Jack Ng

Ng was born in 1975 or 1976.^[1] He attended St Joseph's College,^[2] and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television, majoring in directing.^[3]

After completing his studies, he entered the film industry as a script supervisor, which included working on Dante Lam's 2000 crime comedy film Jiang hu: The Triad Zone.^[4] Ng befriended Lam and went on to collaborate as a screenwriter in his subsequent projects Hit Team [zh] and Runaway in 2001.^[4][5] Ng continued to write for Lam in the 2003 comedy horror film The Twins Effect and served as the writer for the 2005 action thriller film SPL: Sha Po Lang.^[6][7] In 2008, Ng once again collaborated with Lam, writing the screenplay for the action thriller film Beast Stalker,^[8] which garnered him a nomination for Best Screenplay in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.^[9] He earned another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards for the 2010 action thriller film The Stool Pigeon, also directed by Lam.^[10]

Ng continued to collaborate with Lam as a screenwriter in several films.^[11] In 2012, he worked on Lam's action film The Viral Factor and the 2013 sports film Unbeatable.^[6][3] His screenplay for The Viral Factor earned him a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award,^[12] while he received nominations for Best Screenplay in both the 20th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his work on Unbeatable.^[13][14] In 2015, Ng wrote the screenplay for the action thriller film That Demon Within,^[6] for which Ng was nominated for Best Screenplay in the 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award.^[15] In 2017, he collaborated with directors Longman Leung [zh] and Sunny Luk [zh] on the action thriller film Cold War 2,^[16] earning another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.^[17] He then co-wrote Monster Hunt 2 with his fellow APA classmate Sunny Chan in 2018,^[18] and contributed as a screenwriter for the biographical film Anita in 2021.^[19]

In 2023, Ng made his directorial debut with the film A Guilty Conscience.^[20] The film received critical acclaim and became the highest-grossing domestic film in Hong Kong, making Ng the first director to achieve a box office record of over HK$100 million for a local film.^[21][22] His directorial debut also earned him a nomination for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards.^[23][24]