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Allen Fong Yuk-ping (方育平) (born July 10, 1947) is a
film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
and one of the leaders of the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His cinematic style is highly influenced by Italian neorealism. He also usually uses personal or real-life stories as the basis for his films. Despite his limited number of productions, he is one of the directors to have won "Best Director" three times at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Others who share this achievement are
Ann Hui Ann Hui On-wah, (; born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave. She is known for her films about social issues in ...
and
Johnnie To Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his H ...
. He won in 1982 for '' Father and Son''. His 1983 film '' Ah Ying'' was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.


Filmography

* '' Father and Son'' (1981) * '' Ah Ying'' (1983) * '' Just like the Weather'' (1986) * '' Dancing Bull'' (1990) * '' A Little Life-Opera'' (1997) * '' Tibetan Tao'' (documentary, 2000)


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* Hong Kong film directors 1947 births Living people Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong artists {{HongKong-film-director-stub