Kiwi Chow

In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Chow. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Kiwi Chow and the Chinese-style name is Chow Kwun-wai.

Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai (Chinese: 周冠威; born 16 April 1979) is a Hong Kong filmmaker.

Kiwi Chow
周冠威
Chow in 2023
Born	(1979-04-16)16 April 1979[1] Hong Kong
Education	Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Master of Film Production, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Ancestral hometown: Dongguan city, Guangdong province
Occupation(s)	Director, producer, screenwriter
Notable work	Beyond the Dream Ten Years[2] Revolution of Our Times

Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai
Chinese	周冠威
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōu Guànwēi Yue: Cantonese Jyutping zau1 gun3 wai1

Career

Since his graduation, Kiwi Chow has participated in different processes of film production, including as a continuity supervisor, editor, and assistant director. Since 2005, he has been working as a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2013, his first feature-length film A Complicated Story had its world premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.^[3] His most successful and well-known film Ten Years won the Best Film Award at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards.^[4][5] He released his third feature-length film Beyond the Dream in 2020. It was among the top ten highest-grossing films in Hongkong that year.^[6]

In 2021, Chow's new film Revolution of Our Times, a documentary about the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, was invited to be shown in the "Special Screening" section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.^[7][8][9] This film also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary in 2021.^[10][11]