Category: 2017 Award

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A down and out guy called Ping (Derek Tsang) gets a job at a convenience store one night. Ping decides to have some fun to strike back against his new unpleasant employer, Fat Boss (Lam Suet) and colleague Mabel (J. Arie) joins in the mischief. During the night a passerby (Phillip Keung) needs the toilet, a young woman in a cheerleader’s outfit (Anita Choi) wants some condoms, and Grandpa (Feng Tsui Fan) wants a sandwich and some large scissors. Before long insanity ensues and the Exceed convenience store becomes the scene of a robbery.

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Director:  Ray Yeung
Writer: Ray Yeung
Stars:   Jake Choi, James Chen, Jennifer Neala Page
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Romance

FRONT COVER tells the story of Ryan Fu, a gay Chinese American who detests his Asian heritage and through talent and hard work, has attained his dream job as a celebrity fashion stylist. One day Ryan’s boss assigns him to style Ning, an actor who has just arrived from Beijing for a top magazine photo shoot. Ning dismisses Ryan’s initial Western styling and demands Ryan creates an image for him which represents the power of the new China. Their egos and opinions clash resulting in a strained and difficult working relationship. Over the following days, they slowly discover that they have a lot in common, and a mutual attraction begins to develop. As they become closer, Ryan reveals that he rejects his Chinese heritage because he is ashamed of his impoverished upbringing. Ning opens up and confesses that he is in the closet. After a night out on the town together, a Chinese tabloid magazine exposes Ning as gay. Terrified of the impact it will have on his career, Ning implores Ryan to help him deny the story. Ryan must now decide to help Ning or stay true to himself.

“The Song of Cotton” based on the America’s National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner China-born author Ha Jin’s novel “A Pension Plan”. The young woman Mianhua (“Cotton”) gets a job that she has no past experience of: a full-time caretaker. Her client is an old stubborn boxer who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease with a son (with his later wife) living overseas taking no care of him, and a daughter with his ex-wife who hires Mianhua. Yet the daughter distrusts and despises all nannies for “knows only lying, abusing, and taking advantages”; so is her attitude towards Mianhua. Under the same roof, however, the old man and Mianhua start to develop a trusty and warm relationship over time where he even starts to mistake Mianhua as his ex-wife whom he owed a love debt to. All of a sudden, Mianhua finds out that she got pregnant…

Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: Chinese/English

Synopsis:

In Guizhou Province, China, a child who dies before the age of 14 is called abortion and he cannot enter the family graves or be listed in the family tree. 5-year-old Haiwa, the only son of the protagonist Old Ho, is diagnosed with terminal illness and will die soon. Old Ho wants to burn incense and pray for his son after Haiwa dies. He wants his son to be remembered. Therefore he decides to donate all his son’s organs and engrave his son’s name on the monument. Beyond his expectation, Old Ho finds it is so difficult to donate Haiwa’s organs.

Director’s Comments:

This film is adapted from the real event. I write the script myself. I take the film as a mirror which I express the place where I live, the world I know, the things I see and hear. My film is neither a tear gas nor a stimulant. It is a calm description of life disengaged from the sensory stimulus. This is my original intention of making this film. Some sadness in the film does not mean a necessary cry, but that kind of heaviness will impress you greatly. There is also some hope in the film. It may not release your mind. However, there will always be a slight warmth into your heart.

Awards:

2019 GKCFF Best Director/Best Actor