Simon Chung

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]

Simon Chung Tak-Sing
Born	Hong Kong
Alma mater	York 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 active	2000s–present
Awards	2009 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
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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.^[4]

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

• Distinguished Award for End of Love at the 2009 Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (IFVA)
• NFB Best Canadian Film Award for Innocent at the 2005 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
• Special Jury Prize for Life is Elsewhere at the 1997 Image Forum Festival in Japan

See also

• Cinema of Hong Kong

Other Chinese LGBT film directors

• Cui Zi'en
• Kit Hung
• Stanley Kwan
• Quentin Lee
• Zihan Loo
• Scud
• Yonfan