About
Leung Ming-kai
Overview
Leung Ming-kai competed as debut cinematographer at Camerimage for the film Mundane History. Subsequently, Kai has shot more than two dozen features in different parts of the world. He has been nominated for Best Cinematography in Thailand for By the Time It Gets Dark; in Canada for Old Stone; and twice in Taiwan at the Golden Horse Awards, for The Sunny Side of the Street and for Drifting. Top-tier festivals around the world have selected many films he has shot.
Kai also directs. His short film Three Boys represented the Philippines in competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and won the top prize at the Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards. It also screened at Sao Paulo, Austin, and Jecheon. Kai directed and wrote omnibus film Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down with Kate Reilly, and together, they won Best Screenplay and Film of Merit at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
Known for
Directing |
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| 2019 | Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
Writing |
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| 2019 | Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
Production |
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| 2019 | Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
Camera |
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| 2024 | Pavane For An Infant | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | The Way We Talk | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | All Shall Be Well | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2023 | Everyphone Everywhere | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Lifting | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | A Light Never Goes Out | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2023 | The Sunny Side of the Street | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2022 | The Black Wall | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Far Far Away | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Drifting | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Come Here | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Twilight's Kiss | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Ciao UFO | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | Krabi, 2562 | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Live For Real | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | Eugenia and John | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2015 | Murmur of the Hearts | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Invisible Spaces | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Mutual Friends | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Keep the Change | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | What Isn't There | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2012 | In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Off Season | Camera | Director of Photography | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Mundane History | Camera | Director of Photography | 58 Average |
Crew |
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| 2016 | By the Time It Gets Dark | Crew | Cinematography | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Old Stone | Crew | Cinematography | 59 Average |
Editing |
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| 2015 | My Good Man's Gone | Editing | Colorist | 59 Average |