SYNOPSIS

In 1992, Ang Lee began his trilogy about the ideological and the cultural clashes that were taking place among the Americans and the Asians emigrated to the USA with Pushing Hands. One of his most brilliant disciples, Sylvia Chang, continued in the same path that his teacher when Siao Yu set her movie in Manhattan and narrate the vicissitudes of two illegal workers to achieve the residence licence in the country. The woman, Siao Yu, is employed as a seamstress, while her lover, at the same time as he studying, is employed at a fish market. Their meeting with an Italian/American writer will be the possibility that they were waiting for in order to formalize their situation across a marriage of convenience. But what begins as a favourable situation for all of them, it will end being complicated when the loving feelings interfiled in their intentions.
The performance of the debutant Rene Liu was rewarded in the Festival Asia - Pacific Ocean and in the Golden Film Festival thanks to the intense and deep interpretation that she realizes of Siao Yu. Meanwhile, Sylvia Chang, besides being considered to be one of the most important actresses of her country, continues successfully her facet as director, which has brought her several prizes as well as a huge popularity and consideration.

TECHNICAL DATA

Director:Sylvia Chang

Production:Dolly Hall, Li- Kong Hsu y Ang Lee.
Screenplay: Sylvia Chang, Ang Lee, based on the play by Yan Geling.
Film Editing: Mei Feng
Cast: Rene Liu, Daniel J. Travanti, Tou Chung-hua, Marj Dusay, Hsia Tai-feng.
Soundtrack: Bobbi Dar
Cinematography: Joe DeSalvo
Runtime: 104 min. Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese. Subtitles: Spanish.

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1953 in Chiayi (Taiwan), she made her acting debut as actress to the early age of sixteen. Along her extensive career (that includes more than ninety titles) she has worked with someone of the best Chinese directors of all the times. To the orders of the legendary King Hu she rolled Legend of the Mountain (1979), with Ann Hui, her more famous film, The Secret (1979), with Tsui Har the one that considers her favourite movie, Shanghai Blues (1984), with Johnny To, All about Ah-Long (1989), with Stadley Kwan, Full Moon in New York (1990) and with Ang Lee the winning To Eat, to Drink, to Love (1994).
However, her popularity comes specially to the series of movies of the police saga (in key of comedy) Aces Go Places (Mad Mission), of which there managed to be numerous sequels and in which was interpreting the policeman's(police) inspector Ho, who was accompanying the actors Maka and Sam Hung.
Not satisfied with her shining path as interpreter, the anxious Sylvia Chang began to direct cinema in the eighties, making her début with Passion (1986), for which she obtained multitude of awards, like the prize to the Best Actress in the Hong Kong Film Awards. Up to the date she has realized eleven full-lenght films, for instance, Mary from Beijing (1992), Tempting Heart (1999) and the recent Run Papa Run (2008).

FILMOGRAPHY

- Legend of the Mountain (1979)- Actress
- The Secret (1979)- Actress
- Aces Go Places (1982)- Actress
- Shanghai Blues (1984)- Actress
- Passion (1986)- Director, screenplay and actress
- Full Moon in New York (1990)- Actress
- Mary from Beijing (1992)- Director, screenwriter.
- Comer, beber, amar (1994)- Actress
- Siao Yu (1995)- Director, screenwriter, actress
- Tempting Heart (1999)- Director, screenwriter and actress
- 20 30 40 (2004)- Director, screenwriter and actress.