Christine Cheung
Editor
Christine Cheung is a screen editor working across feature films, television, and short form media. Her most recent credits include the upcoming third season of Heartbreak High (dir. Nina Buxton/ Fremantle, Netflix, 2025), and Mix Tape (dir. Lucy Gaffy, Aquarius Films/ Binge, 2024–2025), which won the TV Spotlight Audience Award at its recent premiere at SXSW. The four-part miniseries is based on the novel by Jane Sanderson, starring Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess. Christine also reunited with director Mohini Herse on her television directing debut Four Years Later (Easy Tiger/ SBS, 2024), cutting four of the eight episodes. The series, a co-production between India and Australia, released in 2024.
Other episodic credits include four episodes of the AACTA-nominated SBS anthology drama Erotic Stories (dir. Madeleine Gottlieb, Lingo Pictures, 2023); three episodes of the Stan original Totally Completely Fine (dir. Lucy Gaffy, Fremantle Media, 2023) starring Thomasin McKenzie; and the SBS Digital Original Appetite (dir. Mohini Herse, 2023), which premiered at the 2023 Canneseries – Christine edited the final three episodes, along with a 60-minute version of the show.
Further television credits include Significant Others (ABC, 2022); Born to Spy (ABC, 2019); and the ground-breaking series First Day (2017–2022), which received multiple international awards including a Rose d’Or, an International Emmy and a GLAAD Media Award.
Christine began her career as an assistant editor on feature films including Happy Feet, Australia, Animal Kingdom and The Great Gatsby. In 2014, she cut the short film Red Rover (dir. Brooke Goldfinch), earning a nomination for Best Editing in a Short Film at the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) Awards. She received two further ASE nominations for Shiloh (2017) and You and Me Before and After (2020). Her short form credits also include Chicken (2019), Tui Na (Mardi Gras Film Festival, 2022) which won Best Short Film at My Queer Career in 2023, and Appetite (2023), which screened in competition at Canneseries.
In 2018, Christine edited the feature film Nekrotronic (dir. Kia Roache-Turner, Entertainment One/ Hopscotch Features), followed by The Greenhouse (dir. Thomas Wilson-White, 2021), which premiered at the Queerscreen Mardi Gras Film Festival and later at the BFI Flare.
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