---
name: "Mary Stephen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mary-stephen"
fi1m_id: "mary-stephen"
imdb_id: "nm0826932"
tmdb_id: 67527
wikidata_id: "Q2394523"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:11:18.580431+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mary Stephen

## Identity

Mary Stephen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mary-stephen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mary-stephen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0826932
- **TMDB ID:** 67527
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2394523
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2394523, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826932/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67527

Editor. Born 1 January 1953 in Hong Kong, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, Hong Kong, China
- **Also known as:** 雪美蓮, 雪蓮
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2394523, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826932/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67527

## Biography

Mary Stephen is a film editor and director. Born in Hong Kong in 1953, she later lived in Canada before moving to Paris in the 1970s to study film. She has worked extensively as an editor on both European and Chinese-language productions.

Stephen was the regular editor for director Éric Rohmer from 1992 until his final film in 2007, collaborating on titles including *A Tale of Winter* (1992), *A Summer's Tale* (1996), *An Autumn Tale* (1998) and *The Romance of Astrea and Celadon* (2007). She has also edited documentaries and features such as *Last Train Home* (2009) and Ann Hui’s *Our Time Will Come* (2017). In addition to editing, she has directed her own films and co-composed music for several Rohmer projects under the pseudonym Sébastien Erms.

Stephen was appointed a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2018 and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

*Sources: womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu, scmp.com, eyecatcherhk.com, dokfest-muenchen.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Tale of Winter* (1992), Fi1m 78, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-tale-of-winter.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Palimpsest: The Story of a Name* (2026), Director, Editor
- *Say God Bye* (2023), Consulting Editor
- *Septet: The Story of Hong Kong* (2022), Editor
- *Love After Love* (2021), Editor
- *Stories of Pang Jai* (2020), Thanks
- *Napping Kid* (2018), Editor
- *Memory of Water* (2018), Director
- *Eric Rohmer, je vais vous raconter une histoire* (2018), Actor
- *Our Time Will Come* (2017), Editor
- *The Swaying Waterlily* (2016), Editor
- *The Apology* (2016), Editor
- *Dot 2 Dot* (2014), Editor
- *Flowing Stories* (2014), Editor, Associate Producer
- *Shanghai Strangers* (2012), Editor
- *The Drunkard* (2010), Editor
- *Majority* (2010), Editor
- *Last Train Home* (2009), Editor
- *1428* (2009), Editor
- *La proposition* (2009), Editor
- *Wild Grass* (2009), Editor
- *The Romance of Astrea and Celadon* (2007), Editor
- *Le Canapé rouge* (2005), Editor
- *Return to the Border* (2005), Editor
- *Triple Agent* (2004), Editor
- *Utsikt fra et vindu* (2003), Editor
- *America So Beautiful* (2001), Editor
- *The Lady and the Duke* (2001), Editor
- *The Curve* (1999), Editor
- *An Autumn Tale* (1998), Editor
- *Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines* (1998), Director
- *In Transit, in Transition: Poem from South Africa* (1998), Director
- *Les amis de Ninon* (1998), Editor
- *Un dentiste exemplaire* (1998), Editor
- *In Transit, in Transition: A Poetic Encounter in Hong Kong* (1997), Director
- *Des goûts et des couleurs* (1997), Editor
- *A Summer's Tale* (1996), Editor
- *France* (1996), Editor
- *Rendezvous in Paris* (1995), Editor
- *The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque* (1993), Editor
- *A Tale of Winter* (1992), Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-tale-of-winter.md)
- *Rosette vend des roses* (1985), Sound Recordist, Editor
- *The Adventures of Rosette* (1983), Editor, Sound
- *The Aviator's Wife* (1981), as Tourist
- *Justocoeur* (1980), Editor, Writer, Director
- *Shades of Silk* (1978), as Marlène · Director, Writer
- *A Very Easy Death* (1975), Director
- *The Great Canadian Puberty Rite* (1974), Director
- *Labyrinthe* (1973), Director

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