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May Fung is a filmmaker who is based in Hong Kong.

Biography
Fung studied business after finishing the HKCEE. One year after being a clerk, she joined the government and left until she reached to the position of chief training officer. Rejected by the senior for implementing a new proposal, she decided to leave the bureaucracy. During her time working in the government, she participated in filmmaking in her spare time.

Fung was taught by the Hong Kong producer Peter Yung. She began making experimental films in the 1970s, using Super 8 film, later turned to video in the mid-1980s. Her content touched on more political and social issues after the June Fourth Incident in 1989. Later in the same year, she created She Said Why Me, in which she explored her own relationship of space and identity between Hong Kong.

From 1998 to 1999, she participated in the Oil Street Artist Village. Around 2002, known with the previous experience, the landlord of Foo Tak Building in Wan Chai invited Fung to convert the units inside for art and cultural use. In 2015, Foo Tak’s owner decided to donate all of her units to Arts and Cultural Outreach (ACO), an organization founded by Fung.

Group exhibitions

 * Five Artists: Sites Encountered (2019)