H o l i d a y P i c t u r e s
Holiday Pictures Ltd. is a Vancouver-based Canadian independent production company co-founded by Shan Tam and Michael Parker. With a strong connection to the Asian film community and established strategic alliances with a variety of international producers and distributors, Holiday Pictures creates original feature films and documentaries. Their many successes include Julia Kwan’s Eve & the Fire Horse, winner of a Sundance special jury prize and Lunch with Charles, a Canada Hong Kong treaty coproduction named by Shanghai Daily as one of ten “must-see” films of the 2001 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Holiday’s cultural initiatives include consulting and programming work for several film festivals. In 1999, Holiday initiated the "Canadian Film Showcase in China" with the support of Telefilm Canada and the Canadian Consulate in Shanghai. Prior to this, Parker and Tam were founders of Ocean Bridge Presentations Society, a non-profit organization that screened Chinese films on a cross Canada tour in conjunction with Montreal’s InterCinéArt.
Representatives of Holiday Pictures have been panelists on forums at festivals and markets in Vancouver, Toronto, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and the US.
Maple Ridge Films Ltd. is an independent production company specializing in working with foreign initiated productions filming in Canada. Included in their portfolio is the action blockbuster, Rumble in the Bronx starring Jackie Chan and more recently, Xue Xiaolu’s Finding Mr. Right. Starring Tang Wei and Wu Xiubo, upon release in China, Finding Mr. Right became the top ninth domestic box office success of all time.
In addition to feature films, Maple Ridge Films has completed television series Jade Buddha produced by Hai Run Movies and TV, China; 20 one-hour episodes of the hit TV series, New York Tempest and the 20 part Chinese television series, Love Memories.
As a BC based Canadian corporation Maple Ridge Films is eligible to provide applicable federal and provincial tax incentives offered to foreign productions filming in Canada.
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SHAN TAM
Born in Hong Kong and living in Canada, producer Shan Tam has been active in film and television on both sides of the Pacific for two decades. Her work has earned multiple awards and numerous nominations, including a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and a Claude Jutra Award for director Julia Kwan on Eve & the Fire Horse as well as a Gemini and numerous Leo Awards for her other features and documentaries. She has recently won a 2013 Best Television Movie Leo Award for producing Reunion Pictures’ Ring of Fire. Her solid working relationship with Asia has facilitated inaugural feature coproductions involving Hong Kong, Canada, China and Australia. Along with producing North American television dramas in China, she has recently coproduced Edko Films’ Finding Mr. Right, China’s ninth biggest domestic box office release ever. Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, Ms. Tam sits on the board of BC Film and Media, and is a past board member with Women in Film and Video Vancouver. She has most recently completed production of Mabel Cheung and Alex Law’s wartime drama A Tale of Three Cities for Nansun Shi’s Film Workshop and the Chinese studio Huayi Brothers.
MICHAEL PARKER
Michael Parker is an award-winning writer, director and producer who began his career line producing features with partner Shan Tam. Their many credits include Jackie Chan’s blockbuster Rumble in the Bronx and more recently, Xue Xiaolu’s Finding Mr. Right, China’s ninth largest domestic box office release ever. An accomplished screenwriter, Michael has received development funding from numerous agencies and broadcasters and won best writer and director Leo Awards for his Canada Hong Kong coproduction, Lunch with Charles. Michael was a writer/producer of Paper Moon Affair, selected for official competition at the Montreal World Film Festival; and a writer/producer of the Whistler Film Festival winning documentary Call it Karma. He executive produced the Gemini Award winning documentary Made in China and was the writer/director of the Leo nominated Hong Kong Express. Michael graduated with an MFA from UBC in film production and creative writing. A recipient of British Columbia Film Foundation’s inaugural Daryl Duke Scholarship and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), he is currently an adjunct professor of Film Production at UBC.
Hollie Lo and Phoebe Kut in “Eve & the Fire Horse”