Stephen, Mary (雪美蓮)

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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mary Stephen first learned about European cinema and the French New Wave through the pages of The Chinese Student Weekly – a popular cultural periodical of the 1950s and 1960s – with its film reviews and annotations by such noted critics as Law Kar and Sek Kei. Stephen fell in love with the films of Truffaut and Resnais, and later chose to study Communication Arts when she moved to Montreal, Canada. At university, Stephen became drawn to the experimental and surrealistic aspects of Maya Deren’s avant-garde films as well as the writings of Anaïs Nin. Upon graduation, she began to make and edit her own films before making the acquaintance of French New Wave director Éric Rohmer. Rohmer invited Stephen to work as an assistant to his chief editor, and eventually Stephen took over and became Rohmer’s regular editor and collaborator. She edited his films up to his death in 2010 (the last feature they worked on together was The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, released in 2007). In recent years, Stephen has worked as editor on numerous mainland Chinese and Hong Kong productions, including Li Yang’s Blind Mountain (2007), Fan Lixin’s documentary Last Train Home (2009), Freddie Wong’s Liu Yichang adaptation The Drunkard (or Jiu Tu, 2010), Jessey Tsang’s documentary Flowing Stories (2014), and Amos Why’s indie feature Dot 2 Dot (2014).

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Feature Films:

Role	Title (English)	Title (other)	Year
Editor	Love After Love	第一爐香	2021
Editor	The Way We Keep Dancing	狂舞派3	2020
Editor	The Lady Improper	非分熟女	2019
Editor	Napping Kid	逆向誘拐	2018
Editor	Our Time Will Come	明月幾時有	2017
Editor	Two on the Road (Documentary)	N/A	2016
Editor	The Swaying Waterlily	摇曳多姿的睡莲	2016
Editor	Dot 2 Dot (Trailer)	點對點	2014
Editor	Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (Trailer)	N/A	2011
Editor	The Drunkard (Trailer)	酒徒	2010
Editor	Majority (Trailer)	Çogunluk	2010
Editor	Judge	透析	2009
Editor	Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando	Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom	2008
Editor	The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Trailer)	Les amours d’Astrée et de Céladon	2007
Editor	Blind Mountain (Trailer)	盲山	2007
Editor	Triple Agent (Trailer)	N/A	2004
Editor	The Lady and the Duke (Trailer)	L’anglaise et le duc	2001
Editor	America So Beautiful (Trailer)	N/A	2001
Editor	Autumn Tale (Trailer)	Conte d’automne	1998
Editor	A Summer’s Tale (Trailer)	Conte d’été	1996
Editor	Rendezvous in Paris	Les rendez-vous de Paris	1995
Editor	The Tree, The Mayor and the Mediatheque (Trailer)	“L’arbre, le maire et la médiathèque	1993
Editor	A Tale of Winter (Trailer)	Conte d’hiver	1992
Director Editor Writer	N/A	Justocoeur	1980
Director Editor Writer	N/A	Ombres de soie	1978

Shorts:

Role	Title (English)	Title (other)	Year
Editor	“The Headmaster” in “Septet, the Story of Hong Kong” (Short)	N/A	2020
Director, Editor	The Memory of Water or Jeanne Moreau and Steamed Fish (Short) (Trailer)		2018
Editor	Shanghai Strangers	非典情人	2012
Editor	N/A	La proposition	2009
Editor	N/A	Le canapé rouge	2005
Editor	N/A	À la fenêtre	2003
Editor	N/A	La cambrure	1999
Editor	N/A	Un dentiste exemplaire	1998
Editor	N/A	Des goûts et des couleurs	1998
Editor	N/A	Heurts divers	1998
Editor	N/A	Les amis de Ninon	1998
Editor	France	N/A	1996
Editor	N/A	Rosette vend des roses	1985
Editor	N/A	Rosette prend sa douche	1984
Editor	N/A	Rosette sort le soir	1983

Documentaries:

Role	Title (English)	Title (other)	Year
Editor	Nude at Heart	Coeurs à nus	2021
Editor	Buddha in Africa	N/A	2019
Editor	The Apology	N/A	2016
Editor	Kapuscinski’s Africa	L’Afrique vue par Ryszard Kapuscinski	2015
Editor	A Young Patriot (Documentary)	少年. 小趙	2015
Associate producer Editor	Flowing Stories	N/A	2014
Editor	A Young Patriot	N/A	2014
Editor	China Me	N/A	2014
Editor	China the New Empire	Chine, le nouvel empire (TV miniseries)	2013
Supervising editor	N/A	Fidaï	2012
Editor	Datong: The Great Society	N/A	2011
Editor	N/A	Christiane Desroches Noblecourt: une passion egyptienne	2009
Editor	Last Train Home	N/A	2009
Editor	Wild Grass of Qingdao	Les herbes sauvages de Qingdao	2009
Editor	1428	N/A	2009
Editor	Umbrella	N/A	2007
Editor	Return to the Border	N/A	2005
Director Editor	In Transit, in Transition: Poem from South Africa	N/A	1998
Director Editor	Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines	N/A	1998
Director Editor	In Transit, in Transition: A Poetic Encounter in Hong Kong	N/A	1997