Rita Hui
Directing
Rita Hui studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA)’s Department of Film and Television. Her video work has won numerous awards at the IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, and includes such shorts as Ah Ming (1996), She Makes Me Wanna to Die (1997), Invisible City (Wall) (1998), and Alice in the Wonderland (1999). She has also worked on various video art installation projects throughout the 2000s. These include Chionanthus Retusus (2001), IdoLetHerMyHeadHave (2004), Red Riding Hood (2005), and RED (2006). Hui made her feature film debut at the end of the decade with Dead Slowly (2009), a gory and sexually explicit metaphysical thriller involving adultery and murder that starred Joman Chiang and screened at the Pusan International Film Festival. Her feature film Keening Woman (2013) is about a young woman who finds her consciousness undergoing some sort of spiritual journey, after she begins to lose her sense of self at a farewell ceremony for a recently departed family friend. The film screened at the 2013 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival. Aside from her filmmaking endeavors, Hui also teaches at the City University Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media.
Known for
Big Blue Lake
November 17, 2011
Pseudo Secular
November 12, 2016
Decameron
June 2, 2021
A Rainy Night
January 28, 2015
Days After n Coming
January 14, 2012
Keening Woman
October 5, 2013
Subway
June 1, 1997
Invisible City (Wall)
May 1, 2023
Dead Slowly
October 10, 2009
She Makes Me Wanna Die
January 1, 1998
Ah Ming
June 1, 1996
In the Dumps
July 1, 1997
Behind the camera12
- 2023Invisible City (Wall) Director
- 2021Decameron Director, Producer
- 2016Pseudo Secular Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- 2015A Rainy Night Producer
- 2013Keening Woman Director, Writer
- 2012Days After n Coming Producer
- 2011Big Blue Lake Producer
- 2009Dead Slowly Director, Writer, Editor
- 1998She Makes Me Wanna Die Director
- 1997In the Dumps