Director and
Associate Directors

Prof. Ellen Elizabeth SEITER
Director, Academy of Film
Chair Professor, Film and Media Studies
Area of Interests

Platform studies / audience research / cognitive neuroscience / stereotyping / children and media / German film and television

Mr. CHAN Norman
Associate Director
Programme Director, Higher Diploma in Creative Film Production
Teaching Fellow
Area of Interests

Film Directing / Film Producing / Film Production / Script Writing / Film Marketing / Hong Kong Cinema

Dr. ELLIS-GEIGER Robert Jay
Associate Director
Associate Professor of Practice
Area of Interests

Film Scoring / Music Production / Music Performer (Piano, Trumpet, Voice) / Cinematic 3D Spatial Sound Production (Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D) / Music and Sound Facility Design

  Research Faculty

Prof. ZHU Ying
Founder & Chief Editor: Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images
Professor
Area of Interests

Serial Narrative and Streaming Platform / Comparative Media System and Studio Histories / East Asian Cinema / Affects and Effects of Social Media / Popular and Youth Culture

Dr. NG Kwok Kwan, Kenny
Director of Centre for Film and Moving Image Research
Associate Professor
Area of Interests

Film Censorship / Historical Imagination and Cultural Geography / Transnational Cinema and Visual Culture / Comparative Literary and Visual Studies / Urban Culture and Globalization / Cultural Memory and Heritage / Critical Theory and Aesthetics

Dr. LAU Wai Sim, Dorothy
Managing Editor, Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images
Assistant Professor
Area of Interests

Stardom / Celebrity / Fandom / East Asian cinema / Sinophone cinema / Hong Kong cinema / Screen culture / Digital media / Film theory

Dr. Jason G. Coe
Assistant Professor
Area of Interests

Film and Media; Transpacific, Sinophone, and Asian/American Studies; Gender Studies; Literary and Cultural Studies; Globalization

Dr. CHEN Chih-Ting, Timmy
Research Assistant Professor
Area of Interests

Chinese-language Cinemas / Asian Cinema / Film Music / Sound Design / Sound Studies / Song-and-Dance Film

Dr. LAI Tsz Yuen
Research Assistant Professor
Area of Interests

Transcendental Materialism / Techno-humanitics / Ecology of Technical Images

  Faculty of Practice

Ms CHEUNG Ngar Lai Annie
Associate Professor of Practice
Area of Interests

Actress / Solo Performer / Self-revelatory Theatre / Autobiographical Theatre / Arts in Mental Health

Mr. WONG Sau Ping, Adam
Associate Professor of Practice
Area of Interests

Filmmaking / Storytelling / Fine Arts / TVC making

  Teaching Faculty

Mr. YING Liang
Program Director of MA in Producing for Film, Television & New Media, Senior Lecturer
Area of Interests

Film Directing, Documentary Practice & Theory, History of Chinese Cinema, Method Acting Studies, Psychotherapy & Cinema, Childhood Education Practice & Cinema

Dr. AU Ka Lai, Sonia
Associate Program Director of Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media
Lecturer
Area of Interests

Chinese Literature / French Modern Literature / Comparative Literature / Chinese-Language Cinema / European Cinema / Literature and Film Adaptation / Cultural Studies / Translation Studies

Mr. WAN Derek, HKSC
Programme Director, Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media
Teaching Consultant
Area of Interests

Technology / Producing / Directing / Script Analysing / Editing / Cinematography / Narrative & Documentary Films

Miss WANG Hua Hua, Anna
Instructor
Area of Interests

Stage Acting / Film and Screen Acting / Method Acting / Mindfulness / Film Aesthetics / Film Analysis / Film Production

Dr. LO Wai Luk
Honorary Resident Writer
Area of Interests

History of Chinese Cinema / Aesthetics of Chinese films / Theatre Aesthetics / Hong Kong Performance Studies

  Post Doctoral

Dr. CHEN Shu
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Area of Interests

transmedia studies / radio and sound culture / adaptation studies / Sinophone literature and culture / critical studies of feelings and affect

Dr Jakob MORAWSKI
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Area of Interests

Film / creativity / theatre / drama / aesthetics / narrative / critical theories / scriptwriting / acting

Dr. Patrice POUJOL
UGC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Area of Interests

Technology and media / cultural and creative industries / media and entertainment finance / media production and circulation / blockchain, NFT, DeFi and Smart Contract technologies applied to the creative industries / creative writing and direction

Dr. TANG Ling
RGC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Area of Interests

Internet Studies (sociology of the Internet and digital culture)/ Gender Studies (feminism and queer)/ Innovative Methods (public and sensory ethnography)

  Professor Emeritus

Prof. Ian AITKEN
Professor Emeritus
Area of Interests

Film Studies / Documentary Film / Film Theory / Film History / Colonial Film Studies / Cinematic Realism

Prof. MAN Kit Wah, Eva
Professor Emeritus
Area of Interests

Comparative Aesthetics / Neo-Confucian Philosophy / Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy / Gender Studies / Cultural Studies