PROFILE

• 2023 Best Director’s Award Cyprus Archeological, Ethnographic and Historical Film Festival
• 2021 Andrew Grant PG Scholarship recipient, Edinburgh College of Art
• 2018 Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship recipient
• 2016 Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Film category)

Born in Hong Kong, Fredie Chan is a documentary filmmaker and teacher for 17 years work experience. He is currently the Program Director (Filmmaking) of Arts with Disable Association Hong Kong, in charge of designing and teaching in the education program of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking for adults with physical and learning disables. He has been appointed as Part Time Lecturer by HKU MA Literary and Cultural Studies Program to teach a course on Participatory Media and Cultural Studies in 2024.

Received Andrew Grant PG Scholarship to study MA Film-Directing at the University of Edinburgh in 2021, and he began to be involved in Living Rent, a Scottish Tenants Union, to advocated housing justice. The movement inspired him to make his first award winning British documentary film “The Dispute” in the UK which connects with nation-wide grassroots community movement. The Dispute won the Best Director’s Award in Cyprus Archeological, Ethnographic and Historical Documentary Film Festival 2023.

As a socially-engaged artist and teacher, equality of opportunity, dignity, and respect are fundamental rights for all people, he preserves these rights and empathy as his first principle in filmmaking. He started curating “Grassroots Filmmaking Project” and “ Grassroots Video Arts Festival” from 2013 to 2018, plus his full time Film and Video Arts work, he has nurtured more than 600 amateur filmmakers.

With Asian Cultural Council Fellowship’s support, Fredie is pursuing his teaching career from documentary filmmaking to Digital Storytelling and Participatory Media Theory in Hong Kong, New York and Santa Fe in 2023.

MEDIA EXPOSURE ＆ INTERVIEW

The Dispute (Best Director's Award Presentation Ceremony)
Cyprus Archeological, Ethnographic, Historical Documentary Film Festival: https://youtu.be/wnKX-ByoRCA

【紀錄片倫理的一課】本地紀錄片何去何從?專訪新生代紀錄片工作者:普及紀錄片教育，培養同理心
Mingpao Weekly 明報周刊

落區放映基層生活紀錄片 陳浩倫主動出擊尋找觀眾
Mingpao People’s Feature 明報人物專訪

Hong Kong's Land Expansion ‘Killing’ Local Fishing Industry
Global Voices

Filmmakers want to challenge 'passivity' of Hongkongers
South China Morning Post