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
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
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