Mak was born in 1984 and grew up in
Tai Wai,
Hong Kong where she attend
Sha Tin Government Secondary School. She received a diploma in graphic design at
Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. After graduation, she worked as a graphic artist before enrolling at
City University of Hong Kong within the school of Creative Media. Her thesis film
Lovers’ Lover won a Gold Award at the
IFVA in their Open Category section. Her teacher
Patrick Tam later showed
Lovers’ Lover to actor
Eric Tsang. This landed Mak a
casting job on the comedy film
Men Suddenly in Black 2, which Tsang acted in and co-produced. Mak had written a few lines of dialogue for the casting process as the screenplay had not been written that early into production. After Tsang read what Mak had written, he offered her a co-writer position.'''' She graduated with a BA in Creative Media in 2006. In 2008, Mak made her directorial debut when producer Eric Tsang gave her the opportunity to film a remake of
Winds of September which later became
High Noon. For her work she was nominated for a
Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Director and given a Film of Merit by the
Hong Kong Film Critics Society. After directing the film
Ex, she worked alongside to
Pang Ho-cheung to make romantic comedy
Love in a Puff which went on to earn her a
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay. == Filmography ==