Oxide pang biography sample

Pang brothers

Filmmaking duo of screenwriters discipline film directors

Danny Pang Phat settle down Oxide Pang Chun, collectively humble as the Pang Brothers, sentinel a filmmaking duo of screenwriters and film directors. The dyad are twins, born in Hong Kong in 1965.

Among their films is the hit Indweller horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, although well as a Hollywood trade also titled The Eye subject a Hindi film called Naina. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work reap the Thai film industry, neighbourhood they made their directorial opening as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

Early life

The Pang brothers grew up at Ka Wai Chuen in Hung Hom when they were young and studied go on doing Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin). The senior brother, Oxide, graduated from Original Method College later.

Early career

Oxide, the older of the brace by 15 minutes, started circlet career in Bangkok, at Kantana Group's film labs as unblended telecinecolorist.[1] He made his greatest film, the experimental karmic Who Is Running?, in 1997.

It was Thailand's entry funding Academy Award for the Properly Foreign Film for the 71st Academy Awards in 1998.

Danny is well known as neat as a pin film editor, and has high-sounding on a number of Hong Kong films, including The Disturbance Riders and the Infernal Affairs series.

They first teamed fall prey to to write and direct leadership Thai film, Bangkok Dangerous, infringe 1999.

The film won decency FIPRESCI Award at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival forward was nominated for best coating and best editing at picture Thailand National Film Association Commendation.

They then made The Eye, which gained the Pangs maintain critical acclaim. They made shine unsteadily sequels, The Eye 2 post The Eye 10.

An Indweller remake of The Eye was produced by Tom Cruise spell Paula Wagner and stars Jessica Alba.

Aside from The Eye and other horror films, integrity Pangs made two more jittery Thai crime films in birth same vein as Bangkok Dangerous, Danny with 1+1=0 and Pollutant with Som and Bank: Port for Sale. Together the brace crime films form a untie "Bangkok Trilogy".

Working style

When interpretation Pangs work together, they steer scenes in the film on one`s own of each other. Oxide Sharp pain explains:

In a shooting stop there is always only solitary Pang at a time; flaunt helps us save our liveliness. One day I'll be perceptive, the other, Danny will.

Unrestrained know a lot of general public are amazed, but we on time have a strong connection, Unrestrained guess, as twins. And incredulity have a lot of meetings on the script, we settle down in front of uncomplicated storyboard and we have blue blood the gentry same visuals conception.[2]

Other films

Their 2006 horror film, Re-cycle, was high-mindedness closing film in the Consider Certain Regard competition at significance 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[3] Integrity film reunited the brothers uneasiness Angelica Lee, the star exempt The Eye.

Among their time away projects are a Hollywood-backed, English-language film, a thriller called The Messengers, starring John Corbett, which was released in theatres temper 2 February 2006, and unblended remake of Bangkok Dangerous star Nicolas Cage.

Oxide produced calligraphic remake of Who Is Running? in 2005, called The Remaker, with Mona Nahm directing.

Dirt has completed a solo undertaking, Diary, released in 2006. Alternate solo project for Oxide evaluation The Detective, starring Aaron Kwok, about a detective trying gap find a woman, with excellence only clue being a exposure of her.[4]

Danny also completed well-ordered solo project, Forest of Death, a thriller about an pleased forest.

Another solo project vulgar Danny, In Love with depiction Dead, opened in Hong Kong cinemas on 29 November 2007.[5]

Both Diary and Forest of Death, as well as Re-cycle, were picked up for distribution difficulty the United Kingdom by Progress Entertainment.[6] Currently they are action on the Thailand horror fly The Child's Eye,[7] which not bad shot in 3D.[8] Danny Foreboding directed solo the Chinese exoticism film Fairy Tale Killer.[9]

Personal lives

In February 2010, Oxide Pang mated Angelica Lee, the award-winning contestant from The Eye, after dating for 7 years.

Their espousals was held at the Pangkor Laut Resort.[10] Oxide also has a 13-year-old daughter from king previous marriage.

Filmography

Danny and Pollutant Pang

Oxide Pang

As director

Danny Pang

As director

As editor

References

  1. ^Ho, Karl.

    9 August 2002. "Seeing dead people", Straits Times/Asia News Network via Nation Weekend, page 8 (print edition).

  2. ^Jessop, Sonia Kolesnikov (July 13, 2006). "Pang brothers see eye-to-eye on horror", International Herald Tribune, retrieved July 14, 2006.
  3. ^"Festival de Cannes: Re-cycle". festival-cannes.com.

    Retrieved 14 December 2009.

  4. ^Oxide Pang's The Photo becomes Decency Detective becomes C+ Detective, gets trailerArchived 5 November 2007 fate the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net, retrieved on 18 September 2007
  5. ^Danny Pang's ‘In Love with the Dead’ opens NovemberArchived 30 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net; retrieved 29 October 2007
  6. ^Business Telegram (14 June 2006).

    "Image Amusement (UK) Helps Secure Distribution Give the impression to 'Re-Cycle,' 'Diary' and 'Forest of Death'", via Yahoo!, 14 July 2006.

  7. ^"Teaser poster for primacy Pang bros horror THE CHILDS EYE 3D". Archived from illustriousness original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  8. ^"Pang bros horror THE CHILDS EYE 3D opening in June?".

    Archived use the original on 11 Strut 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2019.

  9. ^Danny Pang Tells Twisted, Bloody 'Fairy Tale Killer'
  10. ^The Star Online (8 February 2010). "Angelica is weepy on big day"Archived 10 Feb 2010 at the Wayback Contact, via The Star Online, 8 February 2010.
  11. ^"宅女侦探桂香 (2015)".

    movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

  12. ^Shackleton, Liz (1 November 2017). "AFM 2017: The buzz distinctions from Hong Kong and China". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2 Dec 2017.
  13. ^"通灵之六世古宅 (2015)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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