Bill Yip

Bill Yip was born in Hong Kong and first started his profession in feature film production after gaining his Bachelor Degree from the School of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University. He worked over 20 local and foreign productions in posts as assistant director, screenwriter and production manager. In 1998 Bentley Communications hired him as associate creative director for one year and dealt with mostly corporate clients. After leaving the advertising agency, he focused on production house projects and specialized in directing and producing AV productions in the forms of TVC, corporate video, infotainment, TV dramas for RTHK and other networks, documentaries, feature and short film. He worked with internationally acclaimed directors like Wayne Wang, 'Pucchi Leong', Masashi Yamamoto, 'Sylvia Cheng', Francis Gerard, Lawrence Ah-Mon and 'Marion Hansel'. He set up his own production house in 1998 and specializes in commercial and corporate works. Bill was the executive producer of _Bus 44 (2001)_, the short film directed by Dayyan Eng which went to win best short feature awards at the Sundance Film Festival (2002), Florida Film Festival (2002) and Venice Film Festival (2001). The short depicts the story of a bus driver and her passengers as they encounter highway robbers on the outskirts of a small town. "Bus 44" carries a universal theme that travels across all boundaries and societies, trespassing the dark side and bright side of human behavior.