《非常幸运》新加坡首映

    American director Dennie Gordon has done something so unusual that her 24-year-old son calls her a “crazy dame*.”

    The 50-year-old is the first female director from the United States to make a Chinese-language film. She has teamed up with Zhang Ziyi, star of “Crouching* Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” to make “My Lucky Star,” a romantic comedy set to premiere in China on Tuesday.

    Gordon directed episodes of TV comedies “30 Rock” and “The Office” and feature films including “What a Girl Wants” and “Joe Dirt” before meeting Song Ge, a producer of Zhang’s 2009 film, “Sophie’s Revenge*.”

    They talked about making a film in China, the fastest-growing film market in the world. Zhang joined the project later.

    “My son is also a filmmaker and he said to me, ‘you are one crazy dame,’” she laughs.

    “But I love crazy challenges and everybody wants to know what the Chinese market is really like. There is this huge audience here.” (SD-Agencies)