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冼杞然（Stephen Shin Kei-yin），1950年生於澳門，七歲隨家人移居香港灣仔，就讀慈幼學校及慈幼英文學校，其後修讀香港浸會學院生物系，期間旁聽鍾景輝嘅戲劇課並獲推薦為無綫電視創作劇本。1970年他寫成首部作品《積善之家》，是無綫由黑白轉彩色播映的第一個節目。1971年他轉讀香港中文大學社會學，1975年畢業後加入無綫任助理編導，曾參與處境喜劇《相見好》（1975），後升任編導，攝製《殺手·神槍·蝴蝶夢》（1977）及《人海奇譚》（1978）。其後他轉職佳藝電視，隨該台倒閉而外闖。1979年，他在長城電影製片有限公司支持下組織天龍電影公司，執導首部電影《冤家》，走社會寫實路線，其後有《情劫》（1980）及描寫職業女性的《薄荷咖啡》（1982）；繼而加入香港電台，監製資訊節目《電光幻影》。八十年代中，他為德寶電影公司編導《兄弟》（1986），風格硬朗，叫好叫座；1986年年底加盟德寶出任執行董事，統領製作及發行，監製影片二十多部，並持續執導，包括《通天大盜》（1987）、帶動都市喜劇潮流的《三人世界》（1988），以及其續篇《三人新世界》（1990）和《三人做世界》（1992）。他招攬袁和平加盟德寶，又發掘台灣新人楊麗青（楊麗菁）來港拍《皇家師姐III雌雄大盜》（1988）；並曾化名「沈紀元」為銀都機構任《童黨》（1988）執行監製。他亦協助成立香港電影文化中心、參與籌備香港電影金像獎。1994年他執導鞏俐主演嘅《西楚霸王》，其後一度淡出影圈轉入商界，曾出任莊勝集團執行董事、星美傳媒集團副總裁兼香港總裁、《成報》執行董事及陽光衛視行政總裁。2016年他推出身兼編導及監製的《終極勝利》，並攝製紀錄片《被遺忘的濰縣集中營》。他現為銀都機構營運總監，曾參與監製《刺客聶隱娘》（2015），2017年至2019年獲委任為香港電影發展局委員。
English
Stephen Shin Kei-yin, born in Macau in 1950, moved with his family to Wan Chai in Hong Kong at the age of seven and studied at Salesian schools before reading biology at Hong Kong Baptist College, where he sat in on Chung King-fai's drama classes and was recommended to write for Television Broadcasts. His first script, written in 1970, became the station's first programme broadcast in colour. He switched to sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, graduated in 1975 and spent years as an assistant director and then director at Television Broadcasts, working on the sitcom Family Couple (1975) and later on drama productions of the late 1970s. Moving to Commercial Television, he left when the station collapsed. In 1979, with backing from Great Wall Movie Enterprises, he formed Tin Lung Film Company and directed his first feature in a social-realist vein, followed by a 1980 drama and the 1982 Mint Coffee, about working women; he then joined Radio Television Hong Kong, producing the information programme Electric Shadows, and produced a 1984 costume drama and later planned a 1988 film about the writer Yu Dafu. In the mid-1980s he wrote and directed Brothers (1986) for D&B Films, a hard-edged crime film that succeeded with critics and audiences alike, and at the end of 1986 he joined D&B as executive director, overseeing production and distribution, producing more than twenty films and continuing to direct. These included a 1987 romantic action film shot across Europe and the urban comedy Heart to Hearts (1988), which set a trend, together with its sequels in 1990 and 1992. He recruited Yuen Woo-ping to D&B, discovered the Taiwanese newcomer Cynthia Khan for a 1988 action film, and under the alias Shum Kei-yuen was executive producer of the 1988 Sil-Metropole drama Gangs. He helped found the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre and worked on the Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1994 he directed the historical epic The Great Conqueror's Concubine, starring Gong Li; he later partly left the film world for business, serving as executive director of a conglomerate, vice-president and Hong Kong chief of SMI Holdings, executive director of Sing Pao and chief executive of Sun TV. He made the 2016 war drama The Ultimate Victory, which he wrote, directed and produced, together with a documentary on the Weihsien internment camp. He is chief operating officer of Sil-Metropole, co-produced Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin (2015) and was a member of the Hong Kong Film Development Council from 2017 to 2019.
