Shu Kei (Chinese: 舒琪; Jyutping: syu1 kei4) or Kenneth Ip is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter active during the 1980s and 1990s. A graduate of The University of Hong Kong, he is best known for the 1990 film Sunless Days (沒有太陽的日子),[1] a documentary exploring the Tiananmen Square massacre[2] and its influence on the people of Hong Kong in the days preceding the 1997 handover of the territory to the People's Republic of China. The documentary received an OCIC Award at the 1990 Berlin International Film Festival.

Shu Kei was the dean of film and television at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2005 to 2016.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Marchetti, Gina (2006). From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989–1997. Temple University Press. pp. 8–. ISBN 9781592132782. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  2. ^ Tezuka, Yoshiharu (1 November 2011). Japanese Cinema Goes Global: Filmworkers' Journeys. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 178–. ISBN 9789888083329. Retrieved 3 October 2014.

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