Heiward Mak

Heiward Mak Hei-yan (Chinese: 麥曦茵; Jyutping: mak6 hei1 jan1) is a Hong Kong film director, writer and producer. Her work has been featured at various international film festivals including Singapore, Bratislava and Fribourg. In 2011, she won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay for her writing on Love in a Puff.

Heiward Mak
Mak in 2010
Born (1984-08-21) August 21, 1984
Tai Wai, Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Director, Writer, Producer

Biography

Mak was born in 1984 and grew up in Tai Wai, Hong Kong where she attend Sha Tin Government Secondary School. She received a diploma in graphic design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. After graduation, she worked as a graphic artist before enrolling at City University of Hong Kong within the school of Creative Media. Her thesis film Lovers’ Lover won a Gold Award at the IFVA in their Open Category section.[1] Her teacher Patrick Tam later showed Lovers’ Lover to actor Eric Tsang. This landed Mak a casting job on the comedy film Men Suddenly in Black 2, which Tsang acted in and co-produced. Mak had written a few lines of dialogue for the casting process as the screenplay had not been written that early into production. After Tsang read what Mak had written, he offered her a co-writer position.[2]

She graduated with a BA in Creative Media in 2006.[3]

In 2008, Mak made her directorial debut when producer Eric Tsang gave her the opportunity to film a remake of Winds of September which later became High Noon. For her work she was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Director and given a Film of Merit by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

After directing the film Ex, she worked alongside to Pang Ho-cheung to make romantic comedy Love in a Puff which went on to earn her a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay.[4]

Filmography
Year Film Director Writer Notes
2006 Men Suddenly in Black 2 No Yes Co-writer
2008 High Noon Yes Yes
2010 Ex Yes Yes
Love in a Puff No Yes Co-writer
2011 I Love Hong Kong No Yes Co-writer
2012 Diva Yes Yes
2014 Uncertain Relationships Society Yes Yes
2018 Golden Job No Yes Co-writer
2019 Fagara Yes Yes Co-writer

See also

References
  1. "麥曦茵 MAK Heiward". Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. "First Person: Heiward Mak Hei-yan". South China Morning Post. 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  3. "Heiward Mak". About Festival Scope Pro. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  4. Lee, Edmund (7 August 2014). "The Inquisition: Filmmaker Heiward Mak". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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