Born in Hong Kong, graduated from Communication Arts, Concordia University in
Montreal, Canada, living now in Paris, Mary has experience in fiction and
documentary films for more than 30 years as editor, director, associate producer.
She was editor for French New Wave master Eric Rohmer. She also edited
international award-winning fiction films such as Turkey’s Cogunluk/ Majority by
Seren Yüce, China’s Blind Mountain by Li Yang, Hong Kong’s Our Time Will Come
and Love After Love by Ann Hui, among others, and many acclaimed documentaries
such as Japan’s Nude at Heart: The Times of the Odoriko, dir Yoïchiro Okutani,
South Africa’s Buddha In Africa, dir Nicole Shafer, Canada’s The Apology, dir. Tiffany
Hsiung, France’s L’Afrique vue par Ryszard Kapuscinski, dir. Olga Prud’homme
Farges, China The New Empire (3 parts), dir Jean-Michel Carré, China’s A Young
Patriot and 1428, dir. Du Haibin, Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan. She writes and
directs her own films also.
Mary is keen on shaping narratives and developing distinctive indiviual voices for
emerging filmmakers, especially (but not exclusively) on projects from Asia, Africa
and Oceania. She guest-teaches and takes part in workshops and programs such
as Cinema College of the Venice Biennale, A.N.D. (Asian Network of Documentary),
Docs By The Sea, Yamagata Documentary Dojo, CNEX, etc.
Mary speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, English and French.