The Judges

Mr Victor Hui

Hui Tik Cheung graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of the HK Baptist College in 1977. Near thirty years experience in the field of editing and publishing, working with various newspaper, magazine, website and commercial press. Now a consulting editor with a textbook company.  

Also an enthusiatic participant in literary activities and publishing in Hong Kong. An editor of the Thumb Magazine from 1976 to 1987, and a co-founder of the Su Yeh Publications in 1979. Su Yeh has become a prominent figure in the local literray scene and has a stable of 70 titles including works in poetry, prose, fiction and literary criticism. It also published the Su Yeh Literature Magazine in 1980 and since then 68 issues had come out. Other than these activities, he had also sat on the juding panel of various writing competitions, and had been an instructor of Chinese literature and elementary editorialship course offered by the HKU SPACE. He is the author of two books.

Mr Vincent Wong

Vincent Wong received his Master of Business Administration degree from the Cambridge University in 2001 and a law degree from the University of London in 2002. His research thesis on "Creative Thinking Patterns of Business Professionals" has won the Barclay's Prize for Best MBA dissertation. Mr . Wong has presented his dissertation at the "2005 Innovation and Design Expo" and also at the City University of Hong Kong. He currently writes columns on creative thinking in the local daily "Ta Kung Pao".

After he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996 , Mr. Wong joined advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong . He was also a former Hong Kong Government official responsible for policy formulation in urban planning, reclamation and long-term care for the elderly. Before he went to Cambridge, Vincent was the Director of Business Development at AdmanGo Media Research. Working with all the advertising and media agencies in addition to TV stations and newspaper publishing groups in Hong Kong, Vincent transformed the system for monitoring advertising expenditure and developed a new research standard for the industry.

Mr. Wong has been with APCO Asia since 2003, and is currently the Director of Research and Public Affairs for the company, with a focus on policy research, economic study, stakeholder analysis and corporate communications.

Mr Patrick Tam

Patrick Tam was one of Hong Kong's brightest filmmakers in the new wave of the 1970s. He directed The Sword, Love Massacre, Nomad, Final Victory, Burning Snow, My Heart is an Eternal Rose and other films. He is also known as one of the best film editors in Asia, responsible for Wong Ka Wai's Days of Being Wild and Ashes of Time, and recently Johnny To's Election.

Mr Tam withdrew from the business and began teaching filmmaking in the early 1990s, only taking on occasional film editing work. He is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media. His latest film After This, Our Exile is generating high expectations. It is a coming-of-age story about the tumultuous relationship between a young boy and his abusive father.