Kuo-Fu Chen

Chen KuoFu is a Taiwanese film director screenwriter and producer His film The Personals was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival Born in 1958 Chen worked as a film critic before debuting as a director in 1989 with School Girl In the 1990s he continued to explore the world through a female perspective with Treasure Island The Peony Pavilion and antiromantic comedy The Personals The latter in which a single woman searches for Mr Right on a series of blind dates screened in Cannes Un Certain Regard sidebar and was distributed in Asia Europe and North America In 2000 Chen became the head of the production unit of the Asian branch of Columbia Pictures Here he accumulated experience in international film making and connections to young Chinese directors such as Feng Xiaogang With these he would later join Huayi Brothers Media Corporation and continue his works in China In 2001 Chen began to concentrate on feature film production beginning with Su ChaoBins youth comedy Better Than Sex through his company Nan Fang Film Productions The following year he directed and produced the supernatural thriller Double Vision