Kok Rui Lau

Lau Kok Rui (; born 1990) is a Hong Kong–based Malaysian film director and screenwriter best known for his feature film debut The Sunny Side of the Street, for which he won Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay in the 59th Golden Horse Awards.

Biography Lau was born in 1990 in Muar, Johor, Malaysia. He is of Chinese descent with ancestral roots from Fujian, China, and has an elder brother and sister who later pursued studies in Taiwan. Lau, describing his hometown as lacking in entertainment, spent most of his childhood immersed in reading and watching movies, including books beyond his age owned by his siblings and Chinese films owned by his classmates. He later attended and graduated from in 2008. After graduation, he became a research assistant at Chinese University of Hong Kong for a year. During that time, he attended a filmmaking workshop at the University of Hong Kong and became interested in film production. He then produced an RTHK documentary The Sea Gypsies, and made his directorial debut in 2019 with the ViuTV romance series . The screenplay was enlisted in the 2019 , and went into production with Lau serving as the director and scriptwriter.

Filmography Film Year Title Writer Director Notes/ 2022 The Sunny Side of the Street

Television Year Title Writer Director Notes/ 2017

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Work Result 202259th Golden Horse Awards Best New DirectorThe Sunny Side of the Street Best Original Screenplay 202341st Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Director Best Screenplay