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