Oscar Award-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang is back with a gripping, emotional documentary about struggling students from Hong Kong’s lower tier schools who pour their hearts and souls into producing a musical. Led by a tough but loving instructor, the students have...
My Voice, My Life (爭氣 | Hong Kong 2014 | in Cantonese | 91 min. | Documentary) At last year’s CAAMFest, Wu Hao’s documentary “The Road to Fame” (成名之路 2013) tells a story about a group of talented students from a prestige drama university in...
by Melanie Leung Lin Tsz-nok was on a roll. Everything he said cracked up the audience, and that’s how he won the secondary school category of Hong Kong’s second Thanksgiving Stand-up Comedy Competition, organised by the charity group Dreams Possible. That’s quite an...
“My Voice, My Life” is in theaters now. Hong Kong Broadway – CINEMATHEQUE 26-Jan (Mon) 9:45pm 31-Jan (Sat) 2:00pm 3-Feb (Tue) 8:00pm 7-Feb (Sat) 6:00pm
By Dean Napolitano Comedy, drama and kung fu. In its golden era of the 1970s and ’80s, Hong Kong’s movie industry dominated Asia’s cultural landscape. But while the Chinese city’s film industry isn’t flourishing the way it was a generation ago, there still is a lot...
