Chris Michael Owen was born in Africa and moved to Hong Kong in 1990. Growing up in Hong Kong, he never knew that Hong Kong had such an abundance and variety of wildlife. As the son of a geology professor, he was lucky enough to travel to many countries and remote locations, where he discovered many techniques for tracking and observing animals in the wild. He developed a passion for filmmaking in his youth and after encountering a wild barking deer following a health scare, he developed a second passion for the animals found in Hong Kong. All this led to the creation of ‘WILD about HK’, A YouTube channel and instagram page dedicated to discovering the wildlife hiding just out under our noses in Hong Kong.

Fredie Chan Ho-lun graduated from Lingnan University with a BA in Cultural Studies in 2006 and completed an MA in Film-Directing at the  University of Edinburgh in 2022. He has been working as an independent documentary filmmaker and educator for 16 years. His latest film, The Dispute (2022), documented the housing crisis in the UK and received The Best Director’s Award at the Cyprus Archaeological, Historical and Ethnographic Film Festival in 2023. From 2013 onward, Fredie has directed a trilogy documentary series on the land issue in the New Territories. His films Way of Paddy and Open Road after Harvest document Hong Kong organic farming and activism and have received awards and selections at film festivals worldwide.