Creative entrepreneurship award for filmmaker
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Kit Hung has been awarded £10,000 funding as one of the winners of the Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs.
Kit Hung, DBACE Award winner
Kit, a PhD student in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, is the founder of Secure Storyteller Network (SSN), which supports filmmakers working in high-risk environments with digital security training. Its mission is to defend creative freedom by equipping filmmakers with practical security skills, tools and knowledge. It addresses an urgent need for creative professionals who face censorship, surveillance, and personal risk while telling socially impactful stories.
The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE) prize package includes funding plus a year of tailored business support from MeWe360, a not-for-profit incubator.
Kit Hung said, “Being part of the DBACE community has been hugely motivating — not only receiving the award, but also joining a network of inspiring creative entrepreneurs and taking part in their training programme.”
It has been very encouraging at this early stage of building the Secure Storyteller Network, giving us both resources and recognition to strengthen practical safety tools for filmmakers working across borders, and to grow SSN into a long-term support system for vulnerable creative communities.
Kit Hung, PhD, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Kit, an award-winning queer filmmaker, has also won a fellowship on the 2025 Berlinale Talents Mastercard Enablement Programme, which offers mentoring, financial support and public awareness for film-related initiatives.
SSN’s partners span tech, arts, and legal communities across the UK, Berlin, East and Southeast Asia. It offers workshops, and is developing a corporate-facing service offering digital security training, building a multilingual online knowledge hub and expanding in-person Secure Filmmaking Camps.