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February 2007
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February 2007 |
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25 Projects Backed by Hong Kong's Asia Film Financing Forum ( V ) (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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February 28, 2007 |
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Wee-Wee the Poop - story of a little piece of poop by Brian Tse
Brian Tse, the creator of McDull the little pig from Hong Kong, is getting ready to direct his first movie, a 3-D nomination. It tells Wee-Wee a little piece of poop, who is in love with a beautiful sausage and wants to be a sausage. With two friends he men the toilet, Wee-Wee finally makes himself look exactly like a sausage. But the girl he loves has been eaten. Giving up his dream, Wee-Wee only hopes to see his love again.
Hong Kong's Bliss Concepts Ltd is now looking for sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
Also from Asia Film Financing Forum: - a Japanese warrior's spiritual journey in the ancient India, by Bharatbala (India).- a young man's one night spends with a teenage girl ends in a tragedy, by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia). - a man returns to his father old farm with his young girlfriend and unavoidable faces his haunting past, by Rachel Ward (Australia). - three stories of how members of a Singapore family has to face the drastically changing world around them, by Kelvin Tong (Singapore). - a heart-broken man is asked by the spirit of a little girl find out the truth behind her death, by Noh Dong-seok (South Korea).
The Good, the Bad and the Weird - in the Japanese occupied northeast China, three men and a whole batch of others are greedy on a treasure map, by Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea).- a suicidal South Korean man makes a trip to the north and gets very close to the home he has not seen for decades, by E J-yong (South Korea). - a biopic of Li Xianglan, a Japanese woman became a movie star in the Japanese occupied Chinese soil, by Kore-Eda Hirokazu (Japan). - story of four men and women in the city of angel, by Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo (Vietnam / France). - a paralyzed man, his male nurse and the man's father, by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand). - a brother and a sister decide to look for a woman appears in an audio tape left by their father, by Kim Young-nam (South Korea). (tentative title) - both a father and a son has a unspeakable secret of his own, by Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Japan).
Photos: HAF. |
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25 Projects Backed by Hong Kong's Asia Film Financing Forum ( IV ) (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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February 27, 2007 |
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Red Rose and White Rose - story of two women in the world of men by Mable CheungSince the mid-1980s, Mabel Cheung has made many beautiful movies - Illegal Immigrant, An Autumn’s Tale, The Soong Sisters, City of Glass and Beijing Rocks. Now she comes out an idea of telling a story about two women inspired by Roman of Three Kingdom, a classic Chinese historical novel. Sun Yan, arranged by his warlord brother to marry another warlord and Wang Shuang, a maid of Sun Yan and secretly spying for Sun’s brother. The script was written by Alex Law, Cheung’s long-time partner for over twenty years. Law and Cheung's Hong Kong-based Electric Shadows Productions Ltd. is now looking for pre-sale agents and financers.
Shuang Xiong Hui - tale of two restless man and women in 1950s Hong Kong by Jia ZhangkeHe is one of the frontrunner among China’s Sixth Generation Directors. From Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, World to his recent Venice Golden Lion winner Still Life, Jia Zhangke has never stopped refreshing us. While getting ready to make The Age of Tattoo, Jia plans to do another one he wrote, Shuang Xiong Hui (Meeting of Two Heroes). In 1950s Hong Kong, a Nationalist army officer arrived in the city after the mainland China fell to the communist rule. He meets a beautiful flight attendant, who has seen the whole world and many people in exiled in Hong Kong. Jointly produced by Hong Kong's Xstream Pictures and Japan's Office Kitano, this project now needs co-producers, sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
Tea of the Desert - a child's birth story in a desert by Lü YueHe was the cinematographer of On the Hunting Ground, To Live, Shanghai Triad and Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, and the director of Mr. Zhao and The Foliage. Lü Yue’s third directorial project will be a fiction inspired by real stories. In early 1950, the first baby is about to birth among tens thousands of soldiers station in the middle of a desert. But the baby wont’ come out and without a vehicle, people decide to carry her to the nearest hospital over a hundred miles away. The screenplay was penned by Li Qiang (Peacock, All the Invisible Children – Song Song and Little Cat, The Postmodern Life of My Aunt). Beijing-based Cheerland Entertainment is now looking for co-producers and financers for the project.
Photos: Sina.com, ? |
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25 Projects Backed by Hong Kong's Asia Film Financing Forum ( III ) (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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February 26, 2007 |
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Now Showing - a couple's seamless act at home by Pang Ho-Cheung
From the director of You Shoot, I Shoot, Men Suddenly in Black, Beyond Our Ken, A.V. and Isabella. In Now Showing, written by Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung and Wan Chi-Man, a TV soap star wants to “protect” his privacy from his Pilipino maid. He and his wife play a couple completely from the real them, day by day and night by night. Slowly, the wife rediscovers her acting talent while getting very close to the maid.
Hong Kong's Making Film Productions Ltd. now seeking co-producers, pre-sale agents and financers.
One Night in Beijing - a decision has to be made by Zhang Yuan
Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards, East Palace West Palace, Seventeen Years, Little Red Flowers) is getting ready to tell another Beijing story, scripted by Zhang Yuan and Li Xiaofeng. One Night in Beijing, a game designer is about to show his work to a Korean investor but his girlfriend just tells him she will leave him forever the next morning. Men and women are all having their own interesting stories in just one night in Beijing.
Produced by Beijing Century Good-tidings Productions, this project welcomes co-producers, sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
Palace Days - how a little girl becomes a monarch by Xu Jinglei
Yong Chinese actress and director (My Father and I, A Letter from an Unknown Woman, Dreams May Come) is ambitiously planning tell the story in the flourish Tang Dynasty, written by author Wang Shuo. In Palace Days, produced, directed and starred by Xu, a young concubine of the aging emperor, a prince and a princess have become the best friends. No one would expect that many years later, one of them becomes the only female monarch of China.
Co- sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers are in need for the project pushed by Xu's Beijing-based Kaila Pictures Co. Ltd.
Related stories: Xu Jinglei to Shoot DAYS IN THE PALACE (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) January 31, 2007Xu Jinglei's DAYS WITHIN THE PALACE Gets Ready for Production (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) September 19, 2005 Woman Director Xu Jinglei Tells Tale of China's Only Female Emperor with DAYS WITHIN THE PALACE (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) May 26, 2005
Photos: Sina.com, ? |
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THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT Wins an Oscar (...) | |||
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February 25, 2007 |
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Produced by Ruby Yang and Thomas Lonnon's The Blood of Yingzhou District has become the winner of category "Documentary Short" of this year;s Acedemy Awards. It follows the story of a little boy named Gao Jun, from Yingzhou, Anhui Province of eastern China. He is one of 75,000 so-called AIDS Orphans now living in China. His parents died after being infected with HIV through blood seller. After he was rejected by his relatives, he was sent to live with two foster parents, who were also HIV positive. A year after, his HIV symptom appeared and he had to take medication made for adults because medication for children was hard to find in China. His foster parents could not afford his medical expense and he had to move to a another foster family.
Related Story: The Oscar Nomination (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) January 23, 2007 |
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25 Projects Backed by Hong Kong's Asia Film Financing Forum ( II ) (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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February 25, 2007 |
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The Journal of Moonlight and Morning - a girl serial killer's story by Mak Yan-Yan
Hong Kong director Mak Yan-Yan, who has made such mysterious films like GeGe, Butterfly and August Story. Now preparing Yunnan New Film Project, she has prepared another one. The story is about a 16 year old girl, who by day is a school girl and by night is a prostitute killing her clients one after the other. She is finally caught and the police discovers she is something other than a girl. The script was penned by Amos Why, based on the original story written by Zita Law
Hong Kon g-based Dragonfly J Co. Ltd, is behind the project, which is looking for co-producers, sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
The Last Hour - A Palestinian Man's Redemption by Lou Ye
His “underground movie” Suzhou River made him famous in the world and workless in China and his Purple Butterfly entered the Cannes competition. Now, for showing the “unapproved” Summer Palace in Cannes last year, he and Nai An are banned from making movie by the Chinese government until 2011. In the rest of the world, where Chinese law does not apply, he will make The Last Hour (Chinese title: Ameena), based on Palestinian writer Mazen A.I. Sa’adeh’s story. Just ends his decade in a Israeli prison, Ahmad, a Palestinian man returns to his wife Ameena. Impotent, he refuses to receive medical treatment until two months later his wife walks away. He decide to wait for his wife’s return and meets himself from the past.
Beijing-based Dream Factory is looking for co-producers, sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
The Messenger - two stories about two persons' adventure in love by Chang Tso-Chi
Have made a dozen films, like Temptation of a Monk, Autumn Moon and The Goddess of 1967, Hong Kong director Clara Law has planned to tell a woman and a man’s love in two stories, written by Law and Eddie Fong. In one story, Mike, a detective tries to wake up Lynn, a girl who can see the future and stays in coma; and in another story, Lynn returns to her war-torn city to retrieve something very important and meets Mike, a soldier of the enemy force.
Australia-based Lunar Films Pty. Ltd. is looking for sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
Photos: Yunnan New Film Project, Sohu.com, ?. |
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25 Projects Backed by Hong Kong's Asia Film Financing Forum ( I ) (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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February 24, 2007 |
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Bema's Tear - a Tibetan fairytale by Francis Ng
Hong Kong regular actor Francis Ng is getting ready to direct his third movie, titled Bema's Tear, which will tell a fantasy story written by Yang Yee-Shan (From the Queen to the Chief Executive). It tells a 15 year old Tibetan nun setting up a journey to restore an artifact, which has been protecting her little island for 99 years.
The project is produced by Beijing-based Golden Skyway Media Co. Ltd., which is looking for co-producers, sales agents, pre-sale agents and financers.
Blown by the Typhoon - little people's unsettling life by Ying Liang
Young and very young mainland Chinese director Ying Liang will be working on his second full-length feature film Blown by the Typhoon. His full-length directorial début Taking Father Home, about a teenage boy's six year journey of searching for his runaway dad, was a favorite among several international festivals. Penned by Ying Liang and and producer Peng Shan, Blown by the Typhoon tells the unsettling life of a prevented young girl, who is thinking about an abortion, her jobless boyfriend, who is sharing the same lottery dream with the girl's father, who is also jobless, and many other little people who are planning their next step to change their life forever.
The project is produced by Shanghai-based 90 Minutes Film Studio which is looking for co-producers, sales agents and financers.
The Dream - seven stories of the future meeting the past in the present by Chang Tso-Chi
Taiwan director Chang Tso-Chi’s sixth film will be called The Dream. In each of seven mini stories written by Chang, someone’s “past” meets his or her “future” at the “present”. The illumination of these moments will be the focus of the film. Chang’s previous works including Midnight Revenge, Ah Chung, Darkness and Light, The Best of Times, The Butterfly.
Through his own Chang Tso Chi Film Studio, he is looking for co-producers, sales agents and financers.
Photos: Information Times, Sina.com, Tianjin Daily. |
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Jay Chou Directs for the First Time with AN UNSPEAKABLE SECRET (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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February 22, 2007 |
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In recent years, Taiwan-born pop diva singer Jay Chou has diverted part of his time to movie acting. He played the lead role in the big screen edition of Initial D and portrayed the middle prince in Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower. Soon, he will star in Slam Dunk, a basketball related thriller. Now Chou is making his film directorial début, An Unspeakable Secret (literal title), which tells a love story of two high school teenagers, with Chou as the lead. Guey Lun-Mei is playing the female lead and Anthony Wong, who played Chou’s “father” in Initial D, is playing his “father” again. While shooting at the school he once studied at, Chou denied that the story was based on his own experience. He said the movie tells a story, which is more exciting than his first love experience and he would like to tell people to cherish the best things around us, including love.
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World's Most Celebrated Directors to Celebrate 60 Years of Cannes Film Festival (Le Festival International du Film) |
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February 21, 2007 |
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35 world's most well-known directors will make a film together to celebrate the 60th birthday of Cannes Film Festival. The film will consist of 33 short clips to reflect the filmmakers' "current state of mind as inspired by the motion-picture theatre' and provide "a family stroll back through memories, dreams, bursts of laughter, cries of alarm and emotion."
The directors are: Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Ińarritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yimou.
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