ABOUT

Crystal Kwok (郭錦恩) is an award-winning filmmaker who established her career in Hong Kong as an actress, writer, director, and controversial talk show host. Her debut feature film, The Mistress (1999), won the Audience Choice Awards at the Deauville Asiatic Film Festival. Her feature documentary Blurring the Color Line (2022) streamed nationally on PBS under America ReFramed in 2023. It won multiple awards including Best Documentary at the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, Courage Award at DisOrient Film Festival, and the Mira Nair Rising Female Filmmaker Award at the Harlem International Film Festival. Kwok also holds a PhD in Performance Studies and an advanced Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She straddles the line between creative production and academic work. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in the Gender Studies, and History Department. Her work is committed to amplifying voices of women and marginal communities.

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Crystal Kwok CV