繁體中文
崔顯威(1957年生),又名崔雄繼,香港出生,長期從事戲院管理與電影發行。他童年家境拮据,自小學開始幫補家計,十四歲到珠江戲院當暑期工,此後與電影院結下深厚情緣。1975年他於華英中學中五畢業,曾到工廠短暫工作,其後獲舊東家招手,重返珠江戲院成為正式員工,初任帶位員;由於性格主動積極,他陸續涉獵排片、賣票、繪畫廣告牌、設計劇照櫃及機房放映等工作,先後晉升副司理、司理、經理。1988年10月他調至銀都機構戲院管理部,掌管港九新界多間戲院事務,包括戲院的成立與結束,見證電影業三十多年的轉變。他曾任銀都機構副總經理、董事、資產總監,並兼任清水灣電影製片廠廠長、南方影業有限公司董事,以及僑發置業有限公司董事兼總經理,直至2019年退休。他自1980年代初參與香港戲院商會業務,歷任監事、理事、副理事長及會長,退休後轉任非執行理事,2012年起出任華南電影工作者聯合會理事,主要協助處理物業和租務事宜。他從基層做起,對戲院前台與後台的每個崗位都有親身體會,見證香港戲院由單幢大戲院演變為商場迷你戲院的過程。他受訪時指出,1980年代初建成的沙田UA戲院首次引進六個廳的多廳影院模式,此後新落成的戲院多設於商場並以多廳形式經營,這正是他見證的行業轉變;在電影行業浸淫四十餘年的他,由售票、排片到機房放映的運作均十分熟悉,亦見證香港電影業的起落,退休後仍關注業界動向。他亦是本地少數由帶位員一路晉升至戲院集團管理層的從業者,對行業的運作與人情均十分熟稔。
English
Chui Hin-wai, born in 1957 and also known as Chui Hung-kai, was born in Hong Kong and spent his whole career in cinema management and film distribution. From a poor childhood he helped support his family from primary school, and at fourteen took a summer job at the Pearl Theatre, forming a lasting bond with cinemas. After finishing secondary school at Wah Ying College in 1975 and a brief spell in a factory, he was invited back by his former employer and returned to the Pearl Theatre as a full-time employee, starting as an usher. Energetic and proactive, he gradually took on booking, ticketing, billboard painting, the design of stills cabinets and projection-room work, rising to become deputy manager, manager and house manager. In October 1988 he moved to the circuit-management department of Sil-Metropole, overseeing many cinemas across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, including their opening and closing, and witnessing more than three decades of change in the film trade. He served as Sil-Metropole's deputy general manager, director and asset director, and additionally as head of the Clear Water Bay film studio, a director of Southern Film and a director and general manager of a property company, retiring in 2019. Active in the Hong Kong Theatres Association from the early 1980s, he held the posts of supervisor, council member, vice-chairman and chairman, becoming a non-executive council member after retirement; from 2012 he was a council member of the South China Film Workers' Association, mainly handling property and leasing matters. Having risen from the bottom, he knows every front-of-house and backstage post in a cinema, and has seen Hong Kong's cinemas evolve from single-block houses into multiplexes inside shopping malls.