Simon Chung

Simon Chung Tak-Sing
Born
Hong Kong
Alma materYork University, Toronto
Hong Kong Baptist University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Film director


Ancestral hometown: Huizhou, Guangdong province, China


Languages spoken: Cantonese, Mandarin , English , French
Years active2000s–present
Awards2009 Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (IFVA)
Distinguished Award
End of Love


2005 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
NFB Best Canadian Film Award
Innocent


1997 Image Forum Festival
Special Jury Prize
Life is Elsewhere
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese鍾德勝
Transcriptions

Simon Chung Tak-sing[1] (Chinese: 鍾德勝), is a Hong Kong film director. His films include Innocent, released in 2005, End of Love which premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009,[2] and Speechless, released in 2012, and which premiered at the BFI 26th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (since renamed BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival), on 28 March 2012.[3] Chung is gay.[1]

Early life and education

Chung was born and brought up in Hong Kong, and from the age of fifteen, in the city of Toronto in Canada, where he attended high school. He was later educated at York University in Toronto, where he majored in Film, followed by Hong Kong Baptist University, in Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong, where he made his first independent films in the technical department and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin, in Hong Kong's New Territories, where he took a master's degree in Cultural Studies.[1]

Life and career

Chung's first film short was Chiwawa Express, made in 1992.[1] His first full-length feature film, Innocent, made in 2005, premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and won the NFB Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. His second feature, End of Love, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, while his third, Speechless, premiered at the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. He is a founding member of Ying e Chi, an independent film distributor in Hong Kong.[2]

Filmography

  • I Miss You When I See You (2018)
  • Speechless (2012)
  • End of Love (2009)
  • Innocent (2005)

Film shorts

  • First Love and Other Pains (1999)
  • Stanley Beloved (1998)
  • Life is Elsewhere (1996)
  • Chiwawa Express (1992)

Awards

See also

Other Chinese LGBT film directors

References

  1. ^ a b c d Nigel Collett (20 March 2009). "Coffee with Simon Chung Tak-sing". Fridae Asia. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b Simon Chung. Publisher:Festival Scope.com. Retrieved: 24 January 2016.
  3. ^ Speechless. Publisher: Polari Magazine. Published: 29 March 2012. Retrieved: 24 January 2016.