Felix Chong

Felix Chong (Chong Man-keung), a Hong Kong film scriptwriter and director, was born on December 27, 1968. His father was a theatre manager, which gave him the opportunity to watch movies for free from an early age. He watched classic films like "A Better Tomorrow" more than forty times. He graduated from the Department of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University in 1993. From 1994 to 1999, he worked as a scriptwriter and editor for the promotion department of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). At the age of 30, he ventured into the film industry. The first work he participated in as a scriptwriter was "Afraid of Nothing, the Jobless King" (1999), co-written with Wai-hau Ma. Later, he made contributions to the film "Gen-Y Cops 2" (2000), solidifying his foothold in the film industry. Since then, he has written over twenty scripts, including the crime film "Infernal Affairs" in 2002, which was nominated for the 40th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival Best Original Screenplay Award. In 2005, he co-wrote the screenplay for "Initial D", a racing film also written by Shuichi Shigeno, which was nominated for the 42nd Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival Best Adapted Screenplay Award. In 2007, he and long-term partner Alan Mak Siu-Fai co-founded Pop Movies Limited, and their first major collaboration was "Moonlight in Tokyo" (2005). Their next series, "Overheard" (2009 to 2014), won them several nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. In 2010, Felix Chong's directorial debut, "Once A Gangster", won him the Best New Director Award at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2014, with "Overheard 3", he won the Best Screenplay Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2017, the action film "Extraordinary Mission", for which he contributed, was released. In 2018, his self-written and directed crime film "Project Gutenberg" was released. For this film, he won the Best Director Award and Best Screenplay Award at the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards. He also won the Best Screenplay Award at the 25th Huading Awards and the Best Director Award from Hong Kong and Taiwan at the 10th China Film Directors' Guild Awards. In 2020, he stood out in the Top Ten Film Screenplay Awards at the New Era International Film Festival on the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China. In 2023, his self-written and directed film "The Goldfinger" was screened globally and was successfully nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards.