Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefGordon Lam and Ann Hui, recipients of Variety honors at the New York Asian Film Festival, could scarcely be more different.
Actor-turned producer Lam, who is receiving Variety Star Asia Award is ebullient and busy. Hui, for all her renown in Asia and Europe as a top director, is quiet and unassuming.
She will be presented with the Variety Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.What they have in common is a lengthy career that has taken them from the bottom of the Hong Kong entertainment industry to the upper echelons.
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