Elizabeth Kerr

1 week ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

“I don’t mind making bad films,” admits director Trevor Choi Hong-ying as he relaxes on the plush sofa in his shared Wan Chai office. That’s not to say he isn’t trying: Choi has seen two fully or partially self-funded features films hit theatres in Hong Kong in the last six months – Fresh Off Markham (敗走麥城) last winter and Smashing Frank (搗破法蘭克), released in mid-April. “I would say both these films were like homework. It’s practice for me. That’s how I learn,” says Choi.

3 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

For the uninitiated, a pavane is the music for a slow, processional dance, now mostly associated with all things archaic – kind of like a cotillion. It’s a telling choice for Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun’s third feature film, Pavane For An Infant (搖籃凡世), but on reflection it’s not so disconnected. The film, after all, is about the slow processes that are chipping away at women’s agency and the archaic tone of the laws that govern them.

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Robin Lee needs a better suit. Not on this humid evening in late March – but he’ll need better duds for the upcoming 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards, where he’s in the running for best new director and best editing for his first feature documentary Four Trails (香港四徑大步走) about the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge (HK4TUC).

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Actors Hedwig Tam Sin-yin and Lo Chun-yip are sitting in the screening room at the office of Montages of a Modern Motherhood distributor Golden Scene. Lo looks like the schoolteacher he played in Nick Cheuk’s Time Still Turns the Pages, decked out in a cardigan and blue dress shirt. Tam is a little more glammed up in a cool black and white patterned dress complemented by impeccable styling.

2 months ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

“I’m curious about a Western woman’s opinion, really,” says Fruit Chan as he settles into his seat at what’s effectively a around table discussion of his latest film as a producer, True Love, For Once in My Life (淺淺歲月), a decades-spanning drama about a Hong Kong woman whose marriage collapses in divorce. “I want to know what’s your angle, because in Asia a lot of men are very…” He  trails off, which allows the film’s star, Cecilia Yip Tung, sitting across from him, to interject.