Taiwanese actress, Gwei Lun-mei has earned a special focus in the first edition of International Film Festival & Awards Macao.
The festival will present a retrospective three of Gwei’s features that include her newest film “Foret Debussy,” Kuo Cheng-Chui’s directorial debut feature where Gwei played a fragile woman living in the forest with her mother. It is also screening time-traveling drama “Secret” by Taiwanese musician, actor, and director, Jay Chou; and Tsui Hark’s wuxia drama “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.”
The 32-year-old actress started performing in 2002 with Taiwanese director Yee Chin-yen’s “Blue Gate Crossing.” She earned wider recognition with 2007’s “Secret,” which won multiple prizes at Taiwan‘s Golden Horse Awards, and has appeared in some twenty films ever since.
The Golden Horse later awarded her its best leading actress prize for “Girlfriend, Boyfriend” in 2012. Her most critically acclaimed work so far is director-writer Diao Yinan’s “Black Coal, Thin Ice,” which received the Golden Bear award at the Berlinale in 2014.
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Gwei will attend the festival with her “Debussy” team, including director Kuo, producers Tu Hsiang-Wen and Li Yao Hwa, and actress Lu Yi-Ching, who played Gwei’s mother in the film.
