Hui, Rita Nga-shu (許雅舒)￼

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Rita Hui studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA)’s Department of Film and Television. Her video work has won numerous awards at the IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, and includes such shorts as Ah Ming (1996), She Makes Me Wanna to Die (1997), Invisible City (Wall) (1998), and Alice in the Wonderland (1999). She has also worked on various video art installation projects throughout the 2000s. These include Chionanthus Retusus (2001), IdoLetHerMyHeadHave (2004), Red Riding Hood (2005), and RED (2006). Hui made her feature film debut at the end of the decade with Dead Slowly (2009), a gory and sexually explicit metaphysical thriller involving adultery and murder that starred Joman Chiang and screened at the Pusan International Film Festival. Her feature film Keening Woman (2013) is about a young woman who finds her consciousness undergoing some sort of spiritual journey, after she begins to lose her sense of self at a farewell ceremony for a recently departed family friend. The film screened at the 2013 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival. Aside from her filmmaking endeavors, Hui also teaches at the City University Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media.

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Feature Films:

Role	Title (English)	Title (Chinese)	Year
Director	Decameron (Trailer)	日常	2021
Director	In the Wild	在野	2017
Director	Pseudo Secular	風景	2016
Director	New Age	N/A	2015
Director Writer	Keening Woman (Trailer)	哭喪女	2013
Producer	Big Blue Lake (Trailer)	大藍湖	2011
Producer	To Be Continued (Trailer)	那年春夏之後	2010
Director Writer Co-editor with Haze Tsui	Dead Slowly (Trailer)	慢性中毒	2009

Shorts:

Role	Title (English)	Title (Chinese)	Year
Director	Elegy	哀溺文	2014
Director	Lau Feng Shan	羅酆山	2012
Collaboration with Yao Chung-han	Two Cases	N/A	2011
Director	Rabbit Travelogue:Prologue	N/A	2010
Director	Wave	浪	2010
Director	New Age In Blue	在藍	2010
Director	RED	紅	2006
Director	Red Ridding Hood	女子狼	2005
Director	IdoLetHerMyHeadHave	我遊	2004
Director	Chionauthus Retusus	說謊記	2001
Director	Alice in Wonderland	愛麗斯在美好世界	1999
Director	She Makes Me Wanna Die	如果天使不死	1998
Director	Invisible City (Wall)	看不見的城(牆）	1998
Director	Subway	隧道	1997
Director	Ah Ming	阿明	1996