👋  Man Kit Lam has been working as a brand and graphic designer for almost twenty years. After working for several design agencies he founded his studio in 2007 with experience in branding, art direction, illustration, animation, digital, print, and experiential graphic design. Man Kit has been fortunate enough to work from the Netherlands and US with a variety of clients worldwide, from cultural institutes, non-profits, and small businesses to global corporations. Man Kit received awards and accolades for his design work, such as the European Design Award.
🎬  In addition, he worked with Susan Youssef from 2007 to 2020 on the development and production of feature films, short films and documentaries that went to Sundance, Toronto, Venice, Busan, Dubai, and many other film festivals, museums and institutes around the world. Man Kit produced, edited, and did the art direction for the narrative feature Habibi,​ which premiered at Venice and Toronto International Film Festival 2011. Habibi won awards around the globe including Best Film, Best Editor, and FIPRESCI prizes at the Dubai International Film Festival. He created with Susan the short Source in 2012​, which premiered and subsequently exhibited as a video installation at Tate Modern, and toured the world with Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project. Recently they premiered their second independent feature film Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf​ at Miami Film Festival 2019 and the short Amsterdam to Anatolia, commissioned by 21st Century Fox (The Walt Disney Company), at Carthage Film Festival 2019. Habibi, Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf​ and Amsterdam to Anatolia have been acquired by Netflix in 2021.
Man Kit also served as a film program committee and IMDbPro Short Film Award jury member for the Miami Film Festival from 2016 till 2020.  👀Â
🎬  In addition, he worked with Susan Youssef from 2007 to 2020 on the development and production of feature films, short films and documentaries that went to Sundance, Toronto, Venice, Busan, Dubai, and many other film festivals, museums and institutes around the world. Man Kit produced, edited, and did the art direction for the narrative feature Habibi,​ which premiered at Venice and Toronto International Film Festival 2011. Habibi won awards around the globe including Best Film, Best Editor, and FIPRESCI prizes at the Dubai International Film Festival. He created with Susan the short Source in 2012​, which premiered and subsequently exhibited as a video installation at Tate Modern, and toured the world with Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project. Recently they premiered their second independent feature film Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf​ at Miami Film Festival 2019 and the short Amsterdam to Anatolia, commissioned by 21st Century Fox (The Walt Disney Company), at Carthage Film Festival 2019. Habibi, Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf​ and Amsterdam to Anatolia have been acquired by Netflix in 2021.
Man Kit also served as a film program committee and IMDbPro Short Film Award jury member for the Miami Film Festival from 2016 till 2020.  👀Â