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From the Queen to the Chief Executive: May 4–6 Hong Kong Films 2007 10 Years After the Handover 香港電影縱橫﹕ 展與談 1 I am absolutely thrilled to welcome you to our fi rst Hong Kong fi lm Schedule at a glance festival, From the Queen to the Chief Executive: Hong Kong Films Ten Years After the Handover. This important event fi rst and foremost celebrates the friday, may 4 2:30 pm–4:15 pm achievements of Hong Kong fi lm and its impact on a new and ever- Banana Bruises; Royal Ontario Museum changing global culture. From the Queen to the Chief Executive also provides Dumplings Theatre, 100 Queen’s Park a forum to contemplate developments on Hong Kong since its historic 4:15 pm–5:15 pm 6:15 pm–7:15 pm return to China in 1997. Film is a lens through which to understand the Horror Panel VIP Reception dynamics of a changing society and the world around it. Film provides 5:15 pm–6:30 pm Royal Ontario Museum – an important platform, a medium, for telling peoples’ stories. In this Dinner Break Glass Room on the respect, fi lm is both critical and celebratory, it challenges and re- 4th Floor 6:30 pm–8:35 pm affi rms. Its impact is political, social, economic, cultural and often Venues 7:00 pm Eastbound; Welcome leaves legacies of historical import. Doors Open Lost in Time to the First 7:30 pm–7:40 pm 8:35 pm–9:00 pm The Asian Institute is an inter-disciplinary home to scholars working iiX iiX iiX iiX Break Waddg Waddg Welcoming Remarks University on Asia, comprising leading scholars in the humanities and social VkZcjZgY YZdch]^gZea 7:40 pm–9:30 pm 9:00 pm–11:00 pm sciences. We “do” political, social, economic, cultural and historical. & iiX ' X]VgaZh Opening Film: Asthma Tech; of Toronto The panels that have been assembled for this fi lm festival, in my mind, hjhhZmVkZ ( Isabella (Toronto One Nite in Mongkok highlight precisely what it is that we do best: bringing our intellectual q a Hong Kong Premiere); & work to challenge, probe and ultimately praise this important cultural ]dh`^cVkZ sunday, may 6 10:00 pm–1:00 am WVnhi ndc\Z fjZZcÉheVg` heVY^cVVkZ ]jgdchi hi\Zdg\Zhi fjZZcÉheVg` Film Festival medium. Opening Night Party Innis Town Hall, We are delighted here at the Asian Institute for having played a modest iiX Munk Centre, 2 Sussex Avenue lZaaZhaZn South House, role in bringing the very best of Hong Kong fi lm to you. Our X X 12:30 pm 1 Devonshire Place collaborative eff orts with Reel Asian and the Hong Kong Economic and Doors Open Trade Offi ce, along with all of the co-sponsors and partners, will no 1 Royal Ontario Museum saturday, may 5 1:00 pm–2:30 pm doubt prove to be longstanding. This is the ‘fi rst’ Hong Kong fi lm 100 Queen’s Park My Matsura; Innis Town Hall, festival, demonstrating our collective commitment to ensure that it is The Heavenly Kings Asian Institute 2 Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Avenue not the last. We are thrilled that this fi lm festival has been included as 2:30 pm–3:30 pm at the University 2 Sussex Avenue 9:30 am part of Asian Heritage Month. Hong Kong Film of Toronto (at St George, south of Bloor) Doors Open Industry Panel Many thanks to the various partners who have been involved in the 10:00 am–11:25 am Munk Centre 3 Munk Centre 3:30 pm–4:00 pm organization of this Hong Kong fi lm festival. Your tireless energy and Jaime Lo, Small and Shy; for International Studies South House, 1 Devonshire Place Break cooperative spirit are refl ected in the festival and will resonate My Life as McDull 1 Devonshire Place, (between Hoskin and Bloor) 4:00 pm–5:50 pm throughout the university and community more generally. 11:25 am–11:35 am Room 227n ttc TTC Subway stations Closing Film: Short Break on Sincerely, From the Queen to the Toronto, Canada 11:35 am–12:35 pm Chief Executive Joseph Wong Animation and Comics m5s 3k7 Panel t 416 946 8996 Director, Asian Institute 12:35 pm–1:30 pm f 416 946 8838 Canada Research Chair, Political Science Lunch Break e [email protected] url 1:30 pm–2:30 pm www.utoronto.ca/ai Keynote Conversation 3 hong kong film festival 2007 – university of toronto Presenting Sponsor Tickets Richard Charles Lee Prices Canada Hong Kong Library All individual tickets $7 except as follows: Festival Sponsors At Festival pass $45 The University Of Toronto Opening night Cinema Studies Institute fi lm screening and party $15 Dr. David Chu Distinguished Leaders Program party only $10 Faculty of Arts and Science 3-Screening pass $17 Munk Centre for International Studies Sponsors My Life as McDull fi lm Free for Kids Corporate Sponsors when accompanied by adult CY Food Industries Inc. Panel Discussions Free with ticket Holiday Inn Midtown Tickets for ALL screenings including Koo & Co opening night can be purchased Long Shong Group 30 minutes before start time at Tour East Holidays (Canada) Inc. venue box offi ce. Community Co-presenter Advance Ticketing Hong Kong Canada Business Association In Person Tickets available at Festival Photographer UofTtix Box Offi ce Nicolett Jakab (University of Toronto’s Central Box Offi ce) Printing Open Mon – Fri 11 am – 5 pm in Hart House, Bowne 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto Graphic Design By Phone (416) 978-8849 donderdag On-line uofttix.ca 4 5 hong kong film festival 2007 – university of toronto Co-presenters The Asian Institute The Toronto Reel Hong Kong The Asian Institute is home to about 100 scholarly Asian International Economic and affi liates, including 40 or so core faculty members, researching and teaching on Asia. Located in the Film Festival Trade Offi ce Munk Centre for International Studies at the The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is As the offi cial representative of the Hong Kong University of Toronto, the Asian Institute provides an the premier Asian fi lm festival in Canada. A unique Special Administrative Region in Canada, the main inter-disciplinary home to both faculty and students showcase of contemporary Asian cinema, it fuses responsibilities of the Hong Kong Economic and interested in Asia. Dedicated to one of the most North American cheek with Asian chic through its Trade Offi ce include facilitating trade negotiations dynamic regions in the world, the Asian Institute slate of international work from fi lmmakers with and handling trade related matters with the federal facilitates cutting-edge research, public forums, roots in East and Southeast Asia. The festival provides government, inter-government relations with conferences, and fi rst-rate teaching. Through the challenging and innovative fi lm ands media arts provincial and municipal governments in Canada; David Chu Program in Asia-Pacifi c Studies, the Asian programming to Toronto audiences, and serves an the promoting of Canadian investment in Hong Institute runs both an undergraduate and M.A. important role in bringing together Asian cinematic Kong; and liaising with the media and business program. Our colleagues collectively cover the entire art, multidisciplinary artists from around the world, community. It works closely with the Canadian Asia region, bridging work on South Asia, Southeast and the GTA community. The Toronto Reel Asian offi ces of public bodies such as the Hong Kong Trade Asia, Central and Inner Asia and Northeast Asia. A International Film Festival will take place from Development Council and Hong Kong Tourism Board recent recipient of a University Academic Initiative November 14 to 18, 2007. in promoting Hong Kong overseas. Fund grant, the Asian Institute looks to build deeper linkages among faculty and students, and between Now accepting fi lm and video submissions! Please The Offi ce provides a comprehensive range of the university and off -campus communities. visit www.reelasian.com to submit. information on Hong Kong through speaking engagements, business workshops, seminars, For more information, contact 416-703-9333. newsletters, web site and inquiry service, helps make arrangements for important visitors in both directions, and organizes various activities to promote Hong Kong, including cultural and educational exchanges. It also facilitates Canadian investors who wish to seek business opportunities in Hong Kong and through Hong Kong in China. 6 7 hong kong film festival 2007 – university of toronto The fi ve shorts selected for From the Queen to the Chief Executive: Hong Kong Films have been the life blood of Hong Hong’s intense urban culture. A Films 10 Years After the Handover are directed by Chinese-Canadians of Hong popular cinema of action, adventure and unabashed sentiment, Hong Kong descent, and deal with experiences of immigration and integra- Kong’s fi lmmaking represents a unique paradox. It is commercially tion. Little Chinese-Canadian Jaime Lo has to cope with a missing driven, and export-centered, yet the fi lmmakers are passionately father who is working in Hong Kong. Like Jaime Lo, McDull’s father is committed to Hong Kong’s stories and to catching the character of the also missing from his life, and he is also using his creativity to cope. city itself – its elegant and rough neighbourhoods, its hard-edged street glare and gritty alleys, the staccato rhythms and its intense urban The housewife in Eastbound sits alone in her well decorated house romance. expecting her husband’s long distance call daily at 3:00 sharp. The strongly challenged female protagonists in Eastbound and Lost in Time Hong Kong’s cinema experienced reversals before and after the crucial both have to make diffi cult choices to redefi ne the common perception political year of the 1997 handover to China.
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