陳志發

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陳志發1989年生，香港男導演、編劇同監製。佢喺新界大埔大元邨長大，小學至中三成績一向差劣，小四時曾因成績未達標留班一年；中學時期一度沉迷網上遊戲，亦曾愛上剛柔流空手道，奪2005年度全港青少年空手道大賽男童16至17歲自由組手季軍。2007年佢畢業於大埔官立中學，會考取得11分且全部科目及格，其後到香港專業教育學院修讀多媒體設計及數碼娛樂高級文憑，並跟隨音樂錄像導演累積創作經驗。2012年佢畢業於香港浸會大學傳理學院電影學院（主修電影），2012至2013年喺無綫電視任職節目導演，亦做過剪接、動畫設計同廣告拍攝。2016年佢首度執導電影《點五步》，該片為「首部劇情電影計劃」大專組優勝作品，獲政府電影發展基金撥款200萬港元拍攝，並入選第四十屆香港國際電影節；2017年佢憑此片獲第36屆香港電影金像獎新晉導演提名，2018年獲浸大頒發傑出傳理人獎。

English

Steve Chan Chi-fat, born in 1989, is a Hong Kong director, screenwriter and producer. He grew up in Tai Yuen Estate in Tai Po and did badly at school, repeating a year in primary four, and as a teenager was briefly addicted to online games and took up Goju-ryu karate, finishing third in a territory-wide youth championship in 2005. He left Tai Po Government Secondary School in 2007 with 11 points and all subjects passed at the HKCEE, then studied multimedia design and digital entertainment at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education while gaining experience with a music-video director. Graduating in film from Baptist University's film academy in 2012, he worked as a television programme director from 2012 to 2013 and also took editing, animation and commercials jobs. In 2016 he directed his first feature, a coming-of-age film supported by a HK$2 million government grant under the First Feature Film Initiative and shown at the 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival; it earned him a best new director nomination at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2017, and in 2018 he received a Baptist University outstanding communication alumnus award.