Leung Ming-kai

Personal Info

Known For Camera

Gender Male

Also Known As 梁铭佳, Leung Ming-Kai, Kai, Ming Kai Leung

Leung Ming-kai

Biography

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.

Known For

Camera

2024
All Shall Be Well

as Director of Photography

2024
Pavane For An Infant

as Director of Photography

2024
The Way We Talk

as Director of Photography

2023
The Sunny Side of the Street

as Director of Photography

2023
A Light Never Goes Out

as Director of Photography

2023
Everyphone Everywhere

as Director of Photography

2023
Lifting

as Director of Photography

2022
The Black Wall

as Director of Photography

2022
Far Far Away

as Director of Photography

2021
Drifting

as Director of Photography

2021
Come Here

as Director of Photography

2020
Twilight's Kiss

as Director of Photography

2019
Ciao UFO

as Director of Photography

2019
Krabi, 2562

as Director of Photography

2018
Live For Real

as Director of Photography

2016
Eugenia and John

as Director of Photography

2015
Murmur of the Hearts

as Director of Photography

2014
Mutual Friends

as Director of Photography

2014
Invisible Spaces

as Director of Photography

2013
Keep the Change

as Director of Photography

2012
2012
What Isn't There

as Director of Photography

2009
Off Season

as Director of Photography

2009
Mundane History

as Director of Photography

Crew

Mother Bhumi

as Cinematography

2016
Old Stone

as Cinematography

2016
By the Time It Gets Dark

as Cinematography

Editor

2015
My Good Man's Gone

as Colorist