B.A. (Lingnan University); M.A. (University of Edinburgh)
Born in Hong Kong, Fredie Chan is a documentary filmmaker and teacher with 17 years of 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 disabilities. He has been appointed as a Part-Time Lecturer for the Moving Image Workshop course by the Fine Arts Department CUHK. He is also a part-time lecturer at HKU, MA in Literary and Cultural Studies.
He received the Andrew Grant PG Scholarship to study for an MA in film directing at the University of Edinburgh in 2021, and he began to be involved in Living Rent, a Scottish Tenants Union, to advocate housing justice. The movement inspired him to make his first award-winning British documentary film, “The Dispute”, in the UK, which connects with a nationwide grassroots community movement. The Dispute won the Best Director’s Award in the 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. He preserves these rights and empathy as his first principle in filmmaking. From 2013 to 2018, he started curating the “Grassroots Filmmaking Project” and the “ Grassroots Video Arts Festival.” In addition to his full-time Film and Video Arts work, he has nurtured more than 600 amateur filmmakers.
With the 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.
