One of Hong Kong`s representative directors, Ann Hui started feature-making from the late seventies as a prominent member of the New Wave movement In Hong Kong, and was noted for revising the whole style and purport of local filmmaking with films like The Secret (1979), The Story of Wooviet (1980), and Boat People (1982). She went on to make a total of nineteen feature films including Summer Snow (1995) which won a Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.