Hsing-Lung Chiang
- Editor
- Editorial Department
A native of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, Shanghai born Chiang Hsing
Lung is a pioneer of Hong Kong film in many respects where he was
groomed by the legendary Nanyang Film studio's chief executive Wang
Sun-Fu in the techniques of film editing, cutting & print development
for prestige Mandarin dialect films shortly after arriving in the
island colony in 1948. After his junior apprenticeship, Chiang left
Nanyang to join Shaw Brothers in 1956 where he notably applied his
craft first working with director Li Han Hsiang in 'Daiu Charn' in 1958
where Chiang brought home an editing award at the 5th annual Asian Film
Festival, the first Hong Kong based editor to ever hold the
distinction. He would repeat these honors for director Li again the
following year bringing home his second editing award for 'The Kingdom
and the Beauty'. These early milestones would earn Chiang his
career-long tenure with the Shaw Organization editing literally
hundreds of titles and mentoring a whole new generation of
up-and-coming editors who would take the craft to new heights into the
Cantonese dialect dominated cinema of the Hong Kong New Wave.
