Tammy Cheung was born in Shanghai in 1958 and moved to Hong Kong at an early age. She studied
sociology in Hong Kong and film studies at Montreal's Concordia University. In 1986, she founded the
Chinese International Film Festival in Montreal, showcasing films made by Chinese film‐makers and
film with Chinese content, and what the director of the Festival from 1986 and 1992. She made her
directorial debut in 1999 and together with her collaborator and cinematographer Augustine
Lam she founded Reality Film Productions in Hong Kong in 2002, a production company that produces
and distributes social documentaries. Her works include Invisible Women (1999), Secondary School
(2002), Rice Distribution (2002), Moving (2003), Was (2003), July (2004), Speaking up (2005); Village
Middle School (2006) and Speaking up 2 (2007). Rice Distribution won the Grand Prize and Open
category Gold Award at the 2002 Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards 2002. Her film
utilize the observational approach characteristic of American documentarist Frederick Wiseman’s
Direct Cinema style. Cheung is an engaging story‐teller, motivated by a wish to critique many of the
inadequate social structures in Hong Kong, and to enable the viewer to empathize with ordinary people
Until 2015, the government proposed land resumption without consultation to build a subsidized housing unit. In Hong Kong, where land is extremely expensive, it is not difficult to become a target for eradication if it is regarded as "no economic value". C ...
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Jacky, a Vietnam-born Chinese man, lives under the flyovers in Sham Shui Po. Despite living on the streets, he still has the aura of an ex-triad leader. However, he has lost his will to live after being tormented by a chronic illness. (華語紀錄片節 C ...
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Election is about the Legislative Council Election in 2004, focused on three geographical constituencies: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and the New Territories East. The film follows various activities, from the submission of candidacy, pledge ceremonies, ...
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Using the same interview techniques applied in her highly successful Speaking Up (2005), Tammy Cheung turns her attention from Hong Kong to Mainland China. In Speaking Up II, she interviews around two dozen students from a well-respected primary school in ...
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The documentary takes a close look at the present situation of rural education in China. The story takes places in a over-crowded and under-funded middle school in a poor rural area of Yunnan. The school has a student population of 1,700 which is much larg ...
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Since the end of eighties, Hong Kong has been through tremendous changes -- re unification with China, economic downturn, political reform, etc, have all greatly affected our way of life. In the film, about sixty people are invited to talk about their view ...
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Hong Kong's massive and unprecedented public protests and demonstrations in early July 2003 are documented in July. The film shows individual and mass reactions to the proposed national security legislation. It preserves the speeches, songs, chants, poster ...
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Shot over three months, the film chronicles daily lives of two "Band One" secondary schools, one for boys and one for girls. Using the "direct cinema" approach, the documentary takes a close look at the present condition of the school system. ...
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The Ghost Festival takes place during the seventh lunar month. The gates of hell are opened to free the hungry ghosts who wander the world seeking food. During this month, Chinese pay tribute to their ancestors and offer food to the deceased to appease the ...
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Ngau Tau Kok Estate is one of the oldest and largest public housing projects in Hong Kong. Most of the residents are either elderly and live alone, or working class families. Since 2001, after the government announced its plan to redevelop the area, reside ...
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Invisible Women follows the lives of three ethnic Indian women in Hong Kong. In the film, Cheung explores gender inequalities and looks at the lives of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. ...
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Quentin Lee returns to Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. As he explores his desire to move back there from Los Angeles, he interviews local artists, filmmakers, friends, and family about why they are in Hong Kong and why they choose to be there. ...
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