993)
• The Peony Pavilion (1996)
• The Personals (1998)
• Double Vision (2002)
• The Message (2009 - co-dir: Gao Qunshu

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Personals". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5383/year/1999.html. Retrieved 2009-10-10. 
2. ^ Teng Sue-feng. Translated by David Smith. "Chen Kuo-fu--Back With a "Message". Taiwan Panorama. Dec. 2009.

External links

• Chen Kuo-Fu at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Chen Kuo-Fu
Alternative names
Short description	Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer
Date of birth	1958-5-13
Place of birth	Taiwan
Date of death
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