Henry Chung , HKSC,
Director of Photography
E-Mail: magicmtp@netvigator.com
Tel: (852) 92336788

Brief Introduction

Henry Chung is a cinematographer in Hong Kong shooting feature films, commercial films, corporate films, documentaries and short films for over 15 years.

Winner, Questar Awards, USA 2004 for Salon Films, Gold Award, Grand Award for Bank of East Asia Commercial 2004 ‘Supreme Gold, Grow’, he is the cinematographer for this commercial produced by Salon Films Hong Kong.

Winner, Awards for Best Cinematography Deauville, France, March 2002, Lotus de la meilleure image, for the film 'Peony Pavilion' in the Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville mars 2002.

Winner of Best Cinematography, Golden Bauhinia Awards from the Hong Kong Film Critics Association for the film 'Peony Pavilion' in March 2002.

Beginning his career in advertising still photography and then moved on to cinematography as film crew, he had worked with film directors Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Jae-Young Kwak, Wayne Wong, Allen Fong. He then went to Hollywood to work with Oscar Winner Star Wars special effect wizards Peter Kuran and Chris Casady.

Besides his expertise in lighting and camera work, he has been creating three dimensional photographic and cinematographic arts.

His first 3-D photo exhibition “Five-Leg-Tour” in the Fringe Club in Feb. 1996.

He had filmed a special 3-D film “Professor Extreme” that had been shown in Shanghai 1996 as Director of Photography. The 3-D film camera device for the film was also designed by him.

May 1999, his solo 3-D photo exhibition of the Kai Tak Airport in Pacific Place, ‘The Last Days of Kai Tak’ and the 3-D photo book ‘Good Bye Kai Tak’ was also published.

Sept. 1999, 'Europe, China' a joint 3-D photo exhibition in Broadway Cinematheque.

Feb. 2002, Seoul, Korea, Big City Small Scenes, 3-D photos.

Dec. 2004, Hong Kong Film Archival: 3-D cinematography Section in Trickery Wonderland Exhibition

April 2005, Hong Kong Cyberport: 3-D cinematography Section in Trickery Wonderland Exhibition

January 2006, The Magic Mirror: 3-D photos Exhibition at Three Boxes Gallery Central

Winner of the Film of Merit Awards with his 35mm short film, Mind Notes in Hong Kong Independent Film Competition in 1994.

Winner of Audience Choice Awards, I shot Hong Kong Film Festival 2007, the Police Box directed by Josh Kim, cinematographer: Henry Chung

Feature Films as cameraman

Bishonen 1998, directed by Yon Fan,
Director of Photography.

Slow Fade 1999, directed by Daniel Chan,
Camera Operator.

A Small Miracle 2000, directed by Kenneth Bi,
Director of Photography.

Peony Pavilion 2001, directed by Yon Fan,
Director of Photography.

Public Toilet 2003, directed by Fruit Chan
Director of Photography, shared.

Leap Of Love 2005, directed by Jean Yeo
Director of Photography.