Stanley Kwan, born in 1957 in Hong Kong, China, is a film director and producer from Hong Kong, China.
　　Kwan debuted as a director of the Women in 1985. He won the Best Director at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards for the romance Rouge in 1988. He won the Best Director at the 28th Chicago International Film Festival for the biopic Center Stage in 1991. The feature film Hold You Tight directed by Kwan was shortlisted for the Competition Section of the 48th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997.
　　The feature film The Island Tales directed by Kwan was shortlisted for the Competition Section of the 50th Berlin International Film Festival in 2000. He was included in the Top Ten Directors at the 4th China TV Art Double Top Tens Awards for the TV series Painting Soul in 2003. The feature film Everlasting Regret directed by Kwan was shortlisted for the Competition Section of the 62nd Venice International Film Festival in 2005. In 2020, he gave a lecture at the Workshop & Masterclass of the 10th BJIFF with the topic of “Hong Kong Film: Inheritance of Tradition and Development for Surpassing”.
　　Kwan was appointed as the Jury of the Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film of the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010. And he served as a member of the International Competition Jury of the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival in 2018.