Frédéric Ambroisine from Paris, France, a filmmaker and aficionado of Hong Kong cinema, has made a three-part documentary on me. The three parts are available on his own or website http://fredambroisine.com/ or on dailymotion.com
The first time I met him, he impressed me with how much he knew about Hong Kong cinema, especially about my mother’s films from Shaw. They were very specific Chinese musicals and he knew them all.
Over the years, I would run into him in Par...Read more
It is great to see Mélanie rising to the top and getting amazing recognition in Quentin Tarantinos . I met Quentin at Sundance just before he was casting for , I wish I could say I recommended Mélanie to him but I didnt know he was prepping the film then.
, Kenneth Bi and Rosa Li were invited to The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the Hong Kong comes to Chicago program by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Organization.
It was a great thrill to show my film at the Gene...Read more
will be screening at Chicagos Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday, May 9th at 8 p.m. and Tuesday, 12th at 6 p.m. Writer/director Kenneth Bi and producer Rosa Li will be present on the 9th for a Q & A session after the screening. ( )Read the Read more
just opened the Toronto Singapore Film Festival on 3rd April at the Revue Theatre in Toronto.
After the ...Read more
THE DRUMMER will be released in cinemas in Israel on April 9, 2009, during the Passover holiday.
The distributor chose a very different image for the poster:
After traveling around the region, the Hong Kong Film New Action campaign was finally launched at home, during last weeks Filmart (film and TV market). I attended most of the events, including a seminar on The Outlook of Chinese Language Films with directors John Woo, Andrew Lau, Feng Xiaogang and Oliver Stone.Read more
The Drummer will be screened at The Washington DC International Film Festival, Filmfest DC in Washington DC on 22nd, 23rd of April, 2009.[Wed...Read more