Mabel Cheung graduated from the University of Hong Kong, majoring in English Literature and Psychology. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Drama and Visual Arts from Bristol University, UK, and an MFA Degree in Film Production from the New York University Graduate Film School.

Mabel has become an award-winning director since her debut feature, The Illegal Immigrant (1985), which won her the Best Director Prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and a Special Jury Award at the 30th Asia Pacific Film Festival. An Autumn’s Tale (1987) signaled a further high point in her career, winning four Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. The Soong Sisters (1997) captured three Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan and six Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Actress for Maggie Cheung. The other films she made – City of Glass (1998), Beijing Rocks (2001), and Traces of a Dragon (2003) – have likewise been showcased in various film festivals worldwide.

Mabel has also produced many critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Painted Faces (1988), which swept seven Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, as well as the box office hits Now You See Love, Now You Don’t (1992), and The Moon Warriors (1993).

In 2010, Mabel produced the film Echoes of the Rainbow, which won the Crystal Bear Award in the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as four Hong Kong Film Awards,including Best Screenplay for Alex Law, Best Film Song and Best New Actor for Aarif Lee. Her subsequent directorial effort, A Tale of Three Cities, was nominated for six Hong Kong Film Awards in 2016 and screened in many international film festivals.

Mabel just finished another film in 2022, To my 19-year-old Self. The film won the Best Film Award (2022) at the 29th Hong Kong Film Critics Award, and was also named Best Picture (2022) by the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild.

A long-time veteran of the Hong Kong film industry since the early 1980’s overseeing film acquisition, distribution and marketing, Winnie Tsang was the General Manager of Panasia Films Limited and later a Board Director of Golden Harvest Entertainment (Holdings) Limited from 1989 to 1998.

Upon leaving Golden Harvest, she founded the Golden Scene Company Limited in 1998 where she immediately made a new name for herself a successful indie distributor handling successes (and regional long-shots) like The Ring and Quill into box office miracles.

As one of Hong Kong’s leading independent distributors, Golden Scene is renowned for its diverse lineup including the Twilight and Step Up series, the award winning films such as The Intouchables, The Queen, The Tree of Life, The Hurt Locker, Secret Sunshine and The Host. Golden Scene also distributes all films from the great directors Yoji Yamada, Woody Allen, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Asghar Farhadi.

Starting in 2007, Golden Scene ventured into film production with The Way We Dance, The Midnight After, Beyond the Dream, The Way We Keep Dancing, Far Far Away and animated feature, The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Jail Breaker.

The company also handles international sales of the films it produces and acquires, including So Young, Mad World, Weeds on Fire, Still Human, My Prince Edward, and Bamboo Theatre, etc.

Winnie Tsang has always been an avid supporter of original productions by the younger generation of filmmakers in Hong Kong. She has produced and distributed The Way We Dance, which received great reviews and stellar box office results, inspiring a lot of younger filmmakers to pursue their dreams. The new directors of the films Golden Scene handles have received 27 Best New Directors nominations with 7 wins at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

She was a Founding Director of the Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA) where she served from 1987 to 2003, and was a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Entertainment Industry Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to present. Additionally, she was a member of the Steering Committee and the Nominations Committee of the 1st to 8th Asian Film Awards. Winnie has been appointed a member of the Film Development Council from 2011 to 2017. She was appointed the Director of the Board of Fresh Waves Short Film since 2015 to present. Winnie was appointed an executive committee member of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival & Awards from 2014 to 2017. She co-founded Hong Kong Kids International Film Festival in 2017. Winnie has been invited to be a member of The Academy since 2019. She also has been awarded Honorary Fellow in 2020 by Hong Kong Arts Centre.

Aarif entered the entertainment industry upon graduation from Imperial College, London with Upper Second-Class Honour’s Degree in Physics. He began his music career under the A Music label and his first Album “Starting Today” 今天開始 was released in 2009 which he sang, wrote and produced, won him the Best Newcomer award at the Metro Radio Music Awards and Commercial Radio Music Awards. In the following year, he made his acting debut in the movie “Echoes of the Rainbow” 歲月神偷which won him two awards, “The Best Newcomer” Award in the 29th HK Films Award and Silver Award in the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild Award. He also won an award for the theme song which he sang in the 29th Hong Kong Film Award for Best original Film Song. He then starred as Bruce Lee in the dramatic biopic-film “Bruce Lee, my brother” 李小龍in 2010 portraying Bruce Lee at the young age of 18. He also starred in “Cold War I” and “Cold War II” 寒戰 in Hong Kong with Aaron Kwok.

Thereafter Aarif entered the entertainment industry in the Mainland and starred in the romantic comedy feature film “One Night Surprise” 一夜驚喜with Actress Fan Bing Bing which became a commercial success. Aarif won the Best New Actor award at the 1st China International Film Festival in London and Outstanding performance award at the Chinese Film Media Awards. He starred in numerous television dramas, in particular, the highly acclaimed historical drama “Empress of China” 武則天with Fan Bing Bing to become the top-rated drama in Mainland China of that year. He won the Best Actor in the Ancient Drama category at the Huading Awards 華鼎獎for his performance. He also starred in a popular, historical romantic drama “Princess Silver” 白髮in 2019. His latest TV drama series in 2022 was “Below the Lion Rock” 獅子山下的故事 depicting the lives of a HK family after the 1997 handover.

He also starred alongside Jackie Chan in the action comedy “Kung Fu Yoga” 功夫瑜伽 in 2017 and in the same year “The Thousand Faces of Dunjia” 奇門遁甲produced by famous director/producer Tsui Hark; and many more popular movies in Mainland China. His latest movie was “Wolf Pack” 狼群in 2022 with actor Zhang Jin 張晉. He is currently working on a movie with Jackie Chan.

He is also a frequent artist in popular variety/reality shows on various television networks and is spokes-person/ambassador for famous brand name products. He speaks fluent Putonghua and is a well-known and respected artist/actor in Hong Kong and in the Mainland.