Kenneth Bi
Kenneth Bi is a writer, director and actor in Canada and Hong Kong. He worked on numerous theater and film productions.
Biography
Kenneth Bi is the son of the famous Hong Kong by Shaw Brothers Studio Actors Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han. Both played in numerous Hong Kong films and had a cameo appearance in Kenneth Until debut film Rice Rhapsody.
Kenneth Bi studied theater and film at Brock University in Canada. He graduated from the academic degree " Honors ".
Career
He received in 1992 in Toronto, an award for " Outstanding Services " for his CBC radio radio play " Rice Krinkles ".
The Canadian director and producer Teddy Robin took Bi 1995 with his many talents as an actor, writer and editor in the team of his film Hong Kong graffiti and so gave him the first shot at the big screen. In 1998, co-produced BI the film Slow Fade by debutant Daniel Chan and enabled him to attend the Berlinale 1999. During the same year he received from the Hong Kong Film Awards nomination for Best Original Film music of the film The Longest Summer Fruit Chan, who also ran in competition at the Berlinale 1999.
In addition to film work, Bi 2001, to write a break of eight short stories for children, published by the WWF. Under the title Lolo's Big Adventures, Bi tells the story of the train a young black forehead Löffler and thus appeals to preschoolers to bring them the preservation of Threatened Species closer.
In 2002, Bi turned back to the movie and took over for the film The Runaway Pistol, the assistant director, a supporting role and wrote the story. The film was very popular with the critics in Hong Kong and premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. He received nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 39th Golden Horse Awards.
In Rice Rhapsody Kenneth Bi turned for the first time on 35mm film. The film was shown in cinemas in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. The screenplay for the film, which comes from Kenneth Bi, was honored by the Taiwan Government Information Office with the award for Best Screenplay in 1999. It was chosen as a promotional project for the PPP in 2000 from Pusan Promotional plan, an organization that mediates in the Asian film market sponsors and co-producers of exceptional projects. The stars of the film are Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Maggie Q and Mélanie Laurent.
In October 2004, Rice Rhapsody premiered at the largest Asian Festival, the Pusan International Film Festival. In the same assembly, he was selected for competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2004. At the Golden Horse Awards 2004 in Taiwan Rice Rhapsody best for the categories Best Actress and was nominated original film music. He received the award for "Best Actress " at the Newport Beach International Film Festival and the " Best First Theatrical Feature " at the World Festival, the Houston International Film Festival 2005.
The second film from bis Director, The The Drummer, celebrated on 11 October 2007 in Hong Kong premiere. In addition to the main cast Jaycee Chan and Tony Leung Ka - Anjelica Lee Fai, Roy Cheung, Josie Ho, Kenneth Tsang, Eugenia Yuan and the internationally renowned Zen drum group U- Theatre work with. The The Drummer was shown in the ' World Cinema Dramatic Competition' section of the Sundance Film Festival 2008. He is the first film in competition from the region of Hong Kong and Taiwan at the prestigious festival.
The The Drummer was co-produced by the German production company Twenty Twenty Vision and the German composer Andre Matthias is responsible for the soundtrack.
Awards
- 25th Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Director - Rice Rhapsody ( 2006)
- Taiwan Government Information Office Outstanding Screenplay - Rice Rhapsody ( 1999)