BFI, Screen Scotland back Tigerlily Productions’ feature documentary ‘Hong Kong Mixtape’ (exclusive)
It is the debut feature from Hong Kong Chinese-Scottish filmmaker San San F Young.
The British Film Institue (BFI) Doc Society and Screen Scotland have boarded feature doc Hong Kong Mixtape, the debut from Hong Kong Chinese-Scottish filmmaker San San F Young.
It is being produced by London and Glasgow-based Tigerlily Productions and is now in post.
The film examines the fight to protect creative freedoms in Hong Kong amid China’s introduction of a national security law that restricts certain words, images, books, slogans and songs.
Hong Kong Mixtape weaves the personal story of the film’s director, Young,...
The British Film Institue (BFI) Doc Society and Screen Scotland have boarded feature doc Hong Kong Mixtape, the debut from Hong Kong Chinese-Scottish filmmaker San San F Young.
It is being produced by London and Glasgow-based Tigerlily Productions and is now in post.
The film examines the fight to protect creative freedoms in Hong Kong amid China’s introduction of a national security law that restricts certain words, images, books, slogans and songs.
Hong Kong Mixtape weaves the personal story of the film’s director, Young,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The film starts on January 16, 2016, the day of the presidential elections in Taiwan (Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (Dpp) was elected President with 56%), in an apartment where the police is investigating the scene of an appalling crime, where a woman has been found dead with her eyes gouged out. The setting then changes and a woman is giving the eyes to an artist, who submerges them into paint and proceeds on drawing.
“The Last Painting” screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr)
The story then goes back four months, when Yang Chieh, the victim, a student of politics and political activist, arrives at the flat of the aforementioned painter, Jhong Jiang Ze. She is accompanied by her transexual, feisty, and Barbie-like friend, Nana, who works in a lingerie store. The two flatmates do not get along from the beginning, as he ignores her, and she becomes annoyed by his smoking,...
“The Last Painting” screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr)
The story then goes back four months, when Yang Chieh, the victim, a student of politics and political activist, arrives at the flat of the aforementioned painter, Jhong Jiang Ze. She is accompanied by her transexual, feisty, and Barbie-like friend, Nana, who works in a lingerie store. The two flatmates do not get along from the beginning, as he ignores her, and she becomes annoyed by his smoking,...
- 8/24/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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