High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yan Yan Mak (Chinese: 麥婉欣) is a Hong Kong based female award-winning director. She was born in the 1970s and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1998. Since 1993, as a student, Mak had worked for the film industry as a continuity girl, assistant director, production manager, art director and wardrobe designer. Her graduation short film Snapshots won the Distinguish Award at the International Short Film Video Awards of Hong Kong in 1998.