The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Asia officially opened at the Spot Huashan Cinema in Taipei City on August 18, 2023, and announced the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Asia Short Film Competition. The award went to “Tuo Tuo” directed by An Chu. Many Hollywood and local celebrities walked the red carpet including Justin Lin (Director of the “Fast and Furious” franchise), Todd Makurath (Executive Producer of “Everything Everywhere All At Once”), Joachim Zell (Color Scientist from “Blade Runner 2049”), Dan Lin (Producer of “The Lego Movie”), Tzi Ma (Actor from “Rush Hour” series), Caitlin Fang (Actress from “American Girl”), Patty Lee (Actress from “My Missing Valentine”), Ke-Xi Wu (Actress from “Nina Wu”), Allison Lin (Actress from “Haru”), Teresa Daley (Actress from “Days We Stared at the Sun”), Sonia Yuan (Actress from “Summer Desire”), Angela Yuen (Actress from “The Narrow Road”), James Wen (Actor from “The Fierce Wife”), Janet Hsieh (Host from “Fun...
- 9/6/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Fox Networks Group Asia will produce with Hong Kong producer John Chong and Taiwanese production outfit Winday Culture
Fox Networks Group Asia (Fnga) is teaming with Hong Kong producer John Chong and Taiwanese production outfit Winday Culture to produce a high-end mini-series based on the music of late Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng.
The new anthology series, Memory Eclipse, will comprise five episodes, each with a different cast and storyline, based on one of Teng’s iconic songs. One of the most famous singers from the Chinese-speaking world, Teng was known for romantic ballads such as When Will You Return? and The Moon Represents My Heart.
Fox Networks Group Asia (Fnga) is teaming with Hong Kong producer John Chong and Taiwanese production outfit Winday Culture to produce a high-end mini-series based on the music of late Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng.
The new anthology series, Memory Eclipse, will comprise five episodes, each with a different cast and storyline, based on one of Teng’s iconic songs. One of the most famous singers from the Chinese-speaking world, Teng was known for romantic ballads such as When Will You Return? and The Moon Represents My Heart.
- 11/12/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Teresa Teng, one of the most famous Chinese-language singers from the 1970s and 1980s is to be the subject of “Memory Eclipse.” The anthology series is an expansion of the original productions slate at Fox Networks Group in Asia.
The five-part series is produced by former Media Asia executive and “Infernal Affairs” producer John Chong. It is set up at Winday Culture, a film production company from Teng’s native Taiwan.
Each episode will feature a different cast of characters, with a storyline inspired a Teng song. Production will take place in Taiwan and Thailand, where she died suddenly while traveling, age 42. Release is set for 2019.
The series is directed by Winday founder Charles Sun. Key cast members include Kaiser Chuang (“Maverick”), Esther Liu J.C. Lin Nikki Hsieh Alan Kuo and Teresa Daley (“Transformers: Age of Extinction”).
Teng is one of the best-known cultural exports from Taiwan. Performing mainly in Mandarin,...
The five-part series is produced by former Media Asia executive and “Infernal Affairs” producer John Chong. It is set up at Winday Culture, a film production company from Teng’s native Taiwan.
Each episode will feature a different cast of characters, with a storyline inspired a Teng song. Production will take place in Taiwan and Thailand, where she died suddenly while traveling, age 42. Release is set for 2019.
The series is directed by Winday founder Charles Sun. Key cast members include Kaiser Chuang (“Maverick”), Esther Liu J.C. Lin Nikki Hsieh Alan Kuo and Teresa Daley (“Transformers: Age of Extinction”).
Teng is one of the best-known cultural exports from Taiwan. Performing mainly in Mandarin,...
- 11/12/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Jenny Lu’s look at the horrors of life for immigrant women in a London massage parlour is upsettingly vivid
In the wake of the financial crisis, literature graduate Tina (Teresa Daley) struggles to find work after moving to London from her native Taiwan to be with her British boyfriend, Frank (Joshua Whitehouse). As a stopgap she takes a job as a receptionist in a massage parlour, gaining first-hand insight into the horrors of the sex industry. There’s selfish mamasan Lily (Sophie Gopsill); sultry, blond-haired student Mei (Amanda Fan); and single mother Sasa (Shiang-chyi Chen), hardened by years of punishing sex work. When shy new girl Anna (Shuang Teng) turns up intending to earn quick cash to pay off a family debt, she’s totally out of her depth.
Taiwan-born, UK-based writer-director Jenny Lu’s script is functional, with leaden dialogue and plotting that tells rather than reveals. Yet the performances are painfully alive,...
In the wake of the financial crisis, literature graduate Tina (Teresa Daley) struggles to find work after moving to London from her native Taiwan to be with her British boyfriend, Frank (Joshua Whitehouse). As a stopgap she takes a job as a receptionist in a massage parlour, gaining first-hand insight into the horrors of the sex industry. There’s selfish mamasan Lily (Sophie Gopsill); sultry, blond-haired student Mei (Amanda Fan); and single mother Sasa (Shiang-chyi Chen), hardened by years of punishing sex work. When shy new girl Anna (Shuang Teng) turns up intending to earn quick cash to pay off a family debt, she’s totally out of her depth.
Taiwan-born, UK-based writer-director Jenny Lu’s script is functional, with leaden dialogue and plotting that tells rather than reveals. Yet the performances are painfully alive,...
- 7/22/2018
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
A Taiwanese graduate becomes embroiled in the sex trade in Jenny Lu’s angst-ridden study of the immigrant experience
First-time feature director Jenny Lu directs this intensely felt personal drama about the immigrant experience in the UK and the accompanying state of invisibility – part survival strategy, part byproduct of prejudice and hypocrisy.
Tina, played by Teresa Daley, is a young Taiwanese arts graduate living with her British boyfriend in London, frantically sending out CVs, getting no job offers and desperately short on cash. Then she gets word that someone needs a “receptionist”, but not at the kind of hipster media company she once yearned for. Tina has to be the “receptionist” for a brothel run out of a rented suburban semi by the motherly Lily (Sophie Gopsill), which employs two cynical yet melancholy sex workers.
First-time feature director Jenny Lu directs this intensely felt personal drama about the immigrant experience in the UK and the accompanying state of invisibility – part survival strategy, part byproduct of prejudice and hypocrisy.
Tina, played by Teresa Daley, is a young Taiwanese arts graduate living with her British boyfriend in London, frantically sending out CVs, getting no job offers and desperately short on cash. Then she gets word that someone needs a “receptionist”, but not at the kind of hipster media company she once yearned for. Tina has to be the “receptionist” for a brothel run out of a rented suburban semi by the motherly Lily (Sophie Gopsill), which employs two cynical yet melancholy sex workers.
- 7/20/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Writer/ director Jenny Lu lifts the lid on the seedy underworld of massage parlours and desperate working girls in her debut feature, a well intentioned, if somewhat under-baked tale of a young lady desperate to earn some cash.
For Tina (Teresa Daley) has recently graduated from university, and moved into her boyfriend’s poky flat as she sets out to find a job of her dreams.
After much searching and little luck, Tina stumbles across an advert for a phone receptionist. Figuring it’s well within her skill set, she heads over for an interview, only to discover she’s being offered a job at an illegal massage parlour, where a trio of young ladies service numerous clients a day.
As her desperation for cash increases, Tina finds herself taking the job on, keeping the truth hidden from her boyfriend while pulling in enough cash to get by (he’s...
For Tina (Teresa Daley) has recently graduated from university, and moved into her boyfriend’s poky flat as she sets out to find a job of her dreams.
After much searching and little luck, Tina stumbles across an advert for a phone receptionist. Figuring it’s well within her skill set, she heads over for an interview, only to discover she’s being offered a job at an illegal massage parlour, where a trio of young ladies service numerous clients a day.
As her desperation for cash increases, Tina finds herself taking the job on, keeping the truth hidden from her boyfriend while pulling in enough cash to get by (he’s...
- 7/4/2018
- by Richard Phippen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jenny Lu’s film, which screened at Eiff last year, is joined by Korean titles The Backstreet Noir and Puzzle.
South Korean sales company Mirovision is launching a slate of new films at Filmart led by UK-Taiwan co-production The Receptionist and two Korean films: black comedy The Backstreet Noir and mystery thriller Puzzle.
The Receptionist made its international premiere last year at Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the prize for best feature film at Sochi International Film Festival & Awards.
UK-based Taiwanese director Jenny Lu made her feature debut with The Receptionist, which follows the lives of the...
South Korean sales company Mirovision is launching a slate of new films at Filmart led by UK-Taiwan co-production The Receptionist and two Korean films: black comedy The Backstreet Noir and mystery thriller Puzzle.
The Receptionist made its international premiere last year at Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the prize for best feature film at Sochi International Film Festival & Awards.
UK-based Taiwanese director Jenny Lu made her feature debut with The Receptionist, which follows the lives of the...
- 3/18/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Transformers star Teresa Daley stars as a receptionist in an illegal massage parlour; The Iron Lady’s Damian Jones is exec producer.
Principal photography has wrapped in London on UK-Taiwan co-production The Receptionist, the feature debut of London-based Taiwanese director Jenny Lu.
The film stars Teresa Daley (Transformers 4: Age of Extinction) alongside Chen Shiang Chyi, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress in 2014 for the film Exit, and Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul, Alleycats).
Inspired by a true story, The Receptionist follows the lives of Taiwanese women whose dream of a better life in London but end up taking jobs in an illegal massage parlour.
Shooting began after the production received funding from the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development in Taiwan as well as a successful crowdfunding campaign through Kickstarter.
The film is executive produced by BAFTA winning producer Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) and Golden Horse Award winning producer Chih-ming Huang and is...
Principal photography has wrapped in London on UK-Taiwan co-production The Receptionist, the feature debut of London-based Taiwanese director Jenny Lu.
The film stars Teresa Daley (Transformers 4: Age of Extinction) alongside Chen Shiang Chyi, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress in 2014 for the film Exit, and Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul, Alleycats).
Inspired by a true story, The Receptionist follows the lives of Taiwanese women whose dream of a better life in London but end up taking jobs in an illegal massage parlour.
Shooting began after the production received funding from the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development in Taiwan as well as a successful crowdfunding campaign through Kickstarter.
The film is executive produced by BAFTA winning producer Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) and Golden Horse Award winning producer Chih-ming Huang and is...
- 9/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Japan’s Dream Kid and Taiwan’s Fine Time Entertainment have joined forces to co-produce road movie Riding The Breeze, directed by Japan’s Koji Hagiuda.
Filmed on location across Taiwan, the film follows a young Japanese woman who takes a cycling tour following a break-up and befriends a local teenage girl who lies about her age to join her on the trip. Mei Kurokawa, Teresa Daley and River Huang head the cast.
The Taiwan-Japan co-production is receiving its market premiere at Filmart and will be released by Bitters End in Japan in July. Taiwanese distribution is currently under negotiation.
Filmed on location across Taiwan, the film follows a young Japanese woman who takes a cycling tour following a break-up and befriends a local teenage girl who lies about her age to join her on the trip. Mei Kurokawa, Teresa Daley and River Huang head the cast.
The Taiwan-Japan co-production is receiving its market premiere at Filmart and will be released by Bitters End in Japan in July. Taiwanese distribution is currently under negotiation.
- 3/26/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Japan’s Dream Kid and Taiwan’s Fine Time Entertainment have joined forces to co-produce road movie Riding The Breeze, directed by Japan’s Koji Hagiuda.
Filmed on location across Taiwan, the film follows a young Japanese woman who takes a cycling tour following a break-up and befriends a local teenage girl who lies about her age to join her on the trip. Mei Kurokawa, Teresa Daley and River Huang head the cast.
The Taiwan-Japan co-production is receiving its market premiere at Filmart and will be released by Bitters End in Japan in July. Taiwanese distribution is currently under negotiation.
Filmed on location across Taiwan, the film follows a young Japanese woman who takes a cycling tour following a break-up and befriends a local teenage girl who lies about her age to join her on the trip. Mei Kurokawa, Teresa Daley and River Huang head the cast.
The Taiwan-Japan co-production is receiving its market premiere at Filmart and will be released by Bitters End in Japan in July. Taiwanese distribution is currently under negotiation.
- 3/26/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
A new horror series is getting ready to make its way to the Far East via HBO Asia, and we have your first details right here faster than you can say "Grace." Well... honestly, you did say that pretty quickly, but we were a bit faster. Doesn't matter though as everyone wins.
According to Variety, HBO Asia is to kick off its second original production with “Grace,” a contemporary horror mini-series. Production begins next week in association with Singapore-based producer Infocus Asia and with the financial support of Singapore’s Media Development Authority.
The four-part hour-long horror mini-series in English and Mandarin is about a father’s mistake which condemns his family to unspeakable horror. Set in present day urban Asia, “Grace” examines the Asian concepts of family, sacrifice, and vengeance.
It will be directed by Tony Tilse, who co-directed the 10-part 1960s detective series “Serangoon Road,” which last year...
According to Variety, HBO Asia is to kick off its second original production with “Grace,” a contemporary horror mini-series. Production begins next week in association with Singapore-based producer Infocus Asia and with the financial support of Singapore’s Media Development Authority.
The four-part hour-long horror mini-series in English and Mandarin is about a father’s mistake which condemns his family to unspeakable horror. Set in present day urban Asia, “Grace” examines the Asian concepts of family, sacrifice, and vengeance.
It will be directed by Tony Tilse, who co-directed the 10-part 1960s detective series “Serangoon Road,” which last year...
- 3/7/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Back in April , it was announced that Paramount would be launchng a casting/reality TV series in China to find four actors for their upcoming Transformers 4 . Over 70,000 people applied for the show and now the four winners have been selected. According to China.org.cn (via Deadline ), Byron Li, Austin Lin, Candice Zhao and Teresa Daley have all been cast in the film in very minor roles, including "Kung Fu Fighter," "computer geek," "sexy goddess" and "cute loli." Series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura stressed that the size of the roles is irrelevant but that they offered the actors experience with big budget films. "For us it's an opportunity to get new talent; for new talent, it's an opportunity to experience [making] a...
- 9/3/2013
- Comingsoon.net
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