LOCAL SHORT FILM RECOGNIZED CHINESE DISSIDENT WRITER CAN SMOKE-FREE IN CANADA SPEAKS AT USJ CASINOS STILL Cheong Kin Man will receive his One of the most vocal writers CASH IN? 2015 Rising Star Award for “A against censorship in China, Useless Fiction” this coming April Murong Xuecun, delivered an in Vancouver unanticipated speech at USJ P2 MDT REPORT P5 P8 ANALYSIS WED.25 Mar 2015 T. 17º/ 21º C H. 60/ 90% Blackberry email service powered by CTM MOP 5.00 2277 N.º HKD 7.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” AD POLICY ADDRESS Harmony at the Legislative Assembly P3 AP PHOTO WORLD BRIEFS AP PHOTO USA Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed yesterday that she has undergone more preventive surgery, having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in hopes of reducing her risk of cancer. Writing in the New York Times, the filmmaker and philanthropist said that a recent blood test showed a possible early sign of cancer. 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IRANIAN VISUAL A still from the film (the text is an excerpt from Yasunari Kawabata’s “Snow Country”) CHEONG KIN MAN Local short film recognized at Canada International Film Festival F inherent creativity and told the Times that his lack of through cinematography. fickle filmmaker initially could which he found difficult to Iyears of experience in vi- filmmaking background com- Born and raised in the for- not settle on a particular idea explain in words. deo production was all it took bined with encouragement mer Portuguese enclave, the for his production project. He Following the Canadian film to produce a good film, local from his lecturer and super- film enthusiast expressed finally decided to present his festival’s recognition of his translator and interpreter visor enabled him to think how he felt compromised by lifelong dilemmas and strug- efforts, the filmmaker would Cheong Kin Man’s success outside the box, setting him the overwhelming power of gles to the audience. His inten- like to express his heartfelt would surely challenge that free from traditional cinema- language and complex cul- ded idea was to continue a pre- gratitude to those who helped kind of thinking. His latest tographic approaches. tural divisions throughout vious project on local Macau him along the way. Cheong award-winning short film has “I did not really have an an- his life, which he sought to identity, which he called an said: “There are too many premiered at the Canadian thropological nor filmmaking reflect in what he described “amateur documentary” and friends to whom I really wish International Film Festival. format in my mind,” said as “a series of multilayered was completed in 2009. to thank. First of all, I need The Macau-born language Cheong. “My supervisor, Lau- fictive or true stories throu- The film’s English name, “A to say thank you to my mo- enthusiast will receive his rent Van Lancker, encouraged gh visual, [aural] and textual Useless Fiction,” was actually ther Ho Hang Fan for her en- 2015 Rising Star Award for me not to do a film in a tradi- manipulations.” a translation from the official dless support and love, [also] “A Useless Fiction” this co- tionally structured way, and “In the film, I tried to show international title in Portu- to songwriter and singer Hsu ming April in the Canadian Kristian Petersen, my poetic how I had been struggling guese. Cheong told The Ti- Shi-tien from the United Sta- city of Vancouver. As part of framing teacher, told me in among many kinds of con- mes how baffled he felt while tes for her beautiful voice, and his graduation project for a the very beginning of the fil- trasts from different cultures editing the film and writing Dabin Park from Korea for master’s degree in Visual and mmaking process that I could and ways of thinking throu- its thesis, yet it was this con- her patience in rewriting my Media Anthropology at Freie do whatever I would want to. gh languages,” said the fil- fusion that gave birth to the script in Korean.” Universität Berlin, Cheong I felt totally free throughout mmaker, who also described film’s name. The Canadian International [the process].” himself as “too greedy” since “The idea came from the Film Festival ranks among According to the filmmaker, he intended to squeeze his nothingness in Buddhism the top film festivals in Ca- the 31-minute short took less longtime struggles against explained by the Japanese nada. It is running for the than three months to finish cultural complexity in the monk, Mumon Yamada.” ninth consecutive year, brin- I tried to show before it entered the film festi- half hour film. “I was very confused during ging Canada the very best of how I had been val’s “Experimental Film Com- Inspired by Kon Ichikawa’s the editing and thesis wri- world cinema from over 90 petition.” For Cheong, it was film and Michio Takeyama’s ting process where I saw my countries around the world. struggling nothing more than a fruitful novel, and the multicultura- film as totally useless,” he Each year, the festival awards result after two years of studies, lism in Singapore (where he said, adding that the film also the top films and filmmakers, among which offered him fresh insigh- spent two months on a sociolo- showcases his confusion and writers and actors in all main contrasts ts into perception of this world gical research internship), the bafflement during that time, categories. Staff reporter from different cultures Illustrator’s artwork to be displayed and ways ALENTED local artist Eric Fok will fall – Works by Eric Fok,” is the young included in the “Bologna Illustrators of thinking Tpresent a new collection of artwork illustrator’s brand new series, “1513.” Exhibition,” where only 77 out of 3147 in his first solo exhibition for the year, According to the artist, the idea of the participants from around the globe through which will be held at AFA Macau from title originated from the year when Por- had their illustrations on display. He 26th March to 25th April. tuguese voyagers first set foot in the city, was one of the only two Chinese artists languages Making its first appearance this Thur- illustrated through Western painting. in the internationally renowned exhi- CHEONG KIN MAN sday at the exhibition, called “Land- In 2013, the local artist’s work was bition. 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It was so So Chio Fai approached the humdrum that some of the at- regional cooperation debate by tendees found time to take a nap commenting that the round-the- or play video games while the CE clock border brought positive was replying to the lawmakers. results. The CE added that the The session began with easy HK-Zhuhai-Macau bridge is also questions: Kou Hoi In was one expected to enhance the coopera- of the lawmakers to note that the tion, as are the “high level meetin- local economic structure is too gs” between the Pearl River Delta dependent on gaming, saying that regions.