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TO BE CONTINUED 尚未完場
North America Premiere
2023 | 1hr 20min | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | Dir Dora Choi, Haider Kikabhoy
Description
A chronicle of the grassroots effort to save the iconic State Theatre in North Point from demolition. This evocative documentary is also a deep dive into the eye-opening story of Harry Odell, the theatre’s founder and Hong Kong’s first impresario, who brought Xavier Cugat, Isaac Stern, and other legendary musical figures to the city. Rich with local history, and possessing a surprising connection to local singer Hins Cheung, the story of the State Theatre and Harry Odell is a celebration of Hong Kong’s dynamic culture and indomitable spirit.
Director’s Bio
Dora Choi
Dora has been a news feature and documentary director in mainstream media for more than 10 years, focusing on politics and social affairs. She co-founded cultural enterprise Walk in Hong Kong.
Haider Kikabhoy
A fourth-generation Hongkonger with family roots in Mumbai and Guangdong’s Kaiping, Haider co-founded cultural enterprise Walk in Hong Kong. He was formerly a human rights campaigner and an academic researcher on Hong Kong’s architectural history. “To Be Continued” is his first documentary film.
Screening Time
LOS ANGELES
Sunday, April 30, 2023, 3:00 PM
Starlight Whittier Village Cinemas
Saturday, June 10, 2023, 8:00 PM
The Chabot, Castro Valley, CA
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North America Premiere
2022 | 1hr 18min | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | Dir Hoi Kit Cheung
Description
These three stand alone shorts are a reflection of the state of Hong Kong in 2021; this city is as always, an entrepot.
Departure: A young Hongkonger couple do some soul searching en route to the airport and their impending immigration to the UK. Their taxi driver joins their reverie. A poignant elegy to the international city-state - its built environment, its liminal spaces, and its unique rhythms of life in media res.
06:00 AM: Anxiety-ridden student, Yan spirals into a nightmare reality where she is forced to submit to mandatory government surveillance. Her teacher tries to reason with her resistance to this Orwellian state of existence. Is she going off the deep end or is this particular fate close at hand?
The Night Before: Wei, Tracy, and Chun, three twenty somethings from different walks of life, became fast friends as a result of their participation in the pro-democracy movement. As Wei prepares to be incarcerated the next day, the three pals cycle along the city streets at night and philosophize about their past actions and thoughts of the future.
Director’s Bio
Jacky Cheung, a Hong Kong journalist, believes in the power of cinematography which would respond to the times and heal people's minds. He directed news documentaries “Save PolyU” and “Fiery and Gentle, We are Hongkongers” in the 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement. This is his first time to tell a Hong Kong story in a drama film.
Pre-Featured Short
AFTER THE RIOTS, BEFORE THE LIBERATION
2020 | 15 min | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | Dir Chung Hong Iu
Synopsis:
2019, in Hong Kong, protests become our daily life. The stuffs in the streets after each protest are changing our urban landscape, and they become the view of our everyday life. Graffitis on walls, unscrewed railings, bricks, respirators, safety goggles. Everything records what has happened in the city and witnesses our beliefs. I walked through the streets with my camera after protests. I let the objects play the narrators and tell us about the protests.
Director’s Bio:
Iu Chung Hong is an independent flm director based in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He worked in a NGO, Civil Human Rights Front. He has a vocation for social movement and flm-making. He directed the documentary, Hong Kong’s Road to the Abolishment of Death Penalty, for Amnesty International Hong Kong in 2013. His short flm The Autonomous Era (2015) earned Special Mention in Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival 2015 and REC Filmfestival Berlin 2017. His experimental short After the Riots, Before the Liberation (2020) earned the Award for Excellence in the 35th Image Forum Festival in Japan. He is also an amateur photographer. His photography works were exhibited in numbers of galleries in London, Rome, Athens and Chicago.
Pre-Featured Short
THAT SPRING, IN THE SKY OF H-VILLE, THERE WAS
2022 | 9 min | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | Dir Chung Hong Iu
Synopsis:
That spring, there was _____ in the sky of H-ville. What is _____? No one can tell. The sudden “unknown” caused absurd and strange phenomena. The real nightmare was not a natural disaster, but the man-made one. The regime used this to implement the "state of exception". The system continued to operate. How much human value would be left?