On March 15th, 2024, one week after the domestic release in Hong Kong, Trinity CineAsia brings The Lyricist Wannabe to UK cinemas, nominated for two 2023 Golden Horse Awards (Best Actress & Best Adapted Screenplay) and for three upcoming 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards. It was also selected as the Closing Film at the 2023 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and it has just participated in Competition at the 2024 Osaka Asian Film Festival.
Director Norris Wong
As Norris Wong's second feature-length film following her award-winning debut My Prince Edward (2019), this refreshing and lively Hong Kong teenage comedy draws inspiration from Wong's own life. Starring the up-and-coming actress Chung Suet-ying, who is also a real-life Cantopop lyricist, and featuring lyrics of the film's soundtrack composed by Wong herself, The Lyricist Wannabe is about finding where your dream lies …and then having the courage to pursue it.
Synopsis
Uniquely talented high-school student Law Wing-sze (Chung Suet...
Director Norris Wong
As Norris Wong's second feature-length film following her award-winning debut My Prince Edward (2019), this refreshing and lively Hong Kong teenage comedy draws inspiration from Wong's own life. Starring the up-and-coming actress Chung Suet-ying, who is also a real-life Cantopop lyricist, and featuring lyrics of the film's soundtrack composed by Wong herself, The Lyricist Wannabe is about finding where your dream lies …and then having the courage to pursue it.
Synopsis
Uniquely talented high-school student Law Wing-sze (Chung Suet...
- 3/12/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
There is a common saying about people living in their dreams and having lost touch with reality. With their “head in the clouds”, it is often difficult to communicate with friends and colleagues who do not seem to look beyond their dreams, how it is affecting others and what purpose it has in the long run. This phrase and many other seem to be at the core of director Wylie Chan's 2023 short feature “Life of Cloud”, his overall third directorial effort, which may also serve to highlight his skills as a visual storyteller since it includes various CGI elements to enhance the tale of a person facing the truth about his life.
Life of Cloud is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ever since his childhood, inventor Cheung Tak-hung (Chu Pak-Hong) has been obsessed with the creation of clouds. He has forgotten everything around him, including his friends and family,...
Life of Cloud is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ever since his childhood, inventor Cheung Tak-hung (Chu Pak-Hong) has been obsessed with the creation of clouds. He has forgotten everything around him, including his friends and family,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: UK distributor Trinity CineAsia has acquired UK rights to Norris Wong’s The Lyricist Wannabe from Hong Kong’s Edko Films and is planning a theatrical release on March 15.
Wong’s second feature following her award-winning debut My Prince Edward (2019) follows a high-school student who is determined to become a successful Cantopop lyricist. But while she works hard to hone her craft, handle rejection and draw inspiration from her personal experiences, nothing seems to go her way.
Chung Suet-ying, an up-and-coming actress who is also a real-life Cantopop lyricist, stars in the film, which features a soundtrack with lyrics composed by Norris Wong. Produced by Wong Hoi (Let It Ghost), the film also stars Ansonbean (Rob N Roll), Tang Lai Ying (Mama’s Affair), Sabrina Ng (Say I Do To Me) and Chu Pak Hong (My Prince Edward).
The UK release will come just one week after the film,...
Wong’s second feature following her award-winning debut My Prince Edward (2019) follows a high-school student who is determined to become a successful Cantopop lyricist. But while she works hard to hone her craft, handle rejection and draw inspiration from her personal experiences, nothing seems to go her way.
Chung Suet-ying, an up-and-coming actress who is also a real-life Cantopop lyricist, stars in the film, which features a soundtrack with lyrics composed by Norris Wong. Produced by Wong Hoi (Let It Ghost), the film also stars Ansonbean (Rob N Roll), Tang Lai Ying (Mama’s Affair), Sabrina Ng (Say I Do To Me) and Chu Pak Hong (My Prince Edward).
The UK release will come just one week after the film,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Emerging film director Kelvin Shum from Hong Kong started his career in theater and short films in Australia and the United States. In 2019, his experimental short “We Shall Overcome” won multiple awards including Best Thriller and Best Director during its run in many film festivals around the world. Praised for its striking visuals, “Deliverance” (2022), a psychological thriller starring Summer Chan and Simon Yam, is his first feature-length film.
In “It Remains”, Shum and Chan are back in bringing us a supernatural horror adventure set in a secluded village on a remote island far away from the busy city. While mourning the death of his girlfriend, Zi Jie, a grief-stricken young waiter keeps getting flashbacks of the car accident that killed her. In an attempt to console him, his three friends take him to a small village hopping nature and the remoteness would enable him to find solace.
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In “It Remains”, Shum and Chan are back in bringing us a supernatural horror adventure set in a secluded village on a remote island far away from the busy city. While mourning the death of his girlfriend, Zi Jie, a grief-stricken young waiter keeps getting flashbacks of the car accident that killed her. In an attempt to console him, his three friends take him to a small village hopping nature and the remoteness would enable him to find solace.
Check the interview...
- 2/11/2024
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
My Prince Edward Cheng Cheng Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Norris Wong Writer: Norris Wong Cast: Stephy Tang, Pak Hon Chu, Hee Ching Paw Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 8/26/20 Opens: September 2, 2020 Right up until the mid-1960s, all my single friends and I lived […]
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- 8/28/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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