Суби Лян

Subi Liang

Subi Liang is a veteran producer with a background in media and visual arts. She studied in the UK, France and at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she earned her Fine Arts degree. Upon her return to Hong Kong, she worked in media before beginning her film career in production administration and film distribution.

Liang began working as producer on director Pang Ho-cheung's 2006 Silver Berlin Bear winner Isabella. In 2007, she produced Exodus, which won the Silver Shell for Best Cinematography at the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival. In 2010, she produced the short online film series Four-Night Tales, which garnered up to 400 million click-throughs within two months and broke records for a Chinese short online film at the time. Another film she produced in the same year, Love in a Puff, was selected as one of the “The 100 Greatest Hong Kong Films” by Time Out magazine. Dream Home (2010) and Vulgaria (2012) both won over ten awards at various international film festivals and were selected as two of the “Best 10 Hong Kong Films” by the British Film Institute. Produced in 2012, Love in the Buff generated 100 million RMB in Hong Kong and China box office. In 2014, she produced Pang's Aberdeen, which garnered seven Hong Kong Film Awards nominations including for Best Picture, as well as Women Who Flirt, which grossed over 230 million RMB at the China box office and received the Best Actress Nomination at the Hong Kong Film Award. In 2017, Love off the Cuff, the final installment of the Love in a Puff series, has recorded a total of over 200 million RMB in worldwide box office in just three weeks upon its release.

In recent years, Liang has participated as a producer on international co-productions such as the horror film Never Here, directed by Camille Thoman and starring Mireille Enos of World War Z; a Singapore-French-German co-production Apprentice directed by Boo Junfeng, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Liang-produced Dog Days was presented in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.