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Cheuk Kwan
Cheuk Kwan was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Singapore, Hong Kong and
Japan. After earning his master's degree in systems engineering in the
U.S., he immigrated to Canada in 1976 where he embarked upon a successful
career in information technology. His international upbringing gave the
multilingual Mr. Kwan - he speaks English, Japanese, French and several
Chinese dialects - an early start in world travel and opportunities to
meet people from several countries. His career later brought him to the
U.S., Saudi Arabia, and back to Japan
and Hong Kong.
Back home in Canada, the community activist founded The Asianadian, a
magazine dedicated to the promotion of Asian Canadian arts, culture and
politics in 1978. The following year, he helped lead a nation-wide fight
for equality for Chinese Canadians.
Cheuk took a film workshop at New York University in 1998 before establishing
his own production company, Tissa Films. His first five films, Song of
the Exile, On the Islands, Three Continents, Latin Passions, and Beyond
Fontiers are based on his international Chinese Restaurants series and
bring together his personal experiences, love of travel and appreciation
of Chinese culture worldwide.
Latin Passions won the Special Jury Prize, San Francisco International
Asian American Film Festival in 2006.
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