29 December 2025

Jing Wang

Jing Wang is a scholar-practitioner. She possesses over a decade of professional experience in documentary filmmaking, serving as both a director and producer. Simultaneously, she combines academic scholarship with practical insights.
9 June 2025

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Rothe

Professor of AI in Media Production University of Television and Film Munich, Germany Dr. Sylvia Rothe began her academic career at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she studied mathematics and later worked as a research assistant. […]
25 July 2024

Gary Byungseok Kam

Award-winning Producer Honorary Lecturer garykam@hku.hk Gary Byungseok Kam is an award-winning Seoul-based producer. He is also the first Oscar-nominated documentary producer from South Korea and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and […]
26 June 2024

Elizabeth Lo

Documentary Filmmaking Specialisation Mentor Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning filmmaker whose works have been showcased internationally, including at the Sundance Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), South by Southwest (SXSW), Tribeca, MoMA and […]
26 June 2024

Zhou Hao

Documentary Filmmaking Specialisation Mentor Zhou Hao is an award-winning Chinese documentary filmmaker.   He started his career as a photojournalist for Xinhua News Agency and Southern Weekly magazine for more than a decade.  In 2001, he […]
26 June 2024

Kirsten Johnson

Documentary Filmmaking Specialisation Mentor Kirsten Johnson is a New York-based documentary producer, director and principal cinematographer. She has worked on more than 40 feature-length documentaries.  Her Academy-shortlisted film Cameraperson (2016) premiered at Sundance Film Festival and […]
26 June 2024

Alexander Beyer

Honorary Lecturer abeyer@hku.hk Alexander Beyer has worked on numerous films as editor and assistant editor after graduating from the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, in Potsdam, Germany, Between 2012 and 2015, he worked as […]