Mabel Cheung
A New York University film graduate, Mabel Cheung’s thesis film, The Illegal Immigrant, won her Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards. She later directed An Autumn’s Tale starring Chow Yun Fat and was awarded the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film. Together with her third feature Eight Taels of Gold starring Sammo Hung, these films were considered the Immigration Trilogy. Later, her romantic drama City of Glass (1998), the powerful musical Beijing Rocks (2001), and the historical epic A Tale of Three Cities (2015), successfully captured the hearts of the audiences.
Together with Alex Law they made the nostalgic period film Echoes of the Rainbow (2009), which won the Crystal Bear Award for Best Film (Generation) at the Berlin International Film Festival. Mabel Cheung continues to make touching films with wide social overreach.
Kearen Pang
Kearen Pang is a Hong Kong cross-media creator who has written, directed, and acted in theatrical productions and films. She graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and joined the Chung Ying Theater Company in 1998 as a full-time actor.
Kearen’s directorial debut film is 29+1 (2017), an adaptation of her own one-woman show. 29+1 won the Audience Award at the 12th Osaka Asian Film Festival. She has also worked on the script for Silver Bear winner Isabella (2006). Her latest feature Mama’s Affair (2022) revolves around a mother building a star image or a young star while trying to communicate with her own son.
Chiu Hoi Yeung
Chiu Hoi Yeung graduated from the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media. He received a scholarship that furthered his studies in drama, music and film at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In 2008, he won the Best Actor award at the 3rd Golden Sugarcane Film Festival in Taiwan. He then continued his acting studies at the New York Film Academy in 2015. After graduation from college, he joined the TVB artiste training course and has become a full-time actor.
He had roles in dramas such as When Heaven Burns, Tomorrow is Another Day, etc. Other than his television appearance, he also involves in many short films. In 2015, he was the actor and producer for the music video of Crystal Cheung’s single The Best Actor, which earned him the IFPI Hong Kong Music Video Award.
Renci Yeung
Renci Yeung is a talented actress under the management of Louis Koo’s Light Up Entertainment Limited. She is known for roles in TV series such as If Love Was Not Timeless (2018) or Afterlife Firm (2018). She also starred in the short film Second Hand Bookstore (2017) and recently as one of the main characters in the coming-of-age film The First Girl That I Loved (2021). Her emotional and nuanced performance makes the film very moving.
Renci Yeung loves film and photography. She is also a member of Hong Kong volleyball team. Next year she will appear in brand new film A Guilty Conscience (2023).
Sandra Ng
A prodigiously hardworking and talented actress with over 140 films to her credit, Sandra Ng is one of the most recognizable individuals in Hong Kong cinema.
A hugely popular actor and a loving mother, Ng combines her on and off-screen personae into affecting performances, reflecting Hong Kong people’s streetwise wit and can-do spirit and casting a spotlight on the stamina and perseverance of contemporary women. Beyond acting, she has expanded her career in recent years, making her directorial debut and serving as a producer, a move that firmly confirms her versatility.
Coba Cheng
With extensive creative experience in different fields, from radio to fashion magazines, advertising and marketing agencies to global music corporations, Coba has developed countless successful projects to show his imagination and marketing efficacy. He even called himself an occupation nomad. For his prolific creativity, he was named 40 under 40 by Prestige in 2021.
Coba began his directing career in 2021. His directorial debut Chilli Laugh Story is based on a lockdown experience with his own family. It is a witty comedy following the persistence and hard work that led to the creation of a successful chilli sauce brand. It became the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in the summer of 2022.