Hong Kong actor Louis Koo loves science fiction and collects “Stars War” merchandise so it is no surprise that he would produce a sci-fi film financed by his own company “One Cool Film Production”. Although it would take him a few years to finish his expensive personal project, it eventually paid off big time to the tune of over HK80 Million and became the highest grossing domestic film at the local box office. Furthermore it went worldwide due to it being streamed on Netflix.
Visual effect artist Ng Yuen Fai’s directional debut takes the viewers to the year 2055 in which the world is in pretty bad shape because of climate change and wars, and the polluted atmosphere is barely livable. Moreover, domes known as “Skynets” now cover the cities so their inhabitants can breathe and survive. One day, a meteor crashes into B-16, a district of futuristic Hong Kong...
Visual effect artist Ng Yuen Fai’s directional debut takes the viewers to the year 2055 in which the world is in pretty bad shape because of climate change and wars, and the polluted atmosphere is barely livable. Moreover, domes known as “Skynets” now cover the cities so their inhabitants can breathe and survive. One day, a meteor crashes into B-16, a district of futuristic Hong Kong...
- 12/13/2022
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
We don't have a lot of info on this one, but following its premiere earlier this month at South Korea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, some sales art and early details have landed in our inbox for Camera.
The Chinese language film, directed by James Leong and written by Leong and Ben Slater, comes our way from Fortissimo Films and producers Lynn Lee and Jacqueline Lui.
Camera stars Sean Li, Venus Wong, Calvin Poon, and Yuen Leung.
Synopsis:
Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession - he wants to film everything he sees. It’s a compulsion born of a childhood accident, which left him blind in one eye. Following a design he believes his father left him, Ming builds a miniature camera, which he installs in his bad eye, restoring his sight and allowing him to record everything he sees.
He becomes the perfect surveillance device, but soon...
The Chinese language film, directed by James Leong and written by Leong and Ben Slater, comes our way from Fortissimo Films and producers Lynn Lee and Jacqueline Lui.
Camera stars Sean Li, Venus Wong, Calvin Poon, and Yuen Leung.
Synopsis:
Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession - he wants to film everything he sees. It’s a compulsion born of a childhood accident, which left him blind in one eye. Following a design he believes his father left him, Ming builds a miniature camera, which he installs in his bad eye, restoring his sight and allowing him to record everything he sees.
He becomes the perfect surveillance device, but soon...
- 7/31/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
The debut feature from James Leong showcases the director's strong visual sensibility, but with an unimaginative and wasteful screenplay, Camera fails to capitalise on its intriguing premise.Set in a near-future Hong Kong, a gaping class and wealth divide has seen the city's older neighbourhoods fall into squalor and disrepair. While powerful corporations battle for the land in both the commercial and political spheres, the masses are left to eke out a meagre living however they can.Ming (Sean Li) drifts between these two worlds, trading off his skills as a surveillance expert to expose the crimes and vices of the elite. Blind in one eye - the result of a clouded childhood incident that still haunts his dreams - Ming lives alone, developing miniature, high-tech surveillance...
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- 7/24/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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