Tammy Cheung Trailers
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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
films with Chinese content, and was 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), War (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 films
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 viewers to empathize with ordinary people
and their aspirations. Tammy Cheung’s work has been presented in film festivals in Amsterdam, Rome,
Seoul, Toronto, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore and major cities in China.
Most Popular Tammy Cheung Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
01 January 2007
Using the same interview techniques applied in her highly successful Speaking Up (2005), Tammy Cheung turns her attention from Hong Kong to Mainland China.
01 January 2008
Election is about the Legislative Council Election in 2004, focused on three geographical constituencies: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and the New Territories East.
06 November 2020
Until 2015, the government proposed land resumption without consultation to build a subsidized housing unit.
06 July 2007
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.
01 July 2004
Hong Kong's massive and unprecedented public protests and demonstrations in early July 2003 are documented in July.
11 March 2017
310 Tung Chau Street is a tenement building in Sham Shui Po. Three Vietnamese from the same province share a subdivided flat.
07 September 2014
Via Dolorosa captures director’s journey in reconnecting with Vietnamese homeless persons whom she filmed for another short film two years ago.
02 January 2003
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.
01 January 2003
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.
09 September 2014
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.
02 December 2003
Shot over three months, the film chronicles daily lives of two "Band One" secondary schools, one for boys and one for girls.
01 January 1999
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.
02 January 2005
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.
02 January 2006
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.
