As hot money flees the China film market and financing dries up, the romantic film genre will actually become more attractive for investors, assesses Teng Congcong, director of the recent Chinese romantic drama “Send Me To the Clouds.”
“Things used to be moving in the direction of big budget blockbusters, but the financing that’s leftover these days is more rational. People will be more drawn to projects where the investment requirements aren’t perhaps so high, but the returns are nonetheless stable.”
Her film, her first feature, was made on a budget of $1.4 million (RMB10 million). Fresh off four Golden Rooster Award nominations and one best supporting actress win, “Clouds” will be hitting Amazon Prime streaming on Dec. 20.
Coincidentally, the movie stars this year’s Golden Rooster Award ambassador Yao Chen, who is sometimes called China’s Angelina Jolie. The film tells the story of a young journalist who rethinks family,...
“Things used to be moving in the direction of big budget blockbusters, but the financing that’s leftover these days is more rational. People will be more drawn to projects where the investment requirements aren’t perhaps so high, but the returns are nonetheless stable.”
Her film, her first feature, was made on a budget of $1.4 million (RMB10 million). Fresh off four Golden Rooster Award nominations and one best supporting actress win, “Clouds” will be hitting Amazon Prime streaming on Dec. 20.
Coincidentally, the movie stars this year’s Golden Rooster Award ambassador Yao Chen, who is sometimes called China’s Angelina Jolie. The film tells the story of a young journalist who rethinks family,...
- 12/5/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Yao Chen's stellar year continued Saturday as the Chinese star received the Singapore International Film Festival's (Sgiff) cinema icon award.
The 40-year-old actress, philanthropist, social media influencer and newly minted producer provided the wattage at the 30th Sgiff awards ceremony held at the National Museum of Singapore. Yao was recognized for a career that has encompassed a wildly popular television series (Lurk) and award winning films (All is Well).
To further celebrate Yao, Sgiff also screened her latest film Send Me to the Clouds, a role which won Yao the best actress award at this year's ...
The 40-year-old actress, philanthropist, social media influencer and newly minted producer provided the wattage at the 30th Sgiff awards ceremony held at the National Museum of Singapore. Yao was recognized for a career that has encompassed a wildly popular television series (Lurk) and award winning films (All is Well).
To further celebrate Yao, Sgiff also screened her latest film Send Me to the Clouds, a role which won Yao the best actress award at this year's ...
- 12/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Yao Chen's stellar year continued Saturday as the Chinese star received the Singapore International Film Festival's (Sgiff) cinema icon award.
The 40-year-old actress, philanthropist, social media influencer and newly minted producer provided the wattage at the 30th Sgiff awards ceremony held at the National Museum of Singapore. Yao was recognized for a career that has encompassed a wildly popular television series (Lurk) and award winning films (All is Well).
To further celebrate Yao, Sgiff also screened her latest film Send Me to the Clouds, a role which won Yao the best actress award at this year's ...
The 40-year-old actress, philanthropist, social media influencer and newly minted producer provided the wattage at the 30th Sgiff awards ceremony held at the National Museum of Singapore. Yao was recognized for a career that has encompassed a wildly popular television series (Lurk) and award winning films (All is Well).
To further celebrate Yao, Sgiff also screened her latest film Send Me to the Clouds, a role which won Yao the best actress award at this year's ...
- 12/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Scales” (aka “Sayidat Al Bahr”), directed by Saudi Arabian first-time filmmaker, Shahad Ameen, was named as the best film in the Asian feature competition at the 30th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival.
The tale of a young girl who defies her village’s harsh and chauvinistic traditions to prove her worth, collected the festival’s Silver Screen Award on Saturday at a ceremony held in the National Museum of Singapore.
The blue carpet event welcomed local figures Boo Junfeng, Royston Tan, and Tan Pin Pin, as well as film industry officials Joachim Ng, and Howie Lau. Chinese acting star Yao Chen and Japanese director Miike Takashi were also present to pick up special awards. Yao spiced up proceedings, with a throw-away comment: “recently I have been able to play several characters who found the strength to go after the love and sex that they wanted.”
Anthony Chen, whose...
The tale of a young girl who defies her village’s harsh and chauvinistic traditions to prove her worth, collected the festival’s Silver Screen Award on Saturday at a ceremony held in the National Museum of Singapore.
The blue carpet event welcomed local figures Boo Junfeng, Royston Tan, and Tan Pin Pin, as well as film industry officials Joachim Ng, and Howie Lau. Chinese acting star Yao Chen and Japanese director Miike Takashi were also present to pick up special awards. Yao spiced up proceedings, with a throw-away comment: “recently I have been able to play several characters who found the strength to go after the love and sex that they wanted.”
Anthony Chen, whose...
- 11/30/2019
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Refreshed for the 30th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff), this year’s Cinema Icon Award will be conferred to distinguished Chinese actress, Yao Chen, for her outstanding achievements in bringing Asia’s story to life on screen. The Award will be presented to the actress on 30 November during the Sgiff’s Silver Screen Awards held at the National Museum of Singapore.
Best known for her phenomenal performances in Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are the One II (2010), Chen Kaige’s Caught in the Web (2012), and the action blockbuster Firestorm – of which she won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 14th Chinese Film Media Awards – Yao has been a role model to the younger generation of actors. Her professional conduct has also garnered long-standing support from many around the world. Earlier this year, Yao received the Golden Mulberry Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 21st Far East Film Festival, and was...
Best known for her phenomenal performances in Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are the One II (2010), Chen Kaige’s Caught in the Web (2012), and the action blockbuster Firestorm – of which she won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 14th Chinese Film Media Awards – Yao has been a role model to the younger generation of actors. Her professional conduct has also garnered long-standing support from many around the world. Earlier this year, Yao received the Golden Mulberry Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 21st Far East Film Festival, and was...
- 11/3/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The festivals’s long-running Silver Screen Awards includes a nine-strong Asian feature film competition, featuring several titles by first-time directors.
The Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has revealed the line-up for its 30th edition, which runs Nov 21-Dec 1.
The festivals’s long-running Silver Screen Awards includes a nine-strong Asian feature film competition, featuring several titles by first-time directors. Most of the contenders are already award winners, including Gu Xiaogang’s Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains which earned best film and best director at First International Film Festival in Xining, Yosep Anggi Noen’s The Science Of Fictions, which received a special mention at Locarno,...
The Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has revealed the line-up for its 30th edition, which runs Nov 21-Dec 1.
The festivals’s long-running Silver Screen Awards includes a nine-strong Asian feature film competition, featuring several titles by first-time directors. Most of the contenders are already award winners, including Gu Xiaogang’s Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains which earned best film and best director at First International Film Festival in Xining, Yosep Anggi Noen’s The Science Of Fictions, which received a special mention at Locarno,...
- 10/22/2019
- by 1100978¦Silvia Wong¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
For its 30th edition the Singapore International Film Festival has avoided programming novelty and instead focused on assembling excellence – mostly indie titles — from Asia and further afield.
The festival, which previously announced local filmmaker Anthony Chen’s second feature “Wet Season” as its opening night gala presentation, announced the balance of its programming on Tuesday. Other galas are set to include “Downton Abbey,” and “Nina Wu.” Hirokazu Koreeda’s “The Truth” was named as the closing film. The festival runs Nov. 21 – Dec. 1.
The nine-film competition section includes: “Dwelling in The Fuchun Mountains”; Indian animation, “Bombay Rose”; Indonesia’s “The Science of Fictions,” and “Verdict,” all of which have received favorable reception elsewhere on the festival circuit.
Prizes for the competition will be decided by a jury that includes India’’s Anurag Kashyap, Indonesia’s Nia Dinata, Singapore’s Amir Muhammad, and Hong Kong’s Pang Ho-cheung.
One sidebar section includes Asia-Pacific festival favorites including “Balloon,...
The festival, which previously announced local filmmaker Anthony Chen’s second feature “Wet Season” as its opening night gala presentation, announced the balance of its programming on Tuesday. Other galas are set to include “Downton Abbey,” and “Nina Wu.” Hirokazu Koreeda’s “The Truth” was named as the closing film. The festival runs Nov. 21 – Dec. 1.
The nine-film competition section includes: “Dwelling in The Fuchun Mountains”; Indian animation, “Bombay Rose”; Indonesia’s “The Science of Fictions,” and “Verdict,” all of which have received favorable reception elsewhere on the festival circuit.
Prizes for the competition will be decided by a jury that includes India’’s Anurag Kashyap, Indonesia’s Nia Dinata, Singapore’s Amir Muhammad, and Hong Kong’s Pang Ho-cheung.
One sidebar section includes Asia-Pacific festival favorites including “Balloon,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Director Teng Congcong studied filmmaking at the Beijing Film Academy under the likes of legendary director Xie Fie, eventually getting her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Directing from the prestigious institute. Winning a number of awards for her short films, she makes her feature film debut with “Send Me to the Clouds“, a film which examines the current position of educated independent women born in the era of China’s “One Child Policy” through the story of a journalist suffering from ovarian cancer.
The film is making waves since its release, not least for its chief theme of the female desire for sex in China’s conservative society. After screening in quite a few domestic film festivals and having had a limited release in North America last month, the film is now ready for a wider Festival run, with director Teng Congcong making an appearance to talk about...
The film is making waves since its release, not least for its chief theme of the female desire for sex in China’s conservative society. After screening in quite a few domestic film festivals and having had a limited release in North America last month, the film is now ready for a wider Festival run, with director Teng Congcong making an appearance to talk about...
- 10/18/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
China’s decades-long One Child Policy gave birth to a generation of females lost in their identity, girls raised as the boys that their parents hoped for, who had to compete with their counterpart males at every step of the way. Director Teng Congcong’s debut film “Send Me to the Clouds” takes a look at the st’ory of one such woman in an effectively subtle yet humorous manner.
“Send me to the Clouds” is released in cinemas all over the Us, by Cheng Cheng Films
A chance visit to the doctor reveals that carefree yet strong-willed journalist Sheng Nan (a name that literally means “surpass men”) has ovarian cancer. Thoughts of raising the vast sum of money required for the treatment fill her mind when she receives an offer to ghost-write the autobiography of Mr. Li, a prominent artist and calligrapher in his day, through her colleague Si Mao.
“Send me to the Clouds” is released in cinemas all over the Us, by Cheng Cheng Films
A chance visit to the doctor reveals that carefree yet strong-willed journalist Sheng Nan (a name that literally means “surpass men”) has ovarian cancer. Thoughts of raising the vast sum of money required for the treatment fill her mind when she receives an offer to ghost-write the autobiography of Mr. Li, a prominent artist and calligrapher in his day, through her colleague Si Mao.
- 9/22/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
New York-based distributor Cheng Cheng has picked up North American all rights to first-time filmmaker Teng Congcong’s comedy-drama Send Me to the Clouds. The film starring Yao Chen, who’s also its producer, follows an ovarian cancer patient’s desperate quest for an unforgettable sexual experience before her surgery. The picture opened in Chinese theaters last weekend after bowing at Shanghai International Film Festival and First International Film Festival. Its humorous touch on struggles faced by a generation of women born under China’s One-Child policy won it a 100% score in verified influencers’ recommendations on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter. The distributor behind Chinese language films including The Great Buddha+, Crosscurrent and SoulMate is planning a theatrical release in fall 2019.
“Cheng Cheng has always championed films with strong female leads. Now we’d also like to show how Chinese women have contributed to Chinese language cinema from leading roles behind the scene.
“Cheng Cheng has always championed films with strong female leads. Now we’d also like to show how Chinese women have contributed to Chinese language cinema from leading roles behind the scene.
- 8/21/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
New York-based distributor Cheng Cheng Films has acquired North American rights to first-time Chinese director Teng Congcong’s comedy drama “Send Me to the Clouds,” starring and produced by A-list actress Yao Chen. The company is planning a theatrical release for fall 2019.
“Cheng Cheng has always championed films with strong female leads,” the firm said in a statement. “We need to focus our resources and efforts on releasing women-directed films until its number is equal to that of men-directed films in our catalog. We make that commitment to ourselves and our audience. ‘Send Me to the Clouds’ is a perfect start.”
The film examines the societal pressures facing women born under China’s One Child Policy through the misadventures of a young journalist who, after a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, goes in search of sex and money before she must face an expensive surgery that will physically numb her.
The...
“Cheng Cheng has always championed films with strong female leads,” the firm said in a statement. “We need to focus our resources and efforts on releasing women-directed films until its number is equal to that of men-directed films in our catalog. We make that commitment to ourselves and our audience. ‘Send Me to the Clouds’ is a perfect start.”
The film examines the societal pressures facing women born under China’s One Child Policy through the misadventures of a young journalist who, after a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, goes in search of sex and money before she must face an expensive surgery that will physically numb her.
The...
- 8/20/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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