
Jessey Tsang Hong Kong
Tsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on the humanitarian grounds. In 2008, her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake was successful internationally, that had won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. Tsang finished her French/ Hong Kong co-production feature documentary Flowing Stories in 2014, and her latest drama Scent is also released in Mid of August 2014. In the recent years, Tsang has actively participated in projects relating to environmental issues
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Jessey TsangTsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on the humanitarian grounds. In 2008, her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake was successful internationally, that had won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. Tsang finished her French/ Hong Kong co-production feature documentary Flowing Stories in 2014, and her latest drama Scent is also released in Mid of August 2014. In the recent years, Tsang has actively participated in projects relating to environmental issues
Education 2005 Master of Fine Arts in Media Design and Technology, City University of Hong Kong 2001 BFA Honors Degree in Film and Television School, The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts (Sound Design Special Pathway) 1998 Diploma in Film and Television School, The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Art Filmography 2018 ‘The Other Story’, curated by Ying Kwok, exhibition at Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2016 ‘Encounter’, featuring Mui Cheuk-yin and Lau So-kam, dance video, commissioned by West Kowloon Cultural District 2015 ‘Breathe in Breathe out’, dance video, premiere at ‘The heart is deceitful above all things’ Exhibition in HOME Manchester, UK ‘Morning has broken’, drama, an anti-domestic violence short for Harmony House, HK 2014 ‘Flowing Stories’, documentary Humanitarian Award, FilmAid Asia 2016 Jury special mention, The Chinese Documentary Film Festival 2015 Best Documentary, The South Taiwan Film Festival 2015 Paris Project Award – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), 2012 Project Grant, Hong Kong Arts and Development Council Official Selection, CAAMFest 2015 Competition Film, The 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival Official Selection, The 33rd Vancouver International Film Festival Official Selection, The 22nd Filmfest Hamburg Official Selection, The 2nd Chinese Women’s Documentary Film Festival in Brown University, U.S. Selected Film, Macau Independent Film Festival 2014 ‘Scent’, fiction, theatrical released in Mainland China and Japan 2013 ‘Searching on taste buds’, documentary, a short film under Google Searching Stories worldwide campaign 2011 ‘Big Blue Lake’, fiction Asian New Talent Jury Prix, Shanghai International Film Festival 2012 Best New Director, Hong Kong Film Award 2012 Best New Director, Hong Kong Director’s Guild 2011 Award for Young Artist, Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2011 Film of Merit, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards 2011 Project Grant, Hong Kong Arts and Development Council Official Selection, 30th Vancouver International Film Festival 2011 Official Selection, 8th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2011 Official Selection, 22nd STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL 2011 2010 Justin Lo ‘Love Addiction’ Album Film “Stories”, documentary Official Selection, Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2010 Official Selection, Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards 2010 2009 ‘The Life and Times of Ho Chung Village’, experimental Special Mentions, Open Category, The Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards 2010 Official Selection, Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards 2010 Official Selection, Women and the Post-Colonial HK Film Festival in New York Official Selection, Hong Kong Independent Film Festival @Macau 2010 Official Selection, The 3rd Xiao Zhou-Art Festival 2010 Official Selection, Oberhausen International Film festival 2009 2008 ‘Lovers On the Road’, fiction Best Drama Award, The south Taiwan Film Festival 2008 Project Grant, Hong Kong Arts and Development Council Official Selection, International Women Film festival in Seoul 2008 Official Selection, Asian Women’s Film Festival in Berlin 2008 Official Selection, The 11th Dhaka International Film Festival 2008 Official Selection, Asian Film Symposium 2008 Official Selection, Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008 2007 ‘où est la sortie?’, fiction Official Selection, The French Cinepanorama HK French Film Festival 2007 Official Selection, Mapping the city screening, Manchester 2007 Official Selection, Oberhausen International Film festival 2007 Official Selection, The Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards 2007 2004 ‘Lonely Planet’, fiction, producer/scriptwriter/director Silver Award, Open Category, The Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards (ifva) 2005 Official Selection, Women Make Waves film festival 2007 Official Selection, Pierwszy przegląd niezależnego kina Hong Kongu oraz reklam 2006 Official Selection, Singapore International Film Festival 2006 Official Selection, festival del Cortometraggio, Italy 2005 Official Selection, Thai Short Film and Video Festival,Thailand 2005 Official Selection, Sehsϋchte International Student Film Festival, Germany 2004 Official Selection, The Hong Kong International Film Festival 2004 Official Selection, The Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards 2004 Awards 2016 Humanitarian Award FilmAid Asia 2015 ‘Flowing Stories’, Jury’s Special Mention, HK Documentary Award Chinese Documentary Film Festival 2014 ‘Flowing Stories’, The Best Documentary Award, South Taiwan Film Festival 2012 ‘Big Blue Lake’, Best New Director, Hong Kong Film Award ‘Big Blue Lake’, Asian New Talent Jury Prix, Shanghai International Film Festival 2011 ‘Big Blue Lake’, Best New Director, Hong Kong Director’s Guild 2011 Award for Young Artist, Hong Kong Arts Development Awards ‘Big Blue Lake’, Film of Merit, 2011 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards 2010 ‘The Life and Times of Ho Chung Village’, Special Mentions, Open Category, The 16th Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards 2008 ‘Lovers On the Road’, Best Drama Award, The 8th South Taiwan Film Festival ‘All about my Ho Chung’, Special mentions, Single-Screen-Based Interactive Media Category The 14th Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards. 2005 ‘Lonely Planet’, The Silver Award, Open Category, the 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards (ifva) (Hong Kong) |