An Independent Film Making Project
"Keep Rolling - An Independent Film Making Project", which premiered in April 2022 in an online format, is now released at the Golden Scene Cinema in Kennedy Town to a wider audience! Tickets are selling fast, so be sure to secure your seat today!
Additional screenings in December：
4/12 (Sun) 9:40pm
5/12 (Mon) 7:00pm
*7/12 (Wed) 9:40pm
*With post-screening talk
Ticket purchase link: https://bit.ly/3vkTtFt
T-shirts will be available for purchase after the screening on 7/12 (price: $168) at a discounted price of $150 for ticket holders at the screening.
T-shirt order:
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Three fiction films and one documentary by four young filmmakers in Hong Kong are produced under the project "Keep Rolling" realised by Ying E Chi, a key producer and promoter of independent films in Hong Kong for 25 years. The four films "Same Boat", "Rubbish Ban", "A Letter from Prison" and "April's Interlude" give us an insight into how the young generation sees Hong Kong, telling the stories of how Hong Kong people have been living under the "new normal" during social change and the pandemic in the past few years.
The realisation of these four films was funded by the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education, of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut: www.goethe.de/relieffund
SAME BOAT
Director: Lo Yan Chi
Hong Kong |2022 | 30 min | Colour
Since 2017, the cognitive ability of Yin's grandma began to deteriorate. Since then, Yin has become one of the caregivers in her family, taking care of her granny's diet, health and emotion. Before the epidemic, every summer, granny would return to her hometown in Xiamen in the mainland China to gather with her sons and other relatives there. During granny's visit to her hometown, Yin would take this opportunity to get some rest and do her own business. However, after the outbreak, Yin's granny has not returned to Xiamen for more than two years. Now she stays at home almost every day. Her cognitive decline seems to become more serious, and she is more eager to keep her family members close to her, especially Yin. Taking care of granny occupies Yin's life, making it difficult for her to balance between her career as an actor and the role of caregiver, and her heart is full of struggles. Yin and her granny are in the same boat, sharing various positive or negative emotions in the surging wind and waves.
RUBBISH BAN
Director: Chow King Kan Kingston
Hong Kong |2022 | 20 min | Colour
In the era of the coronavirus, Genius was left behind on the street by his girlfriend and his mother passed away soon. Genius worked in an antique shop. His boss asked him to get rid of a box of feng shui stuff as far away as possible. However, he barely could find a rubbish bin. When he found one, the rubbish bin was too full and he decided to just left it there. Unfortunately, an officer ask him to pick it back up. He went everywhere to seek a rubbish bin but never succeed.
A LETTER FROM PRISON
Director: Yiu Man Kwan Jason
Hong Kong |2022 | 20 min | Colour
Under the pandemic, film director James produced a short film on a self-finance basis. He invited his good friend, a weirdo, as his main cast. After the completion of the short film, his friend was arrested out of a fluke and eventually being put in prison. When James learnt about it, he kept worrying if he could adjust himself in prison. James planned to writing letters to his good friend in supporting him through his hard time. During the moment his started to write, pieces of memories they had during the film shooting rose up to his mind. Facing a lot of pandemic preventive measure, James found that the practice were somehow similar to the rules in jail. This made him question about if the world is just another prison.
APRIL'S INTERLUDE
Director: Kwok Chung Yee Erica
Hong Kong | 2022 | 30 min | B & W
Shan, a Hong Kong cosmetologist, learnt about the art of solitude during the lockdown period of pandemic. As the regulation of prohibition on group gathering was imposed in April 2020, Shan had to close down her small business and build a new daily routine.
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