La Frances Hui is Film Curator at Asia Society New York. She has curated film series featuring contemporary Chinese documentary and fiction films, New Wave Japanese cinema, Japanese documentaries, Thai cinema, and Iranian cinema. She has also curated film director retrospectives featuring Tsai Ming-Liang, Jafar Panahi, and Shohei Imamura. Hui regularly leads on-stage conversations with major film artists including Jia Zhangke, Ang Lee, Jackie Chan, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-Liang, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, John Woo, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Hui was the Co-curator of the 2013 Asian American International Film Festival (New York). She also curated a series of independent Chinese documentaries for Film Southasia (Kathmandu). Her writings on film have been published by Cinevue (Asian CineVision) and The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop). Hui was a Committee Member of the Margaret Mead Film Festival and has served on the juries for the South Asian International Film Festival and the New York Indian Film Festival. Additionally, she has been invited to speak at The Museum of Modern Art, New York University, Queens College, Stony Brook University, Taipei National University of the Arts, China Institute, and CUNY-TV.
