Simon Chung is one of the most interesting independent filmmakers based in Hong Kong. His main themes are sexuality, mainly homosexuality and the struggle between, power, love and sex.
In First Love and Other Pains, one of his first feature films, a Hong Kong
college student is smitten with his English professor, an older frustrated
British playwright. Their common love of great literature leads both men
into an erotic affair - the tenuous beginnings of a romance spanning two
different worlds.
From the co-directors of the camp hit Desperate Remedies comes One Of Them. Set in the 1960's, two gay teens grapping with their mixed-up emotions and emerging sexuality strike up a friendship fortified by frank talk about fashion design and ogling cute boys, all to make the taunts and boredom of small-town life almost bearable.
— Gea Politi

Filmography: 1999: First Love & Other Pains, 35mm, 50 min; 1997: Stanley Beloved, 16mm, 20 min; 1996: Life is Elsewhere, 16mm, 14 min; 1992: Chiwawa Express, 16mm, 25 min.
Festivals: 2001: International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Turin; 2000: International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco; 5th Kerala International Film Festival, India; Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles; Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, New York; Asian American Film Festival, San Diego; Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Seattle; Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Chicago; International Queer Film & Video Festival, Seoul; 1999: International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Mardi Gras, Sydney;
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London; Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival, Toronto; International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Boston; International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Tokyo; Surprise International Shortfilm Festival, Taiwan.