Director

David Chung

Camera

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Very extensive directing filmography.

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Directed movies: 40Directed series: 0All crew credits: 42

TMDB ID: 65961

IMDb ID: nm0161205

Known for: Camera

Born: November 14, 1947

Age: 78

Place of birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1976 - 2024

Years active: 49

Average TMDB rating: 7.02

Wikidata: Q106375209

Also known as

David Chung Chi-Man • Chung Chi-Man • 钟志文 • 鐘志文 • David Chung

Frequent jobs

Director of Photography (32)Director (6)Second Unit Director of Photography (2)Grip (1)Second Assistant Camera (1)

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Biography

David Chung Chi-Man was born in Hong Kong on November 14th, 1947. When he was seventeen, he learned cinematography and acted as a camera assistant under the Shaw Brothers camera department, becoming a cinematographer for TV in 1968, joining TVB in 1973. He shot his first feature film, For Whom to be Murdered, in 1978, and won his first award for Ann Hui's The Secret in 1979, winning Best Cinematography at the 17th Golden Horse Awards. He became a staple cinematographer for the Hong Kong New Wave directors, working with the likes of Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho, Alex Cheung, Tsui Hark, Dennis Yu etc. on acclaimed films such as Close Encounters of the First Kind, Nomad, My Love is that Eternal Rose, Once Upon a Time in China and so on. In 1989 he became the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. In 1995 he emigrated to America,

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