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Tianjin sets Rabbit cast, distribution
BY JEAN NOH
Tianjin Film Studio has recruited
comedy star Fan Wei and Yan Ni to
head the voice dubbing of its 3D
kung-fu animated film Legend Of A
Rabbit. The company has also sold
the film to Sahamongkol for Thailand and confirmed China Film
Group as local distributor in the
mainland.
The Thai deal was closed
between Sahamongkol executive
vice-president Gilbert Lim and
Tianjin Film Studio’s head of international distribution Elliot Tong.
“We’re very excited because
Sahamongkol is such a great dis-
tributor, one of our best,” said
Tong. “China Film Group is planning a targeted wide release and
they have given us very good projections. We’re looking at a dayand-date release in Korea and
other Asian territories,” he added.
Directed by Sun Li Jun, the
$12m Legend Of A Rabbit is in postproduction for a summer release. A
hit at last month’s European Film
Market in Berlin, the film sold to
Noori for Korea, Luxor Film for
Russia/CIS, Ram Indo for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia,
Horizon International for Turkey
and AB Groupe for France.
Yim floats City for Mandarin
Production begins this week on
Mandarin Films’ historical epic,
Hundred Years Of A Floating City, to
be directed by Yim Ho.
Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s,
the film follows a fisherman’s son
who rises to become a powerful ‘tai
pan’ or businessman. Aaron Kwok,
Charlie Yeung and Nina Paw Hee-
Aaron Kwok
ching head the cast. Paw won the
best actress prize at the Hong Kong
Film Awards in 2009 for her role in
Ann Hui’s The Way We Are.
Mandarin is financing and
handling international sales on the
film and may bring in a mainland
Chinese production and
distribution partner.
Shooting will begin in the next
few weeks with release tentatively
scheduled for the end of the year.
Yim was one of Hong Kong’s
leading directors in the 1980s and
a leader of the Hong Kong New
Wave. His credits include awardwinning titles such as Homecoming
in 1984 and Red Dust in 1990. More
recently he directed A West Lake
Moment, starring Chen Kun, in
2004.
Liz Shackleton
Henan tunes Violin, Generals
BY SCREEN STAFF
China’s Henan Film & Television
Production Group Corporation
(Henan Film Group) is ramping
up its big-budget film production
with $30m US-China co-pro Melanie’s Violin and $22.5m historic
epic Generals Of The Yang Family.
Melanie’s Violin follows the story
of 30,000 Jews fleeing Europe for
Shanghai during the Second
World War. US producer Branko
Lustig (Schindler’s List, Gladiator)
and media entrepreneur Phil
Blazer will serve as producers. The
film will be co-produced by Henan
Film Group, Shanghai West Coast
Sheng Bao Cultural Communications and Los Angeles-based Six
Points Film, a firm co-founded by
Lustig and Blazer.
US writer Larry Ramin will
write the screenplay. The film will
be budgeted at $30m, according to
Lan Lixin, vice-chairman of Henan
Film Group, with shooting set to
begin at the end of the year.
The story is adapted from Chi-
TODAY
NEWS
Windseeker flies
Mei Ah to produce Alan Mak’s spy
thriller starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai
» PAGE 4
REVIEWS
Hong Kong housewives
Calvin Poon’s melodrama
Hi, Fidelity recalls early 1990s
Hong Kong cinema
» PAGE 6
Apichatpong Weerasethakul arrives at the Asian Film Awards last night
Uncle Boonmee takes
top Asian Film Award
BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul echoed his Cannes Palme
d’Or victory at the Asian Film
Awards last night, winning best
film for Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives.
Korea’s Lee Chang-dong was
awarded best director and best
screenplay for Poetry, also repeating its win for best screenplay at
Cannes last year.
Best actor went to Ha Jung-woo
for Korean thriller The Yellow Sea,
directed by Na Hong-jin, while
China’s Xu Fan took best actress
for her husband Feng Xiaogang’s
disaster movie Aftershock. Mark
Chao You-ting was named best
newcomer for his role in Taiwanese gangster drama Monga.
Best supporting actor went to
Hong Kong’s Sammo Hung for Ip
Man 2 and best supporting actress
to Korea’s Yoon Yeo-jeong for The
Housemaid.
Taiwan’s Mark Lee Ping-bin was
nese novelist He Ning’s book of the
same title. The director and cast
are yet to be announced, but Lan
said the producers plan to recruit a
US film-maker.
Meanwhile, Henan Film Group
is producing Generals Of The Yang
Family, directed by Ronnie Yu
(Fearless). Louis Koo, Taiwanese
actor Vic Chou, Wu Chun (My
Kingdom), Raymond Lam and
Asian Film Awards winner Xu Fan
(Aftershock) will star.
Set during the Song dynasty, the
epic tells of the legendary Yang
family, who sacrificed two generations in service of their country.
awarded best cinematographer for
his work on Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood, while Hayashida Yuji
took best production designer for
13 Assassins. Indian rock band
Indian Ocean scooped the award
for best music score for Peepli Live.
Aftershock also took the best visual effects prize for the work of Phil
Jones, along with the Asian Film
Award for top grossing film of
2010. Best editing went to Nam Nayoung for Korean thriller I Saw The
Devil, while Hong Kong’s William
Chang Suk-ping was best costume
designer for Let The Bullets Fly.
Kim Dong-ho, the former director of the Busan International Film
Festival, was presented with the
Asian Film Award for outstanding
contribution to Asian cinema, while
Golden Harvest founder Raymond
Chow took the Asian Film Award
for lifetime achievement. Special
prizes also included the Promotion
of Asian Cinema Award presented
to Fortissimo Films.
Branko Lustig
Shooting is scheduled to begin in
August.
Raymond Wong’s Beijing-based
Tianma United Film will handle
international sales while Huayi
Brothers Media will distribute in
the Greater China region.
Wacky Love Story
Milocrorze is a kitsch feast
» PAGE 6
SCREENINGS
» START PAGE 20
Media Asia preps
To, Wai romance
BY SCREEN STAFF
Hong Kong studio Media Asia has
unveiled Hong Kong-China coproduction Romancing In Thin Air,
to be directed by Johnnie To and
Wai Ka-fai, and star Sammi Cheng,
Louis Koo and Chinese actress Gao
Yuanyuan.
Koo plays a superstar who is
dumped by his girlfriend and flies
off to scenic Shangri-la in Yunnan
province in search of solitude, only
to fall in love.
Shooting began in early March
and the film will wrap towards the
end of May. Media Asia is yet to
confirm its China co-production
partner and the film’s mainland
China distributor, but has set its
Hong Kong and mainland China
release date at the end of 2011.
Meanwhile, Media Asia also
announced the Andrew Laudirected romantic drama A Beautiful Life will be released in both
mainland China and Hong Kong
on May 19.
The Beijing-set story, about a
romance between a Hong Kong
girl (Shu Qi) and a Beijing police
officer (Liu Ye), is co-produced by
Beijing-based Bona Film Group.
Bona is also distributing in mainland China.
Also in Media Asia’s 2011 release
slate is To-produced title Punished.
Directed by Law Wing-cheong, the
action thriller stars Anthony Wong,
Richie Jen and Janice Man. Its
Hong Kong release date is May 5.
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai
India on an
upward curve
By Liz Shackleton
India’s media and entertainment
industry grew by 11% to $14.5bn
(rup652bn) in 2010, according to
a report issued by KPMG at the
FICCI Frames conference taking
place in Mumbai this week.
The industry is expected to
grow by 13% in 2011 and reach
$28bn (rup1,275bn) by 2015.
All sectors registered growth
except the film industry, which has
been hit by a downturn in production volumes since a funding
crunch in 2009. However, the
report predicts the Indian film
industry will grow from $1.8bn
(rup83bn) to $2.9bn (rup132bn)
by 2015, due to an increase in multiplex screens, research investment
and continued cost corrections.
Meanwhile, India’s TV industry
grew by 15.5% in 2010 and is
expected to hit $14bn (rup630bn)
by 2015.
By Liz Shackleton
Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertainment is preparing to produce
1950s-set spy thriller Windseeker,
to be directed by Alan Mak and
star Tony Leung Chiu-wai.
Mak is directing from a script
written by Felix Chong, his writing
partner on the Infernal Affairs trilogy and directing partner on 2009
surveillance thriller Overheard.
Leung will play the blind assistant to a piano tuner who is drafted
into a spying mission due to his
exceptional hearing abilities. Pro-
duction is scheduled to start at the
end of the year, after Leung has
finished work on Derek Yee’s The
Great Magician, a period mystery
film announced by Emperor
Motion Pictures on the first day of
Filmart.
Also in pre-production for Mei
Ah is period action film The
Scholar Warrior, to be directed by
Hong Kong martial-arts maestro
Sammo Hung. Mei Ah also
invested in — and has a slew of
South-East Asian rights to —
Wong Kar Wai’s upcoming mar-
Lee, Kim talk Busan future
B
usan International Film
Festival director Lee Yongkwan and honorary festival
director Kim Dong-ho met with
Screen International in Hong Kong
yesterday to talk about Lee’s new
solo directorship.
Lee and Kim had been co-festival
directors from 2007 until Kim, the
founding director, retired last year.
Though the majority of festivalgoers have wondered who would
replace him, BIFF’s organising
committee had quietly endorsed
Lee as the solo director in November
of last year when they confirmed
Kim’s retirement and named him
honorary festival director.
“The thinking is that we had a
co-festival directorship of two, and
when Mr Kim stepped down, we
naturally reverted to one director
so there wasn’t any particular need
to announce it,” Lee explains.
Lee Yong-kwan
“Mr Kim had been expressing
his desire to retire for several
years, and we had tried to find a
replacement for him. But he’s
irreplaceable, so we started a
collaborative system five years ago.
I became co-festival director, Jay
Jeon is a deputy director and Kim
Ji-seok is senior programmer.
Personally, I was hoping Mr Kim
would stay on another year. I would
have liked to have taken some
time to live abroad and work on my
English, but there wasn’t any
Seediq Bale set for two-part release in Asia
By Screen staff
Taiwanese film-maker’s Wei Tesheng’s war epic Seediq Bale will
be released as two films in Taiwan
and Hong Kong, Wei’s production company ARS Film Productions said today.
The picture, set in 1930 in Taiwan, tells the true story of the
Wushe Incident in which aboriginal Seediq tribe warrior Mona
Rudao led his people to rebel
against the Japanese occupation.
Rudao’s force of 300 fought an
army of 3,000 for two weeks until
the tribe was annihilated by aircraft and chemical weapons.
With a production budget of
$23.3m (nt$700m), the film is
billed as the most expensive in
Taiwanese history. Backed by Tai-
tial-arts drama The Grand Master
which is now expected to be
released at the end of the year.
Mei Ah also unveiled two titles
from its Beijing production team at
Filmart yesterday. The Island,
directed by Chung Kai Cheong, is a
horror film about a reality show set
on a desert island; it stars Jordan
Chan and Chinese actress Yang Mi.
The Palace, directed by Jingle Ma, is
an adaptation of a hit Chinese TV
show which will also star Yang
along with Fung Shao Fung and
Louis Fan.
Seediq Bale
n 4 Screen International at Filmart/HAF/HKIFF March 22, 2011
wan’s Central Motion Pictures
Corporation, Seediq Bale stars
Japanese actor Ando Masanobu,
Taiwanese actress Vivian Hsu,
Landy Wen and Umin Boya. It is
Wei’s second feature film after his
successful Cape No 7.
The four-and-a-half hour Seediq
Bale will open in Taiwan in two
instalments, on September 9 and
September 30 respectively. CMC
subsidiary Vie Vision Pictures will
release the film in Taiwan.
Meanwhile, Lighten Distribution will open the films in Hong
Kong in two parts in October.
Wei’s ARS Film Production is
handling international sales on
Seediq Bale, which may be edited
into a shorter version for international territories.
Kim Dong-ho
time,” he adds. Lee plans to take a
sabbatical from his professorship
at Chung-Ang University, which will
leave him free to focus solely on
the festival for up to two editions.
More changes are in store this
year, with the Asian Film Market
moving to the Busan Exhibition &
Convention Center (BEXCO) and the
festival’s Busan Cinema Center to
be completed in time to open the
festival.
“It will be a leap into the new
era. The festival team is doing well
Also on Mei Ah’s slate is Wilson
Chin’s romantic drama LKF Soho
and Poon Yuen-leung’s drama Hi,
Fidelity which is receiving its
world premiere at the ongoing
Hong Kong International Film
Festival (see reviews, p6).
Mei Ah is also entering theatrical distribution in Hong Kong and
has acquired Korean titles Midnight FM and I Saw The Devil from
FineCut.
The new releasing outfit, Mei
Ah Selection, is headed by Doinel
Wu.
and it puts me at ease to see them
at work,” says Kim, who is
travelling with Lee and introducing
him around the festival circuit.
“We’ve met with Rotterdam,
Berlin and Cannes and even they
are curious about our new festival
centre. Almost everything will be
housed there soon, and the
important thing is to get content
that befits the venue,” says Lee.
The festival will focus on being
representative of Asia and not just
Korea or Busan.
The centre’s ‘Big Roof’ is going
up later this month, and starting
this year, the opening film will be
screened in the centre’s indooroutdoor area. “I remember the first
time the outdoor screen went up, for
Busan’s inaugural opening night. It
was an emotional moment. When
the opening ceremony takes place
in the new festival venue, it will be a
similar new start for the festival, and
I have every confidence it will be a
tremendous success,” smiles Kim.
Jean Noh
Convergence Entertainment
has Nuptials with Astro Shaw
By Liz Shackleton
Los Angeles-based production
company Convergence Entertainment is set to co-produce supernatural horror feature Nuptials Of
The Dead with Malaysian film
conglomerate Astro Shaw.
The Chinese-language feature
is written and to be directed by
Maya Lim based on her short film
about the Chinese ancient practice of ‘ghost marriages’. The story
revolves around a young woman
who searches for a ghost husband
for her dead daughter’s spirit, only
to have a curse placed on them.
Hong Kong-based Distribution
Workshop will handle interna-
tional sales on the project which is
scheduled to start production in
the third quarter of this year. Tim
Kwok and Gayatri Su-Lin Pillai are
the main producers on the film,
with Lee Tae-hun of Korea’s Opus
Pictures as executive producer.
Convergence’s recent production Vampire, directed by Shunji
Iwai, was selected for both the
Sundance and Berlin film festivals. The company also recently
wrapped Malaysian director Dain
Said’s action film Bunohan, which
is being sold at Filmart by Easternlight Films. Astro Shaw has
also boarded Bunohan as a partner and regional distributor.
REVIEWS
Edited by Mark Adams [email protected]
HKIFF in brief
Madame X
International Premiere/Midnight Heat. Dir:
Lucky Kuswandi. Indonesia. 2010. 102mins
The delightfully colourful Madame X is a transvestite action comedy, starring Amink as both
hairstylist Adam and as Madame X — wearing
a blonde wig and Catwoman outfight — who
battles the ultra-conservative group BOGEM
with camp zeal. With its clumsy fight scenes
and cheesy CGI, the film succeeds as a wacky
niche effort, but it is made with such energy
and exuberance that it should feature prominently on the festival circuit.
Mark Adams
Int’l sales Kalyana Shira Films, www.
kalyanashira.com
Lumpinee
Asian Premiere/Humanitarian Awards for
Documentaries. Dir: Chira Wichaisuthikul. Thai.
2010. 95mins
A fascinating journey into the lives of the
young boys and girls who live and train in
Muay Thai — or Thai kickboxing — at
Saknirunrak camp in Trang, watched over by
chief trainer Uncle Sak (“tough but kind”, as
one youngster describes him). They dream of
the fame and — more importantly — fortune
to be gained should they reach Bangkok’s
Lumpinee Boxing Stadium. Chira Wichaisuthikul’s impressively shot film — partly funded
by the IDFA documentary festival — is a
thoughtful and powerful story of how impoverished youngsters chase their dreams.
Mark Adams
Sales contact Banphot Wudhiprecha,
[email protected]
Sacrifice
Gala Premiere. Dir/scr: Chen Kaige. Chi. 2010.
127mins
Chinese cinema’s elder statesman Chen Kaige
casts an eye back in time to his country’s Yuan
period — prior to the Warring States era so
beloved of mainland directors — for a traditional revenge drama distinguished by strong
performances from leads Ge You and Wang
Xueqi. Tightly plotted despite its 127-minute
running time, this tale of infanticide and
revenge is low on the action demanded by followers of the genre, but Sacrifice could win over
regional audiences thanks to its compelling
leads and engrossing script. The first half-hour
alone, involving a masterfully staged assassination plot, is a return to form for Chen, though
theatrical action outside Asia seems a long shot.
Fionnuala Halligan
Int’l sales Arclight/Easternlight,
www.arclightfilms.com
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Hi, Fidelity
Review by Edmund Lee
Desperate housewives go on pleasure-seeking trips
which spiral hopelessly out of control in this stylistic throwback to early 1990s Hong Kong B-movies.
With its neurotic characters’ fluid sexuality, kitsch
score and melodramatic plot developments, Hi,
Fidelity plays like a low-rent Almodovar picture
which has forgotten the need for an emotional core
amid its sensationalistic overdrive.
Marking the screen return of 1980s movie
actress Pat Ha (An Amorous Woman Of Tang
Dynasty) this directorial effort by Calvin Poon — a
Cantopop lyricist, football commentator, screenwriter and one-time film director (1986’s Kiss Me
Goodbye) — starts out as a character drama centred
around three unhappily married middle-aged
Hong Kong women, but gradually turns into fullon B-movie mode.
While limited theatrical release in Asian countries (especially those in which Hong Kong cinema
was a box-office draw in the 1990s) is possible, festival play will likely only arise at those with a special affinity to Chinese-language films.
On learning at a women’s association meeting of
her husband’s infidelity, disenchanted housewife
Mrs Man (Ha) is whisked away to the city of Shenzhen by three of her peers, Mrs Ma (Michelle Ye),
Mrs Ho (Carrie Ng) and a 20-something beauty
(Bonnie Xian). While starting out as a drama on
married women asserting their sexuality, any illusion of female empowerment goes out of the window as the protagonists grow increasingly
obsessed with Bill (pop idol William Chan), a gigolo at the club they visit.
Under the script by Poon and Yeeshan Yang, Hi,
Fidelity supports its unusual premise with some
intriguing performances in its first half.
In what might at first be misunderstood as a hint
to the film’s experimental edge, the earlier sections
of Hi, Fidelity are punctuated by grainy monochrome shots which are eventually revealed to be
part of a plot twist that barely registers: these shots
are supposed to be footage taken by detectives as
part of an investigation by Mrs Man’s husband into
his wife’s private life. The casting of semi-retired pop
singer George Lam as the husband is one of the
many subtle nods to the film’s retro aesthetics, which
also include a Cantonese ballad on the soundtrack
late in the film, complete with Chinese-only subtitles
for its lyrics — a common practice of early 1990s
Hong Kong cinema.
World Premiere
HK. 2011. 91mins
Director Calvin Poon
Production companies
Wide China Creation Ltd,
Mei Ah Films Production
Co Ltd, Local Production
Ltd
International sales Mei Ah
Entertainment, www.
meiah.com
Producers Maria Wu, Lee
Kwok-hing, Ng Kin-hung
Executive producers Tong
Hing-chi, Charley Zhuo Wu
Screenplay Calvin Poon,
Yeeshan Yang
Cinematography Ardy
Lam, Derek Wan
Editors Chung Wai-chiu,
Hui Wai-kit
Music Da Jamz
Main cast Pat Ha, Michelle
Ye, Carrie Ng, William
Chan, Chapman To, Bonnie
Xian
Milocrorze — A Love Story
World Premiere
Jap. 2011. 90mins
Director-screenplay
Yoshimasa Ishibashi
Production company
Ishibashi Production,
d-rights, KAZUMO
International sales
Sochiku Films, www.
shochikufilms.com
Producers Masataka
Izumi, Toshiharu Ozawa,
Hiroaki Saito
Cinematography
Katsuharu Oyamada
Music Yuko Ikoma, Kosuke
Shimizu, Osamu Kubota
Main cast Takayuki
Yamada, Maiko, Anna
Ishibashi, Seijun Suzuki,
Mieko Harada
Reviewed by Mark Adams
Milocrorze — A Love Story is a wacky feast of surreal
storylines, vibrant colours, outlandish performances and shimmering sexuality. Almost impossible to define — it has samurai fights, oddball
fantasies and retro dance scenes — it delivers with
such energy that it is also impossible to take your
eyes off it for fear of missing a beat.
Certainly a challenge for distributors, it could
appeal to those niche outlets which have taken
chances on films from Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories Of Matsuko) or Hitoshi Matsumoto (Big Man Japan, Symbol), but likely falls
outside the mainstream outlets. Festivals could
find it an easy fit for late-night slots.
The film opens in vibrant fantasy style as an
orange-haired boy named Ovreneli Vreneligare
(with a taste for lime-green sweaters and redcheck trousers) falls in love with a strange and
beautiful woman named Milocrorze… he is about
seven and she is at least four times his age. She
takes up with a sleazy gent named Saramandala
Quorenzolich, leaving Ovreneli so distraught that
he covers the resulting hole in his heart with a
saucepan lid.
The film then cuts to the antics of youth counsellor Beeson Kumagai (impressive Takayuki
Yamada, who starred in 13 Assassins), who shouts
out “sound advice to wimps” when young teens
call him for advice about love. Dressed in a tight
white disco suit and stacked shoes, he punctuates
his advice sessions with dance scenes featuring
two bikini-clad beauties.
His story segues into that of a one-eyed wandering Samurai named Tamon (also Yamada) searching for his kidnapped love Yuri, eventually finding
her in a brothel, where he proceeds to fight his way
through a gang of warriors to reach her.
The film then returns to the now grown-up
Ovreneli (Yamada again) running into Milocrorze
once again.
At its heart this is simply a film about falling in
love, but it is presented in a funny post-punk fantasy fashion — as if Tim Burton and Quentin
Tarantino had teamed to make an action-comedyromance. In the strange world of Milocrorze — A
Love Story, virtually anything can happen.
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» Collision Avoidance p8
» Marry Go Round p8
» Basement p8
» Intruders p10
» Crosscurrent p10
Collision Avoidance
Marry Go Round
Basement
L
K
A
Hong Kong-China
Dir: Flora Lau Wan-man
au’s debut feature looks at the similarities between
two characters from opposite ends of China’s social
spectrum — a rich Hong Kong housewife and the
poor mainland driver who crosses the border every day to
work for her. The idea is a continuation of Lau’s short film
Dry Rain, about a Filipina maid and her employer’s son,
which won best film at the Hong Kong Fresh Wave Short
Film Competition in 2009.
In Collision Avoidance, the trophy wife struggles to keep
up a facade of affluence after her husband runs into
financial trouble, while the driver is searching for a way to
smuggle his pregnant wife over the border to give birth in
Hong Kong. Both are trapped by their place in society.
“The tone of the film is essentially drama with black
humour,” explains Lau. “I am paying close attention to the
details of the characters’ lives to portray the normality of
life that could seem absurd at times, depending on the
characters’ emotional state as well as the world and
situation they are in. The film also shows how the
characters can have such different perspectives of each
other compared to the way they want to be seen.”
The film is being produced by Hong Kong-based
Shadow Puppet Productions, established for this project
by producer Flora Goh. Melissa Lee, who is based between
Beijing and Los Angeles, is also attached as a producer.
Goh was previously marketing director of distributor
UIP in Singapore and was associate producer on Autumn
In March, directed by Singapore’s Huang Yiliang. Lee’s
credits include Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance, which
premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The producers have just started financing the film.
Until January this year, Lau was polishing the script at the
Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. Goh says she is looking for
funds, co-producers and a sales agent at HAF.
Liz Shackleton
Taiwan
Dir: Cheng Fen-fen
nown for her romantic comedy Hear Me, which was
the top-grossing local film at the Taiwanese box
office in 2009, Taipei-based Cheng Fen-fen is
returning to the comedy genre for her new project.
With elements of satire and drama, Marry Go Round is
about a country girl who comes to Shanghai to pursue a
career in showbusiness. After being rejected at a number
of auditions, she sets up a ‘husband wanted’ tent on the
street and soon becomes an internet sensation and the
subject of a TV show.
As it is all part of a self-promotion plan, she never takes
her pursuers seriously until she falls for a Hong Kong
man who sends her a love song every day — only to
discover his pursuit of her is also part of a promotional
stunt.
“On one hand, I was intrigued by a kind of
phenomenon caused by the one-child policy. A lot of
young people in mainland China today can’t find a
marriage partner. And they resort to anything to solve the
problem,” says Cheng, who also wants to explore China’s
young poor, who “would give whatever it takes to gain
fame and fortune”.
Marry Go Round will be Cheng’s first mainland
Chinese story and will be shot entirely in China. The film
is produced by Taipei-based James Liu, Beijing-based
Sunday Sun and Chen herself.
Liu’s Joint Entertainment has invested $100,000 in the
film, currently at script stage and budgeted at $1m.
Together with Sunday Sun’s Beijing-based Enterprising
Dragon, the team hopes to find the rest of the $1m budget
at HAF, preferably from Chinese investors and potential
co-production partners.
The cast will be mostly mainland Chinese actors,
though none is confirmed at this stage.
Sen-lun Yu
» Nature p10
» Campus Confidential p13
» Vasco Da Gama p13
» Double Life Of Chinatown p13
China
Dir: Zhao Fei
rt director-turned-filmmaker Zhao Fei is making his
feature debut with a witty black comedy set in
contemporary China.
Taking place predominantly in the basement of a
nightclub, the story will start with two construction
workers waking up drunk and finding an attractive young
woman tied up next to them.
The woman has faked her kidnapping in order to scam
her rich mother — but her plan goes awry and all three are
stuck in the basement as each tries to come out on top.
The girl wants her ransom, one worker wants more
money from the mother and
the other worker finds himself
falling for the girl.
Zhao says he plans to shoot
the film in the summer. “I want
to create a humid and fidgety
feeling in the film, especially
for the basement scenes,” he
Zhao Fei
says. “In a closed environment,
facing the temptation of money
and lust, I want to make people see how these characters
react based on instincts and desires.”
Zhao, whose credits as an art director include Liu Hao’s
Two Great Sheep and Young & Clueless by Tang Danian,
began to direct Chinese-language stage plays in 2007,
such as A Village Of Possibility and Yeshi Of Distant Land.
Basement is at script stage, with Beijing East Light Film
investing a third of the project’s $1.5m budget. Zhao
would like Fan Bingbing to play the leading woman, but
no cast is finalised at this stage.
Chris Liu, producer of Lu Yue’s award-winning 13
Princess Trees and Wang Yuelun’s hit comedy Almost
Perfect will produce.
Sen-lun Yu
‘I want to create
a humid and
fidgety feel in
the film’
Collision avoidance
Marry go round
Basement
Budget $600,000 Finance raised to date None Contact Flora
Goh, Shadow Puppet Productions, [email protected]
Budget $1m Finance raised to date $100,000 Contact James
Liu, Joint Entertainment International, [email protected]
Budget $1.5m Finance raised to date $500,000 Contact
Kate Dai, Beijing East Light Film Co, [email protected]
n 8 Screen International at Filmart/HAF/HKIFF March 22, 2011
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Intruders
Philippines
Dir: Jeffrey Jeturian
D
irector Jeffrey Jeturian is looking to challenge the
mores of the Filipino middle class and the influence
of the church in Intruders. Currently in production,
the project is about a devoutly Catholic middle-class family
who come home from Christmas Eve mass to discover
their house has been ransacked. Recriminations, pent-up
resentments and suspicions explode.
“I got interested in doing the film because it takes a dig
at the warped values of the typical Filipino middle-class
family and raises questions about their religiosity —
particularly their being Catholics,” Jeturian explains.
A director who has worked in a variety of capacities,
from production designer to assistant director, Jeturian’s
credits include The Bet Collector (Kubrador), which won
the Fipresci prize at the Moscow International Film
Festival in 2006 and the Lino Brocka award for best
film at CineManila, and the 1999 social realist film Fetch
A Pail Of Water, which won the NETPAC award at
CineManila.
Earlier this year, Intruders was chosen as one of the five
finalists in the Cinemalaya film festival’s directors’
showcase, a projects competition for directors who have
directed three or more films. It awards each finalist
$11,500 (php500,000) in seed money.
Intruders is shooting in Quezon City in Manila, with the
aim to wrap by the end of March. Jeturian has cast a mix of
film, theatre and non-professional actors including 1970s
matinee idol Tirso Cruz III and Raquel Villavicencio.
The film is produced by Josebeth ‘Joji’ Alonso (The Bet
Collector), Ferdinand Lapuz (Serbis, Kinatay) and Armando
Lao (Tuhog). The project is at HAF looking for funds,
co-producers and sales agents.
Jean Noh
Intruders
Budget $250,000 Finance raised to date $50,000 Cast
attached Tirso Cruz III, Raquel Villavicencio, Jennifer Sevilla,
Julia Clarete, Edgar Allan Guzman Contact Ferdinand Lapuz,
FDL Entertainment, [email protected]
n 10 Screen International at Filmart/HAF/HKIFF March 22, 2011
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Crosscurrent
China
Dir: Yang Chao
T
he recipient of a Camera d’Or special mention at
Cannes for his first feature Passages in 2004, Yang
Chao is preparing to take on a more challenging
journey for his follow-up. Crosscurrent is a love story which
takes place during a boat trip along the Yangtze River from
its estuary in Shanghai to its source in a deep valley near
Tibet and spanning both the richest and poorest areas of
China.
The story centres on a middle-aged poet trying to finish
his maiden voyage transporting cargo along the river.
However, his trip is interrupted by engine failure, river
patrols and encounters with a woman who appears in
every port he visits. Strangely, each time he sees her, the
woman appears to be younger and younger.
Adopting a magic-realist narrative style, Yang will
follow the journey of the poet while also telling the story of
the woman in flashback. He emphasises the fluidity of the
narrative. “I imagine the Yangtze River as a huge dolly
track and the film is shot as we move along the big dolly,”
he explains.
The film will be shot in the style of Chinese ink-brush
paintings, by the renowned cinematographer Mark Lee
Ping-bin, whose credits include Norwegian Wood and In
The Mood For Love. Chinese actor Duan Yihong (Wind
Blast, Hot Summer Days) is on board to play the
protagonist while the producers are in talks with Zhou
Xun to play the lead female character.
Crosscurrent has so far received $140,000 (¤100,000)
from France’s Fonds Sud Cinema and about $909,000
(rmb6m) from Beijing-based Beijing Trend Cultural
Investment. Both will produce the film alongside the Paris
and Shanghai-based Les Petites Lumieres. The producers
aim to raise an additional $750,000 at HAF.
Sen-lun Yu
Crosscurrent
Budget $1.75m-$2m Finance raised to date $1m
Contact Natacha Devillers, Les Petites Lumieres,
[email protected]
Nature
Israel-France
Dir: Yula Gidron
G
idron, a Tel Aviv-based film-maker, wrote the first
draft of Nature at Cinefondation, the residency
programme of the Cannes Film Festival.
The first half of the script follows an 18-year-old girl
who has run away from the army and is travelling alone
through Israel’s nature reserves. The second half follows
her in solitary confinement in military prison after she has
turned herself in. By contrasting the two experiences,
Gidron asks which state is better — to be isolated in nature
or to be alone with yourself — human nature versus pure,
primal nature. At the end of the film, the girl appears to
make a choice by hopping over the prison wall and
returning to the untamed countryside.
Gidron says we will see everything from the perspective
of the lead character: “It will be realistic like a nature
documentary but close to the main character’s point of view.”
She adds that while the film is not political, it will
contain insights into the Israeli psyche in its examination
of a character in isolation. “Israel is very focused on the
power of the group, but that’s not always a good thing,
especially for younger people,” Gidron explains. “Our
society doesn’t let individuality bloom.”
Though this is Gidron’s first feature after studying film
at the progressive Beit Berl Art Academy, she has attracted
the attention of experienced producers — Fabio Conversi
of France’s Babe Films, who discovered her while she was
at Cinefondation, and Yochanan Kredo and Eilon
Ratzkovsky of Israel’s July August Productions. Conversi’s
many credits include Michele Placido’s Vallanzasca and
Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo, while July August produced The
Band’s Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin, among other films.
Gidron says she recently completed a draft of the script
with which she is satisfied, and during HAF the producers
will be looking for funds, co-producers and a sales agent.
Liz Shackleton
Nature
Budget $900,000 Finance raised to date None Contact
Yochanan Kredo, July August Productions, [email protected]
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Taiwan
Dir: Lai Chun-yu
P
reviously a visual-effects director whose work on Jay
Chou’s Secret won him a Golden Horse award for
visual effects in 2007, Lai Chun-yu made his
directorial debut in 2009 with Ayu, a modern retelling of
Alice In Wonderland set in Taipei. The film impressed his
producer Su Chao-pin, who is reteaming with the director
on Campus Confidential, a romantic comedy with a surreal
twist.
“Working with Lai, I find that he has solid training in
storyboarding and he is well-versed in cinematic
languages,” says Su, director of Reign Of Assassins and
founder of Unit 9 Pictures, which is producing Campus
Confidential.
The film tells the story of aspiring law student Kitty,
who has a vision of the lake at her school drying up,
before an ugly man emerges and expresses his love for
her. Kitty is told by everyone around her that she is cursed
to end up with this person, but her efforts to avoid this
seemingly fated relationship only bring the man further
into her life.
“In Taiwan, campus love stories have been a popular
genre. I’ve been thinking about how I can make a different
kind of campus love story,” explains Lai. “In a way, this is
intended to be a love story exploring the battle between
reason and superstition and I will present this concept
with black humour.”
Lai is looking to cast Kwai Lun-mei (Secret, All About
Women) as Kitty and popular Taiwanese singer Crowd Lu
as the ugly man, though neither are confirmed.
The script for the project is complete and the project has
received $140,000 from the Taiwanese government’s
Subsidy for Film Production. Unit 9 Pictures is looking for
finance and co-production partners at HAF and aims to
start shooting in August.
Sen-lun Yu
Vasco Da Gama
India
Dir: Santosh Sivan
I
ndian film-maker Santosh Sivan is introducing an
international version of his upcoming historical epic
Urumi to potential investors and sales agents at HAF.
One of the biggest films ever made in Malayalam, the
language of the south Indian state of Kerala where Sivan
was born, Urumi is a fictional account of an attempt by a
young warrior and a Muslim princess in the 16th century
to kill Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama.
“Of course Western people think he discovered India, but
for us he was an invader,” Sivan explains. “When he arrived
in India, he committed atrocities against the Muslim
traders who were already very active in the region.”
The local version of the film features big local stars,
songs and battle sequences, and showcases Kalaripayattu,
an Indian martial art fought with spears, shields and a
long flexible sword — known as the urumi.
For the international version, Sivan is removing the
songs and introducing a Western character who comes to
present-day Kerala to research Kalari and stumbles across
the story of the assassination attempt on Da Gama. US actor
Alexx O’Nell plays the Western character and the young Da
Gama, while the UK’s Robin Pratt plays the older Da Gama.
Indian stars Prithviraj and Genelia D’Souza head the cast.
Both versions of the film are being produced by August
Cinema, the company Sivan has formed with Prithviraj,
producer Mubina Rattonsey and businessman Shaji
Nadesan. While the Indian version was financed locally, the
producers are looking for completion funds and distributors
for the international version, of which around 60% has
already been shot. Sivan’s previous films, including The
Terrorist, Before The Rains and Tahaan, have all been
distributed widely outside India. Before The Rains was
co-produced by US-based Echo Lake Entertainment, which
may also be involved in the international version of Urumi.
Liz Shackleton
Double Life Of
Chinatown
Thailand
Dir: Nithiwat Tharatorn
T
hai director Nithiwat Tharatorn’s Double Life Of
Chinatown was inspired by the sprawling Chinatown
in Bangkok, where he began thinking about the
differences between Chinese and Chinese-Thai identity.
The heroine of the film is an ethnic Chinese woman
raised in Thailand who goes to Shanghai for a year to work
and remove herself from the pressures of her affluent and
traditional family, who expect her to marry the man they
choose.
According to Tharatorn, the film is “a complex story
of love and tragedy [about] a Thai-Chinese woman in
love with both a Chinese guy in Shanghai and a Thai guy
who resides in Bangkok’s Yaowarat Chinatown. Regardless
of whether it’s Thai or Chinese culture, this is a story of
taboo love.”
Tharatorn co-directed the coming-of-age drama My
Girl, which became an award-winning hit in 2003, the
romantic comedy Seasons Change (2006) and teen drama
Dear Galileo (2009). His previous films were all produced
by Thailand’s GMM Tai Hub, whose credits include 4BIA
and BTS: Bangkok Traffic (Love) Story.
Double Life Of Chinatown’s producer is Yongyoot
Thongkongthoon, head of GMM Tai Hub’s international
department and a director and producer whose credits
include My Girl, Iron Ladies and 4BIA.
Tharatorn is currently developing the script, with plans
to shoot in Shanghai and Bangkok. “I worked overseas
when I was shooting Dear Galileo but still mainly with a
Thai crew. I hope Double Life Of Chinatown will be an
opportunity to work with a local crew and cast in China,”
says the director. The production will be looking for funds
and co-producers at HAF.
Jean Noh
Campus confidential
Vasco Da Gama
Double Life Of Chinatown
Budget $650,000 Finance raised to date $140,000 Contact
Jimmy Huang, Unit 9 Pictures, [email protected]
Budget $3m Finance raised to date $2m Contact Santosh
Sivan, August Cinema, [email protected]
Budget $2m Finance raised to date $1m Contact Ruedee
Pholthaweechai, GMM Tai Hub, [email protected]
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FeatureFocus
n Distribution in Hong Kong
Step Up 3D was Hong Kong’s top independent foreign film in 2010
Japan’s Confessions was a hit in Hong Kong
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Packed houses
Will pre-buying international projects become more popular with Hong Kong distributors as they fight for
screens and good-quality product in this lively market? Liz Shackleton reports
H
ong Kong, with its annual box office of
around $172m, is dwarfed by the mainland China market, but it remains a territory where independent films can be
sold freely without import quotas or major censorship concerns.
It is also a vibrant market — in 2010 box
office grew by around 13% in line with a growth
trajectory stretching back four years. But as in
many other Asian markets, the growth is mostly
due to new multiplex openings and premium
ticket prices for 3D movies. Local distributors
say it has become tougher than ever to release
independent foreign films.
Their challenges range from local market
conditions to global issues such as a reduction in
the volume of available product. “It’s becoming
much more difficult to find good independent
movies,” says Edko Films’ general manager of
sales and acquisitions Audrey Lee. “The US studios have cut back on production, so they’re buying independent product to fill the pipeline.”
Back in their home market, distributors struggle to secure screens as exhibitors lean towards
3D tentpoles with higher ticket prices. Even distributors affiliated to one of Hong Kong’s four
major cinema chains find this a problem. “Six to
eight pictures are opening each weekend so everyone is struggling with the limited number of
screens,” says Belinda Tang, head of Hong Kong
operations for Orange Sky Golden Harvest. “Of
course we can use our own theatres but we still
need to book into other circuits.”
Another common gripe is the sorry state of
ancillary markets: video is all but dead in Hong
Kong, the territory only has one major free-toair television buyer in TVB and pay-TV is also
limited. “We can only get second window payTV from companies like Cable TV and [IPTV
player] Now TV which is two and a half years
after theatrical,” says Deltamac Hong Kong’s
senior distribution and marketing manager
Gilky Wan. “The first window is retained by
regional broadcasters who prefer Asian or US
studio films.”
Meanwhile, marketing costs continue to rise
in this small but highly evolved media market.
“Options are limited because there are no new
outlets, but there’s a lot of media so you can’t
just focus on one,” says Golden Scene managing
director Winnie Tsang.
Yet despite this catalogue of woes, there is a
surprisingly high number of distributors in Hong
Kong and new players keep emerging. Last year,
veteran producer and property developer Hsu
Feng launched Tomson International Entertainment Distribution, which aims to be involved in
film financing, international sales and talent
management, in addition to distribution.
Such a competitive environment is naturally a
boon for international sales companies selling
into Hong Kong — especially those with independent 3D product — and prices are going
through the roof. Three of last year’s top 10 independent foreign films were 3D releases, including the top two: Step Up 3D and Resident Evil:
Afterlife (see chart, right). However audiences are
becoming more aware of the amount of 3D each
n 14 Screen International at Filmart/HAF/HKIFF March 22, 2011
‘Everyone is
struggling with
the limited
number of
screens’
Belinda Tang, Orange
Sky Golden Harvest
film really contains and exhibitors have been
reducing ticket prices for some releases.
Outside the 3D craze, recognisable franchises,
such as the Twilight series, and big star vehicles
continue to lead the way. Times are more difficult
than ever for arthouse or non English-language
product, despite the fact Hong Kong has historically had a discerning audience. The territory
now only has three cinemas which screen specialty product — Broadway’s Cinematheque and
Palace IFC and the Grand, co-owned by MCL
and Shaw Brothers.
Even mainstream Japanese and Korean films
— once a mainstay of the Hong Kong box office
Hong Kong Top 10 independent foreign films, 2010
Film (origin)
1 Step Up 3D (US)
2 Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (Ger-Fr UK)
3 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (US)
4 Aftershock (Chi)
5 Salt (US)
6 Confessions (Jap)
7 The Expendables (US)
8 True Legend (Chi)
9 Piranha 3D (US)
10 The Borrowers (Jap)
Distributor
Release
date
Gross
Golden Scene
Aug 12
$2.5m
Edko Films
Sept 30
$2.4m
Golden Scene
June 30
$2m
Media Asia Distribution
July 22
$1.95m
Anytime Pictures
July 22
$1.5m
Emperor & UA Films
Oct 14
$1.4m
Panorama & Golden Scene
Aug 26
$1.35m
Edko Films
Feb 11
$1.3m
Sundream Motion Pictures
Sept 9
$1.2m
Intercontinental
Dec 25
$975,000
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DELTAMAC (HK)
Yvonne Chuang
Owned by Taiwan’s CMC Entertainment,
Deltamac (HK) handles mainstream
product, such as the Saw series, upscale
English-language titles, including Knowing
and The Young Victoria, and occasional
foreign-language films. The company is
also a leading video distributor.
Upcoming titles The Lincoln Lawyer,
Haywire, The Hungry Rabbit Jumps,
Oceans 3D
Who to know Gilky Wan, senior
distribution and marketing manager
[email protected]
Belinda Tang
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English and foreign-language titles. It
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Upcoming titles Coriolanus, Blue
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2010 matches to cinemas in Hong Kong.
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Carnage
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Japan has a huge cultural influence on Hong
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EDKO FILMS
handles a wide range of indie product,
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Bill Kong’s Edko is a leading buyer of
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Confessions, released by UA Films. “It did well
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ASIAN FILM MARKET
2011
WHat’S on
SeminarS
and eventS
tueSday 22
9:00am
Hong Kong 3D Stereo
Digital Cinema anD D.i.
WorK SHoWCaSe
Venue Theatre 1, Hong
Kong Convention &
Exhibition Centre
Open to By invitation only
Hong Kong Film neW
aCtion — ‘BeyonD Box
oFFiCe’ SympoSium
Venue Bauhinia Room,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
A high-level conference
which examines the
changing shape of the
Asian film industry
and the business
opportunities created by
such changes.
No longer simply
‘ancillary revenues’,
these opportunities
include expanded
possibilities in games,
video-on-demand
and mobile media.
Seminars will also look
at prime examples
of film-business
entrepreneurship in
Asia, the marketability
of Chinese-language
cinema and the everevolving role of Hong
Kong.
10:00am
europe/CHina: more
Film Co-proDuCtion
For a neW Step oF
Co-operation
PANEL DISCUSSION
Venue Studio, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
Speakers
n Helen Davis Jayalath,
senior analyst of Screen
Digest (London)
n Chow Keung,
producer at Xstream
Pictures (China)
n Chu Chen On,
executive producer of
October Pictures Ltd
n Isabelle Glachant,
producer of Chinese
Shadows (France-China)
n Kirsten Niehuus,
managing director
of Film Funding
Medienboard Berlin
Brandenburg GmbH
(Germany)
WorlDWiDe premiere
‘9D muSiC — muSiC tHat
Can move’
Venue Event Room,
Hall 1, Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition
Centre
10:15am
tHe 4tH Digital viSualeFFeCtS Summit
Venue Theatre 1, Hong
Kong Convention &
Exhibition Centre
11:30am
tHe miraCle pioneereD
By BuBBle mon in
Cultural inDuStry
Venue Stage, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
12:30Pm
preSS ConFerenCe For
till DeatH Do uS part
Venue Studio, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
Open to By invitation only
1:00Pm
neW Wave Forum on
CHineSe Film genre: City/
love ‘a BeautiFul liFe’
Venue Event room,
Hall 1, Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition
Centre
taiWan Cinema party
Venue Dynasty Club
Open to By invitation
only
Organised by the Taipei
Film Commission.
1:30Pm
unijapan entertainment
Forum — a meeting
BetWeen proDuCerS:
Simulating an
international
Co-proDuCtion anD
ConSiDering HoW eaCH
Country Can Support
tHe Film
Venue Meeting room
S228, Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition
Centre
Speakers
n Shogo Tomiyama,
secretary-general of
Toho/Japan Academy
Prize Association
n Tomoko Katahara,
general manager/
producer of J&K
Entertainment Inc
n Jonathan Hyong-joon
Kim, CEO, president of
Dyne Film
n Shan Dongbing,
producer at
Delight (Beijing)
Communication Co
n Mathew Tang, head
of productions for Edko
Films
n Li-fen Chien, producer
at Chi & Company.
2:00Pm
aSian Film proDuCerS
Forum
Venue Stage, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
Session one:
2:00pm-3:30pm
‘Structural comparison
between Hollywood and
Asian Producing’
Hollywood film
producing is greatly
different from producing
Asian films. What
are their competitive
advantages? With the
trend of international
co-operation and
co-productions, how
could Hollywood and
Asian film-makers work
together to achieve the
greatest synergy?
Renowned producers
and scholars from
Hong Kong, mainland
China and Taiwan will
analyse the new trends
around producing and
examine the crossregion co-operation
opportunities around the
world.
Session two:
3:30pm-5:00pm
‘A New Era for Asian
Films: Co-production and
Investment’
The rapid economic
growth puts China
under the world
spotlight; the film
market is no exception.
The box-office revenue
of mainland China rose
tremendously, from
$944m (rmb6.2bn)
in 2009 to more than
$1.52bn (rmb10bn) in
2010.
The enormous
growth in box office
led to the increasing
capital investment
and industry players
from Asia entering in
the Chinese mainland
film market. Some of
them have achieved
great success by
overcoming various
challenges on film
production, capital
return, manpower
management and
government policy.
Speakers on the
panel will share
their experiences
on investing in
co-production films
and examine the new
era of Asian films.
2:00Pm
‘give me Five’ 3D movie
preSS ConFerenCe
Venue Studio, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
2:00Pm
KoFiC Happy Hour
Venue Kofic Booth (1DC13), Hall 1, Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition
Centre
Networking event
organised by the Korean
Film Council.
3:00Pm
a CHineSe gHoSt Story
preSS ConFerenCe
Venue Event Room,
Hall 1, Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition
Centre
Open to By invitation
only
4:30Pm
3D Sex anD Zen: extreme
eCStaSy
Venue Event room,
Hall 1, Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition
Centre
A reworking of 1991
Hong Kong cult
sensation Sex And Zen,
3D Sex And Zen: Extreme
Ecstasy is being widely
billed as the world’s first
3D sex film.
5:00Pm
yulu preSS ConFerenCe
Venue Studio, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
& Exhibition Centre
6:00Pm
tHe aSia rainBoW tv
aWarDS CoCKtailS
Venue Hall 5E, Hong
Kong Convention &
Exhibition Centre
Open to By invitation
only
7:30Pm
tHe aSia rainBoW tv
aWarDS
Venue Hall 5E, Hong
Kong Convention &
Exhibition Centre
Open to By invitation only
The work of outstanding
television makers and
television productions
across Asia will be
recognised at the first
Asia Rainbow TV
Awards ceremony. It
is hoped the event,
organised by the Hong
Kong Televisioners
Association (HKTVA),
will serve as a
networking platform for
the industry.
New Advances in Digital Production
– What’s Next for Visual and 3D Effects
This panel will examine advances in digital production in recent years, such as
shooting in 3D and how 2D-3D conversion in post-production brings down the
cost on digital special effects. Trends in visual effects will also be discussed.
Moderator
Mike Goodridge, editor, Screen International
Panel Speakers AK Madhavan, chief executive officer, Crest Animation Studios Ltd
Michael Lake, chief executive officer, Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios
Pierre Escande, director of commercial production, BUF
Rick Dean, senior vice-president, THX
n 18 Screen International at Filmart/HAF/HKIFF March 22, 2011
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Date
March 23, 2011
Time 13:30 - 15:30
Venue Stage, Hall 1, Hong Kong
Convention and Exhibition Centre
screenings
9:45AM
Compiled by Paul Lindsell [email protected]
9:30am-6pm, Meeting room N102-N103, HKCEC
Gantz
(Japan) Action/
Adventure, Sci-fi,
130mins. Toho. Dir:
Shinsuke Sato. Key cast:
Kazunari Ninomiya.
When a college student
and his friend are run
down by an oncoming
train, they are transported
to an apartment with
others who should also
be dead.
Meeting room N211-N212,
HKCEC
Sound Of Noise
(Sweden) Musical,
102mins. Wild Bunch.
Dir: Ola Simonsson,
Johannes Stjarne
Nilsson. Key cast:
Bengt Nilsson, Sanna
Persson Halapi, Magnus
Borjeson.
Police detective Amadeus
Warnebring was born
into a family of illustrious
musicians — yet loathes
music with a passion.
His life is thrown into
chaos when a band of
crazy musicians decide
to perform a musical
apocalypse using the city
as their orchestra.
Meeting room N101B,
HKCEC
The First Beautiful
Thing
(Italy) Drama, 122mins.
Wild Bunch. Dir: Paolo
Virzi. Key cast: Valerio
Mastandrea, Micaela
Ramazzotti, Stefania
Sandrelli.
Theatre 2, HKCEC
10:00AM
Blood Out
(US) Action/Adventure,
89mins. Cinema
Management Group.
Dir: Jason Hewitt. Key
cast: Luke Goss, Vinnie
Jones, Curtis Jackson.
Meeting room N209-N210,
HKCEC
Grey Skies
(US) Horror, 84mins.
Moving Pictures
Film & TV. Dir: Kai
Blackwood. Key cast:
Michael Cornacchia,
Thela Brown, Marie Del
Marco.
A group of college friends
rent a beautiful cabin in
the woods. As the sun sets
on their first day, bright
9:30am Looking For Love, Artop
International Co.
9:30am Beijing New Century
Media Co
9:45am Food Adventures On The
Silk Road (I-II), China Food TV
10:00am Pleasant Goat And
Big Big Wolf — Wild Musings,
Creative Power Entertaining Co
10:15am Shanghai International
Cultural Service & Trade
Platform, Shanghai Oriental
Huiwen International Cultural
Service Trading Co
10:30am Fill Me With Love,
Agogo Entertainment
10:45am TV trailer, Xenia
Media Co
10:45am The Four Brothers Of
Peking, Zhejiang Huace Film &
TV Co
flashes of light announce
the arrival of mysterious
creatures.
Meeting room N206-N207,
HKCEC
Life Is Wonderful
(Taiwan) Children’s,
78mins. Joint
Entertainment
International Inc.
Dir: Looloo Lu.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
Meek’s Cutoff
(US) 104mins. Dir: Kelly
Reichardt. Key cast:
Michelle Williams, Bruce
Greenwood, Will Patton.
The year is 1845, the
earliest days of the
Oregon Trail, and a
wagon team has hired
mountain man Stephen
Meek to guide them over
the Cascade Mountains.
Meeting room N111-N112,
HKCEC
The Mill And The Cross
(Poland) Drama, 91mins.
Wild Management. Dir:
Lech Majewski. Key cast:
Rutger Hauer, Michael
York, Charlotte Rampling.
Meeting room N109-N110,
HKCEC
One Nation, Two Cities
(Hong Kong) 100mins.
Ah Suet has been fighting
for her right of abode for
30 years despite all her
family members being
Hong Kong citizens.
Meeting room N202-N203,
HKCEC
n 20 Screen International at Filmart/HAF/HKIFF March 22, 2011
11:15am Patch Pillows; Mega
Minimals; Buttercup, Agogo
Entertainment
11:15am TV programme, All
Rights Entertainment
12:00pm Happy Fruit Village,
Astoria Films Distribution
12:15pm The Hong Kong Nobles,
ATV Enterprises
12:30pm Babo Pan-mily, Century
Origin PTE
12:30pm Ronaldinho Gaucho’s
Team, Cheers Media
12:45pm The Ultimate Winner,
Cutfit Productions
1:00pm 3d Boujou, E4 Education
1:15pm The Piano In A Factory;
Gallants, Golden Network Asia
1:30pm East Meets West, Hong
Kong TV International Media
Group
Tomboy
(France) Drama,
80mins. Films
Distribution. Dir: Céline
Sciamma. Key cast: Zoe
Heran, Malonn Levana,
Jeanne Disson.
Meeting room N104-N105,
HKCEC
Wild Strawberries
(China) 100mins. Beijing
Film Academy. Dir:
Chan Bing. Key cast:
Zhou Chuchu, Shang
Yubo, Dong Jiang.
Agnes b. CINEMA! Hong
Kong Arts Centre
11:30AM
Kiss Me Again
(Italy) Drama, 139mins.
Fandango. Dir: Gabriele
Muccino. Key cast:
Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria
Puccini, Pierfrancesco
Favino.
Meeting room N104-N105,
HKCEC
11:45AM
Death And Glory In
Changde
(China) 85mins. Hunan
Chucheng Film Culture
Production Co. Dir:
Shen Dong. Key cast:
Lv Liangwei, An Yixuan,
Yuan Wenkang.
Meeting room N202-N203,
HKCEC
Detective K: Secret Of
Virtuous Window
(Korea) 115mins.
Showbox/Mediaplex.
Meeting room N109-N110,
HKCEC
1:45pm Painted Skin, Join Time
2:00pm Iron Child, Leo
Enterprises
2:00pm Radio Television
Hong Kong Highlights, Radio
Television Hong Kong
2:15pm Life In The World Of Dao,
Times Production
2:45pm The Advitor — The
Showcase Reel, The Advitor
2:45pm Those Days In An Epoch,
Universe Films Distribution
Company
3:00pm Xd Communications
— Showreel 2011, XD
Communications
3:15pm Cookin’idol I! My! Mine!,
Asatsu-DK Inc
3:30pm Freaky Bungee ­— The
Jump Of The Determined Soul,
CREi Inc.
12:00PM
The Extra Man
(US) Comedy, 107mins.
Wild Bunch. Dir: Shari
Springer Berman, Robert
Pulcini. Key cast: Kevin
Kline, Paul Dano, Katie
Holmes.
Follows a lonely dreamer
who fancies himself as
the hero of an F Scott
Fitzgerald novel.
Meeting room N101B,
HKCEC
Forever
(Hong Kong) Romantic
comedy, 90mins. Add Oil
Films. Dir: Wee Li Lin.
Key Cast: Mo Tzu Yi,
Joanna Dong.
Meeting room N111-N112,
HKCEC
The Frankenstein
Syndrome
(US) Horror, 88mins.
American World
Pictures. Dir: Sean
Tretta. Key cast: Ed
Lauter, Tiffany Shepis,
Louis Mandylor.
Meeting room N206-N207,
HKCEC
The Long Goodbye
(Taiwan) Documentary,
105mins. Joint
Entertainment
International Inc.
Dir: Yang Li-Chou.
Close observation on
a handful of elderly
people who suffer from
dementia.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
3:45pm Hokkaido Broadcasting
selection, Hokkaido
Broadcasting Co
4:00pm My Ordinary Life,
Kadoakwa Shoten Co
4:15pm Activity Guide — So In
Love With Hokkaido, Sapporo
Television Broadcasting Co
4:30pm The Pleiades, Showgate
Inc
4:45pm Beauty Queen, GMA
Worldwide Incorporated
5:00pm Dams — The Lethal
Water Bombs, BizTV Network
5:15pm Flesh Air: Sexy Gals,
Hot Cars, Multivisionnaire
Pictures
5:45pm Last Rites Of Ransom
Pride, Screen Media
5:45-6pm Tangled Hair, Vietnam
Media Corporation
My Blind Uncle
(Taiwan) Drama,
100mins. Creative
Century Entertainment
Co. Dir: George Hsin.
Key cast: Lin Fusheng,
Deng Yunting.
Meeting room N209-N210,
HKCEC
12:15PM
The Perfect Host
(US) Horror, 94mins.
Cinema Management
Group. Dir: Nick
Tomnay. Key cast: David
Hyde Pierce, Clayne
Crawford, Nathaniel
Parker.
Warwick Wilson is the
consummate host. John
Taylor is the career
criminal. John has robbed
a bank and needs to get
off the streets. He finds
himself on Warwick’s
doorstep posing as a
friend of a friend who’s
been mugged.
Meeting room N211-N212,
HKCEC
12:30PM
Little Big Panda
(China) Animation,
90mins. China Film
Group Corporation.
Dir: Greg Manwaring.
Theatre 1, HKCEC
1:30PM
The Law Of Attraction
(China) Comedy, horror,
90mins. Dadi Century
Film Distribution. Dir:
Tianyu Zhao. Key cast:
Karen Mok, Zhang
Jingchu, Guo Tao.
A portrait of modern
Chinese love.
Meeting room N202-N203,
HKCEC
1:45PM
Partners: The Movie Ii
(Japan) Drama, 119mins.
Toei Company. Dir: Seiji
Izumi. Key cast: Yutaka
Mizutani, Mitsuhiro
Oikawa.
Meeting room N111-N112,
HKCEC
2:00PM
A Film Production
Project For Young
Filmmakers Section 1
(Japan) Romantic,
drama, Sci-fi, 75mins.
Dir: Abe Saori, Takahashi
Nazuki, Izuki Hajime,
Tazaki Megumi, Kimura
Ariko, Kobayashi Gaku.
Meeting room N206-N207,
HKCEC
American Translation
(France) Romantic
drama, 109mins. Zelig
Films Distribution. Dir:
Jean-Marc Barr.
Meeting room N109-N110,
HKCEC
The Holding
(UK) Horror, 93mins.
AV Pictures. Dir: Susan
Jacobson. Key cast:
Vincent Regan, Kierston
Wareing.
Cassie Naylor has
a horrific secret —
eight months ago she
murdered and buried
her husband after
discovering he had been
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abusing their teenage
daughter. Now running
the farm alone with
her two girls, times
are tough and Cassie
struggles to hold home
and family together.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
Little Black Dress
(Korea) Drama, 120mins.
CJ Entertainment.
Dir: Huh In-moo.
Key cast: Yun Eun-hye,
Park Han-byul, Cha
Ye-ryun.
The story of four friends
in their 20s — their lives
full of hope and anxiety
— and their struggle
to adjust to the harsh
realities of life.
Meeting room N104-N105,
HKCEC
Oba, The Last Samurai
(Hong Kong) Drama,
128mins. Toho.
Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama,
Cellin Gluck.
Key cast: Kenichi
Matsuyama.
The Battle of Saipan was
one of the fiercest in the
Second World War Pacific
campaign. Outnumbered
by US forces, the Japanese
resorted to suicide attacks.
However, a soldier called
Oba outwitted 45,000
Americans with a force of
just of 47 men.
Meeting room N211-N212,
HKCEC
Kuk Tak Chiu. Key cast:
Louis Koo, Sandra Ng
Kwan Yue, Chapman To.
Theatre 2, HKCEC
2:30PM
The Big Picture
(France) Drama,
115mins. Europacorp.
Dir: Eric Lartigau.
Key Cast: Duris Romain,
Fois Marina, Branka
Katic.
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Under the hawthorn
tree
(Chinese mainland)
115mins. Edko Films
Ltd.
Meeting room N101A,
HKCEC
3:30PM
A Film Production
Project For Young
Filmmakers Section 2
(Japan) Action/
Adventure, Drama,
Horror, 75mins. Dir:
Kataoka Shoh, Hirohara
Satoru, Yamakawa
Kohei, Yoshino Kohei,
James Mcfay.
Meeting room N206-N207,
HKCEC
My Girlhood
(China) Drama, 105mins.
Dir: Feng Zhenzhi. Key
cast: Li Yixiao.
Meeting room N202-N203,
HKCEC
3:45PM
Stormhouse
Revenge A Love Story
(Hong Kong) Action/
Adventure, drama,
91mins. All Rights
Entertainment. Dir:
Wong Ching Po. Key
cast: Juno Mak ChunLung, Sora Aoi, Lau
Wing.
Meeting room N209-N210,
HKCEC
2:15PM
Lope
(Spain) Action/
Adventure, 106mins. Wild
Bunch. Dir: Andrucha
Waddington. Key Cast:
Alberto Ammann, Leonor
Watling, Pilar Lopez De
Ayala.
Meeting room N101B,
HKCEC
Mr And Mrs Incredible
(Hong Kong) 100mins.
We Pictures. Dir: Vincent
(UK) Sci-fi, 89mins.
AV Pictures. Dir: Dan
Turner. Key cast: Katie
Flynn, Patrick Flynn,
Grant Masters.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
4:00PM
Karate-robo Zaborgar
(Japan) Action/
Adventure, 105mins.
Nikkatsu Corporation.
Dir: Noboru Iguchi. Key
cast: Itsuji Itao, Yasuhisa
Furuhara, Mami
Yamasaki.
Following the death of
his scientist father, secretpolice officer Yutaka
Daimon inherits a mighty
robot warrior named
Zaborgar. Zaborgar
assists Daimon in his fight
against Sigma, the evil
organisation responsible
for his father’s death.
Meeting room N111-N112,
HKCEC
Mask Marker
(US) Horror, 93mins.
Screen Media. Dir: Griff
Furst. Key cast: Nikki
Deloach, Stephen Colletti,
Anabella Casanova.
A couple purchase a
19th century plantation
and invite friends for
the weekend. When they
accidentally release a longburied evil, their dream
home is transformed into
a house of horror.
Meeting room N209-N210,
HKCEC
4:15PM
Dancing Ninja
(Korea) Action/
Adventure, 97mins.
CJ Entertainment.
Dir: Kelly Sandefur,
Mitch Klebanoff. Key
cast: Lucas Grabeel,
Kang Jung-hwa, David
Hasselhoff.
Meeting room N109-N110,
HKCEC
Shotgun Love
(Korea) Romantic
comedy, 110mins.
M-Line Distribution.
Dir: Rain Jung. Key cast:
Im Chang-jung, Kim
Gyu-ri.
When Sang-yul spends
a night with his dream
girl, it turns out to be a
nightmare.
Meeting room N104-N105,
HKCEC
4:30PM
Beautiful Lies
(France) Romantic
comedy, 105mins. Wild
Bunch. Dir: Pierre
Salvadori. Key cast:
Audrey Tautou, Nathalie
Baye, Sami Bouajila.
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Cure
(Hong Kong) 94mins.
InD Blue. Dir: Bill
Yip. Key cast: Makara
Supinacharoen, Jirarat
Teachasriprasert, Eric
Chu.
Agnes b. CINEMA! Hong
Kong Arts Centre
Demaison, Armelle
Deutsch.
Meeting room N101B,
HKCEC
Meeting room N202-N203,
HKCEC
6:00PM
The Sun Beaten Path
Silver Fiction
(Japan) Drama, 95mins.
Dir: Yusaku Furuya.
An anthology of fake
documentary films.
Meeting room N211-N212,
HKCEC
5:00PM
(China) 89mins. Beijing
Fang Jin Television
Media Co. Dir: Sonthar
Gyal. Key cast: Yixi
Lanzhou, Luo Houjie.
Meeting room N111-N112,
HKCEC
6:15PM
Amphibious 3d
Battle Of The Brides
(Netherlands) 86mins.
Celsius Entertainment.
Dir: Brian Yuzna. Key
cast: Michael Pare,
Janna Fassaert, Francis
Magee.
A marine research
expedition to the exotic
Sumatran Sea encounters
a supernatural prehistoric
creature.
(Vietnam) Romantic
comedy, 105mins.
Vietnam Media
Corporation. Dir: Victor
Vu. Key cast: Huy Khanh,
Ngoc Diep, Le Khanh.
Theatre 1, HKCEC
The Red Eagle
(Thailand) Action/
adventure, 130mins.
Five Star Production Co.
Dir: Wisit Sasanatieng.
Key cast: Ananda
Everingham, Yarinda
Boonnak, Wannasingha
Prasertkul.
Meeting room N206-N207,
HKCEC
5:30PM
Ifva — 21 Years After
(Hong Kong) 30mins.
Dir: Lo Chun-yip.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
Ifva — Back To Base
(Hong Kong) 19mins.
Dir: Mak Siu-fung, Ho
Ka-chiu.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
Ifva — The Launch
(Hong Kong) 6mins.
Dir: Lam Chi-chung.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
Ifva — Puff The Magic
Dragon
(Hong Kong) 5mins. Dir:
Ho Ka-ho, Tsui Ka-hei.
Meeting room N204-N205,
HKCEC
Second Chance
Stand By Me
(France) Romantic
comedy, 87mins. Wild
Bunch. Dir: Nicolas
Cuche. Key cast: Virginie
Efira, Francois-Xavier
(China) Drama, 95mins.
Shanghai Huayu Film
Co. Dir: Joe Ma. Key
cast: Li Chen, Dong
Xuan, Zheng Kai.
Meeting room N109-N110,
HKCEC
Page One — A year Inside
The New York Times
(Hong Kong)
Documentary, 88mins.
Ealing Studios
International. Dir:
Andrew Rossi.
Meeting room N211-N212,
HKCEC
6:30PM
The Woman
(US) Horror, 108mins.
W2 Media Inc. Dir:
Lucky McKee. Key cast:
Sean Bridgers, Angela
Bettis.
Meeting room N104-N105,
HKCEC
7:00PM
Three
(Germany) Drama,
120mins. The Match
Factory. Dir: Tom
Tykwer. Key cast: Sophie
Rois, Sebastian Schipper,
Devid Striesow.
Meeting room N102-N103,
HKCEC
7:30PM
The Solitude Of Prime
Numbers
(Italy) 118mins. Le
Pacte. Dir: Saverio
Costanzo. Key cast:
Alba Rohrwacher, Luca
Marinelli, Isabella
Rossellini.
Agnes b. CINEMA! Hong
Kong Arts Centre
7:45PM
Saigon Electric
(Vietnam) 103mins.
Dir: Stephane Gauger.
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