Kit Hung (aka Wing Kit Hung or Hung Wing Kit, , is an independent filmmaker from

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. His films have won several international awards. He is most notable for his film '' Soundless Wind Chime'' (2009), which has won several awards, and was distributed in

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, Hong Kong,

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and the

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Education

Kit Hung studied film production in the

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and

. He attended the

Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU or HKPU) is a public research university in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded in 1937 a ...

and the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

for his BA in Design (Combined Studies), 2001 and a M.F.A. in Studio (Film, Video and New Media), 2005 respectively.

Life and career

Hung's graduation film “ I Am Not What You Want (2001)” is significant in queer culture in Hong Kong as it challenges the

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of Hong Kong gay men and gives a different representations in

homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexu ...

in Hong Kong. It was distributed both in Canada (V-Tape) and Hong Kong ( Ying e Chi). Competing with other commercial feature film DVDs, this 50mins, limited-budget, independent short film held 2nd place in the sales chart in

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, Hong Kong for 11 weeks. It was also used as a teaching material in universities in Hong Kong for cultural studies. Since 2001, Hung has been working in different film productions in China and Europe as an editor, continuity, assistant director and project manager. This includes Ho Yuk (''Let's Love Hong Kong'') directed by Yau Ching and the contract projects from Radio Television Hong Kong. He was also teaching in the School of Creative Media in the

City University of Hong Kong The City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) is a public research university in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and formally established as the City University of Hong Kong in 1994 ...

. He is a lecturer in the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University since 2012. Hung joined Jiukaboom Multimedia Production Company in 2012 and is now the featured director and writer of the company. Hung's films are supported with grants from Hong Kong, the United States,

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and France. He has also directed music videos for singers including

Chet Lam Chet Lam Yat-Fung is a Hong Kong–based independent "city- folk" singer-songwriter. He is the elder brother of singer Eman Lam. Biography Lam was born at Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon. He grew up in a public estate, studying at Ch ...

(Hong Kong),

Eman Lam Eman Lam Yee-man ( zh, 林二汶, born 25 October 1982) is a Hong Kong singer and songwriter. Lam and Ellen Joyce Loo were part of the vocal duo at17. In contrast with Ellen Joyce Loo (who had been writing songs which incline more toward Cant ...

(Hong Kong), and Signorino TJ (Switzerland).

Personal life

Hung is openly gay and has stated that his 2009 film, '' Soundless Wind Chime'', is "semi-autobiographical".

Selected filmography

*In My Space of Loneliness (1999, 5 mins, Hong Kong) *Invisible People (2000, 35 mins, Hong Kong) * I Am Not What You Want (2001, 50 mins, Hong Kong) *Buffering… (2003, 38 mins, Hong Kong/Switzerland/Chicago) * Soundless Wind Chime (2009, 100 mins, Hong Kong/Switzerland/China) *Stoma (2020, 107 mins, Hong Kong/Switzerland)

Selected awards and nominations

* Teddy Award Nominee - "Soundless Wind Chime", Berlin International Film Festival (2009) * Best New Director - "Soundless Wind Chime", Turin GLBT Int’l Film Festival, Italy (2009) * Best Feature Film - "Soundless Wind Chime", Montreal Int’l LGBT Film Fest, Canada (2009) * Special Jury Mention, Best Feature Film - "Soundless Wind Chime", Turin GLBT Int’l Film Festival, Italy (2009) * Best Int’l Feature - "Soundless Wind Chime", Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Canada (2009) * Best Director - "Soundless Wind Chime", Lesgaicinemad Madrid, Spain (2009) * Audience Award - "Soundless Wind Chime", Turin GLBT Int’l Film Festival, Italy (2009)

Other Chinese LGBT film directors

* Simon Chung * Cui Zi'en *

Stanley Kwan Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. He first landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist Colle ...

Quentin Lee Quentin Lee (; born 1971) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian-American film writer, director, and producer. He is most notable for the television series ''Comedy InvAsian'' and feature films ''The People I've Slept With'' (2009), ''Ethan Mao'' (2004), ...

* Zihan Loo *

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Yonfan Yonfan (born 14 October 1947) is a Hong Kong film director and photographer. Biography He was born in Wuhan, Hubei, Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China. As the Yang family emigrated from mainland China, they lived first in Hong Kong ...

Notes

External links

* * official site
Kit Hung
at

International Film Festival Rotterdam International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films. The inaugural festival took place in June 1972, ...

Invisible people
at Transmediale 2001
Kit Hung at Jiukaboom Multimedia Production Company
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