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Chow Kwun-wai
Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai (; born 16 April 1979) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. 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. His most successful and well-known film ''Ten Years (2015 film), Ten Years'' won the Best Film Award at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards. 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. In 2021, Chow's new film ''Revolution of Our Times (Documentary), 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. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chow (surname)
Chow is a Chinese and English surname. Origins As an English surname, Chow originated as a nickname, from Middle English , meaning " chough" or "jackdaw". As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation): * Zhōu (), romanised Chow based on its Cantonese pronunciation () * Zōu (), homophonous with the above surname in Cantonese, though not in other varieties of Chinese * Qiū (), romanised Chow based on its Cantonese pronunciation () * Zhào () * Cáo () * Qiú () Statistics According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 1,459 people on the island of Great Britain and 49 on the island of Ireland with the surname Chow as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 19 people with the surname in Great Britain, mainly in Yorkshire. The 2010 United States Census found 17,059 people with the surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |