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Doris Wong Chin Yan

Doris Wong Chin Yan

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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.

Known For

FYP
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An insurance agent, Gloria, finds out she has only three months to live. She quits the job she has always hated and starts to follow her own wish to live.

FYP

2016
Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul
5.1

Rapunzel: While attending the birthday celebration of the scion of some record company, an ex-hair model who aspires to make a comeback in the entertainment business gets her tresses burnt by a spoiled brat. She walks into a hair salon to salvage her sole pride and joy, only to meet her most macabre end. Cheshire Cat: A woman whose cat was gruesomely disemboweled in the street has since opened a feline rescue center. When a man who poses as an animal lover alerts her to a potential case of cat torture, she accompanies him to the scene, only to realize that he is the real perpetrator and his next target could be human. Tooth Fairy: A dental nurse befriends a chef in the street. When he visits her clinic to check on his teeth, he is tortured by the dentist who fancies her. The morning after, the dentist is found murdered in the clinic. All fingers point to the chef who happens to be mentally unstable. Little do the police know that the real culprit is still at large.

Tales from the Occult: Body and Soul

2023
New Turn
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Looking for her long-lost twin sister, a woman from Hong Kong bikes around Taiwan, joined by three complete strangers, one from Hong Kong, one from Taiwan, one from China, each biking around the island for his/her own reasons.

New Turn

2021
Where's The Head?
5.0

Liza, once a notorious mob boss, has always been strategically planning the career of her only son Yan. It is however never in Yan’s intention to follow her mother’s footsteps - instead he aspires to be a filmmaker. As a mob, Yan is highly incompetent, and his disappointing performance already messed up a simple drug deal. Liza desperately tries to save her most sought-after son, but she ends up, along with her son, breaking into her neighbour Mr. Chan's home. They accidentally steal the head of Mrs. Chan, whom they assume was murdered by Mr. Chan. They recklessly decide to blackmail Mr. Chan, and everything goes out of control. Will Liza and her beloved son survive this crisis?

Where's The Head?

2015
The Cow Caretaker
4.0

Ting and her friends go to Mui Wo where they see cows freely walking around. Someone appears and reminds them not to disturb the cows. The next day comes the news that seven cows were killed in a car accident at Mui Wo, which catches Ting and her friends’ attention. Ting starts a fundraising campaign hoping to build a cows’ shelter but is taken as an act to trick people’s money. The disheartened situation brings Ting to revisit the site, where she meets Sunset, the cow caretaker whom they have met before. She eventually develops a sense of responsibility to protect the cows when one day Sunset asks her to inherit the post of caretaker from him.

The Cow Caretaker

2015
Lonely Apartment
1.0

An ordinary encounter between a homosexual couple and a female realtor triggers an extraordinary confrontation of the 'male gaze'. The female is not the one to be seen though.

Lonely Apartment

2009
Words
N/A

2011 short film by Doris Chin-Yan Wong

Words

2011
Two of Us
7.0

Japanese band Aomori Hensou is the only thing that makes Mei Bo feels alive in this mundane city until she meets Lily, her new neighbour. It happens that Lily is also a huge fan of the band so they start to get along with each other like twin sisters. They wander around the city, from second-hand CD shops, to goldfish market, and other secret spots that nobody knows. Lily eventually gets tired of the excitement from Mei Bo and starts exploring the city on her own. One day Lily appears at the door of Mei Bo’s home together with the news of the break up announcement of their favourite band, but there is only an empty room left in front of her.

Two of Us

2015
M83: Midnight City
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2012 short film by Doris Wong Chin Yan.

M83: Midnight City

2012
Christmas
N/A

2014 short film by Doris Wong Chin Yan

Christmas

2012
Fall
6.0

"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 – Peace! Friendship! Love! – 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?"

Fall

2013
Train
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2012 short film by Doris Wong Chin Yan

Train

2012
Happy Hour
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City life is repetitious and all about work. It always comes with night life and a lot of drinking after work, because people always try to escape from the stress at work, or even from family and relationships. What we call "happy hour" here is the hours we have fun after work - night life. Therefore, if "HAPPY hour" is our night life, then what are those "UNHAPPY hours"?

Happy Hour

2011
Homeless
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2011 short film by Doris Chin-Yan Wong

Homeless

2011
Journey
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Hong Kong is an international financial center where its property market is the most expensive in the world. Hong Kong people work hard all their life just to be able to pay for their house mortgage. Dream is a luxury in this city. Rachel and Ronald struggle between dream and reality. As time goes by, will they swim with the stream or forgo what they have and follow their dream...

Journey

2013