After portraying a number of police characters on the big screen, Hong Kong actor Simon Yam continues his affinity for policemen in his directorial debut.

Yam revealed his upcoming project on the sidelines of Sunday's 29th Hong Kong Film Awards, where he won the best actor award for the film "Echoes of the Rainbow".

"I'm familiar with police stories. I was influenced by my father," Yam told the Southern Metropolis Daily.

The director-to-be says the new film will be dedicated to his late father, a former police officer who died on duty. Filming is expected to start next year.

In the award-winning film "Echoes of the Rainbow", Yam plays a cobbler struggling to make a living. The role is one of the few movies in which he appears as neither a policeman nor a criminal.

Yam is currently filming a horror movie called "Watchmen" in which he plays a paranoid killer.

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