Tammy Cheung

Directing

Biography

Tammy Cheung was born in Shanghai in 1958 and moved to Hong Kong at an early age. She studied sociology in Hong Kong and film studies at Montreal’s Concordia University. In 1986, she founded the Chinese International Film Festival in Montreal, showcasing films made by Chinese film‐makers and films with Chinese content, and was director of the Festival from 1986 and 1992. She made her directorial debut in 1999 and together with her collaborator and cinematographer Augustine Lam she founded Reality Film Productions in Hong Kong in 2002, a production company that produces and distributes social d…