Heiward Mak Hei-Yan

Known for WritingBorn 1984-08-21 (age 42)Hong Kong, China

Heiward Mak majored in design studies at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, but became interested in filmmaking after she graduated in 2003. She entered the creative media program at the City University of Hong Kong and began making short films. Her graduation short won an award at the IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, attracting the attention of actor-producer Eric Tsang. She was promptly hired to work alongside veteran Aubrey Lam on the script to Men Suddenly in Black 2 (2006), the sequel to Pang Ho-cheung’s popular comedy. At the time, Tsang was involved in the production of a trilogy of films about high school students, set in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, respectively. The trilogy was entitled Winds of September, after the Taiwanese installment, and Tsang hired Mak to write and direct the Hong Kong episode. Mak was only in her early twenties at the time, and her film High Noon (2008) received critical accolades as an energetic and unhackneyed look at Hong Kong’s disaffected youth. It also won her a nomination as Best New Director at the 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards.Read more

Movies & web series

Good Take, Too!

Lost Cause

Fagara

Drifting

Mad World

Love in a Puff

Pseudo Secular

Golden Job

Fire Room

I Love Hong Kong 2011

High Noon

Ex

Amphetamine

En Route

Men Suddenly in Black 2

Diva

The Moon, Sky and You

Anima Possession

Depths of Night

Take Us to the Island

The Withering

Uncertain Relationships Society

We Might As Well Be Strangers

Beside(s), Happiness

Quattro Hong Kong

Life Must Go On​

Lovers’ Lover

Life Must Go On