張經緯

繁體中文

張經緯1968年生，祖籍深圳，係香港導演及編劇，先後獲第29屆香港電影金像獎新晉導演獎同2009年香港藝術發展局年度藝術家獎。佢在香港出生、荃灣區長大，就讀海壩街官立小學、佛教林炳炎紀念學校、上葵涌官立工業中學及香港演藝學院音樂系；中學畢業後佢赴美，在紐約市立大學布魯克林學院攻讀音樂、電影及哲學，取得電影學士學位。2001年佢嘅畢業作品Farewell Hong Kong以香港回歸為主題，入圍美國日舞影展競賽組別，劇本《上帝的蘋果》亦獲中港台電影神話劇本創作賽優異獎；2005年其劇本《天水圍》獲香港亞洲電影投資會HAF大獎，後來由許鞍華拍成《天水圍的夜與霧》。2008年《歌舞昇平》入圍香港國際電影節人道獎紀錄片競賽；2009年《音樂人生》奪第46屆金馬獎最佳紀錄片、最佳剪接同最佳音效，成為金馬獎史上獲獎最多嘅紀錄片，並於第29屆金像獎獲最佳電影等四項提名，係金像獎史上首部獲提名嘅紀錄片，佢個人亦奪新晉導演獎。

English

Cheung King-wai, born in 1968 with ancestral roots in Shenzhen, is a Hong Kong director and screenwriter who won best new director at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's 2009 Artist of the Year award. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Tsuen Wan, he studied at several local schools and the music department of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts before going to the United States, where he took music, film and philosophy at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College and earned a film degree. His 2001 graduation work, about the handover of Hong Kong, was selected for the Sundance competition, and his screenplay won a merit prize in a Chinese-language screenplay contest; in 2005 his script about Tin Shui Wai won the top prize at the Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum and was later filmed by Ann Hui. His 2008 documentary competed at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and his 2009 film about a young piano prodigy — the most awarded documentary in Golden Horse history — took three prizes there and four nominations including best film at the Hong Kong Film Awards, the first documentary ever nominated in that category.