Simon Chung

Simon Chung Tak-sing is a Hong Kong film director whose independent features have been shown at festivals in Asia, Europe and North America. He grew up in Hong Kong and, from the age of fifteen, in Toronto, where he went to high school and later studied film at York University; he afterwards worked at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he made his first independent films, and took a master's degree in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His first short, Chiwawa Express, dates from 1992. His feature Innocent (2005) premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and won the NFB Best Canadian Film Award at the Reel Asian festival in Toronto, End of Love (2009) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, and Speechless (2012) premiered at the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. He is also a founding member of Ying e Chi, an independent film distributor in Hong Kong.