• School of Humanities & Social Science

    • Dr CHAN Ka Lok, Sobel （陳家樂博士）
    Cert (School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    Cert (Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild Training Centre)
    BA (Hong Kong Baptist University)
    MA (Beijing Film Academy)
    PhD (Hong Kong Baptist University)

    Senior Lecturer
    School of Communication
    Acting Programme Director of The Bachelor of Arts in Convergent Media and Communication Technology

    Tel : (852) 3963 5296
    Email :
    sobelchan@hsu.edu.hk


    Dr CHAN received his PhD in Film Studies from the Department of Cinema and Television, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. He also obtained his Master degree in Film Directing and Production in Beijing Film Academy and Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Communication-major in Cinema and Television, Department of Cinema and Television, Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr CHAN had rich professional working experiences in various film production, television stations, newspaper, magazine and government committee.

    AwardsResearch InterestSelected PublicationsOthers
    TopAwards
    • Director, Scriptwriter of “We are Hong Kongers” for Beautiful Hong Kong campaign (2021-2022).
    • Best Original Screenplay (London Movie Awards, 2022)
    • Gold Award: Best Director (London Movie Awards, 2022)
    • Silver Award: Short Film, (London Movie Awards, 2023)
    • Best Original Screenplay (New York Movie Awards, 2022)
    • Best Microfilm in London Indie Microfilm Festival, 2023.
    • Best Director in London Indie Microfilm Festival, 2023.
    • Best Short film in Busan New Wave Short Film Festival, 2022
    • Honorable Mention in Milan Gold Awards, 2023
    • Honorable Mention in Florence Gold Awards, 2023
    • Honorable Mention (Drama) in Hollywood Gold Awards, 2022
    • Honorable Mention in SydFest Independent Film Festival, 2022
    • Honorable Mention in Munich New Wave Short Film Festival, 2022
    • Official Selection in Lulea International Film Festival Sweden, 2022.
    • Official Selection and Finalist in 2 11 17 International Film Festival, 2022
    • Official Selection in Best International Film Festival, 2022
    • Official Selection in Switzerland International Film Festival, 2022
    • Official Selection in FestShortBerlin (The Berlin International Film Festival), 2022
    • Official selection in International World Film Awards.
    • Official selection in Geneve Awards 2023.
    • Official selectin in British Indie Festival Film and Music, 2023.
    • “League of HK Movie Heroes” (Directed and Written by Sobel Chan) was nominated into the Finalists of HAF/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, 2013.
    TopResearch Interest
    • Hong Kong Film and Television Studies
    • Screenwriting and Storytelling
    • Cinema Therapy and Chinese-language Film History and Industry
    • Cinema
    • AI generated content
    • New Media and Metaverse
    TopSelected Publications
    Selected Academic Journal and Chapter Publications
    • Chan Ka Lok Sobel (2021). The limitless possibility of combination: Filmic Lego Poetics of Storytelling and Structure in Global Film Scriptwriting and Duration. In International Conference Cinema - Art, Technology, Communication. Organized by AVANCA| CINEMA 2021, from July 28 to August 1, 2021
    • Sobel Chan Ka Lok (2021). Cinematic Fashionability and Visual Politics. In Journalism and Mass Communication. (-Apr. 2021, Vol. 11, No. 2, 73-80). U.S.A.: David Publishing Company.
    • Chan Ka Lok Sobel (2017). The Politics of Silence: The Image and Identity of Women in films revisited. In Bulletin, Society of Comparative Literature, Hong Kong University. (In English)
    • 陳家樂 (2013) 。〈《白蛇傳》的圖騰文化、女性書寫、變形與現形的性別權力〉。載於 《電影新作》（2013年1期，總205期）（頁24-27）：上海：電影新作出版社。
    • 陳家樂（2012）。〈民族性/香港性：南下北上：（新）少林寺電影的啟示〉。載《華語電影工業：歷史流變與跨地合作》（頁265-275）。中國：廣西師範大學出版社。
    • Chan Ka Lok Sobel (30, March, 2010). The Image of Patients and its Signification in Hong Kong Cinema and Television. in Health issues in Chinese Contexts (Vol.4) . U.S.A.: Nova Science Publisher. pp.13-16.
    • 陳家樂（2009）。《電影變形：電影形式與構思的關係》。《數位傳媒語境下兩岸三地新聞文化探討》論文選集 （頁281-294）。香港：香港珠海學院。
    • Chan Ka Lok Sobel (Sep, 2009). Invisible Instability of Hong Kong City and Human Relationship: Representation of Virus in Hong Kong Films. in Health issues in Chinese Contexts (Vol.1) . U.S.A.: Nova Science Publisher. pp.187-190
    • Chan Ka Lok Sobel (July, 2009). The Image of Doctors and its Signification in Hong Kong Cinema and Television. in Health issues in Chinese Contexts (Vol.2) . U.S.A.: Nova Science Publisher. pp.205-208
    • 陳家樂（2009）。〈神話英雄：李小龍影片研究〉。《北京電影學報》。中國北京：北京電影學院。Chan Ka Lok Sobel (July,2009). Virus in Zombie Films from a Chinese Perspective. in Health issues in Chinese Contexts (Vol.3) . U.S.A.: Nova Science Publisher. pp.155-159.
    • Chan Ka Lok Sobel (17, March, 2009). The Politics of Sound Silence: Women Image in Cinema, in Silenced Women. U.S.A.: Nova Science Publisher. pp.3-7.
    • 陳家樂（2008）。〈香港動作電影研究〉。《珠海學院學報》。香港：香港珠海學院。
    Selected Academic books
    • 陳家樂（編輯，2023）。《元宇宙：數位化宣教與創新科技》。香港：超媒體。
    • 陳家樂 (2021)。 《福音與電影治療：電影與基督教文化》。香港：光影無限。
    • 陳家樂（編輯，2017）。《香港電視天書》。香港：光影無限。
    • 陳家樂（2013）。《電影評論寫作教室》。香港：光影無限。
    • 陳家樂（2011）。《香港電影、電視與新媒體研究》。香港：天地圖書有限公司。
    • 吳振邦，陳家樂（2011）。《編劇手冊》。香港：天地圖書有限公司。
    • 陳家樂，吳月華，廖志强（2007）。《同窗光影：香港電影論文集》。香港：國際演藝評論家協會（香港分會）。
    TopOthers
    Service for Professional Film Industry and Association
    • Jury of Professionals Associated with Film Culture/Education (Hong Kong Film Awards) from 2009 to now.
    Creative-based Research
    • Scriptwriter for “Miracle 13”, this movie is based on the true event of the widely publicized cave rescue successfully extracted members of a junior football  team trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand from June to July, 2018. This movie is already produced and planned to screen publicly on 2023 by Media Evangelism Limited.
    • Director and Scriptwriter of “Love in Music”, this film project is invited by Create Hong Kong and Hong Kong Film Development to present in “Guang Dong-HK-Macao-Greater Bay Area Film Production Investment and Trade Fair from 9th, Sep to 11th, Sep, 2019.
    • “The Goddess” (produced, directed and written by Sobel Chan) was recommended by the professional member of Hong Kong Scriptwriters Guild, and registered in Federation of Hong Kong Filmmaker. (Registration number: FS/18/06/R/25). And it was officially selected in Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum 2017 (HAF 2017), organized by Hong Kong Film International Festival and Filmart. And the project is also invited by Create HK and Hong Kong Film Development Council to present in 2017 Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Film Creativity Investment Forum and Trade Fair on 25-26, July, 2017.
    • “Fearless Neighbours” (co-written by Sobel Chan), official invitation for short film catalog of Festival De Cannes 2017.
    • “The Armor of Flying Dragon” (Directed and Written by Sobel Chan) was selected into the Co-FPC (Co-production Film Pitch and Catch) of the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival, 16-19, June, 2013.
    • “League of HK Movie Heroes” (Directed and Written by Sobel Chan) was nominated into the Finalists of HAF/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, 2013.
    • “Winter Cicadas”(Produced by Sobel Chan), was the official selected film in Singapore, Thus have I seen (THIS), International Buddhist Film Festival, 2016. in Marche Du Cinema, Cannes Film Festival, 15th, May, 2015, International Buddhist Film Festival, 2014, and Focus on China: Winter Cicadas in International Buddhist Film Festival in Vancouver, 2013.