Director

Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah

Writing

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew credits: 18

TMDB ID: 231751

IMDb ID: nm0482673

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: Hong Kong, China

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1995 - 2023

Years active: 29

Average TMDB rating: 6.37

Wikidata: Q117845377

Also known as

Oi Wah Lam • Aubrey Lam Oi-Wa • 林爱华

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Director (6)Writer (11)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Born in Hong Kong, Aubrey Lam Oi-wah graduated from the University of Hong Kong, then studied film at Los Angeles. After attending directing classes of the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild, she joined UFO in 1995 as scriptwriter. Since then, she had established herself as one of Hong Kong’s noted women writers, with scripts for Yesterday You, Yesterday Me (1997, Love Trilogy (2004) and Wu Xia (2011). She also co-authored the scripts for Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man (1996), Purple Storm (1999), Golden Chicken 2 (2003), Perhaps Love (2005) and The Warlords (2007), the latter two films nominated for Best Screenplay by the Hong Kong Film Awards Lam began directing with Twelve Nights (2000), a meditative look at romance which she also wrote. Lam switched focus with her sophomore project, directing and writing the quirky comedy Hidden Track (2003). In 2002, she obtained a Master’s degree at�the University of Hong Kong.

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