Hong Kong Helmer Oliver Chan Puts Women Center Stage on the Big Screen
variety.comClifford Coonan Hong Kong is better known for its hard-boiled cop pics and manly kung-fu classics than for movies tackling women’s roles in society and the wider issues around childbirth.
But Hong Kong director Oliver Chan, who took her English name from the eponymous waif in Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist,” is one of the hottest properties in the Hong Kong industry.
And there’s not a roundhouse kick or a high-octane pistol face-off in sight. She is a passionate advocate for hot-button social issues such as motherhood and the plight of domestic workers.
Chan was named best new director at the Asian Film Awards in 2019 for her feature directorial debut, “Still Human,” which chronicles the relationship between a man using a wheelchair and his Filipina domestic helper.
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