David Chung was born in Hong Kong on November 14th, 1947. When he was seventeen, he learned cinematography and acted as a camera assistant under the Shaw Brothers camera department, becoming a cinematographer for TV in 1968, joining TVB in 1973. He shot his first feature film, For Whom to be Murdered, in 1978, and won his first award for Ann Hui's The Secret in 1979, winning Best Cinematography at the 17th Golden Horse Awards. He became a staple cinematographer for the Hong Kong New Wave directors, working with the likes of Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho, Alex Cheung, Tsui Hark, Dennis Yu etc. on acclaimed films such as Close Encounters of the First Kind, Nomad, My Love is that Eternal Rose, Once Upon a Time in China and so on.

In 1989 he became the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. In 1995 he emigrated to America,

钟志文，香港导演，摄影出身。1989年钟志文曾担任香港电影摄影师协会的副主席（主席为鲍德熹），而且，他还是香港电影金像奖历史上第一位蝉联“最佳摄影”的摄影师，分别与第七届和第八届金像奖上凭借《秋天的童话》和《七小福》获奖，同时他在香港摄影师中的获奖次数亦排行第四——二点五次，还有“半次”是第五届金像奖上凭借《生死线》与潘恒生共获，仅次于黄岳泰（6次），杜可风（5次）和鲍德熹（5次）！