Doris Wong Chin Yan
Biography
Doris Wong is a filmmaker whose work has been critically acclaimed in film festivals worldwide. She is perhaps most known for writing, directing, producing and editing her short film Journey, which tells the story of a young couple struggling to achieve all their dreams of a lavish wedding and honeymoon, home-owning, travelling and having fulfilling careers in economically challenging Hong Kong. Journey was part of the Short Film Palme d-or & Short Film Corner at the 67th Festival de Cannes, and won the Best Director Award for Short Dramatic Film, 11th Global Chinese Universities Student Film and TV Festival in Hong Kong in 2014. The film also won multiple student film prizes in 2013 in China, Hong Kong, Russia and South Korea. She has a number of other short films to her name, such as Lonely Apartment (2008), a quiet depiction of the unusual attraction between a young gay couple and a female realtor, and Words (2011), a love story of silent communication across train platforms, to name a few. (More can be seen on her Youtube channel.) She is a graduate in Comparative Literature from The University of Hong Kong, and holds an MFA in Film, TV and Digital Media from Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Movie - 2013, 2h 15m β’ as Coach
"This is a story of fall: of falling into traps and for lies and scams, of falling in love and falling out of love, and of falling for your own lies and falling back into the old ways, spectacularly. Michelle enrols in a self-help course in the hope that she will make her married lover come to his senses and treats her right. When the chanting of positive self-affirmations β Peace! Friendship! Love! β descends into uncontrollable screaming and wailing, will the newly converted be able to see things in a new light or will she wrapped herself up in the shining armour of self-victimisation to keep her from hurting?"