Ann Hu

Directing

Ann Hu

Writer, producer and director Ann Hu's 35mm debut Shadow Magic (2000) won both the Chinese Academy Award and Presidential Award in China for Best film among other international prizes. The film premiered at the 2000 Sundance film Festival and released by Sony Classics in 2001. Among the earliest students from mainland China after the Cultural Revolution, Hu came to the United States to pursue a h…

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Wicked Moms ClubWicked Moms Club · 2017
Wicked Moms Club
5.22017
MovieThrillerDrama
Mandy is a new mom in town and at first, she is welcomed into the circle of elite moms, but when her daughter outperforms power mom Olivia's daughter, she finds herself ostracized.
Shadow MagicShadow Magic · 2000
Shadow Magic
5.92000
MovieDramaHistory
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?
ConfettiConfetti · 2020
Confetti
8.02020
MovieDramaFamily
How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (Zhu Zhu), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) from their small town in China to New York City.
EllaElla · 2019
Ella
2019
MovieDrama
Left behind by the same loved one, two Asian American youth search for connection in their small Midwestern town.
The Beauty RemainsThe Beauty Remains · 2005
The Beauty Remains
7.32005
MovieDramaRomance
Set in 1948 against the backdrop of Communism's rise, "Fei" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, a legendary business entrepreneur, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything.

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