Nelson Quan

Who is Nelson Quan?

Nelson Quan is a Chinese-American film editor, director and producer. He is known for editing the Chinese remake, What Women Want and produced The Criminally Inept along with being one of the first students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Academy for Creative Media.

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, and raised by two Chinese parents. He attended the University of Hawaii, Mānoa's Academy for Creative Media and attained a B.A. in Film and TV Producing.

Under the mentor and direction of former Tri-Star President of Production, Chris Lee, Nelson joined with three other interns to have an all expense paid internship on the set of Superman Returns, directed by Bryan Singer.

After the internship, Nelson worked alongside director Ryan Ishii to produce his own feature The Criminally Inept. Later after Nelson graduated from college, he went on to pursue learning Mandarin and moved to Beijing in the spring of 2008 and studied for two years. After studying, through the introduction of Chris Lee again, Nelson met up with director Daming Chen.