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Tammy Cheung 张虹
Tammy Cheung is a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker. She studied Sociology at Shue Yan College in Hong Kong and Film at Concordia University in Canada. In 1986, she founded the Chinese International Film Festival in Montreal and held the position of Director of the Festival between 1986 and 1992. After moving back to Hong Kong in 1994, she was involved in commercial film production, film criticism, teaching and translation. In 2004, Cheung founded Visible Record Limited with other like-minded individuals from the fields of film, culture and education. In 2008, she founded the Chinese Documentary Festival, which is the first annual film festival in the world that focuses on Chinese documentaries. The festival has become one of the most important exchange platforms for film professionals, scholars and enthusiasts.
After years of anticipation, Cheung made her directorial debut in 1999. Her works include Invisible Women, Secondary School, Rice Distribution, Moving, July, Speaking Up, Village Middle School, Speaking Up 2, Election & After the Quake.
