Chan Kin-long is a Hong Kong actor known for his roles in Fruit Chan’s “The Midnight After”, Derek Chiu’s “No. 1 Chung Ying Street” as well as the upcoming “The Vintage” by Donna Chu. With “Hand Rolled Cigarette” he gives his directorial debut, which opened the 17th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. It was also the closing film of the 57th Golden Horse Film Festival, where it was nominated for seven awards, including Best Feature Film.
On the occasion of “Hand Rolled Cigarette” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we talk with the actor and director about what inspired the story, the collaboration with experienced actor Gordon Lam and newcomer Bipin Karma as well as the noirish world of the movie.
As the story of “Hand Rolled Cigarette” seems to deal with the idea of loyalty and camaraderie, especially among the soldiers we see in the beginning, why...
On the occasion of “Hand Rolled Cigarette” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we talk with the actor and director about what inspired the story, the collaboration with experienced actor Gordon Lam and newcomer Bipin Karma as well as the noirish world of the movie.
As the story of “Hand Rolled Cigarette” seems to deal with the idea of loyalty and camaraderie, especially among the soldiers we see in the beginning, why...
- 8/19/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong, 20 January 2020 – The Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) today announces 33 projects shortlisted for its 18th edition, featuring a host of top Asian filmmakers as well as 11 first-feature directors.
HAF18 will take place this year from 25 to 27 March at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre alongside the 24th Hong Kong Filmart.
HAF18 received a total of 338 submissions from 17 countries and regions – including, for the first time, a documentary project from Mexico. Some of the project highlights are as follow: Hong Kong: Hong Kong offers a strong lineup of seven locally-flavoured projects, including works by Pang Ho-cheung, Derek Chiu and Ng Kai-chung. Best known for his Love in a Puff trilogy, Pang presents The End, which recounts the story of a psychic medium who seeks help from a dead director for the ending of his unfinished script; Derek Chiu returns after winning the Osaka Asian Film Festival’s Grand Prize with No.
HAF18 will take place this year from 25 to 27 March at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre alongside the 24th Hong Kong Filmart.
HAF18 received a total of 338 submissions from 17 countries and regions – including, for the first time, a documentary project from Mexico. Some of the project highlights are as follow: Hong Kong: Hong Kong offers a strong lineup of seven locally-flavoured projects, including works by Pang Ho-cheung, Derek Chiu and Ng Kai-chung. Best known for his Love in a Puff trilogy, Pang presents The End, which recounts the story of a psychic medium who seeks help from a dead director for the ending of his unfinished script; Derek Chiu returns after winning the Osaka Asian Film Festival’s Grand Prize with No.
- 1/21/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The 18th edition of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum will run alongside Filmart from March 25-27.
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum has announced the 33 projects shortlisted for this year’s edition of the co-production and financing market, including 24 fictional features and nine documentaries.
The selection includes leading Asian filmmakers such as Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Taiwan’s Giddens Ko, Japan’s Naoko Ogigami and Singapore’s Yeo Siew Hua, as well as 11 first-time feature directors.
Seven Hong Kong projects have been selected, including Pang Ho-cheung’s The End, the story of a psychic medium who seeks help from...
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum has announced the 33 projects shortlisted for this year’s edition of the co-production and financing market, including 24 fictional features and nine documentaries.
The selection includes leading Asian filmmakers such as Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Taiwan’s Giddens Ko, Japan’s Naoko Ogigami and Singapore’s Yeo Siew Hua, as well as 11 first-time feature directors.
Seven Hong Kong projects have been selected, including Pang Ho-cheung’s The End, the story of a psychic medium who seeks help from...
- 1/20/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Born in Hong Kong in 1972, Chapman To begun his acting career in television series to subsequently move to cinema in 2000. Since then, he has been working steadily in a mix of comedies and more authorial movies like “Infernal Affairs” I & II, Pang Ho-cheung’s “Isabella”, the “Golden Chicken” series, “Vulgaria” and “Aberdeen”. Due to his support to Hong Kong’s umbrella movement, the Chinese government blacklisted him and he hasn’t been able to work or show his work in Mainland China since.
His directorial debut was “Let’s Eat” in 2016, a Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia co-production and he is now at his second work on the director chair with “The Empty Hands”, a story about falling and finding the strength to get up again.
On the occasion of “The Empty Hands” screening at Far East Film Festival, we speak with him about living with a “sickness”, his black belt...
His directorial debut was “Let’s Eat” in 2016, a Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia co-production and he is now at his second work on the director chair with “The Empty Hands”, a story about falling and finding the strength to get up again.
On the occasion of “The Empty Hands” screening at Far East Film Festival, we speak with him about living with a “sickness”, his black belt...
- 4/13/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Derek Chiu’s ambitious project ” No. 1 Chung Ying Street” started in 2011 when a participant of the 1967 riots asked him if he was interested in developing a script out of his own experience of a 16-year-old boy, arrested for possession of leftist leaflets. What Derek Chiu couldn’t imagine at the time,was the amount of difficulties he was about to experience in the making of the movie. Application for funding was rejected and consequently the fear of China’s disapproval made it really difficult to find private investors and even to cast the actors he wanted. Any actor, actually! The movie – not released in Hong Kong – won the Grand Prix for best picture at the Osaka Asian Film Festival this March, it was presented at Udine Far East Film Festival in April and it will probably circulate in the festival circuit. But before talking about the movie, it is...
- 4/6/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019 gives a Finnish premiere to 18 East and Southeast Asian films
Helsinki Cine Aasia (14.–17.3.2019) is the only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland. It has been organised annually since 2013. This year’s festival presents a wide-range of high quality films from 11 countries.
The opening filmat Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019 is Mori, The Artist’s Habitat by the Japanese director Shuichi Okita. The film is based on the late artist Morikazu Kumagai, who remains highly valued in his home country. Okita draws a slow paced and perceptive portrayal of the artist, tinged with soft comic touches typical for the director. Shuichi Okita will also be visiting the festival and will attend the screenings of his film.
The other portrait of an artist at the festival is Dare to Stop Us by Kazuya Shiraishi based on the enfant terrible of Japanese cinema Koji Wakamatsu (1936–2012) and his disciples during a period when Wakamatsu’s production company,...
Helsinki Cine Aasia (14.–17.3.2019) is the only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland. It has been organised annually since 2013. This year’s festival presents a wide-range of high quality films from 11 countries.
The opening filmat Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019 is Mori, The Artist’s Habitat by the Japanese director Shuichi Okita. The film is based on the late artist Morikazu Kumagai, who remains highly valued in his home country. Okita draws a slow paced and perceptive portrayal of the artist, tinged with soft comic touches typical for the director. Shuichi Okita will also be visiting the festival and will attend the screenings of his film.
The other portrait of an artist at the festival is Dare to Stop Us by Kazuya Shiraishi based on the enfant terrible of Japanese cinema Koji Wakamatsu (1936–2012) and his disciples during a period when Wakamatsu’s production company,...
- 2/27/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Derek Chiu was born in Hong Kong in 1961, he studied foreign languages and literature at National Taiwan University. After returning to Hong Kong, he gained experience working in television. In 1992, he directed his first film, “Pink Bomb,” then often collaborated with Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai shooting three films for their Milkyway Image film company. More recently, he served as a producer on the highly successful “Mad World,” directed by Wong Chun. Derek Chiu is currently an associate professor at School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.
On the occasion of No. 1 Chung Ying Street screening at Five Flavours , we speak with him about the difficulties he met in completing the film, the casting , the music, his future plans, but above all politics, including the recent event at the Golden Horse Awards.
Can you tell us about how “No. 1 Chung Ying Street” project started?
It was...
On the occasion of No. 1 Chung Ying Street screening at Five Flavours , we speak with him about the difficulties he met in completing the film, the casting , the music, his future plans, but above all politics, including the recent event at the Golden Horse Awards.
Can you tell us about how “No. 1 Chung Ying Street” project started?
It was...
- 11/25/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Derek Chiu’s ambitious project ” No. 1 Chung Ying Street” started in 2011 when a participant of the 1967 riots asked him if he was interested in developing a script out of his own experience of a 16-year-old boy, arrested for possession of leftist leaflets. What Derek Chiu couldn’t imagine at the time,was the amount of difficulties he was about to experience in the making of the movie. Application for funding was rejected and consequently the fear of China’s disapproval made it really difficult to find private investors and even to cast the actors he wanted. Any actor, actually! The movie – not released in Hong Kong – won the Grand Prix for best picture at the Osaka Asian Film Festival this March, it was presented at Udine Far East Film Festival in April and it will probably circulate in the festival circuit. But before talking about the movie, it is...
- 11/20/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
No. 1 Chung Ying Street is the latest from director Derek Chiu, a well-established figure in the Hong Kong film industry. The movie takes place during two periods of political unrest in Sha Tau Kok, a neighborhood that borders mainland China in Hong Kong's New Territories. The runtime is almost evenly split between the past and (near) future, with the same lead actors in dual roles. The first half is set in 1967, when citizens loyal to communist China are mounting protests against the British rule. Lai Wah (Fish Liew) just wants to focus on her studies, and one day move abroad, but her childhood friend Chun Mun (Yau Hawk-Sau) is involved deeply in the anti-British movement and inevitably draws her in. Meanwhile, Chi Ho...
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- 10/19/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Sales company boards pair of projects at Hong Kong market.
One Cool Pictures has picked up worldwide sales rights to two Haf 2017 projects from Hong Kong, No.1 Chung Yi Street and Man On The Dragon.
Production is underway for Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Yi Street with about one third of the shoot completed.
The Hong Kong-set drama is split in two parts, revolving around a controversial anti-British riot in 1967 and imaginary political movements in 2019.
The cast includes Yau Hawk Sau, noted for his role in She Remembers, He Forgets, and Fish Liew, who has been nominated for best supporting actress for her role in Sisterhood at the upcoming Hong Kong Film Awards.
Produced by Joe Ma, Man On The Dragon is the directorial debut of established screenwriter and column writer Sunny Chan. The comedy drama is about five Hong Kong middle-aged underdogs who risk it all in a dragon boat contest.
One Cool Pictures has picked up worldwide sales rights to two Haf 2017 projects from Hong Kong, No.1 Chung Yi Street and Man On The Dragon.
Production is underway for Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Yi Street with about one third of the shoot completed.
The Hong Kong-set drama is split in two parts, revolving around a controversial anti-British riot in 1967 and imaginary political movements in 2019.
The cast includes Yau Hawk Sau, noted for his role in She Remembers, He Forgets, and Fish Liew, who has been nominated for best supporting actress for her role in Sisterhood at the upcoming Hong Kong Film Awards.
Produced by Joe Ma, Man On The Dragon is the directorial debut of established screenwriter and column writer Sunny Chan. The comedy drama is about five Hong Kong middle-aged underdogs who risk it all in a dragon boat contest.
- 3/13/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Veteran director Derek Chiu’s latest project, No. 1 Chung Ying Street — taken from the name of a street on the Hong Kong-China border, which translates phonetically as “China-Britain Street” — is one of the highest-profile, and potentially most controversial, projects at this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf).
Shot in black and white, the film examines two still-sensitive political movements in Hong Kong: the 1967 Leftist Riots, when a number of China-leaning protesters took to the streets against Hong Kong’s British colonial government, and fictional protests set in 2019 that are based on the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement of...
Shot in black and white, the film examines two still-sensitive political movements in Hong Kong: the 1967 Leftist Riots, when a number of China-leaning protesters took to the streets against Hong Kong’s British colonial government, and fictional protests set in 2019 that are based on the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement of...
- 3/12/2017
- by Karen Chu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eight shortlisted projects including Christopher Doyle and Jenny Suen’s The White Girl; Nguyen Phuong Anh’s The Third Wife and Zhou Quan’s End Of Summer.
The Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) is launching a Work-In-Progress (Wip) Lab, which includes projects from Christopher Doyle, Vietnam’s Nguyen Phuong Anh and China’s Zhou Quan.
Scheduled to take place March 13-15 during Haf, the Wip Lab aims to match filmmakers with post-production funds, sales agents and film festival support. Wanda Media and post-production houses G2D and White Light will hand out awards to projects selected for the lab.
Doyle and co-director Jenny Suen are bringing Hong Kong-set noir fairytale The White Girl (pictured), starring Joe Odagiri, Angela Yuen and Michael Ning, to the lab. Produced by Hong Kong’s Pica Pica Media with backing from Malaysia’s Astro Shaw, the film follows three outcasts – an artist, a street kid and a girl who is...
The Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) is launching a Work-In-Progress (Wip) Lab, which includes projects from Christopher Doyle, Vietnam’s Nguyen Phuong Anh and China’s Zhou Quan.
Scheduled to take place March 13-15 during Haf, the Wip Lab aims to match filmmakers with post-production funds, sales agents and film festival support. Wanda Media and post-production houses G2D and White Light will hand out awards to projects selected for the lab.
Doyle and co-director Jenny Suen are bringing Hong Kong-set noir fairytale The White Girl (pictured), starring Joe Odagiri, Angela Yuen and Michael Ning, to the lab. Produced by Hong Kong’s Pica Pica Media with backing from Malaysia’s Astro Shaw, the film follows three outcasts – an artist, a street kid and a girl who is...
- 2/15/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s event features an unprecedented increase in women directors and a new work-in-progress lab.
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Mar 13-15), which has its 15th edition this year, has revealed its lineup of 25 projects.
Unprecedentedly, nearly half of the projects are from female directors, about a third are by first-time directors and two rarely seen genres at Haf are included - science fiction and gothic thriller.
As with previous editions, Hong Kong has a strong presence with five projects, including Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Ying Street, a drama about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong; Sobel Chan’s The Goddess, a tribute to classic 1930s Chinese films; new director Sunny Chan’s Man On The Dragon, a comedy-drama about five middle-aged men who take part in a dragon boat competition; new director Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split, about a bowling athlete who becomes a world champion despite a fatal disease, produced by She...
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Mar 13-15), which has its 15th edition this year, has revealed its lineup of 25 projects.
Unprecedentedly, nearly half of the projects are from female directors, about a third are by first-time directors and two rarely seen genres at Haf are included - science fiction and gothic thriller.
As with previous editions, Hong Kong has a strong presence with five projects, including Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Ying Street, a drama about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong; Sobel Chan’s The Goddess, a tribute to classic 1930s Chinese films; new director Sunny Chan’s Man On The Dragon, a comedy-drama about five middle-aged men who take part in a dragon boat competition; new director Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split, about a bowling athlete who becomes a world champion despite a fatal disease, produced by She...
- 1/18/2017
- by screenasia@yahoo.com (Silvia Wong)
- ScreenDaily
“72 Martyrs” is another film released to tie in with the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, a turning point in modern Chinese history which played a vital role in bringing down the Qing Dynasty. The film was directed by Derek Chiu, who previously tackled the period through his Sun Yat Sen biopic “Road to Dawn”, and deals in particular with the Huanghuagang Uprising (also known as the Yellow Flower Mound Revolt), an event which famously saw the titular 72 patriots dying for their cause. As with other recent historical offerings, the film has a prestigious cast made up of new faces and acclaimed stars, including Zhao Bing Rui, Tse Kwan Ho (“The Miracle Box”), Eric Tsang (“Bodyguards and Assassins”), Wang Jian Chang, Liu Kai Chi (“The Stool Pigeon”), Irene Wan (“Exodus”) and Elanne Kong (“Rebellion”), with a cameo appearance from Alan Tam. The film is set in 1910 in Guangzhou, with the...
- 2/23/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
“The Road Less Travelled” sees top Hong Kong director Derek Yee taking the producer’s chair for a follow up of sorts to his much lauded 2003 romantic drama “Lost in Time”. This time, he hands over the directorial reigns to co-scripter Derek Chiu (“Brothers”), for a tale of cross border love and tragedy focusing on a truck driver played by popular actor Louis Koo (“All’s Well End’s Well 2011”), who ends up in a triangle with a young Mainland woman played by Crystal Huang (“Just Another Pandora’s Box”) and his Hong Kong girlfriend Karen Mok (“Go Lala Go!”). Backing them is an impressive supporting cast including Tvb star Wayne Lai (“I Love Hong Kong”), Mainland actors Yin Xiaotian (“My Belle Boss”), Liang Dawei, and Baty Chen. The drama is set in motion when Hong Kong cross border truck driver Hui Shing Leung (Louis Koo) accidently hits and kills...
- 3/18/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
The Road Less Traveled is Sung Kee Chiu's latest feature film, pulling him away from Hk crime cinema and landing him in more sentimental territory. Straight-faced romance/drama films are not really plenty in mainstream Hong Kong and while this film probably isn't going to change that, it will still be worth your while if you're up for something slightly different. The film turns out to be a pretty solid entry in Chiu's oeuvre and a big improvement over his earlier films. It's not to say Hong Kong doesn't do drama/romance films at all, but they usually end up in the arthouse territory while The Road Less Traveled should feel more comfortable in the mainstream. Chiu's style of direction is pretty polished and slick, not really...
- 3/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Apparently, Sina brought a camera along with them to the Tokyo International Film Festival because they've just placed over 25 pictures of new film posters up on their site. Including posters for Ip Man 2, Little Big Soldier (starring Jackie Chan), Derek Chiu's The Road Less Travelled and Li Fangfang's Heaven Eternal, Earth Everlasting. The pictures aren't great quality, but they're still pretty cool.
- 10/22/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
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