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EPICENTRE FILMS PRÉSENTE TROÏKA un film de Midi Z Photo : ????? • Design : Benjamin Seznec / / Seznec Benjamin : Design • ????? : Photo EPICENTRE FILMS présente « Le soir où j’ai terminé la lecture du scénario écrit par Wu Ke-Xi, je un film de Midi Z n’ai pu fermer l’oeil avant l’aube. Dans un état de demi-conscience, Taiwan/Malaisie/Birmanie - DCP 2K – Couleur - ImagE 2.39 - Son 5.1 j’ai fait un rêve : j’étais dans le Myanmar de mon enfance, je ramassais du petit bois sur la pente d’une colline calcinée, et je rencontrais une 103 MINv - visa N° 152076 femme, une belle femme que la folie avait poussée à arracher ses vêtements et à courir nue dans ce paysage dévasté. » Midi Z SORTIE LE 8 janvIER 2020 Matériel de presse téléchargeable sur www.EPICENTREFILMS.COM DISTRIBUTION MAKNA PRESSE Daniel Chabannes Chloé Lorenzi 55, rue de la Mare 75020 Paris 01 42 77 00 16 01 43 49 03 03 06 08 16 60 26 [email protected] [email protected] ENTRETIEN Avec MIDI Z Réalisateur Quelle est la genèse de Nina Wu ? Nina Wu est le premier film que je réalise à partir d’un scénario, écrit par quelqu’un d’autre que moi. C’est aussi la première fois que je ne fais pas un film qui parle de mon pays natal. Un soir, Wu Ke-xi m’a envoyé son scénario que j’ai lu d’une traite. J’ai trouvé qu’il était personnel, sensible, féminin et inscrit dans le contemporain. Il fourmillait d’éléments visuels et était très bien écrit. -
[Media Release] Nominee for Six Awards at the 2016 Golden Horse
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nominee for six awards including Best Feature Film at the 2016 Golden Horse Awards, The Road to Mandalay, to Premiere in Singapore as part of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival © The Road to Mandalay 2016 Singapore, 3 October 2016 – After recently winning the Fedeora Award for Best Film at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, and now announced as a nominee for six awards, including the Best Feature Film at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards, The Road to Mandalay (2016) (再见瓦城) by Myanmar-born, Taiwanese director Midi Z (趙德胤) will premiere in Singapore as part of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).The film will make its Singapore premiere as one of the Festival’s Special Presentation Films on 1 December 2016 at the Marina Bay Sands. The Road to Mandalay is a powerful and tragic love story that follows two illegal immigrants from Myanmar on a journey to Thailand seeking a better future. Starring Taiwanese actor-singer and Best New Actor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards Kai Ko (柯震東) and Best Actress at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Tokyo Wu Ke- 1 Xi (吴可熙), the film examines the exploitative conditions and experience of millions of Burmese migrants who crossed their country’s border into Thailand looking for work and fleeing the civil war in recent years. Following its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, The Road to Mandalay continued its festival circuit run at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival. The recipient of ARTE International Prize at the 2015 L’Atelier of Cinefondation of Festival de Cannes will also be screened at the 21st Busan International Film Festival this month, and as the closing film of the upcoming Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on 24 November 2016, before its premiere in Singapore. -
Within and Without Midi Z's Films1
Poverty and Migration from Burma: Within and Without Midi Z’s Films1 Wen-Chin Chang Ever since I was little, poverty has been chasing me like a beast, compelling me to keep on running. Many other Burmese young people face the same condition and are forced to leave their homes to cities or abroad for making a living. Escaping poverty is the main cause of their migration, and acquiring wealth is their earnest wish. (Zhao 2015:65) Midi Z, also known as Zhao De-Yinor Kyawk Dad-Yin is a fourth-generation Yunnanese Chinese migrant born in 1982 in Lashio, northern Shan State in Burma (or Myanmar).2 Like the 1I am indebted to Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung’s careful reading of my paper and her meticulous and useful suggestions for my revision. For writing this paper, I have drawn on reports and articles on Midi Z, his Facebook page, public talks and a book by him on his filmmaking (Zhao 2015), and my interviews with him in Taipei (5 October 2014) and with his mother in Lashio (3 November 2014). 2The Yunnanese Chinese migrants (hereafter Yunnanese migrants) referred to in this paper are Han Chinese. Midi Z refers to his ancestral roots in Nanjing, China. It is not clear when the first-generation ancestor arrived in Yunnan. According to Midi Z’s mother, Midi Z’s great-grandfather migrated from Yunnan to a border place named Hemonglong in northern Shan State of Burma. Around 1968 when the Communist Party of Burma penetrated the area, the family moved from Hemonglong to Lashio (my interview with Midi Z’s mother). -
Ubiquitous Trafficking and Poverty As Problematic in Midi Z's Films
Transnational Cinemas ISSN: 2040-3526 (Print) 2040-3534 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtrc20 Towards a poor cinema: ubiquitous trafficking and poverty as problematic in Midi Z’s films Song Hwee Lim To cite this article: Song Hwee Lim (2018) Towards a poor cinema: ubiquitous trafficking and poverty as problematic in Midi Z’s films, Transnational Cinemas, 9:2, 131-146, DOI: 10.1080/20403526.2018.1454700 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2018.1454700 Published online: 16 Apr 2018. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 210 View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rtrc21 TRANSNATIONAL CINEMAS 2018, VOL. 9, NO. 2, 131–146 https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2018.1454700 Towards a poor cinema: ubiquitous trafficking and poverty as problematic in Midi Z’s films Song Hwee Lim Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY In his seminal essay, ‘Towards a Poor Theatre’, Jerzy Grotowski Received 21 July 2017 advocates a new form of theatre that will strip itself to the bone in Accepted 28 November 2017 order to reveal the quintessential nature of the art form. Borrowing KEYWORDS this notion for the medium of cinema, this article proposes that the Midi Z; poor cinema; production practice of the Burmese-Taiwanese director Midi Z operates trafficking; digital on a similar principle of a skeletal scale that demands a rethink about filmmaking; Myanmar; the nature of cinema.