Leung Ming-kai
LEUNG Ming-kai is a cinematographer and director from Hong Kong. He holds a master's degree from Columbia University, New York. He attended Asian Film Academy organised by Busan International Film Festival, where he won the Best Performance Award as a cinematographer. Leung has directed several short films. His Three Boys (2007) received an award at the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards and represented the Philippines in competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Lock (2007), was an official selection of Tribeca Film Festival, and stars Kate Reilly, with whom he directed the feature Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down (2019).
Filmography
Lock (2007, short), Three Boys (2007, short), On One (2011, short), Sylvia (2017, short, co-dir), Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down/Ye heung, yuen yeung, sham shui po (2019, co-dir)
Leung Ming-kai at IFFR
Graceland
17'
Thailand
IFFR 2007
In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
76'
Thailand
IFFR 2012
Thursday
44'
Thailand
IFFR 2015
By the Time It Gets Dark
105'
Thailand
IFFR 2017
Krabi, 2562
Prehistoric cave-dwellers, a retired boxer and a commercials actor populate a Thais coastal town threatened by mass tourism.
93'
Thailand
IFFR 2020
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Four stories show how fiction and fact, humour and drama, personal and political are complementary facets of the contradictory realities that constitute Hong Kong today.
78'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020