{{Family name hatnote|Cheung|Mabel Cheung|Cheung Yuen Ting|lang=Hong Kong}} {{Short description|Hong Kong director (born 1950)}} {{Use Hong Kong English|date=July 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Mabel Cheung | image = Mabel Cheung at Toronto International Film Festival.jpg | alt = | caption = Cheung at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival | birth_name = {{lang|yue-HK|張婉婷}}<br>Cheung Yuen-Ting | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|11|17|df=y}} | birth_place = British Hong Kong | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| *University of Hong Kong (B.A. in English Literature and Psychology) *University of Bristol *New York University *Ying Wa Girls' School }} | awards = <br>{{awards|award=Hong Kong Film Awards|name='''Best Director'''<br>1986 ''Illegal Immigrant''}}{{awards|award=Golden Horse Awards|name='''Best Film'''<br>1988 ''Painted Faces'' <br> '''Best Original Screenplay'''<br>1988 ''Painted Faces''}} | module = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes |order = ts |t = 張婉婷 |s = |j= zoeng1 jyun2 ting4 |p=}} }}
'''Mabel Cheung Yuen Ting''' ({{zh|c=張婉婷}}, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema and is considered one of the three women (along with Ann Hui and Clara Law) to achieve acclaim in the New Wave/Second Wave in Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marchetti |first=Gina |date=30 June 2016 |title=Handover women: Hong Kong women filmmakers and the intergenerational melodrama of infidelity |url= |journal=Feminist Media Studies |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=590–609 |doi=10.1080/14680777.2016.1193292 |via=Taylor & Francis Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Stacilee |title=Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-962-209-894-7 |location=Hong Kong |pages=1 |language=en}}</ref> Cheung made her first film in 1985 as a student at New York University.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marchetti |first=Gina |date=30 June 2016 |title=Handover women: Hong Kong women filmmakers and the intergenerational melodrama of infidelity |url= |journal=Feminist Media Studies |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=590–609 |doi=10.1080/14680777.2016.1193292 |via=Taylor & Francis Online}}</ref> Cheung is known for working with the migration issues of Hongkongers and overseas Chinese, especially before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.
Her films include the "migration trilogy": ''The Illegal Immigrant'' (1985), ''An Autumn's Tale'' (1987) and ''Eight Taels of Gold'' (1989). ''The Soong Sisters'' (1997) marks another peak of her filming career. All four films were made in collaboration with writer Alex Law.
Cheung is a Guest Lecturer at the Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Film and an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ms. CHEUNG, Mabel {{!}} Academy of Film |url=https://af.hkbu.edu.hk/en/guest-lecturers/cheung-mabel# |access-date=11 January 2023 |website=af.hkbu.edu.hk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ms Mabel CHEUNG Yuen Ting - Honorary University Fellows - Honorary University Fellowships |url=https://www4.hku.hk/honfellows/honorary-university-fellows/ms-mabel-yuen-ting-cheung/ |access-date=11 January 2023 |website=www4.hku.hk}}</ref>
Cheung is the Vice-Chairperson of the [https://www.fdc.gov.hk/en/index.php Hong Kong Film Development Council].
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" |- ! Year ! Title ! Notes |- |2022 |{{ill|To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self|zh|給十九歲的我}} | |- | 2017 || ''The Chinese Widow''<br>US Title called <br>In Harm's Way (2017 film) || Writer |- | 2015 || ''A Tale of Three Cities''<br>三城記 | |- |2010||''Echoes of the Rainbow''<br>歲月神偷 || |- |2003||''Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family''<br>龍的深處-失落的拼圖 | Nominated - Golden Horse Awards for Best Documentary |- |2001||''Beijing Rocks''<br>北京樂與路 || |- |1998||''City of Glass''<br>玻璃之城 || Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director<br>Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay |- |1997||''The Soong Sisters''<br>宋家皇朝 || Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film<br>Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director |- |1992||''Now You See Love, Now You Don't''<br>我愛扭紋柴 || |- |rowspan="2"|1991||''The Banquet''<br>豪門夜宴|| |- |''Twin Dragons''<br>雙龍會|| |- |1989||''Eight Taels of Gold''<br>八兩金 || Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director<br>Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay |- |1988||''Painted Faces''<br>七小福||Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay |- |1987||''An Autumn's Tale''<br>秋天的童話 || Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film<br>Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director |- |1985||''The Illegal Immigrant''<br>非法移民 || Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director<br>Special Jury Award (Asia-Pacific Film Festival) |- |}
== The ''To My Nineteen-Year-Old-Self'' Controversies == In January 2023, three graduates of Ying Wa Girls' School accused Cheung and the school authority of wrongdoing through the public distribution of ''To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self'', the film commissioned by Cheung's alma mater Ying Wa Girls' School for an alumni fundraising project. Three of the six subjects of the film accused Ying Wa and Cheung of placing what was originally promised as an internal project on public screens without their consents. Katie Kong, one of the documentary’s subjects, said in an Instagram story that she had signed the consent after the film crew told her “everyone else” had done so. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Peter |date=2023-02-06 |title=Hong Kong documentary pulled from cinemas after subject says she did not consent for it to be screened publicly |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2023/02/06/hong-kong-documentary-pulled-from-cinemas-after-subject-says-she-did-not-consent-for-it-to-be-screened-publicly/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=Hong Kong Free Press HKFP |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-05 |title=Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung's documentary pulled from cinemas after complaints |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3209157/hong-kong-director-mabel-cheung-suspends-public-screenings-documentary-my-nineteen-year-old-self |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref>
In the documentary, Cheung's camera follows six schoolgirls for over a decade to witness the agony and ecstasy of growing up during a turbulent time in Hong Kong.
Wai-sze Sarah Lee, Hong Kong professional track cyclist and bronze medalist in the women's keirin at the 2012 London Olympics, also accused Cheung and the crew of including an interview clip with her in the film without consent. In a radio interview Cheung admitted that she and the crew entered the venue of Asian Track Cycling Championships in Japan without a valid press permit. This raised the concern from the Hong Kong Sport Press Association of unauthorised interview events for non-press purposes.<ref>"香港體育記者協會對張婉婷言論表示遺憾", press release, HK Sport Press Association, 6 February 2023.</ref>
Cheung apologized and announced on 5 February the screenings of ''To My Nineteen Year Old Self'' will be suspended until all issues are clarified.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Standard |first=The |title=Public screening of a documentary film suspended amid controversies |url=https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/199960/30-city-terminals-to-be-built-in-the-GBA-to-facilitate-travelers%27-access-to-Hong-Kong-Intl-Airport |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=The Standard |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *List of graduates of University of Hong Kong
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