張婉婷

简介

Mabel Cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1950 and is one of the most prominent Chinese and Hong Kong film directors, regarded as a representative figure of the Hong Kong New Wave cinema. She studied psychology at the University of Hong Kong, then traveled to the United Kingdom to study literature and drama at the University of Bristol, where she worked as an assistant director at the British Broadcasting Corporation. Returning to Hong Kong, she worked as a program director at Radio Television Hong Kong, then enrolled at New York University to study film in 1982. She directed her first feature film "The Illegal Immigrants" in 1985, winning the Best Director award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Her 1987 film "An Autumn's Tale" achieved great success and won Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Awards, while her 1989 film "Eight Taels of Gold" received five nominations at the same awards. These three films formed her famous Immigration Trilogy. She collaborated with her partner Law Chi-yau on the screenplay for "Painted Faces," which won Best Screenplay at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. She directed notable works such as "The Soong Sisters," "City of Glass," and "Echoes of the Rainbow," which won the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009. Her documentary "To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self" documented the lives of students from her former school and won Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Awards, and the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards. Cheung is known for her romantic, bourgeois films with strong local Hong Kong spirit, and has served as President of the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild since 2019.