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Born in 1975, Kearen Pang is a Hong Kong cross-media artist who writes, directs, performs and teaches — starting as a stage actress and going on to produce a series of one-woman shows she wrote and directed herself. Her second solo play won her Best Actress (Comedy/Farce) at the Hong Kong Drama Awards in 2008; she was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong in 2014 and won best director (foreign-language drama) at the Nice International Film Festival in 2017. Her debut feature 29+1 won Best New Director at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards, and her second, Mama's Affair (2022), took nearly HK$43 million.