Sherwood Hu

Sherwood Hu was the creator of 2010 World Expo Shanghai Pavilion. Hu studied at The Public Theater in New York under Joseph Papp, and began his professional career directing theatre. He received his Master of Arts degree from New York State University and earned a Ph.D. in directing from the University of Hawaii. He created The Legend of Prince Lanling, a lavish stage production which received an Honorable Mention from the Kennedy Arts Center, and was later adapted into his first feature Warrior Lanling, an award winning epic film about an ancient Chinese myth. His first English-language film Lani Loa - The Passage was presented by Francis Ford Coppola. Hu went back to China and formed his own company "Hus Entertainment" in 2005. He then produced and directed a 40-episode TV series Purple Jade for CCTV, and the 25th episode Fighting Peking was rated #1 national TV series at Beijing Satellite TV. Prince of the Himalayas, his own adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, received Best Film Award from Calabria International Film Festival in Italy, along with awards from other organizations including Monaco Film Festival, Chinese American Film Festival, American Shakespeare Association, Beijing International Film Festival. The film had an extremely successful run in New York City and was chosen as an archive film by Rubin Museum. His 3D film Amazing was a collaboration between Shanghai Film Studio and NBA. The film won the "Golden Lotus Award" for the best picture in 2013 Macao International Film Festival. Currently, he is completing the last film of his trilogy, Lord of Shanghai (Warrior Lanling/Prince of the Himalayas) and producing a new film called Big Bombing. Honored with the titles of "Eastern Scholar" and "Distinguished Expert of Shanghai", he is the President of Film and Television School at Shanghai Theatre Academy. As the founder of MIA (Media Image Art) Center, he spends a lot of time on the study of a new entertainment art form, which combines film, theater, computer arts, digital science and high tech engineering in a dome environment.