Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai (; born 16 April 1979) is a

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filmmaker.

Career

Since his graduation, Kiwi Chow has participated in different processes of film production, including as a continuity supervisor, editor, and assistant director. Since 2005, he has been working as a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2013, his first feature-length film ''

A Complicated Story ''A Complicated Story'' is a Hong Kong drama film, directed by Kiwi Chow based on the novel of the same title by Yi Shu. The film is headlined by actors Jacky Cheung, Jacqueline Zhu, Stephanie Che, and Zi Yi. The film had its world premiere at ...

'' had its world premiere at the

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. His most successful and well-known film '' Ten Years'' won the Best Film Award at the

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. He released his third feature-length film '' Beyond the Dream'' in 2020. It was among the top ten highest-grossing films in Hongkong that year. In 2021, Chow's new film '' Revolution of Our Times'', a documentary about the

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, was invited to be shown in the "Special Screening" section of the

2021 Cannes Film Festival The 74th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 6 to 17 July 2021, after having been originally scheduled from 11 to 22 May 2021. American director Spike Lee was invited to be the head of the jury for the festival for a second time, after t ...

. This film also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary in 2021. However, the film is likely to be banned in Hongkong due to the new film censorship law passed in October 2021, which enables the Chief Secretary to revoke a film's license if it is found to "endorse, support, glorify, encourage and incite activities that might endanger national security".

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* * 1979 births Living people Hong Kong film directors Hong Kong screenwriters {{HongKong-film-director-stub