Doris Wong Chin Yan Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Doris Wong Chin Yan
Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography Movies
Production
FYP
An insurance agent, Gloria, finds out she has only three months to live. She quits the job she has always hated and starts to follow her own wish to live.
Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul
Rapunzel: While attending the birthday celebration of the scion of some record company, an ex-hair model who aspires to make a comeback in the entertainment business gets her tresses burnt by a spoiled brat. She walks into a hair salon to salvage her sole pride and joy, only to meet her most macabre end. Cheshire Cat: A woman whose cat was gruesomely disemboweled in the street has since opened a feline rescue center. When a man who poses as an animal lover alerts her to a potential case of cat torture, she accompanies him to the scene, only to realize that he is the real perpetrator and his next target could be human. Tooth Fairy: A dental nurse befriends a chef in the street. When he visits her clinic to check on his teeth, he is tortured by the dentist who fancies her. The morning after, the dentist is found murdered in the clinic. All fingers point to the chef who happens to be mentally unstable. Little do the police know that the real culprit is still at large.
New Turn
Looking for her long-lost twin sister, a woman from Hong Kong bikes around Taiwan, joined by three complete strangers, one from Hong Kong, one from Taiwan, one from China, each biking around the island for his/her own reasons.
Train
2012 short film by Doris Wong Chin Yan
Lonely Apartment
An ordinary encounter between a homosexual couple and a female realtor triggers an extraordinary confrontation of the 'male gaze'. The female is not the one to be seen though.
Journey
Hong Kong is an international financial center where its property market is the most expensive in the world. Hong Kong people work hard all their life just to be able to pay for their house mortgage. Dream is a luxury in this city. Rachel and Ronald struggle between dream and reality. As time goes by, will they swim with the stream or forgo what they have and follow their dream...
Homeless
2011 short film by Doris Chin-Yan Wong
Words
2011 short film by Doris Chin-Yan Wong
Christmas
2014 short film by Doris Wong Chin Yan
Journey
Hong Kong is an international financial center where its property market is the most expensive in the world. Hong Kong people work hard all their life just to be able to pay for their house mortgage. Dream is a luxury in this city. Rachel and Ronald struggle between dream and reality. As time goes by, will they swim with the stream or forgo what they have and follow their dream...
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