Elizabeth Kerr

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Articles

Who Runs 300 Kilometres of Hong Kong Hiking Trails in Less Than 72 Hours? These People

2 weeks 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).
Hong Kong Motherhood Gets the Big Screen Treatment

3 weeks 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.
True Love, A Raw Look at Relationships Shot Entirely on an iPhone

1 month 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.
Starting from the Bottom: A New Doc Looks at Hong Kong’s Street Economy

Jan 15, 2025 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Wong Siu-pong gets very excited when a photographer asks him to stand near a container of garbage on the side of a road in Jordan. She gestures towards it and he almost bounds over to the bin.
Papa, A Hong Kong Crime Movie, But Not the One You Expect

Dec 4, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Philip Yung Chi-kwong’s industrial office in To Kwa Wan is notable for the cluttered rhythms and organised chaos of an arts space. Visitors are greeted by rack upon rack of costumes and props crammed into a gallery shared with another arts group. Writers sit tapping away on keyboards in breakout rooms. At present, Yung and his assistants are looking for two of the office’s four resident felines, and eventually Siu Fa and Dak Lei prance into Yung’s personal office.
A New Doc Captures the Energy of a Late, Beloved Activist for the Disabled

Nov 26, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

So Ka-ue is a little bit nervous. She’s not withdrawn or at any kind of loss for words but she admits she’s not sure what to expect on this day – the first time she’s been asked to interact with media from the other side of the camera. So just put the finishing touches on her first documentary as director, Ah Cheung: Wings of Hope, a film she’s been working on for four years.
The Last Dance Explores Family, Faith and the Limits of Taoism

Nov 14, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Whether or not one considers themself a follower of Taoist tenets, most anyone who lives in Hong Kong has encountered its most common funeral rite: breaking the gates of hell. In Taoism, the belief is that the dead face judgement in hell. During this judgement, a priest rushes into the ceremony with a fiery sword, breaks the gate holding the dead there and frees the soul for reincarnation.
A New Kind of Hong Kong Action Film

Nov 6, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Fight for Tomorrow (拼命三郎) is writer-director Chan Tai-lee’s third film, but he thinks of it more as his sophomore effort. After making his debut as a writer in 2004 with Simon Lui’s comedy Escape from Hong Kong Island, Chan fell in with Wilson Yip and quickly found himself on the path to a career as one of the industry’s great writers of commercial action films.
Hong Kong Girls Rebel: Riley Yip’s New Feature

Oct 22, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

When director Riley Yip Yuk-ying was doing auditions for her feature debut, Blossoms Under Somewhere (寄了一整個春天), she remembers actor Sheena Chan Shu-yan being perplexed. “[She] asked me, ‘Why am I taking these off here?’” recalls Yip. In the scene, a character strips off her underwear and dances around an elite girls’ school assembly hall, proudly swinging them over her head.
Hong Kong Film is Back in Action

Sep 26, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

The stories might be entirely unrelated, but Soi Cheang’s recent box office hit, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In and the upcoming Stuntman (武替道) by debuting directors Albert and Herbert Leung share a few key points. Both star fast-emerging actor Terrance Lau and under-appreciated journeyman Philip Ng, and both are defined by a strong undercurrent of nostalgia.