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Huace strikes three-pic REVIEW While The Women Are Sleeping deal with Malaysia’s Teh A return to form for The Joy Luck Club director Wayne Wang BY SILVIA to go into production in the last » Page 10 Sword Master 3D Chinese studio Zhejiang Huace quarter of this year.” Jon Chiew, Film & TV has entered into a head of international film at SCREENINGS Sword Master 3D multi-picture deal with Malaysian Huace, secured the deal with Teh. What to see today at Filmart fi lm-maker Adrian Teh for the pro- Teh is an active film-maker in » Page 27 cuts US, UK deals duction of three feature fi lms over Malaysia and Singapore, best the next three years. known for directing box-offi ce hits BY LIZ SHACKLETON Targeted primarily at mainland The Wedding Diary and The Wed- Well Go USA has acquired North audiences, the Chinese-language Adrian Teh ding Diary II as well as King Of American and UK rights to Derek fi lms will feature stories set mainly Mahjong, Malaysia’s top-grossing Yee’s highly anticipated martial- in China. Teh will direct and and action dramas. We will incor- local film in 2015. He was also arts epic Sword Master 3D. develop the projects with the team porate some Malaysian elements executive producer on Distribution Workshop is han- at his Malaysia-based production into the stories,” said Teh. actor ’s directorial dling sales on the fi lm, which is pro- outfi t Asia Tropical Films. “One of the new projects will be debut Hungry Ghost Ritual and duced by and Yee’s Film “We are working on a few gen- a remake of one of my previous Hong Kong actor ’s Unlimited for Bona Film Group. res, including romantic comedies fi lms. The fi rst project is expected directorial debut Let’s Eat!. A Stray Goat Tsui previously directed and pro- duced 3D hits such as Flying Swords 9ers unleashes Of Dragon Gate and Young Detective Arclight illuminates Danny Pang’s Delusion Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon. A Stray Goat Starring Gengxin (The Tak- BY LIZ SHACKLETON “Danny Pang’s impressive work ing Of Tiger Mountain) and Peter Arclight Films’ Asian label East- in the horror genre is Hong Kong’s BY JEAN NOH Ho (The ), Sword ernlight has picked up interna- answer to Wes Craven and other ’s 9ers Entertainment Master 3D is based on Gu Long’s tional rights to Danny Pang’s world horror greats,” said Arclight is launching sales on A Stray Goat, 1975 novel The Third Mas- upcoming Delusion, Films head of Asian sales and starring Park Jin-young, aka Junior ter’s Sword. The fi lm is in post-pro- starring fast-rising actor- acquisitions Elliot Tong. of K-pop group GOT7, and Ji-woo duction for delivery during Chau Pakho. “We believe that Delusion will be from Cart. Cho Jae-min’s directo- summer 2016. Produced by Vshine Brothers very commercial for the world rial debut is in post and centres on and Sun Wei, along with China’s market, as horror thrillers keep a bullied girl who is befriended by Huace Media Group, the film is Delusion finding a solid audience around a boy. They start taking care of a IM Global being developed as the fi rst title in the world.” goat together but things go awry. a franchise. Huace is handling acters suffering from delusional Pang’s previous horror titles 9ers is also selling Korea-China brings romance distribution, disorder and schizophrenia, also include The Eye series, which he co-production Making Family, with a theatrical release scheduled stars Cheng Yuan Yuan, An Hu co-directed with his brother, starring Aarif Lee, Kim Ha-neul to Filmart for May. and Hong . It also features a Oxide. His recent solo credits and Mason Moon, which is The fi lm, which comprises three special appearance by Timmy include thriller Blind Spot and hor- planned for release by China Film BY LIZ SHACKLETON interconnected stories about char- Hung, son of . ror title The Strange House. Group on May 20. IM Global is launching sales on two Chinese romantic dramas at Filmart: New York, New York, star- Golden Scene snaps up HAF debut ring Ethan Ruan and Du Juan, and M-Line sends Poet, Spirits to US Beautiful Accident, with Guey Lun- BY SILVIA WONG the best new performer prize at the mei and . Both fi lms are South Korea’s M-line Distribution is currently in the box office top 10. Hong Kong-based sales outfit Hong Kong Film Awards for Why’s produced by . has secured sales on two Japanese Also in the top 10, Spirits’ Golden Scene has picked up the fi rst feature Dot 2 Dot, and rising Directed by Luo Dong, New colonial-era films: Dongju; The Homecoming is based on the worldwide rights to Amos Why’s star Ng Siu Hin, who was last seen York, New York revolves around a Portrait Of A Poet and Spirits’ testimony of a former sex slave to Napping Kid, which is making its in Ten Years and Adam Wong’s She hotel concierge and the girl he Homecoming. the Japanese imperial army. project debut at HAF. Remembers, He Forgets. falls in love with who are caught The former will be released in Pan Media released the film Adapted from an award-winning Golden Scene is also selling up a US visa scam. The film the US by JMnet USA and has also theatrically in North America on novel, Napping Kid follows the Herman Yau’s dark action comedy is scheduled for release in China sold to (Spring Has Come) March 11 while Apple TV released investigation by an investment The Mobfathers, which stars Chap- on April 15. and Hong Kong (Deltamac). digitally throughout North America bank IT engineer of a confi dential man To — who is also the producer Directed by Wi Ding Ho (Pinoy Directed by Lee Joon-ik, the film and the UK. JBG Pictures will computer fi le that is held ransom — and Anthony Wong and will Sunday), Beautiful Accident also tells the story of tragic young poet release the film theatrically in for a ridiculously small amount premiere at HKIFF; Ten Years, stars and Ouyang Yun Dongju, who died in a Japanese and New Zealand. (see HAF profi les, page 16). which premiered in Berlin; and Nana and is scheduled for Chinese prison during the colonial era, and Jean Noh The cast includes Candy Wong Kwok Fai’s The Moment, a release in summer 2016. Cheung, who was nominated for drama about four relationships. News

Hollywood, Southeast online key to Young Live brings its Asia readies China growth script lab Experts on a ‘local to global’ panel Game Changer, Kungfu at Filmart said the next step to B y Liz Shackleton growing the Chinese is B y Liz Shackleton tion. Former Star Alliance execu- Southeast Asia’s first script lab is to co-produce with Hollywood and Hong Kong-based start-up Young tive Angus Chan heads the Hong to launch in Thailand and Singa- exploit online distribution platforms. Live Entertainment (YLE) is intro- Kong-based operation. pore this year with support from While US studios have been ducing its debut slate at Filmart, Hong Kong titles on the com- the Purin Foundation, Singapore making inroads into local-language including action titles The Game pany’s slate include action thriller Film Commission and the French ventures, Chinese producers are Changer, starring Zitao and Z For Zombie, to be directed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs. looking to the potential of English- Peter Ho, and Kungfu Is Not Fight- Alan Lo and produced by Gallants Each year, the Southeast Asian language co-productions. ing, directed by Marco Mak. co-director Clement Cheng. The Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC) will “Both need an intermediate Directed by Xixi Gao, The Game film is based on a popular novel of select five film-makers from the stage and need to go through Changer is a period action title the same name about a zombie region — working on their first, co-productions to learn from each about gang wars in Shanghai. The outbreak during a water shortage second or third feature-film scripts other,” said Tin Mok, CEO, APAC, of film, which is in pre-production, in Hong Kong. — to work with script consultants Beijing-based LeEco. also stars (Helios, Huang Zitao YLE’s Hong Kong slate also for nine months. The film-makers “Mainland China is a rapidly Iron Man 3). includes ’s recent hit will be invited to two lab sessions developing market with box office Also in pre-production, Kungfu A subsidiary of China’s Yongle Anniversary, starring in Chiangmai, Thailand, held in that will exceed the US in two Is Not Fighting is produced by Jef- Group, YLE aims to develop and and , and Shirley October and February. years, so it’s a good opportunity,” frey Lau. Mak’s directing credits finance Hong Kong stories as well Yung’s romantic drama My Wife Is At a third session in Singapore, said , CEO of Mega- include Naked Soldier and Colour as cherry-pick mainland Chinese A Superstar, starring Annie in June 2017, the five film-makers Vision Project Workshop. Of The Truth. titles for international distribu- and Chau Pakho. will take part in a pitch session Mok added: “If we want to reach where one will be awarded out, we should work with overseas $15,000. studios to come up with new ways SEAFIC’s selection committees of thinking, not based solely on the and award juries will include Chinese market for development. mm2 casts net with hat-trick Cannes Film Festival’s Christian We must work with mainstream B y Silvia Wong offenders. It will be directed by Southeast Asia. M Raihan Halim Jeune, producer Shozo Ichiyama cultures in other countries.” Singapore’s mm2 Entertainment writer-turned-director Ivan Ho, will direct the new film, which will and Thai film-maker Pen-ek Although Chinese authorities has three new titles by up-and- whose writing credits include Ah be made simultaneously in both Ratanaruang. continue to censor internet content, the panel maintained internet- coming directors on its slate, as Boys To Men 3: Frogmen and Long the Malay and Mandarin lan- Applications will be open from specific content financed by the part of its initiative to nurture Long Time Ago, both of which guages. April 1 and submissions must likes of , and Chinese new talents. were directed by Neo. Ghost Net is a Hong Kong-set include a first-draft script; have a platforms would be on the rise. Take 2, a co-production with Ibu is a horror film based on omnibus horror story by Wong director and producer attached; Jean Noh Jack Neo’s J Team Productions, is the folklore of the Pontianak, the Kwok Fai, Patrick Yau and Wong and a realistic budget and financ- a bittersweet drama about ex- most iconic female vampire in Kwok Keung. ing plan. Sun remake The Kids are rights rise at alright in Japan

Contents Panda B y Silvia Wong B y Jean Noh -based sales and produc- Korea’s Contents Panda is launch- tion company Double Edge Aasur ing remake rights sales on hit TV Entertainment has sold The Kids series . to Japan’s Digital Works Enter- Village brings Airing day-and-date in South tainment. Korea and China, the series Bitcoin Heist The film, which won a NET- Asura, Midare topped 30% ratings on KBS2 TV PAC award at Hawaii Interna- Japan’s Village Inc is launching in Korea and more than 360 mil- V ietnam coins in Lunar hits tional Film Festival last year, is sales here on samurai vs demons lion views on China’s iQiyi about a high-school boy who tale Asura, and avenging samurai streaming service. B y Silvia Wong comedy about a woman who drops out when his girlfriend love story Midare Uguisu. The love story between an army Vietnam Media is debuting two learns she has only two months becomes pregnant. Produced by Directed by Hidenori Inoue and officer and a doctor is noted for its recent Lunar New Year hits here left to have a child. But first she Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow written by Kazuki Nakashima (Kill unusual — for Korea — decision to at Filmart, including an action has to find a man. director Arvin Chen, it is the La Kill), Asura stars shoot in its entirety before airing, film about bitcoin. Both films scored well at the box directorial debut of Sunny Yu and (), instead of shooting with audience Hollow director Ham Tran’s lat- office, with Bitcoin Heist pulling in stars rising actors Wu Chien-Ho (Human Trust) and Taichi Saotome reactions taken into account. est film, Bitcoin Heist, is a tech- more than $700,000 and The Last and Wen Chen-Ling. (Zatoichi). Next Entertainment World based thriller with an Ocean’s 11 Egg topping $500,000 over their Digital Works Entertainment is Midare Uguisu is also in pre- (N.E.W.), of which Contents twist. The cast includes Suboi, Kate first weekend in Vietnam. a Japanese company specialising production starring Izumi Inamori, Panda is the international busi- Nhung and Petey Majik Nguyen. Other titles from Vietnam in computer graphics and post- Arata Furuta and Shunsuke Daito. ness and ancillary rights division, The Last Egg, directed by Nam Media are Tam Cam, Maica and production, formerly known as Jean Noh is producing the series. Cito and Bao Nhan, is a romantic Victoria, all in production. Digital Zero Inc.

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Reviewed by Kohei Usuda HKIFF Gala presentation Wayne Wang joins (The Sea Of Trees) and Martin Scorsese (Silence) in choosing Japan as the set- Jap. 2016. 103mins ting for their latest films, although hisW hile The Women Director Wayne Wang Are Sleeping is a fully fledged Japanese production financed by Dentsu and Toei Company with an all-local Creative Associates cast that includes some of the country’s top talents: International sales actor-director Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishi- Toei Company, jima (an established star whose credits include Kiyoshi international@ toei.co.jp Kurosawa’s HKIFF closer Creepy) and Shioli Kutsuna. Producer Yukie Kito Based on a short story by Spanish author Javier Marias, Executive producer this does not quite reach the artistic heights of Abbas Kia- Toichiro Shiraishi rostami’s similarly themed Japanese-language drama Screenplay Michael K Like Someone In Love, but it marks a return to form for the Ray, Shinho Lee, director of The Joy Luck Club. A strong visual aesthetic Mami Sunada Crosscurrent combined with the presence of Kitano should lead to Cinematography healthy returns at home, while the name value of this Atsuhiro Nabeshima pairing, accompanied by good notices, could encourage Editor Deirdre Slevin Reviewed by Lee Marshall HKIFF awards overseas marketability among arthouse audiences. Production design gala Set in a coastal resort town (the popular Izu in Shi- Norifumi Ataka Life as a long, slow river? Sixth-generation Chinese zuoka Prefecture), While The Women Are Sleeping begins Music Youki Yamamoto director Yang Chao’s Berlinale Competition entry Cross- China. 2016. 116mins with novelist Kenji (Nishijima) arriving at a luxury hotel Main cast Takeshi ‘Beat’ current takes the hoary old metaphor for a magic-realist Director/screenplay for a week-long vacation with his wife Aya (Sayuri Kitano, Hidetoshi boatride in a meandering, sluggish tale that offers Yang Chao Oyamada). On the first day of their arrival, Kenji is cap- Nishijima, Shioli Kutsuna, moments of great beauty but ultimately feels like a rag- Production companies tivated by the sight of a mysterious couple sunbathing Sayuri Oyamada, Lily bag, take-your-pick bundle of poetic and spiritual sug- Beijing Trend Cultural by the pool: an elderly man (Kitano) and his beautiful Franky, gestions inspired by China’s great Yangtze River. Investment, Ray young lover (Kutsuna). Yang’s languorous cinematic cruise centres on Gao Production, Just Show Kenji’s occupational curiosity gets the better of him Chun (), the moody captain of a rusty hulk who Production Beijing, and he finds himself shadowing the pair, developing a has been given the job of steering a cargo upriver from Shan Dong Jiabo Culture complicit relationship with Sahara, the old man with a Shanghai to somewhere beyond the Three Gorges. His Development murky past who somehow holds sway over his much readings from a book of poems he finds on board, appar- International sales younger lover Miki. In the ensuing sexual intrigue ently written by a former crew member, break Chun’s Ray Production, played out in this picturesque setting, Kenji’s entangle- 10-day journey into loose chapters. Meanwhile his [email protected] ment with Sahara turns into a series of sinister games romantic attentions are fixed on the elusive An Lu (Xin Producers Wang Yu, involving repressed sexual desires, obsessive perver- Zhilei), who appears throughout the voyage. Yang Jing, Ha Bo sions, infidelity and voyeurism. Chun inherited the captain’s job — for which he seems Cinematography Wang, now a 67-year-old veteran of both Hollywood to have little aptitude — from his recently deceased Mark Lee Ping-bing and the independent sector, has inspired strong perfor- father and is accompanied on the journey by wizened Editors Yang Mingming, mances from his all-Japanese cast, led by the charismatic old Uncle Xiang (Jiang Hualin) and another younger Kong Jinlei Kitano. Appearing in a film not his own for the first time family member, Wu Sheng (Wu Lipeng), but the trio Production designer in 12 years, he delivers a masterly portrait of an ambiva- very rarely has anything resembling a conversation. In Zhao Ye lent character bordering sanity and madness. Jiangyin, on day two of the journey, Chun cuts a shady Music An Wei deal to ferry a cargo of fish upriver — code, we assume, Main cast Qin Hao, Xin for more risky merchandise. Zhilei, Wu Lipeng, Wang An and Chun have their first, steamy sexual encounter Hongwei, Jiang Hualin, in Jiangyin, where it seems she works as a prostitute — Tan Kai and their paths continue to cross in other locations as he journeys upriver. According to the pressbook and a few lines of voiceover, the elusive everywoman gets younger as the journey continues, but there is little evidence of this in her appearance. An almost drama-free film, Crosscurrent pays back some of the viewer’s investment in the final quarter when the battered boat enters the Three Gorges Dam. Lulled by the gentle rocking of an oneiric, Buddhist- inspired upstream journey, we can enjoy Mark Lee Ping- bing’s evocative photography and a moody score of cello-heavy classical and darkwave numbers, safe in the knowledge that the source, and the end, is close at hand.

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EMPEROR MOTION HKCEC America Middle East, Africa as well COLLABORATION SEMINAR Languages Cantonese, PICTURES PRESS Organiser CREATEHK Speakers David Miles as Central and Eastern NEW FRONTIER OF COOL English, Mandarin, CONFERENCE Languages Cantonese, Uslan, producer of Europe. It encourages JAPAN: TV × FILM × Japanese Venue The Stage, Hall 1, English, Mandarin. Thunder Agents; regional economic ANIMATION HKCEC By invitation only. Dongbing Shan, producer co-operation, strengthens 11:00 – 11:45 Venue The Studio, Hall 1, Organiser Emperor Motion of The Expendables; Doug trade and investments to 14:30 – 16:00 HKCEC FILM PROJECTS IN 2016 Pictures Mitchell, producer of new horizons in new forms. Organiser HKTDC — PROUDLY PRESENTED Language Cantonese. MEI AH FILM PARADE 2016 Mad Max: Fury Road; Enhanced connectivity Supporting organisation BY CHINA 3D DIGITAL Press and media only. 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About Life Of Planets The Point Of No Return Hypnotize The Jury Dir Katerina Suvorova Dir Lee Yuhe Dir Paul Sze (left), Kenneth Lai Project’s country of origin Kazakhstan Project’s country of origin China Project’s country of origin Hong Kong

Katerina Suvorova’s second feature documentary is Part road movie and part action adventure, The Point Hong Kong suspense drama Hypnotize The Jury an observational portrait of a group of amateur Of No Return takes place in the desert where a newly takes place over three hours in the jury room on the astronomers who join forces to help revive an obser- qualified policewoman handcuffs herself to a suspi- last day of a controversial murder trial. When his vatory near to the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan. cious man to prevent him from getting away. With- daughter is kidnapped before the deliberation, one “After the end of the Soviet Union, there was no out the key, she is tied to a man who turns out to be a jury member, a famous hypnotist, is coerced into finance for its upkeep and the observatory was aban- most wanted suspect; together they will have to fend using his powers of persuasion to ensure the jurors doned,” says producer Anna Vilgelmi of Kazakhstan- off their common enemies who are closing in. find the defendant guilty. based Kino Company. She produced Suvorova’s “Romance and cruelty are the film’s two main “The film explores a unique concept in Hong documentary Sea Tomorrow about inhabitants of the characteristics. Romance comes from the shifting Kong cinema by combining the elements of crisis shrinking Aral Sea. relationship dynamics between the two main char- management with hypnotism,” say co-directors Paul “The only person left was a scientist who felt acters, while cruelty derives from dramatic tension Sze and Kenneth Lai of their debut feature. responsible for keeping the observatory going and has as well as strong characterisation and visual quali- “The protagonist has to perform hypnosis within been supported by a group of amateur astronomers,” ties,” says Chinese director Lee Yuhe. a limited time and space during a jury deliberation. she adds. “Katerina is interested in people who fight He has started location scouting for the desert This will give the audience a new thrilling experi- for ideals that might seem unimaginable for ordinary scenes, which will provide an important backdrop ence.” people, and do everything to make them possible.” for the film; Qinghai and provinces have Both directors graduated from Hong Kong Baptist Suvorova’s background in music videos informs been shortlisted. Lee also wrote the script and is pro- University with an MFA in film, TV and digital her visual style, which Vilgelmi describes as “unself- ducing through his Beijing-based Yuhe Film Studio. media. In 2007, they co-founded Vow Production as conscious and direct”. As in Sea Tomorrow, the Lee graduated from the directors’ department of one of the few video and film production companies film-makers would like to incorporate animated the Beijing Film Academy. His short film3 Kilome- funded by the Hong Kong Innovation and Technol- elements into the film. The idea for About Life Of tres won the best director award at FIRST Interna- ogy Commission. In 2009, the company won the Planets was developed during a four-day workshop tional Film Festival in 2011. The annual festival is Innovative Entrepreneur Award given by the Hong as part of the Werner Herzog Rogue Film School held in Xining as a launchpad for emerging inde- Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce. in in 2014. Vilgelmi sees parallels pendent film-makers. Both Sze and Lai have directed TV programmes between About Life Of Planets and Herzog’s Encoun- Lee has recently wrapped his feature debut The for Radio Television Hong Kong, while their short ters At The End Of The World. Uninvited Guests, which shot in Beijing and Hebei films were selected for Fresh Wave Short Film Filming over the different seasons at the observa- province. The dark comedy is financed by Competition. Actor-turned-producer Tin Kai-man is tory may begin in late spring, according to Vilgelmi. ’s in collaboration with three vice-president of the Federation of Hong She also produced Kazakh director Emir Baigazin’s cross-screen partners: CCTV’s China Movie Chan- Kong Filmmakers. His recent producing credits second feature The Wounded Angel, which premiered nel, AirMedia and . It is now in include The Seventh Lie, Twilight Online and Under- at Berlin this year. post-production. cover Duet. Martin Blaney Silvia Wong Silvia Wong About Life Of Planets The Point Of No Return Hypnotize The Jury

Producer Anna Vilgelmi Production company Producer Lee Yuhe Producer Tin Kai-man Kino Company Budget $200,000 Production company Yuhe Film Studio Production company Vow Production Finance raised to date $50,000 Budget $5m Budget $1m Contact Kino Company [email protected] Contact Hava Wu [email protected] Contact Paul Sze [email protected]

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Golden Whale Inking A Last Masterpiece The Third Wife working title Dir Xu Wen Dir Usuke Uchijima Dir Nguyen Phuong Anh Project’s country of origin China Project’s country of origin Japan Project’s country of origin Vietnam

Golden Whale is the story of two brothers who are For his feature debut, documentary director Usuke Nguyen Phuong Anh (aka Ash Mayfair) is set to make half-Han Chinese and who lead very different lives Uchijima, is focusing on the life of a traditional Japa- her feature directorial debut with period project The after having been separated as young children. The nese tattoo artist. Inking A Last Masterpiece follows Third Wife. “The main character of the 14-year-old elder brother now works as a doctor in Beijing and the ailing artist Horiyoshi III as he struggles to cre- bride is inspired by my great-grandmother,” the film- returns to his mother’s home town, Whale Village in ate a final tattoo as the culmination of his illustrious maker says. “She was in a polygamous marriage all of Tibet, when he hears she is dying. 45-year career. While in the process of trying to her life. This story is very personal to me because it’s a To fulfil the mother’s last wish of renovating the uphold and move forward with this centuries-old art collection of much of my family history. temple for his younger brother — who is recognised form, Horiyoshi also helps his son to carry on the “I am interested in the feminine voice and raising as a reincarnated Rinpoche — the brothers embark legacy and find a technique of his own. awareness about child marriage since it is still preva- on a journey to earn the money and their shared For the project’s producer Kohei Kawabata, the lent in many countries today.” childhood memories return gradually. film is about the loss of a much-loved Japanese cus- Born in Vietnam and educated at Oxford Univer- “I don’t know much about science and religion, tom. “We have to hurry because the protagonist has sity and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Lon- life and death, and who’s right and who’s wrong. But some health issues,” says Kawabata, referring to both don, Nguyen is an award-winning short-film I can’t help being interested in these questions, Horiyoshi’s kidney disease and a sense of urgency director whose screenplay for The Third Wife won which I hope to explore through this film,” says that is propelling the film-makers to preserve the his- the Film Production Fund award in 2014. Chinese producer-turned-director Xu Wen of her tory of the art. The documentary is now shooting Set in 19th century rural Vietnam, The Third Wife is feature debut. while also looking for funding. The film-makers are in pre-production with plans to start shooting in Sep- Xu graduated with a master’s degree from the at HAF to find potential co-producers. tember. “It is challenging that this is a period feature, department of film studies at Nagoya University in Filming is taking place mainly in Yokohama and because as film-makers we have to be very respectful to Japan. She is the founder and CEO of Messenger (Bei- in Japan, and may move to New York and a long tradition of family dynamics in Vietnam,” says jing) Entertainment, with film and TV production London if circumstances permit. Uchijima has Nguyen. “The movie is set in one manor house in the and artist management as its core business. Her pro- directed 10 documentaries on the after-effects of the countryside, which makes it easier to contain the cost.” ducing credits include About Love, The Longest Night tsunami and earthquake that hit the Tohoku region Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, whose credits include Berlinale In Shanghai, Sleepless Fashion and The Deadly Strands. of Japan in 2011. These have been mainly for the title Big Father Small Father And Other Stories, is pro- Chinese director Gao Qunshu, whose major works NHK series Mirai-juku, which features experts ducing through An Nam Films. She is joined by New include Tokyo Trial and Beijing Blues, is on board as advising the young on how to recover and recon- York-based Valerie Steinberg at Mayfair Pictures. Her producer. Gao recently directed one segment of love struct after the disaster. credits include Broadway show The Book Of Mormon anthology filmRun For Life, co-produced by Mes- Kawabata has worked in documentary since 1997 and a short in the collective:unconscious omnibus set to senger (Beijing) Entertainment. Wang Ziwei, who and joined Tokyo production outfit Pao Network five premiere at SXSW. Three Colors Productions is also worked with Xu on The Deadly Strands and Run For years ago. Most recently he worked for Japanese producing, supported by Vietnam Broadcasting Corp. Life, also produces. broadcaster NHK, focusing on global issues. Jean Noh Silvia Wong Jean Noh The Third Wife Golden Whale Inking A Last Masterpiece Producers Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, Valerie Steinberg Prod Producers Gao Qunshu, Wang Ziwei Production Producer Kohei Kawabata Production company cos An Nam Films, Three Colors Productions Budget company Messenger (Beijing) Entertainment Pao Network Budget $125,000 Finance raised $850,000 Finance raised to date $700,000 (Three Budget $2.5m Finance raised to date 8% to date $25,000 (Pao Network, private funds) Colors, Vietnam Broadcasting Company, Mayfair Pictures) Contact Xu Wen [email protected] Contact Kohei Kawabata [email protected] Contact Tran Thi Bich Ngoc [email protected]

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Abastumani An Everlasting Day Napping Kid Dir Nik Voigt Dir Dir Amos Why Project’s country of origin Georgia Project’s country of origin China Project’s country of origin Hong Kong

Germany-born film-maker Nik Voigt has been devel- Tibetan director Pema Tseden, who won the HAF Hong Kong director Amos Why is drawn to the sus- oping this feature documentary about the Abastum- award for a project outside Hong Kong in 2012 pense genre. His debut feature Dot 2 Dot premiered at ani Tuberculosis Hospital in Georgia for more than a with Balloon, turns to magic realism for An Everlast- Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2014 and year. It began when he met Georgian documentary ing Day. follows a man and a woman searching for each other film-maker Mariam Chachia in 2014, who had been The feature is about a man living through four through connect-the-dots puzzles drawn around hospitalised in Abastumani in 2008. “When Mariam seasons and his whole life in a single day. From MTR stations. told me her experience with TB and in particular being a young shepherd in spring to getting married His new project Napping Kid is a detective story about the place where people are sent to die, I could and becoming the village head in summer, the man adapted from an award-winning novel by Hong not stop thinking about it,” says Voigt, for whom fights locusts on the grassland in autumn and under- Kong-born, Toronto-based Peggy Cheng. The Abastumani is his feature-length directing debut. takes the celestial burial for his mother in winter. Chinese-language book won the 2013 Soji Shimada “Mariam was extremely afraid about being sent to “The subject matter is very special. The film is like Mystery Award in Taiwan. It is about an IT engineer this place because she knew there would be no way a magic mirror that reflects the spiritual history of at an investment bank who investigates the theft of a back,” he adds. “Luckily, she recovered. She always Tibet,” says Tseden, who has spent the past six years confidential computer file. He discovers it is being wanted to visit this dark, mysterious place but she working on the script. Like his previous films, the held for ransom but for a ridiculously small amount can’t go there alone now because it’s been turned into film will be in the Tibetan language featuring a of money. He then finds the blackmail messages are a refuge for ex-convicts [with TB]. We decided to Tibetan cast. Major shooting locations include Qing- being sent from his own lost phone. work together to document Mariam’s journey and to hai and Gansu provinces. “The novel is very intelligent with a compact struc- get to know those people that society forgot.” Tseden is a novelist with more than 50 short sto- ture and surprise ending. The kidnap target is not a Chachia will appear on camera as a former TB ries and novels published since 1991. The Silent Holy human being, but a computer file, and the patient and will provide a sympathetic ear to the Stones, which won the best directorial debut prize at ransom is surprisingly low,” says Why, who is co-writ- patients’ stories. Voigt will operate the camera and the Golden Awards in 2005, established him ing the script with Yu Sing Kong. “The novel is both take an observational role. He admits the hospital is as a pioneering Tibetan film-maker. He went on to timely and relevant, as it shows the ludicrous nature of a very volatile environment, where the patients are receive acclaim for 2011’s Old Dog, which won eight the financial system as well as the huge gap between mostly desperate, drunk and unpredicatable. major awards. His latest film Tharlo premiered in the older and the internet generation,” he adds. “I have worked in production for more than 10 Venice’s Horizons section and won awards including Teresa Kwong serves as producer through Dot 2 years but nothing could have prepared me for what I best adapted screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards Dot Production, the Hong Kong-based outfit she found in Abastumani,” Voigt admits. “The combina- and the grand prize at Tokyo Filmex. founded in 2013 with Why. The company previously tion of a population made up of the post-Soviet crim- Shanghai-born film professor and critic Xu Feng produced Dot 2 Dot, which earned Why a best new inal underworld mixed with highly infectious TB will produce. He produced Tibetan director Sonthar director nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards, bacteria and inebriated patients make for a very Gyal’s The Sun Beaten Path (2011) and served as and Speed Homecoming, a TV documentary commis- precarious working environment. associate producer for Tseden’s The Search (2009). sioned by Radio Television Hong Kong, set for “It is the reason I am so excited about this film. This Both of these award-winning films were produced broadcast this April. world is unknown to me and every minute is new and by Beijing FangJin Visual Media Culture Communi- Like Dot 2 Dot, Napping Kid has Golden Scene as surprising. It will be the same for the audience.” cation, which finances the new project. its international sales agent. Martin Blaney Silvia Wong Silvia Wong Abastumani An Everlasting Day Napping Kid

Producer Mariam Chachia Producer Xu Feng Production company Beijing Producers Teresa Kwong Production company Production company OpyoDoc FangJin Visual Media Culture Communication Dot 2 Dot Production Budget $1m Finance raised Budget $68,000 Finance raised to date $33,000 Budget $1m Finance raised to date 60% (Beijing to date 20% (BPS Global, Dot 2 Dot Production) Contact OpyoDoc [email protected] FangJin) Contact Pema Tseden [email protected] Contact Amos Why [email protected]

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he UK’s creative industries are cen- tral to the country’s economic growth. The UK film industry Tgenerated a turnover of $9bn (£6.4bn) in 2014, directly contributing $4bn (£2.8bn) to the country’s GDP and export- ing almost $2bn (£1.4bn) of services. In the same year the global theatrical market hit a new record, and was worth just over $36bn. UK fi lms represented 12.9% of the global market, grossing $4.7bn at the worldwide box offi ce. The health of the UK fi lm industry looks set to continue, with tax relief, solid infra- structure and world-class talent across all sectors enticing a huge number of major international projects to the UK, such as the rebooted Star Wars franchise (in 2015, inward production investment in the UK generated a spend of $1.7bn [£1.18bn]). At the same time, an increasing amount of UK fi lm and high-end TV content is being sold to multiple international territories. The UK government is dedicated to supporting this continuing global success. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the government department offering practical help to UK companies doing business around the world, and supporting the UK’s creative industries at a wide variety of inter- national festivals and events, including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, AFM — and now Hong Kong’ Filmart. The UK FILM Centre stand here at Filmart UKTI’s creative teams work alongside trade body Film Export UK and the British Film Institute (BFI) in helping fund the umbrella stands at markets, specifically giving exhibition grants to the companies Support network exhibiting on the stand.

Opening up new territories UKTI’s presence at Hong Kong’s Filmart 2016 is helping the UK film With China poised to overtake the US as the world’s largest fi lm market, both in terms of industry make the most of the opportunities emerging from Asia box-offi ce revenue and number of screens, not to mention the increasingly voracious appetite of Eastern audiences for high-end UKTI North West, who is leading a delega- technical quality and creative talent on dis- UK TV drama, the region is a crucial growth ‘UK films are tion to Filmart. play are persuasive to distributors and audi- market, and Filmart is an essential event. made in almost “In the last decade, Filmart as a sales mar- ences. There is a growing appetite for all The UK FILM Centre umbrella stand, ket has grown in importance dramatically in forms of entertainment in the region, and we supported by UKTI alongside Film Export all genres, so the last two years,” says Charlie Bloye, chief are competing for the public’s attention UK and the BFI, has been a regular fi xture of many find their executive at Film Export UK. “The cause of against films from other countries, TV, the UK pavilion since 2005. It is there to niches in Asian the growth is not any single territory. Buyers games and social media.” help UK attendees make the most of the from the Gulf to Australia attend, many of Attendance at Filmart has, therefore, opportunities offered by Filmart. territories’ whom have not made the trip to Berlin in the become vital for UK companies and indi- Participants on the stand include Altitude Charlie Bloye, Film Export previous month. viduals looking to mine its rich seam of UK, pictured below Films, Bankside Films, Celsius “There has also been a steady rise in opportunity. Entertainment, Content Media attendance by UK fi lm professionals, such as “Film is an important part of the success Corporation, Embankment producers and financiers, looking for co- of the UK’s creative and media sector, and Films, HanWay Films, Jinga production opportunities, and distributors the global landscape for independent fi lms Film, Metro International, and festival programmers mining the rich is very competitive at the moment,” says Protagonist Pictures, SC vein of Asian fi lms introduced at the market.” Bloye. “It’s not just about opening up new Films International and The Bloye points out the value of the market is markets, it’s also about retaining the appeal Works International. The growing in line with increasing Asian appe- of our fi lms with existing audiences in estab- space will also be uti- tite for UK product. “UK fi lms are made in lished markets. We rely on the targeted sup- lised by Philomena almost all genres, so many fi nd their niches port from UKTI to help us maintain and Chen, head of to a greater or lesser extent in Asian territo- build on success.” Asia Pacific ries,” he says. “Even when the subject matter For more information, please visit Development at may not be a bullseye for local tastes, the www.gov.uk/ukti

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HOT PROJECTS SOUTH KOREA

The Bacchus Lady The World Of Us Dir E J-yong

Written and directed by The Actresses and director E J-yong, this drama stars Youn Yuh-jung (The Taste Of Money; Right Now, Wrong Then). She plays one of the most famous of the elderly prostitutes known as Bac- chus ladies, who work out of a park in for a little more on top of the price of the energy drinks they also sell. The fi lm unfolds as she recovers from a sexu- ally transmitted disease, takes in a young half-Korean, half-Filipino boy and starts being asked by her elderly cli- ents to help them commit suicide. Jeon Moo-song and Yoon Kye-sang also star. Contact M-line Distribution [email protected] Canola Dir Chang Korea opportunities The latest film from Chang, who directed Cannes 2014 Midnight Screen- ing title The Target. Canola stars Youn An eclectic selection of titles hailing from South Korea feature a gay men’s chorus, Yuh-jung (The Taste Of Money, Boomer- an elderly prostitute and the latest from Park Chan-wook. Jean Noh reports ang Family) as Gae-chun, a legendary female diver on Jeju Island, with Kim Go-eun (Eungyo, Coin Locker Girl) as Wrong Then) as the heiress, and Kim tracked by Gang’s intellectual crime her granddaughter Hae-ji. After acci- Tae-ri as the maid. investigation unit. dently losing the girl, Gae-chun does Contact CJ E&M [email protected] Contact United Pictures everything she can to fi nd her but it is 12 [email protected] years before they are reunited. What Karaoke Crazies happened during those years is some- Dir Kim Sang-chan Weekends thing Gae-chun does not want to Dir Lee Dong-ha believe, and it is unclear whether they Fantasy comedy Karaoke Crazies sees can ever return to their old life. Highway Star co-director Kim Sang-chan Lee Dong-ha’s fi rst feature-length docu- Contact Mirovision return to the theme of oddball singers, mentary follows G-Voice, the oldest gay [email protected] this time with a strong female character. Karaoke Crazies men’s chorus in South Korea. Shot in a Sung-wook runs a suburban karaoke and glossy music-video style, the fi lm fi nds The Handmaiden when business is slow, he hires Ha-suck humorous insights as the members pre- Dir Park Chan-wook as a singing helper. She is a hopeless pare for their 10th anniversary perfor- games addict in her twenties and not mance, talk about their experiences as In post-production, Old Boy director very talented, but mysteriously draws in gay men with regard to their families Park Chan-wook’s erotic thriller, set in customers. A second helper is also hired, and Korean society, and voice their 1930s Korea and Japan, is loosely based the bubbly Na-ju, just as a serial killer is political activism through song. The on Sarah Waters’ crime novel Finger- on the loose around town. They are fi lm received Independent Film Produc- smith, set in Victorian-era Britain. A joined by the deaf Spotty, who lives in the tion Support from the Korean Film young Korean woman living in the basement. This set of outcasts seem to The Bacchus Lady Council last year. shabby part of a Japanese harbour town get along well until Na-ju’s ex-husband Contact DOCAIR is visited by a charming count who asks comes to claim their daughter. Lee Mun- Master [email protected] her to assist him in his plot to marry a sik (Battlefi eld Heroes), Bae So-eun, Kim Dir Cho Ui-seok rich heiress from Kobe. He arranges for Na-mi and Bang Jun-ho star in Karaoke The World Of Us her to work as the heiress’s maid. If they Crazies, which made its world premiere Director Cho Ui-seok’s follow-up to Dir Yoon Ga-eun succeed, the plan would see the heiress last weekend in SXSW’s Visions section. 2013 hit Cold Eyes — the hit remake of committed to an asylum for Contact 9ers Entertainment Hong Kong thriller Eye In The Sky — Newcomer Choi Soo-jin stars in the fea- the insane and the count, in [email protected] crime action film Master is head- ture directorial debut of Yoon Ga-eun, return for a share of the for- lined by Gang Dong-won (The the best short fi lm Crystal Bear winner at tune, claim a legal spouse. Priests, Woochi) and Lee Byung- Berlinale 2014. She plays 10-year-old The fi lm stars Ha Jung- hun (Inside Men, Terminator Sun, an outcast at school, who over the woo (The Yellow Sea) as Genisys) along with Kim summer holidays becomes best friends the count, Kim Min- Woo-bin (Twenty, The Con with Jia, a new girl in town. Their friend- hee (RightRight Now, Now, Artists). In pre-production, ship is put to the test when school starts the fi lm focuses on a high- and Jia wants to join the cool kids’ group. (Left) Park Chan-wook’s profi le fraud case with Lee Contact Finecut The Handmaiden as a criminal mastermind [email protected] Is

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Japanese stories From suspense dramas and action thrillers to the return of a certain giant lizard, Liz Shackleton profiles some of the much-anticipated titles hailing from Japan © Hee Film Partners

火 Hee

While The Women Are Sleeping A Road

A Road follows a prize-winning author turned stances. At the same time, his wife platforms with theatrical in select territo- Dir Daichi Sugimoto private detective attempting to re-estab- attempts to make friends with a reclusive ries. , and lish a bond with his young son. Abe Hiro- neighbour. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Sunny Pang also star in a story about an Daichi Sugimoto plays himself in A shi (Still Walking) plays the burnt-out Takeuchi and head the amnesiac who washes ashore with a Road (Aru Michi), a blend of documen- detective, while Maki Yoko (Like Father, cast of the film, which screened as a Spe- mysterious head injury. Nikkatsu was tary and fiction in which a film-school Like Son) plays his ex-wife, Kiki Kilin cial Gala at the Berlinale. Kurosawa’s one of the financiers along with Screen- student explores the innocence and (An) his mother and Yoshizawa Taiyo Journey To The Shore won the directing play Infinite Film, Surya Citra Media and inevitable end of childhood through (Strayer’s Chronicle) his son. A Cannes prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard last Amuse Entertainment Singapore. The carefree memories of catching lizards regular, Kore-eda’s last film, Our Little year, while his 2008 Tokyo Sonata won film is in post-production. with his friends. The film received its Sister, premiered in the festival’s Compe- the Un Certain Regard jury prize. Contact Nikkatsu international premiere in the Berlinale’s tition in 2015 and was sold to Sony Pic- Contact Shochiku [email protected] Forum section in February, and is pro- tures Classics for North America. [email protected] duced by Japan’s Pia Film Festival, Contact Gaga 火 Hee which supports up-and-coming and [email protected] Headshot Dir independent Japanese film-makers. Dirs The Mo Brothers (Timo Contact Pia Film Festival Creepy Tjahjanto, ) Receiving its world premiere in the Ber- [email protected] Dir linale’s Forum, the second directorial Nikkatsu is handling Asian sales on this effort of actor Momoi (Memoirs Of A Gei- After The Storm An adaptation of the award-winning Indonesian action thriller starring Iko sha) follows a Japanese psychiatrist in Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda novel by Yutaka Maekawa, Kurosawa’s Uwais (The Raid). Vertical Entertain- Los Angeles as he works with a dis- drama follows a detective who re-opens ment and XYZ Films will release in North turbed woman who has been accused of Scheduled for Japanese release in May, an unsolved case involving a family that America and co-ordinate a simultaneous murder. Momoi also wrote and stars in the latest drama from Hirokazu Kore-eda disappeared under mysterious circum- worldwide VoD release across multiple the film, which is based on a short story

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Shin the case is about to expire, meaning the Dirs , Shinji Higuchi detective has to move quickly or a law- suit cannot be filed. Koichi Sato plays Prompted by Hollywood’s successful the detective and the cast also includes remake of its iconic Godzilla property, and Tomokazu Japanese studio Toho has rebooted Miura. The two parts of the drama will the franchise with co-directors Anno, be released in Japan in May and June known for the hit Evangelion anime respectively. series, and Attack On Titan director Contact Tokyo Broadcasting System Higuchi. Human cast includes Hiroki [email protected] Is Hasegawa, and , while Toho promises While The Women Are Persona Non Grata the new version of the monster will be Sleeping bigger and more terrifying than anything Dir Wayne Wang by Fuminori Nakamura. It is executive than $6m on its Japanese theatrical that has stomped on Tokyo before. The produced by Kazuyoshi Okuyama (The release in December 2015. Japanese release is scheduled for July 29. Based on a short story by Spanish Eel, Sonatine) of Yoshimoto Kogyo’s fi lm Contact Nippon TV Contact Toho writer Javier Marias, Wang’s Japanese- production arm Katsu-do. Momoi’s pre- [email protected] [email protected] language drama follows a writer at a vious fi lm as director, Faces Of A Fig Tree, summer resort who is pulled into the received the NETPAC prize in Berlin in Rage Six-Four disturbing world of a fellow guest and 2007, among other awards. Dir Lee Sang-il Dir his younger female companion. Hide- Contact Free Stone Productions toshi Nishijima plays the writer while [email protected] A stellar ensemble cast has been assem- Based on Hideo Yokoyama’s Beat Takeshi (aka ) plays bled for this suspense drama, including novel 64, this two-part the unnerving guest and Shioli Persona Non Grata , Mirai Moriyama, crime drama from Kutsuna () the young Dir Cellin Gluck , Go Ayano, Aoi Zeze (SS t t r r a a y y e e r r ’s ’s woman. A Berlinale premiere, Miyazaki and . The Chronicle) revolves While The Women Are Sleep- Filmed in Poland, NTV’s historical story, based on a novel by Shuichi around a detective ing is produced by Yukie Kito drama tells the true story of Chiune Yoshida, revolves around three couples attempting to solve for CAL with backing from Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat working who start to develop suspicions about the murder of a Dentsu and Toei. US-based in Lithuania during the Second World the people around them following a bru- young girl. As the Wang’s credits include The Joy War who rescued thousands of Jewish tal double murder in a Tokyo satellite crime took place 14 Luck Club, Smoke and Maid In people by issuing them with transit city. Japanese release is scheduled for the years earlier, the stat- Manhattan. visas, without Japanese government summer. Lee’s credits include Hula ute of limitations for » See review, page 10. approval. The film stars Toshiaki Girls, Unforgiven and Villain. Contact Toei dai_yashiki@ Karasawa, Koyuki, Borys Szyc and Contact Toho (Right) Hidetoshi Nishijima toei.co.jp Is Agnieszka Grochowska. It grossed more [email protected] in Creepy

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16/03 12PM CEC M. R. N109-N110 GEORGIA POIVRE INTERNATIONAL SALES +33 7 61 57 96 86 I [email protected]

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