Eric Lau is an award-winning Director/Producer in the film industry for 33 years, and has a MFA from NYU. His films won the Best Narrative Film Award in the 1981 and 1984 Hong Kong International Film Festivals as well as Best Production, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography Awards in the 1984 First Run Film Festival.

Lau has been the Producer, Director, and Cinematographer for numerous commercials and feature films. In 2007, he directed and produced Elevator Weekend, which won the Official Selection category for both the Staten Island Film Festival and Long Island International Film Festival. He has produced and directed international award winning commercials for Snapple, Toyota, Unicom, and Blue Man Group among others.

He has been a distinguished guest lecturer at numerous universities and production workshops on film and video production, lighting, and cinematography.

For the past 22 years, Eric Lau has been President of Solar Film/Video Productions, a full service production company in NYC. His credits include such films as American Psycho and Y Tu Mama Tambien. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Alfonso Cuaron, Ernest Dickerson, John Turturro, Peter Bogdanovich, Mary Harron, James Toback, Jon Turteltaub, and Joel Schumacher.

Visit his website at www.solarnyc.com
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