Her graduation assignment and her first short film, Lovers’ Lover, received the Golden Award in the Open Category of the 12th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards (IFVA), The International Young Film Makers Award of 9th International Film Festival Hanover (2007), and the film was an official selection in the 14th Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan.
On this episode of ‘the brief’, we meet 24 year-old writer and director Heiward Mak, whose new film ‘High Noon’ has recently attracted great acclaim. Set in present-day Hong Kong, High Noon follows the lives of seven teenagers as they negotiate the challenges of school, parents, girlfriends and drug use. Mak tells us her motivations for making the film and describes what it’s like to produce a feature at such a young age and as a woman. She also explains some of the key developments of the Hong Kong film industry. Not to be missed!
Special thanks to Will McCallum for helping to write, produce, and edit this episode; as well as Nathan Leung who helped in the filming and translations.
