Leung Ming-kai

Alias:
Kai
Leung Ming-Kai
Ming Kai Leung
梁铭佳

Leung Ming-kai competed as debut cinematographer at Camerimage for the film Mundane History. Subsequently, Kai has shot more than two dozen features in different parts of the world. He has been nominated for Best Cinematography in Thailand for By the Time It Gets Dark; in Canada for Old Stone; and twice in Taiwan at the Golden Horse Awards, for The Sunny Side of the Street and for Drifting. Top-tier festivals around the world have selected many films he has shot.  Kai also directs. His short film Three Boys represented the Philippines in competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and won the top prize at the Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards. It also screened at Sao Paulo, Austin, and Jecheon. Kai directed and wrote omnibus film Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down with Kate Reilly, and together, they won Best Screenplay and Film of Merit at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.

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Cinematography:
2016  By the Time It Gets Dark
2016  Old Stone
????  Mother Bhumi

Colorist:
2015  My Good Man's Gone
2016  By the Time It Gets Dark
2016  Old Stone
????  Mother Bhumi

Director:
2015  My Good Man's Gone
2016  By the Time It Gets Dark
2016  Old Stone
2019  Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
????  Mother Bhumi

Director of Photography:
2009  Mundane History
2009  Off Season
2012  In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
2012  What Isn't There
2013  Keep the Change
2014  Invisible Spaces
2014  Mutual Friends
2015  Murmur of the Hearts
2015  My Good Man's Gone
2016  By the Time It Gets Dark
2016  Eugenia and John
2016  Old Stone
2018  Live For Real
2019  Ciao UFO
2019  Krabi, 2562
2019  Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
2020  Twilight's Kiss
2021  Come Here
2021  Drifting
2022  Far Far Away
2022  The Black Wall
2023  A Light Never Goes Out
2023  Everyphone Everywhere
2023  Lifting
2023  The Sunny Side of the Street
2024  All Shall Be Well
2024  Pavane For An Infant
2024  The Way We Talk
????  Mother Bhumi

Producer:
2009  Mundane History
2009  Off Season
2012  In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
2012  What Isn't There
2013  Keep the Change
2014  Invisible Spaces
2014  Mutual Friends
2015  Murmur of the Hearts
2015  My Good Man's Gone
2016  By the Time It Gets Dark
2016  Eugenia and John
2016  Old Stone
2018  Live For Real
2019  Ciao UFO
2019  Krabi, 2562
2019  Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
2020  Twilight's Kiss
2021  Come Here
2021  Drifting
2022  Far Far Away
2022  The Black Wall
2023  A Light Never Goes Out
2023  Everyphone Everywhere
2023  Lifting
2023  The Sunny Side of the Street
2024  All Shall Be Well
2024  Pavane For An Infant
2024  The Way We Talk
????  Mother Bhumi

Screenplay:
2009  Mundane History
2009  Off Season
2012  In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
2012  What Isn't There
2013  Keep the Change
2014  Invisible Spaces
2014  Mutual Friends
2015  Murmur of the Hearts
2015  My Good Man's Gone
2016  By the Time It Gets Dark
2016  Eugenia and John
2016  Old Stone
2018  Live For Real
2019  Ciao UFO
2019  Krabi, 2562
2019  Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
2020  Twilight's Kiss
2021  Come Here
2021  Drifting
2022  Far Far Away
2022  The Black Wall
2023  A Light Never Goes Out
2023  Everyphone Everywhere
2023  Lifting
2023  The Sunny Side of the Street
2024  All Shall Be Well
2024  Pavane For An Infant
2024  The Way We Talk
????  Mother Bhumi

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