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麥婉欣（Yan Yan Mak，亦作 Gorretti Mak），香港電影、電視及廣告導演，生於香港，籍貫廣東佛山。她自1993年、仍在求學期間便投身電影行業，先後擔任場記、副導演、製片、美術指導及服裝設計等崗位，對製作流程瞭如指掌，其後畢業於香港演藝學院電影電視系。她的畢業短片《Snapshots》曾於香港國際短片及錄像大獎獲優異獎，展現出對影像語言的敏感。
2001年，她完成首部長片《哥哥》，並憑此片獲第25屆香港國際電影節國際影評人聯盟獎（費比西獎），以及威尼斯國際電影節國際影評人週最佳導演獎（POVEGLIA Award）；影片亦入選2002年鹿特丹國際電影節，並在韓國全州國際電影節奪得亞洲新導演獎（Woosuk Award），另獲瑞士費朗國際電影節人道精神大獎。
2004年，她自編自導第二部長片《蝴蝶》，由星皓娛樂出品，何超儀、田原、葛民輝主演，講述一名已婚女教師重遇少女戀人、重新面對自身慾望的故事。影片獲選為威尼斯電影節國際影評人週開幕電影，田原憑此奪得2005年香港電影金像獎最佳新演員，並入圍第41屆金馬獎最佳新演員，麥婉欣亦獲提名最佳改編劇本。此片令她成為香港少數以女性視角書寫同志題材而廣受注目的導演。
其後她陸續執導《八月的故事》（2006）、記錄城市邊緣人物的紀錄片《十日談》（2008，與何韻詩合作），以及與鄭思傑合導的《東風破》（2010），後者由官恩娜、周俊偉、泰迪羅賓、苗可秀等主演。除電影外，她亦活躍於電視、廣告與音樂錄像製作，並創辦華蓮戰隊製作公司。其作品不時探討女性處境、家庭與身份認同，在商業與藝術之間尋求平衡，產量雖不多，辨識度卻相當高。
English
Yan Yan Mak (also credited as Gorretti Mak) is a Hong Kong director of film, television and advertising, born in Hong Kong with ancestral roots in Foshan, Guangdong. As early as 1993, while still a student, she entered the film industry, working as a continuity girl, assistant director, production manager, art director and wardrobe designer, so that she came to know the production process from the ground up before graduating from the film and television school of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Her graduation short Snapshots won a distinction at the International Short Film and Video Awards of Hong Kong, revealing an early sensitivity to visual language.
In 2001 she completed her first feature, GeGe (Brother), which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival and the best director award (POVEGLIA Award) in the Critics' Week of the Venice Film Festival; the film was also selected for the 2002 Rotterdam International Film Festival, took the Woosuk Award for best Asian new director at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea, and won a humanitarian award at the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland.
In 2004 she wrote and directed her second feature, Butterfly, starring Josie Ho, Tian Yuan and Eric Kot, the story of a married schoolteacher who meets a young woman and is forced to confront her own long-suppressed desire. The film was chosen as the opening film of the Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival; Tian Yuan won best new performer at the 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards and was nominated in the same category at the 41st Golden Horse Awards, where Mak was also nominated for best adapted screenplay. The film established her as one of the few Hong Kong directors widely noticed for portraying queer subject matter through a woman's perspective.
She went on to direct A Story in August (2006), the documentary The Decameron (2008, made in collaboration with Denise Ho) about people living on the margins of the city, and Merry-Go-Round (2010) co-directed with Clement Cheng and starring Ella Koon, Lawrence Chou, Teddy Robin and Patricia Miu. Besides features, she works actively in television, advertising and music videos, and founded her own production company. Her films repeatedly explore women's lives, family and identity, seeking a balance between commerce and art; her output is small but highly distinctive.
