Daniel Hsia
Daniel Hsia is a filmmaker, director, screenwriter and producer. He is most known for his first feature, Shanghai Calling which stars Daniel Henney, Eliza Coupe and Bill Paxton, and which Hsia won a Best Screenwriter Award for from the 2012 Shanghai [International Film Festival] and a Best New Director / Outstanding First Feature award from the 2012 Los Angeles [Asian Pacific Film Festival].
Films
Hsia's first feature, the drama/comedy Shanghai Calling is about an ambitious New York Attorney named Sam Chao who is sent to Shanghai, China on assignment for a case and gets mixed up in a dilemma that puts his career in jeopardy. The film also stars Eliza Coupe, Bill Paxton as a fast food entrepreneur named Donald Cafferty and Alan Ruck as Marcus Groff, a client of Chao's law firm. The film won a Best Actor award, and Best Screenwriter at the 2012 Shanghai International Film Festival as well. Daniel Henney also won a Best Actor award at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival, and Hsia also won a Best New Director / Outstanding First Feature Award at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.Hsia has also directed the short films How to Do the Asian Squat, Generation Gap and I Hate Cheese - which was done as a Visual Communications "Armed with a Camera" Fellowship film in 2003.