Ann Hu

Writer and director Ann Hu‘s latest film, Confetti, starring Zhu Zhu, Amy Irving and Helen Slater and based on Hu’s personal story., is out now in theaters. Her debut feature, Shadow Magic (2000), premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Classics in 2001; the film won both the Chinese Academy Award and Presidential Award in China for Best Film and was one of the top box office hits in China that year. In 2005, Ann Hu produced and directed Beauty Remains, which played at numerous film festivals and was released internationally by Emerging Pictures in 2005. Hu serves as trustee at IndieCollect, and was a board member at Film at Lincoln Center. (Photo by Jasmine Clarke.)