About

Known credits:
26
Birthday:
1984-08-21
Place of birth:
Hong Kong, China
Website:
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Heiward Mak Hei-Yan

Overview

Heiward Mak majored in design studies at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, but became interested in filmmaking after she graduated in 2003. She entered the creative media program at the City University of Hong Kong and began making short films. Her graduation short won an award at the IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, attracting the attention of actor-producer Eric Tsang. She was promptly hired to work alongside veteran Aubrey Lam on the script to Men Suddenly in Black 2 (2006), the sequel to Pang Ho-cheung’s popular comedy.

At the time, Tsang was involved in the production of a trilogy of films about high school students, set in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, respectively. The trilogy was entitled Winds of September, after the Taiwanese installment, and Tsang hired Mak to write and direct the Hong Kong episode. Mak was only in her early twenties at the time, and her film High Noon (2008) received critical accolades as an energetic and unhackneyed look at Hong Kong’s disaffected youth. It also won her a nomination as Best New Director at the 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards.

Known for

Acting
2021 Depths of Night Actor Woman (Voice) N/A
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Directing
2019 Fagara Directing Director 59
Average
2016 Good Take, Too! Directing Director 58
Average
2014 Uncertain Relationships Society Directing Director N/A
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2012 Diva Directing Director 58
Average
2011 We Might As Well Be Strangers Directing Director N/A
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2010 Ex Directing Director 58
Average
2010 Quattro Hong Kong Directing Director N/A
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2008 High Noon Directing Director 58
Average
2006 Lovers’ Lover Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2019 Fagara Writing Writer 59
Average
2018 Golden Job Writing Screenplay 59
Average
2014 Uncertain Relationships Society Writing Writer N/A
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2012 Diva Writing Screenplay 58
Average
2011 I Love Hong Kong 2011 Writing Writer 58
Average
2010 Ex Writing Screenplay 58
Average
2010 Love in a Puff Writing Writer 60
Fair
2008 High Noon Writing Writer 58
Average
2006 Men Suddenly in Black 2 Writing Writer 58
Average
2006 Lovers’ Lover Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2021 Fire Room Production Producer N/A
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2016 Mad World Production Producer 60
Fair
Take us to the island Production Executive Producer N/A
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Editing
2021 Drifting Editing Editor 59
Average
2019 Fagara Editing Editor 59
Average
2010 Amphetamine Editing Editor 58
Average