Director biography

Born in Hong Kong, Fredie Chan is a documentary filmmaker and teacher. He has been appointed as Part Time Lecturer by HKU MA Literary and Cultural Studies Program to teach a course on Participatory Media and Cultural Studies in 2024. Received Andrew Grant PG Scholarship to study MA Film-Directing at the University of Edinburgh in 2021, and he began to be involved in Living Rent, a Scottish Tenants Union, to advocated housing justice. The movement inspired him to make his first award winning British documentary film “The Dispute” in the UK which connects with nation-wide grassroots community movement. The Dispute won the Best Director’s Award in Cyprus Archeological, Ethnographic and Historical Documentary Film Festival 2023. As a socially-engaged artist and teacher, equality of opportunity, dignity, and respect are fundamental rights for all people, he preserves these rights and empathy as his first principle in filmmaking. He started curating “Grassroots Filmmaking Project” and “ Grassroots Video Arts Festival” from 2013 to 2018, plus his full time Film and Video Arts work, he has nurtured more than 600 amateur filmmakers.