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Derek Kwok

Hong Kong film director and screenwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5262121 ↗
Source-derived summary

Derek Kwok Chi-kin (Chinese: 郭子健, born 10 October 1976) is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter. He won the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best New Director with his film The Moss.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Derek Kwok” as hong Kong film director and screenwriter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Derek, Kwok and Hong.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1976-10-10, 1976-10-17—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Derek, Kwok and Hong providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Derek Kwok”, the useful work is to connect “hong Kong film director and screenwriter” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5262121. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Derek Kwok” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.