Biography
Dante Lam Chiu-yin, also credited as Lin Chaoxian, is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career working as an assistant director on films such as Fight Back to School (1991) and Thunderbolt (1995).
Lam is known for directing action and military films including Beast Stalker (2008), Operation Mekong (2016), Operation Red Sea (2018) — for which he also wrote the screenplay — and The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021). He has frequently written or co-written his own projects and supervised action choreography.
He received the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director for Beast Stalker and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director for Operation Red Sea.
