Doris Wong Chin Yan
Directing
Doris Wong is a filmmaker whose work has been critically acclaimed in film festivals worldwide. She is perhaps most known for writing, directing, producing and editing her short film Journey, which tells the story of a young couple struggling to achieve all their dreams of a lavish wedding and honeymoon, home-owning, travelling and having fulfilling careers in economically challenging Hong Kong. Journey was part of the Short Film Palme d-or & Short Film Corner at the 67th Festival de Cannes, and won the Best Director Award for Short Dramatic Film, 11th Global Chinese Universities Student Film and TV Festival in Hong Kong in 2014. The film also won multiple student film prizes in 2013 in China, Hong Kong, Russia and South Korea. She has a number of other short films to her name, such as Lonely Apartment (2008), a quiet depiction of the unusual attraction between a young gay couple and a female realtor, and Words (2011), a love story of silent communication across train platforms, to name a few. (More can be seen on her Youtube channel.) She is a graduate in Comparative Literature from The University of Hong Kong, and holds an MFA in Film, TV and Digital Media from Hong Kong Baptist University.
Known for
Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul
May 25, 2023
Lonely Apartment
July 14, 2009
Where's The Head?
December 11, 2015
The Cow Caretaker
December 11, 2015
Two of Us
December 11, 2015
FYP
June 22, 2016
New Turn
May 14, 2021
Journey
February 10, 2013
M83: Midnight City
January 1, 2012
Train
January 1, 2012
Happy Hour
June 2, 2011
Words
March 10, 2011
Behind the camera14
- 2023Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul Director
- 2021New Turn Director
- 2016FYP Director
- 2015Where's The Head? Grip
- 2015The Cow Caretaker Grip
- 2015Two of Us Boom Operator
- 2013Journey Writer, Director
- 2012M83: Midnight City Director
- 2012Train Director
- 2012Christmas Director