翁維銓

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翁維銓1949年生，係香港電影導演及攝影家，香港新浪潮導演之一，同期知名電影製作人包括蔡繼光、徐克、許鞍華、嚴浩、譚家明等。佢師承1956年第28屆及1964年第36屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳黑白片攝影獎得主黃宗霑，歷任大專院校及協會講師／主任、顧問及委員，係中國民主出版基金發言人、香港電影導演會執行幹事、香港藝術發展局電影及媒體藝術顧問、香港國際電影節執行委員、香港電影金像獎評審委員及香港亞洲電影投資會評審委員；其電影風格結合紀錄片特色與戲劇。翁維銓生於香港，在八兄弟姊妹中排行第六，家人從潮安移居香港，父親翁銘堅係身兼潮僑塑膠廠商會會董及香港潮州市同鄉總會前會長嘅塑膠商人。佢不喜歡讀書，求學階段入讀多所學校，1967年及1968年中五與中六畢業。1963年14歲首次坐貨船到台灣遊玩，旅程中拍照記錄行程，自此接觸攝影；1968年佢原計劃到美國洛杉磯藝術中心設計學院報讀課程，礙於不懂英語而先到南加州大學修讀英文一年，之後正式獲取錄。1979年佢執導《行規》，以半紀錄式手法寫江湖規矩，係七十年代末最寫實嘅香港電影之一。

English

Peter Yung, born in 1949, is a Hong Kong film director and photographer and one of the directors of the Hong Kong New Wave, alongside contemporaries such as Alex Cheung, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Yim Ho and Patrick Tam. He studied under James Wong Howe, the cinematographer who won Academy Awards for black-and-white cinematography in 1956 and 1964, and has served as a lecturer, adviser and committee member for tertiary institutions and professional bodies: he is a spokesman for a pro-democracy publishing fund, an executive member of the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild, a film and media arts adviser to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, an executive committee member of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and a juror for the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Hong Kong–Asia Film Financing Forum. His films combine documentary observation with drama. Born in Hong Kong, the sixth of eight children of a Chaozhou family, he was the son of a plastics manufacturer who led a Chaozhou plastics trade association and a fellow-provincials' association. A restless student who attended many schools, he finished secondary school in 1968; a cargo-ship trip to Taiwan at fourteen sparked his interest in photography. Unable to study art in Los Angeles because of his English, he spent a year improving it at the University of Southern California before being accepted. His 1979 debut, a semi-documentary study of triad codes of conduct, is among the most realistic Hong Kong films of the late 1970s.