Film, TV & Radio
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Nancy Lam
Celebrity Chef
Cuisine. Film, TV & Radio.
Nancy Lam is a celebrity chef famous for her Oriental food and television appearances.
She was born in Singapore in 1948, the next to youngest as one of 10 children, to an Indonesian Mother and a Chinese Father. Her cooking skills were first nurtured as the result of her Grandmother’s teaching. This proved an excellent foundation as Nancy learned the basics of oriental cooking, a regular chore being the peeling of onions and pounding chillies.
Singapore is a multi-cultural society and Nancy used this to good effect, experimenting with Thai, Indian and other types of cuisine. Her Father owned a prawn cracker manufacturing business. He has the distinction of being the first person to have introduced polystyrene bags to Singapore.
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Zoë Baxter
DJ/Radio presenterArts. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Music.
Zoë started Djing at parties in 2000 and progressed to Internet radio and then community radio. She has always had a keen interest in East Asian cinema and cuisine and this lead her to investigate East Asian music. Now she is a collector of vinyl with a specialist interest in 1960’s ‘Asia Beat’.
In 2005 Zoë presented and produced Ni Hao Chinatown parts 1 & 2 for the London community arts radio station Resonance FM focusing on the Save Chinatown Campaign and the history of Chinese immigration in London.
Following on from this Zoë presented and produced a weekly one hour radio show for Resonance FM from October 2005 - June 2006 called Lucky Cat. With a focus on Chinese and East Asian culture the magazine style programme featured guests, music, film and art reviews and topical issues (e.g. the Takeaway Racism Campaign).
The series included 2 programmes on the Chinese contribution to Reggae music and also a programme featuring a live performance by Korean punk band Crying Nut.
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Anna Chen
Writer, performer and broadcasterArts. Community. Film, TV & Radio. Media. Politics.
Born and raised in Hackney, east London, Anna had her first poetry published at 14 and remained unbeaten at Chess in tournaments with the boys' school. Cut to 1994 when she took her groundbreaking one-woman comedy show, Suzy Wrong - Human Cannon, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, making her the first British-born Chinese comedienne to do so. This was followed by her other solo shows, I, Imelda and Taikonaut: How To Save The World, Part I. She was possibly the first British Chinese comic on TV with her BBC2 debut in Stewart Lee's Fist of Fun in 1996.
Anna took time out from her performing career in order to organise the press operation for the anti-war movement in the aftermath of the events of September 2001 and during the build up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She also campaigned on Chinese issues such as the Morecombe Bay disaster and was the press officer for the community protest which successfully challenged the MAFF and media over the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) smear of 2001 resulting in a public apology and vindication from the minister. Anna was a founder member of the Chinese Civil Rights Action Group which grew out of the FMD action and was the precursor to Min Quan, a branch of The Monitoring Group.
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Gok Wan
Fashion Stylist and TV PresenterEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Fashion.
Born in 1974 in Leicester, Gok has worked in the fashion industry for the best part of a decade. Studying at London's prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, he found himself drawn to hair and make-up over drama, prompting his entrée into the fashion industry and gaining him early work as a hair and make-up artist on titles such as The Sunday Times Style.
Finding himself dissatisfied with beauty alone, however, Gok decided to pursue his love of clothes as a fashion stylist.
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Wah-Yin Rixon
Film examinerArts. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Politics.
Born in Singapore, Wah-Yin grew up in a family where she is the only one not to be an engineer (apart from her mother, who was an extraordinary cook). In 2006, she embarked on a 5-week odyssey through Guangxi in south China with her daughter, Shan - who was studying Chinese in Kunming - to find their ancestral village (see Shan’s pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/s-h-a-n/sets/). She hopes to do something similar with her son, John, one day. But he is a jazz musician and his schedule, like his music, is unpredictable (www.howardpeacockjazz.com).
Wah-Yin watches over 5 hours of film and TV material every weekday to determine their classification as she is a film examiner at the British Board of Film Classification (www.bbfc.org). Whenever possible, she reads, writes, eats, sees and makes pictures, and dreams up schemes related to arts and culture.
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Jo Ho
Screenwriter and Film DirectorEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature.
Jo is an award-winning film director and screenwriter who was born in Dagenham, Essex.
Jo currently has a big budget fantasy kids TV series in development with CBBC. Live action/cgi, the series is described as ‘Buffy set in a Chinese spirit world’. It is envisioned that the series, once commissioned, will be shot entirely in China – a first for the BBC.
After studying art at the University of Westminster, Jo went on to work in feature films in production on varying roles until she eventually realized her dream was to write and direct.
While she was working in production, she was profiled in CREATION magazine as a ‘young, driven and fanatically hardworking woman’.
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Mukti Jain Campion
Executive Producer - Culture WiseFilm, TV & Radio.
Mukti Jain Campion has been making television and radio documentaries for over 25 years since joining the BBC on its coveted television production trainee scheme in 1981.
She has a particular interest in bringing unheard voices and stories into the mainstream media and in reflecting the rich cultural makeup of Britain through her programmes. Through her independent company Culture Wise she has produced two widely-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series about the British Chinese presence in the UK.
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Benjamin Yeoh Seng-Loong
WriterArts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Ben is an award winning writer. He is one of the first British born Chinese writers to be performed in the UK.
Ben was born near London to a Singaporean mother and Malaysian father. He studied at Westminster School, Cambridge University and Harvard University.
Ben studied experimental psychology, behavioural neuroscience within Natural Sciences at Cambridge. There he also started directing plays. He won a scholarship to Harvard, where he trained in dramaturgy, directing and writing.
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Dr. Johnny Sei-Hoe Hon
Honorary Consul of Grenada in Hong Kong and Chairman of the Global Group of CompaniesBusiness. Community. Education. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Information Technology. Media.
B.Sc (Hons), M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab), D.Litt., F.A.B.I., F.A.O.E., ASI
In just nine years, Dr. Johnny Hon has built up an international conglomerate, with diverse interests ranging over banking, property development, financial services, education, media, entertainment and leisure, sports, gaming, telecoms, mining and biotechnology.
Yet, whilst building the Global Group of companies from scratch, Johnny has also managed to pursue a wide range of charitable, diplomatic and political interests.
He is the Ambassador-at-Large and Honorary Consul of Grenada in Hong Kong and holds official positions with four governments. Besides, Johnny is often consulted by Presidents, Prime Ministers and other state leaders who value his advice and insights.
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Tom Wu
Actor, Movement DirectorArts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
Tom's forthcoming film roles include Fong in The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, Juba in Mutant Chronicles and Tatsumi in The Tournament. He has recently appeared as Lord John in film Revolver and on television as Lee Jiyong in Whistleblower, Jimmy Wu in Diamond Geezer, Perak in The Ruby in the Smoke, Lao Ai in The First Emperor, Huang Lok in Casualty, Lin Liang Ren in Death on the Beach, The Omid Djalili show amongst others.
Actor Tom Wu was born in the New Territories, Hong Kong, and grew up in London’s Chinatown. At the age of 10 he began practising Martial Arts such as Hung Gar, Karate and Wing Chun and later took up acrobatics. In 1988 he competed for Britain at China’s International Wu-Shu (Martial Arts) Tournament and was awarded 2 Bronze Medals, and a Gold Medal.
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