Malaysian director wins a Golden Horse Award
Ho Wi Ding beat Derek Tsang to win Best New Director award at the 47th Golden Horse Film Festival. (image sources: ent.qq.com/Tungstar)
Malaysian director Ho Wi Ding shone at the recent Golden Horse Film Festival held in Taipei, Taiwan, when he bagged the Best New Director award with his first feature film Pinoy Sunday.
Ho beat other budding directors like Derek Tsang to become the first winner of the new award.
Hailing from Muar, Johor, the 39-year-old studied English in Toronto, Canada, before going on to study filmmaking at New York University in the United States. In 2001, he went to Taiwan to visit his sister and has since settled down and started a family there.
Ho was also known as the filmmaker who made Respire, the 2005 short film that won the best short film category at Cannes Film Festival. On top of that, he also shoots commercials and documentaries.
It was an interesting moment when Ho accepted the award from presenters Eric Tsang and his daughter Bowie.
Tsang’s son Derek was competing with Ho for the same award with Lover’s Discourse, the film he co-directed with Jimmy Wan.
At the same time, Bowie starred in Pinoy Sunday, a film about Filipino migrant workers in Taipei, Taiwan.
“I’m sorry that your daughter beat your son,” quipped Ho to Eric when he accepted the award.
Describing it as “a dream come true”, he went on to thank his parents in Malaysia, his producer wife, the team as well as his fellow nominees, “because we are all the best new directors.”
Chinese actress Lv Li-Ping and Taiwanese heartthrob Ethan Ruan nabbed Best Leading Actress and Best Leading Actor respectively.
Taiwanese hunky actor Ethan Ruan was named the Best Leading Actor for his performance in triad flick Monga, while the Best Leading Actress award went to Chinese actress Lv Li-Ping, 50, who shone in City Monkey.
Chang Tso-Chi’s When Love Comes landed the biggest honour of the night and was named the Best Feature Film, while Chung Mong-Hong nabbed Best Director with The Fourth Portrait.
The 47th Golden Horse Film Festival was a star-studded affair that saw the turnout of some of the biggest names in the Chinese film scene. Among them were Ang Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvia Chang, Sammo Hung and Lin Chi-Ling.
Source: EpochTimes.com
Published Nov 21 2010
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