Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan

Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan
Chinese name 曾翠珊
Pinyin zēng cuì shān (Mandarin)
Jyutping cang4 ceoi3 saan1 (Cantonese)
Born Tsang Tsui-shan
Hong Kong
Occupation Director

Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan (Chinese: 曾翠珊; Jyutping: cang4 ceoi3 saan1) is a Hong Kong director, writer and documentary maker who has won multiple awards at various international film festival. In 2012 she won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Director for her film Big Blue Lake.[1]

Biography

Tsang studied sound design at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts where she graduated in 2001. Afterwards she attended the City University of Hong Kong and completed her master's degree in 2005. While still studying at City University she directed her first solo film Lonely Planet in 2004 which was honored with a Silver Award by the IFVA. After winning another award at the South Taiwan Film Festival in 2009 for Lovers on the Road Tsang directed her most critically acclaimed work to date Big Blue Lake which won her Best New Director at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards and the title of Best New Artist by the Hong Kong Art Development Council. Tsang's most recent work Flowing Stories is a documentary about the small rural village of Ho Chung in Sai Kung where she grew up. Released in 2014 the film focuses on the lives of villagers and their relative that have left to live overseas.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "TSANG Tsui Shan Jessey". Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Tsui, Clarence. "Flowing Stories (Ho Sheung Bin Chuen): Hong Kong Review". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
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