Henry Chung(I)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Sound Department
Henry Chung is a cinematographer in Hong Kong shooting feature films, commercial films, corporate films,
documentaries and short films for over 25 years.
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 Star Wars special effect wizards Peter Kuran and Chris Casady.
Also shooting documentary and corporate films for independent productions in Hong Kong.
He had shot the Bruce Lee Documentary 2012 directed by Takkie Yeung, 4-winged dinosaurs documentary on PBS Nova and also for the Discovery Channel, Chinese Whispers for Upside Down Concepts PTE.
Also the documentary Love Asia produced by Maggie Q for Fortune Star TV in HD directed by Barbara Wong.
Besides his expertise in lighting and camera work, he has been
creating three dimensional photographic and cinematographic
arts.
He had filmed a 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.
During his 3-d cinematography career, so far, he had built three
3-d rigs for cinematography and he is also the designer of the
3-d Pana-Vista viewer which won the Must See 3-D awards in United States
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
Winner of Best Irish Short Films Awards, Irish Film Festival 2009, Somebody to Love, directed by Seamus Walsh,
Cinematographer: Henry Chung
Winner Nouvelle-Aquitaine Film of Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux (Fifib) 2019, Je M'aime, directed by
Katrín Ólafsdóttir
Cinematographer: Henry Chung