| Heiward Mak | |
| Birth Date: | 21 August 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Tai Wai, Hong Kong |
| Occupation: | Director, Writer, Producer |
Heiward Mak Hei-yan is a Hong Kong film director, writer and producer. Her work has been featured at various international film festivals including Singapore, Bratislava and Fribourg. In 2011, she won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay for her writing on Love in a Puff.
Mak was born in 1984 and grew up in Tai Wai, Hong Kong where she attend Sha Tin Government Secondary School. She received a diploma in graphic design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. After graduation, she worked as a graphic artist before enrolling at City University of Hong Kong within the school of Creative Media. Her thesis film Lovers’ Lover won a Gold Award at the IFVA in their Open Category section.[1] Her teacher Patrick Tam later showed Lovers’ Lover to actor Eric Tsang. This landed Mak a casting job on the comedy film Men Suddenly in Black 2, which Tsang acted in and co-produced. Mak had written a few lines of dialogue for the casting process as the screenplay had not been written that early into production. After Tsang read what Mak had written, he offered her a co-writer position.[2]
She graduated with a BA in Creative Media in 2006.[3]
In 2008, Mak made her directorial debut when producer Eric Tsang gave her the opportunity to film a remake of Winds of September which later became High Noon. For her work she was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Director and given a Film of Merit by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
After directing the film Ex, she worked alongside to Pang Ho-cheung to make romantic comedy Love in a Puff which went on to earn her a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay.[4]
| 2006 | Men Suddenly in Black 2 | Co-writer | |||
| 2008 | High Noon | ||||
| 2010 | Ex | ||||
| Love in a Puff | Co-writer | ||||
| 2011 | I Love Hong Kong | Co-writer | |||
| 2012 | Diva | ||||
| 2014 | Uncertain Relationships Society | ||||
| 2018 | Golden Job | Co-writer | |||
| 2019 | Fagara | Co-writer |