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Director

Oxide Pang

Bio

Oxide Pang started his career as a telecine color grader, before moving to Thailand in the early 1990s to film TV commercials. In 1996, the Hong Kong-born filmmaker directed his first feature film, Who is Running? He partnered with his twin brother Danny Pang to direct Bangkok Dangerous, which was invited to participate in internationally renowned film festivals, including the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the International Critics Award.

In 2001, the Pang Brothers were invited by Applause Pictures' Peter Chan to return to Hong Kong to direct their first Hong Kong movie, The Eye. A huge success in China, The Eye was distributed in the U.S. and spawned a sequel, The Eye 2. Recently, Pang made his first solo directing debut with Abnormal Beauty. Other recent directing credits include Re-cycle and The Messengers. He is also a producer on The Omen, Maha Utt and Tesseract.

IMDB Profile 

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.