Jun Li
Biography
Jun Li is a Hong Kong film worker, born on August 3, 1991. He graduated from Ying Wa College for secondary school and studied journalism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then went on to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. He regularly writes articles for Ming Pao Sunday Life and has also published works in Initium Media and Fleurs des Lettres. In 2017, he directed the short film "Liu Yang He" which won the Open Category Fresh Wave Award and Best Director Award at the Fresh Wave Short Film Festival. In 2018, his short film "Diao Diao Chong" received a Best Live Action Short Film nomination at the 55th Golden Horse Awards, and that same year he completed his first feature film "Tracey", for which actor Yuan Fu-hua won Best Supporting Actor at both the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards, while actress Kara Wai won Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and Li himself received nominations for Best New Director and Best Screenplay at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2021, his second feature film "Drifting" was based on an incident he covered as a university student about street sleepers being cleared by the government, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Big Screen Competition, and received 12 nominations at the 58th Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film and Best Director, making it the most nominated film of that year, and it won Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, his third feature film "All Shall Be Well" premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival to positive reviews, with distribution rights sold to many territories worldwide, and received five nominations at the 62nd Golden Horse Awards including Best Narrative Feature and Best Director, ultimately winning Best Director, making him the first post-90s director to win this award at the Golden Horse Awards. Li is gay, and his partner is American musical theatre actor Zenni Corbin, who appeared as an actor in both "Drifting" and "All Shall Be Well".