19 year old former Wanna One member Edward Lai (Kuanlin) wins multiple awards including Best Director for “Winter & Spring Are Fighting” at June Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards

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I have never been more surprised or impressed by something so random and unexpected! Good job Kuanlin.

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Then if the film wins and he becomes a star there will be a lot of shock-- great for him!

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It won best of fest, best director, best actress, best costume design and best cinematography! Kuanlin won best director and his film a lot of the other major awards. This is a Europe-based indie filmmaker competition and it's pretty well-known and appreciated and it says a lot that his movie won there.

OMG he's sharing a name with Edward Yang too ahhhh I'm glad he turned around his image of being an unemployed spitter/dating/drinking (which was quite harsh anyways).

That's so cool

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I wonder what cnetz will say about this

Idk but it's pretty insane, he is so young and look at what he just did, I'm very impressed btw specially bc I know of him since w1

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He was actually working hard this whole time, people just didn't know and made fun of him for being unemployed while he was actually directing his first movie. When he lived in LA for five years he used the name Edward and I think it also suits him.

I'm REALLY happy! Show them Edward! (Well it sounds very formal so I like it!)

Oh wow very Chole zhao with how he is using inexperienced untrained actors. Really like his naturalistic approach.

The subject matter is also rather interesting, talking about leftover children in China. Will try to seek out the film when it eventually comes out ( can’t find it currently)

This is AMAZING!

I'm so impressed by him!

I'm so surprised he is a director of all things?? Wow, what an achievement for such a young person. as a former wannable, i didn't really know what he had been doing after the whole cube issue, i seriously didn't expect him to become a director, and much less win awards for his movies. specially since he's like, what... 20?

these are very good knews though and im extremely proud of how far he's come since the broduce days. he always kept on growing and getting better and better at everything, so if i was expecting a w1 member to shock me like this, it was def him

interesting

Omg that's so impressive, good for him!

Wow that's so cool. I just finished his chinese drama, first love and this is a huge jump. BTW, was he the one who had a dispute with Pledis?

Well damn lol. He’s really making a name for himself. This is impressive! But who would of thought, not me.