Adapted from a homonymous short story by director Sasha Chuk, produced by Stanley Kwan and Jun Li with funding from the Hong Kong Film Development Council's First Feature Film Initiative. “Fly me to the Moon” is one of the ambitious titles coming out this year from Hk, and is now starting its festival run, premiering in Tokyo.
Fly me to the Moon is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 2024
In 1997, 8-year-old Yuan moves to Hong Kong from Hunan with her mother in order to reunite with her father. However, their life is full of problems from the get go. The language barrier is quite difficult to overcome for Yuan, who is being bullied at school, while her father turns out to be a drug-addict and a thief, who frequently ends up in prison. Her mother is enraged with his behavior, and even more so when she finds out that Yuan is also stealing.
Fly me to the Moon is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 2024
In 1997, 8-year-old Yuan moves to Hong Kong from Hunan with her mother in order to reunite with her father. However, their life is full of problems from the get go. The language barrier is quite difficult to overcome for Yuan, who is being bullied at school, while her father turns out to be a drug-addict and a thief, who frequently ends up in prison. Her mother is enraged with his behavior, and even more so when she finds out that Yuan is also stealing.
- 4/28/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Organised by the Busan, Hong Kong and Tokyo International Film Festivals, and supported by Create HongKong and the Film Development Fund, the Asian Film Awards Academy (Academy or Afaa) has spearheaded efforts to promote Asian cinema around the world year-round. As part of the Asian Film Awards (Afa), its flagship event and the largest celebration of Asian cinema in the world, the Academy appoints an emerging Asian star every year as Youth Ambassador to act as the face of the awards and to take part in outreach activities. For the first time in its history, the Academy has appointed not one, but four celebrated Asian stars as the Youth Ambassadors of the 17th Afa: (in alphabetical order) Liu Kuan-Ting, Mario Maurer, Miyazawa Hio and Will Or.
Embodying numerous countries and cultures, Asia is a region that is rich in diversity, and that diversity has always been reflected in its films,...
Embodying numerous countries and cultures, Asia is a region that is rich in diversity, and that diversity has always been reflected in its films,...
- 12/28/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
The 17th Slovak Queer Film Festival kicks off on 22 November in Bratislava and the audience can look forward to 7 festival days, until 28 November. This edition introduces the FFi Shorts – International Competition, a competition of short films, presenting 3 Asian works: Adorable by Chung Cheng-hu, Mum, If I Were a Vampire by Deborah Devyn Chuang, and Shoot Your Shot by Mishaal Memon. In the Contemporary Cinema section, don’t miss the flamboyant comedy from the Philippines, I Love You, Beksman by Perci Intalan (2022).
A special programme Queer Hong Kong will open with a digitally restored version of Wong Kar-wai’s classic Happy Together (1997), winner of Best Director at Cannes 1997 and starring Tony Leung a Lesley Cheung, a Hong Kong queer icon. Aside from this film about lovers looking for happiness in Argentina, the section will also include the lesbian cult classic Butterfly (2004) from director Yan Yan Mak, whose brave ideas are still relevant today.
A special programme Queer Hong Kong will open with a digitally restored version of Wong Kar-wai’s classic Happy Together (1997), winner of Best Director at Cannes 1997 and starring Tony Leung a Lesley Cheung, a Hong Kong queer icon. Aside from this film about lovers looking for happiness in Argentina, the section will also include the lesbian cult classic Butterfly (2004) from director Yan Yan Mak, whose brave ideas are still relevant today.
- 11/16/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
On the occasion of her film Fly me to the Moon premiering at Tokyo International Film Festival, Sasha Chuk talks about writing, directing and acting in the movie, her cooperation with Stanley Kwan and Jun Li, the casting in the movie, the whether we are destined to become like our parents, the protagonist's relationship with her father, mother and sister, the inclusion of the travel agency and Japan in the story, the cinematography and the editing, the Hong Kong movie industry, and her upcoming projects...
- 10/25/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Adapted from a homonymous short story by director Sasha Chuk, produced by Stanley Kwan and Jun Li with funding from the Hong Kong Film Development Council’s First Feature Film Initiative. “Fly me to the Moon” is one of the ambitious titles coming out this year from Hk, and is now starting its festival run, premiering in Tokyo.
Fly me to the Moon is screening at Tokyo International Film Festival
In 1997, 8-year-old Yuan moves to Hong Kong from Hunan with her mother in order to reunite with her father. However, their life is full of problems from the get go. The language barrier is quite difficult to overcome for Yuan, who is being bullied at school, while her father turns out to be a drug-addict and a thief, who frequently ends up in prison. Her mother is enraged with his behavior, and even more so when she finds out that Yuan is also stealing.
Fly me to the Moon is screening at Tokyo International Film Festival
In 1997, 8-year-old Yuan moves to Hong Kong from Hunan with her mother in order to reunite with her father. However, their life is full of problems from the get go. The language barrier is quite difficult to overcome for Yuan, who is being bullied at school, while her father turns out to be a drug-addict and a thief, who frequently ends up in prison. Her mother is enraged with his behavior, and even more so when she finds out that Yuan is also stealing.
- 10/24/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Hong Kong drama recently received two nominations for the Golden Horse Awards.
Hong Kong’s Golden Scene is to handle international sales of Sasha Chuk’s Fly Me To The Moon, which is set to world premiere in Tokyo International Film Festival’s Asian Future competition this month.
The drama, which marks the feature directorial debut of Chuk, has also been set as the closing film of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival on November 12 and this week received two nominations for the Golden Horse Awards: director-writer Chuk is competing for best adapted screenplay, while Tse Wing-yan is up for best new performer.
Hong Kong’s Golden Scene is to handle international sales of Sasha Chuk’s Fly Me To The Moon, which is set to world premiere in Tokyo International Film Festival’s Asian Future competition this month.
The drama, which marks the feature directorial debut of Chuk, has also been set as the closing film of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival on November 12 and this week received two nominations for the Golden Horse Awards: director-writer Chuk is competing for best adapted screenplay, while Tse Wing-yan is up for best new performer.
- 10/4/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Join Focus Hong Kong, the only UK film festival dedicated to celebra7ng the amazing cinema and filmmakers of Hong Kong, at The Garden Cinema in London on Saturday 24 June to experience two classics of contemporary Hong Kong cinema on the big screen. Going beyond the usual representations of Hong Kong productions via older genre cinema, the programme features two very different but equally fascina7ng and authentic looks at Hong Kong since the 1997 Handover, including Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly's Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down, an anthology mixing the personal and the political through four gently provocative stories of everyday people, and Fruit Chan's searing 1997 masterpiece Made in Hong Kong, a shocking, violent look at Handover-era Hong Kong youth.
Tickets are on sale now: https://focushongkong.uk/strand/june-2023/
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down features four stories, which show how fiction and fact,...
Tickets are on sale now: https://focushongkong.uk/strand/june-2023/
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down features four stories, which show how fiction and fact,...
- 6/4/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Margot Robbie plays Nellie Laroy in ‘Babylon’ from Paramount Pictures.
Paramount has released the first batch of photos from Babylon, writer/director Damien Chazelle’s star-studded epic tale of Hollywood in the 1920s. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead the cast, reuniting after starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, a fairy tale take on the Manson family murder of Sharon Tate.
Babylon‘s cast also includes Tobey Maguire, Jean Smart, Lukas Haas, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo, and Diego Calva. P.J. Byrne, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, and Olivia Wilde also star in what’s sure to be a 2023 Oscar contender.
Filmmaker Chazelle spoke to Vanity Fair about directing Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. “Part of what was magical about working with them in these roles is that each of them felt like...
Paramount has released the first batch of photos from Babylon, writer/director Damien Chazelle’s star-studded epic tale of Hollywood in the 1920s. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead the cast, reuniting after starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, a fairy tale take on the Manson family murder of Sharon Tate.
Babylon‘s cast also includes Tobey Maguire, Jean Smart, Lukas Haas, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo, and Diego Calva. P.J. Byrne, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, and Olivia Wilde also star in what’s sure to be a 2023 Oscar contender.
Filmmaker Chazelle spoke to Vanity Fair about directing Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. “Part of what was magical about working with them in these roles is that each of them felt like...
- 9/8/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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