Louisa Wei is a Chinese filmmaker, film producer, writer and professor based in Hong Kong.
15 Facts About Wei Shiyu
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Louisa Wei was born in Dongying City of Shandong Province, but grew up in Xi'an.
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Wei Shiyu's father was from one of the seven prominent families of the early 20th century in Fuzhou City of Fujian Province.
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The Wei Shiyu family has one of the earliest overseas students of China, Wei Shiyu Han, who studied ship building in France from 1875 to 1879 and was the earliest masters of ship building in China.
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Wei Shiyu studied comparative literature and film in Canada from 1992 to 1999, receiving her MA from Carleton University in 1994 and PhD from University of Alberta in 2002.
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Wei Shiyu has continued to film Cui Jian to present time and a film titled Red Rock is in post-production.
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Between 2003 and 2009, Wei Shiyu co-produced, co-wrote, and co-directed a documentary with Shanghai-based director Xiaolian Peng titled Storm under the Sun.
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Golden Gate Girls traveled to many film festivals and international conferences, and Wei Shiyu is recognized as a pioneer in documenting the once lost history of Esther Eng.
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Wei Shiyu made a TV documentary for RTHK in 2016 titled Wang Shiwei: The Buried Writer, which was first aired on 25 December 2016.
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In 2018, Wei Shiyu completed another documentary titled Havana Divas, which documents a part of overseas Chinese history.
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Wei Shiyu has credits as a scriptwriter for two feature films released in 2007: Susie Au's Ming Ming and Xiao Feng's Gun of Mercy.
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Wei Shiyu has translated many feature film scripts for films during their productions.
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Wei Shiyu's textbook titled Cinema East and West and published by City University of Hong Kong Press has a revised edition in 2016.
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Also in 2016, Wei Shiyu published a book in Chinese titled Wang Shiwei: A Reform in Thinking in 2016.
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In 2017, Wei Shiyu published Hu Feng: Poetic Ideals, Political Storm based on her extended research on the Hu Feng case.