Su Chao-Pin is a Taiwanese filmmaker who trained as an engineer before turning to filmmaking. He began to gain recognition for writing the screenplay for The Cabbie (2000) and co-writing Double Vision (2002). His film Silk (2006) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2010, he wrote and directed Reign of Assassins, for which he won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
Born in China in 1946, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong. In 1986, he directed A Better Tomorrow, which established his distinctive directorial aesthetics combining the "Gun Fu" style and lyrical violence. He went on to direct masterpieces like The Killer (1989) and Hard Boiled (1992), before moving to Hollywood, where he directed Face/Off (1997), Mission: Impossible II (2000), and other major productions. In 2010, he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
