(XINHUA)

Hong Kong director Ann Hui was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sixth Asian Film Awards on March 19. She became the first female director to receive the award from the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.

Hui, 64, is famed for classics such as Song of the Exile and her most recent work A Simple Life, which has received worldwide acclaim for her tale about the relationship between a young Hong Kong man and the servant who raised him.

Born in northeast China's Liaoning Province, Hui lived in Macao until she was 5 and then moved with her family to Hong Kong.