Norris Wong Yee-lam (; born 1980s; ) is a Hong Kong novelist, songwriter, screenwriter, and director. She made her feature length directorial debut with My Prince Edward (2019), for which she won the Award for Best New Director and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Early life Wong grew up in Prince Edward, Hong Kong.
Wong received her first degree in biology. She received her master's degree from Hong Kong Baptist University's film school in 2012. After graduation, she focused on writing due to the lack of opportunities for new directors.
Career After graduation, she got a job at television station HKTV, which had just opened, as a screenwriter.
Wong wrote the script for My Prince Edward about a newly engaged Hong Kong woman trying to get out of her past secret sham marriage in May 2017. The film received funding from the First Feature Film Initiative. Stephy Tang signed on after reading the script through the program. The film has gone on to be nominated in several Asian film award ceremonies, including at the 56th Golden Horse Awards and the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, where Wong won the Award for Best New Director.
Wong announced on July 13, 2020 that her second feature film would be executively produced by Mabel Cheung and Alex Law as part of Hong Kong's () Directors’ Succession Scheme aimed at supporting local films.
Style and influence Wong cites the Coen brothers, Ang Lee, and Charlie Kaufman as her influences.
Filmography +YearTitleOriginal titleDirectorWriterNotes2012From Here to There赤鱲角到天水圍是我愛你最佳距離short2013Fall落踏2016Sisterhood骨妹Assistant writer2016Where Are You Going妳往何處去Assistant director; by Zheng-fan Yang 2018Down There 那里Assistant director; short by Zheng-fan Yang2019My Prince Edward金都2022Let It Ghost猛鬼3寶2024The Lyricist Wannabe填詞L
Awards and nominations +YearAwardCategoryFilmResultNotes201956th Golden Horse AwardsBest New DirectorMy Prince EdwardBest Original Film SongSong Lyrics26th Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardBest DirectorBest Screenplay202012th Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild AwardsBest New Director2020 Hong Kong Screenwriters' Guild AwardsRecommended Screenplay39th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ScreenplayBest New DirectorBest Original Film SongSong Lyrics
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