Daniel Yun
Daniel Yun (traditional Chinese: 雲暉翔; simplified Chinese: 云晖翔; pinyin: Yun Huixiang; Cantonese Yale: Wan Fai-Cheung) (born 26 July 1958) is a veteran film producer, media practitioner, engineering student at Villanova University and marketer. He has extensive experience in advertising and marketing, including running his own marketing and promotion company, Channels Marketing, before moving into the broadcasting and the movie industry. He joined Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Radio as Vice-President of Radio Sales in 1991 and became Head of Programming in 1992. He then went on to establish and head the Marketing Communications as well as the Programming and Acquisition departments for Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) in 1994.
In 1998, Daniel became the Vice-President of Production 5 at TCS, where he supervised the production of English dramas and sitcoms. In the same year, he founded MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. Raintree Pictures was a part of MediaCorp’s efforts to develop content beyond the TV platform to travel beyond Singapore. A strong driving force behind the push to establish a Singapore movie industry by nurturing Singapore filmmakers and collaborations with accomplished overseas filmmakers, Daniel led MediaCorp Raintree Pictures with over 30 releases since its inception.
In 2013, Daniel founded ACT Academy @ ERC Institute.[1] ACT Academy is a school dedicated to aspiring actors. With an important difference. Its curriculum immerses an actor student with as much industry experience as the theory, if not more. ACT Academy is a school conceptualised by practitioners, and run by practitioners and academics. With a panel of advisors who are leaders in their own fields of expertise, to serve as a crucial link between the school, the students and the real world of acting.
Personal life
Yun is the twin brother of Channel NewsAsia founder Woon Tai Ho.
Yun's father, a chef, died when he was in secondary school, and his mother tried various ways to care for her two sons and two daughters, including running a food stall.[2]
References
- ↑ "ERC Institute". ERC Institute. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ Nanda, Akshita (7 March 2013). "Art imitates life for ex-TV chief". Singapore Press Holdings. The Straits Times. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
Raintree Pictures produced:
• The first Singapore musical, 881,
• The first Singapore horror hit, The Maid,
• The first Singapore movie to participate in the Sundance Film Festival, One Last Dance,
• The first collaboration between Singapore and Hong Kong, The Truth About Jane and Sam,
• The first collaboration with New Zealand, The Tattooist,
• The first collaboration with Australia, The Home Song Stories, and
• The first co-production with China which was a groundbreaking hit, Painted Skin.
Other groundbreaking critical and commercial successes include I Not Stupid, The Eye,
• Turn Left, Turn Right, Infernal Affairs II and Protégé.
In 2010, Daniel founded Homerun Pictures. The company is currently defunct.
• It produced the Singapore-Malaysia co-production Homecoming and My Dog Dou Dou.
• Distributed titles such as Feng Xiaogang's box office hit Aftershock, Zhang Yimou's Under The Hawthorne Tree and Luc Besson's biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady.
In 2013, Daniel formed Blue3 Pictures to develop a slate of movies to tell Asian stories for global audiences. Daniel is currently producing and co-directing 1965, Singapore's first dramatic thriller.