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CANNES MARKET 2002  (15 MAY- 25 MAY)

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to present our line-up for your consideration. Meanwhile we are grateful if you could suggest a convenient time for our meeting during Cannes Market. Please send this form back by fax or contact Ms. Lammy Li for an appointment or any further inquiries. We look forward to seeing you in Cannes.

Best regards,

Carrie Wong
Managing Director
Contact in Cannes Market (13-25 May): Cell Phone - (852) 9424 5010 / (852) 9366 3206

Screening   Mon  20 May 10:00  Olympia 4

Official Competition - 58th Mostra Internazionale D'arte Cinematografica, Silver Screen Awards of 15th Singapore International Film Festival
Opening Film - Hong Kong International Film Festival (2002); Closing Film - Taipei International Film Festival (2001);
Official Selection - 6th Pusan International Film Festival (Korea), Sundance Film Festival 2002 (US) and International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002 (The Netherlands)
The second part of Fruit Chan's trilogy about prostitutes from China: A father and his two sons, living in Hong Kong's last shanty and poorest town, face eviction by the government; but the arrival of a beautiful girl from Mainland China captivates their hearts completely and allows them to escape the reality of their lives.

* International Sales    Capitol Films           * Asian Sales   Golden Network Asia Ltd.

Screenings  Mon  20 May 18:00  Riviera 6
                        Tue   21 May 11:30  Riviera 5

Noble Thai warrior, Kun Pan, is tricked into going to war by Kun Chang who wants Kun Pan's wife, Pimpilalai. Kun Chang convinces Pimpilalai that her husband is dead and persuades her to marry him instead. Kun Pan finds out what Kun Chang has done and seeks revenge, but is thwarted in his efforts and banished by the king. Kun Pan retreats to live in the jungle, where he devotes himself to developing supernatural powers, through horsemanship, swordplay and magic. Thus armed, Kun Pan rescues his wife and they return to live in the jungle. However, Kun Pan learns that his mother is desperately ill so he makes one more journey back to the kingdom to see her. He is caught and imprisoned indefinitely, leaving Pimpilalai to give birth to their son, Ply Kaew, alone.   He grows up into a noble warrior, like his father. The country is again at war.   Ply Kaew, loyal to the king, asks for permission to find his father and use his magic to save the kingdom. Kun Pan agrees to help and the war is won, but he learns that the king has sentenced Pimpilalai to death.   Then disaster strikes as Kun Pan realizes that he cannot prevent tragedy from happening again

Screenings  Thur  16 May 09:15  Riviera 1
                        Mon   20 May 09:45  Riviera 4

Death is not the end.  Fear is the beginning.  Revenge is next…
It is late evening in a small pub somewhere in present day Bangkok.  Three young women take turns talking about their lives and the frightening experiences they have had with ghosts and the supernatural.
"Legend of the Drum": Jieb owns an antique business. One day a 70 years old drum came her way, and soon after that, Jieb began having strange dreams, and hearing a woman's voice speaking to her. Searching the drum's history, she discovers some shocking things about her own.
"Black Magic Woman": Pan, is single, lonely and looking for love. A friend introduces her to an herbal essence called Black Magic Woman, in a pagan ceremony. The scent induces men to fall in love with her, and she does not aware how dangerous the potion is.
"Revenge": Nop is a policeman who gets in trouble with authorities when he finds a deceased young woman and investigates it as a homicide, not suicide as his colleagues claimed. He may find that a guiding spirit in the form of a ghost is the only thing that can help him in his quest.

Screenings  Thur  16 May 14:00  Riviera 6
                        Fri      17 May 18:00  Riviera 6

Official Selection - 46th Asia Pacific Film Festival 2001 (Indonesia), Calcutta International Film Festival (India) and 6th Pusan International Film Festival (Korea), Far East Film Festival (Italy)
25th Pra Surasawadee Award 2001 Best Actor (Somchai Khemglad as Kit Silencer), Best Supporting Actor (Suthep Phongam as Pae Buffgun), New Actress (Pailin Pichitumphol as Jan) & Best Action Director (Kawee Sirikanerat)
Pae Buffgun, the old assassin gets the job after he came out from a prison on the first day because of the big money and a chance to make a come back.  The job is to kill the police chief "The Iron Cop".  He sets up his team with his old pals but there are two things they never know.  First, Pae Buffgun has been mistakenly identified as "Pae Toughgun", a real professional assassin.  Also, the most dangerous young hit man takes this job as well.  A war between four old men and a young one is expected.  The history will record this big generation war that come with laugh and tears.  No one will ever forget

Dir. by Danny Pang "Bangkok: Dangerous" "The Eye"
Starring   Pierre PNG "Forever Fever"   "Chicken Rice War"      Arisara WONG Chalee (Fresh)
                 Yvonne Lim

Footage Screening   Sun  19 May 09:30  Palais V

KTB Award - 4th Pusan Promotion Plan (Korea)(2001)
Oak Lee is a compulsive gambler, owing a ton of money to the loan sharks. One day, he decides to end his life and goes up an old eight-storey Chinese building. On the rooftop, he is going to jump off the building. Just before he does, he discovers, not far from him, a girl (Gogo) standing on the edge of the roof ready to jump off. She is clearly in a more confused state than he is and out of natural instincts he leaps forward to save her.
They have both undermined each other's intentions of suicide and so they just sit on the rooftop. Oak and Gogo agree that if they had the courage to kill themselves, they should have the courage to do something bigger. The moment they met each other, they gained back their "lives." From then on, they will wreak havoc everywhere they go, as someone who is fearless of death can do…

Production Budget: US$ 900,000
Commencement of Principal Photography: March, 2002      Delivery Date: August, 2002

Whatever our nationality, between the major events of being born and dying, we have to eat and eliminate our waste.
Public Toilet explores how young people from diverse cultural backgrounds wake up to the issues of sickness, pollution, love and immortality. A young man from China, born and abandoned in a public toilet, tries to find a miracle cure to save the woman who rescued him and raised him.   Two young Korean fishermen realize that pollution is killing the ocean and those that they love.   A tough hit-man in New York sets up his final mark – only to kill far more than he expects. And two Indian boys, escorting their ailing father to the legendary waters of the Ganges, meet Tony from Beijing who is searching for a miracle cure for his young brother.

When faced with insoluble problems and the imminent threat of death, there is a dawning of perception:  that beneath the fears and hopes, the tears and joy, and by reaching out to our fellow humans, we are (spiritual beings) capable of great love and trust, and with that, immortality.

Dir. by HO Ping
Starring     CHANG Chih       HSIA Ching-ting
Best Screenplay - 4eme Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville (2002)
Don Quixote Prize - International Federation of Film Societies, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (2002)
Official Selection - 32nd International Forum of New Cinema, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (2002)

 "To kill is easy; to bury is difficult." -- The story is built around a hole prepared to bury a dead body.  Turtle decided to kill his business partner Will after being tricked by him.  With the help of Chewy, everything is ready.  Action will be taken tonight and Turtle is now in a nearby restaurant.  But he does not know Chewy has another plan. For Will, he was unaware of this dangerous threat not just from Turtle, but also from his honey A-Mei, who wants to kidnap him for his money.  Meanwhile, the restaurant owner Ox is in fact a professional hit man.  He has already drilled a tiny hole in a karaoke club, is sitting in the next room and waiting for his target to show up.  The hole is ready, who will end up as the victim?

Official Competition - Premiere First Movie Award of Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2002 (Germany)
Official Competition - Giffoni Film Festival 2002 (Italy), Chonju International Film Festival
Official Selection - International Film Festival Karlovy Vary 2002

Life in a faraway north-west village of 12 years old boy Wang Shouxian was totally disrupted in this high-sky summer with the coming of a shooting team.  Shouxian's efforts in the audition impressed the team very much.  But the headmaster did not let him play in the film because he could not recite his lessons.  At the same time, he challenged a plot which said the role he plays would rather stay in the village than going back to the city.  Thus, he simply would not say the right lines during the shooting. So the shooting could not go on and the team moved to other places.  But Shouxian has not given up and went to find the shooting team…

A legend of the village warriors. A battle for friends, families, freedom and their lives.

Dir. by Thanit Jitnukul "Kuhn Pan"
Starring       Vinai Kraibutr      Bin Banloerit      Jaran Ngamdee      Chumpon Tappitak      Attakorn Suwabbaraj

Best Filmmaker - 3emme Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville (2001)
Winner of 11 awards in Surasawadee Thai Film Awards
Thai Box Office Hit - 400, 000, 000 baht taken nationwide.
Official selection - "Midnight Madness" of Toronto Int'l Film Festival, Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival (Australia), Helsinki Int'l Film Festival (Finland), Leeds Int'l Film Festival (UK), 6th Pusan Int'l Film Festival (Korea), Vancouver Int'l Film Festival (Canada), Hawaii Int'l Film Festival (US), St. Louis Int'l Film Festival (US), Asia Pacific Film Festival (Indonesia), Asiaticafilmmediale (Italy) Durango Film Festival 2002 (US), San Diego International Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival 2002, Barcelona Asian Film Festival (Spain) and Charleston Pacific Film Festival (US)

In the year of the Rooster, Buddhist Era 2308 (AD 1765), the Burmese army surrounded the Siamese capital Ayutthaya.
During the siege, the Burmese general Ne Miawsrihabodi, ordered his soldiers to pillage the surrounding countryside -- to murder the Siamese villagers and take the woman captive. Brutalized and outraged, the villagers rallied together to oppose the Burmese themselves. A small band of men thus began a skirmish at the sidelines of the siege of Ayutthaya that captured the hearts and minds of the Siamese all time…

Dir. by ZHU Wen (Scriptwriter of Zhang Ming’s "Clouds and Rain over Wushan"  Zhang Yuan’s"Seventeen Years")
Starring  Jinzi   CHENG Taisheng "High Sky Summer"

Special Jury Prize - "Cinema of the Present" of 58th Mostra Internazionale D'arte Cinematografica; "Silver Screen Award" - 15th Singapore International Film Festival
Best Directing Award and Best Actor (CHENG Taisheng) - 23rd Festival Des 3 Continents (France)
Official Competition - FIPRESCI & NETPAC Award of Brisbane International Film Festival , FIPRESCI Award of 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival (2002), "New Currents" of 6th Pusan International Film Festival (Korea), 3rd International Film Festival Bratislava (Slovakia), Cinema Novo Film Festival (Belgium) and FICBRASILIA (Brazil)

Shot on digital video and converted to 35mm, the film explores the irony of how a good deed is carried out by way of a criminal practice, and how death begets life.

Dir. by Juny Park
Starring Leon Lai "Comrades, Almost a Love Story" "Fallen Angel"      Lee Na-young      Park Eun-hye

Official Competition - 13th Valenciennes International Action and Adventure Film Festival (France)

Dr Chang has invented a special type of time machine: it transfers the traveler's mind into the body of their former self.  When his daughter Nam-hong gets stuck in the past, the scientist enlists the help of detective Sung-jin (Leon Lai) to rescue her.  By chance, Nam-hong resembles a princess in Sung-jin's dreams: in his previous life he was a simple warrior who overcame the prejudice of society to win her love.  But their romance ended tragically when at a time of war, Nam-hong's fiancee killed Sung-jin, leading her to take her own life.  Can Sung-jin change their destiny, rescue Nam-hong and defeat the armies of the enemy so that they can find everlasting happiness?
 
 

NEW PROJECTS

ANGULIMALA (In Production)
Thailand, 2002, Legendary Action Adventure, Thai
Dir. by Sutape Tunnirut (Script Advisor of "Bangkok: Dangerous" "Bang Rajan")
Starring Noppachai Chainam  Stella Malucchi "Tears of the Black Tiger"

Angulimala is a cruel mass murderer in the time of the Buddha, who misguidedly believed that killing a thousand humans is a meritorious deed to worship the gods, but which led him to more and more Karma actions.
Without even realizing that his last victim is his own mother, Angulimala is going to kill her. Suddenly he was interrupted just a few seconds before an arrow was shot. Angulimala came to realize that his very chase to the Dharma path is completely misguided and he becomes disillusioned with all his misguided actions in the past. He casts aside his sword, then followed the right path and finally became an arahant, "The Perfect One", after he realized the Buddha's words of wisdom - "I have stopped, but it is you who have not".

Production Budget: US$ 2 million

A wedding make-up artist Mann is in love with a painting artist Sam. Both of them know that their future cannot be a long-lasting relationship as Sam is seriously ill. Just before Sam passes away, he becomes obsessed with thinking about Tsing Dao where he was growing up.
After Sam’s death, Mann contemplates following Sam and ending her life. Until one day, Mann finds an unfinished scenic drawing by Sam. Mann believes that this is the scenery of Tsing Dao and wants to find out the place where Sam was missing before his death…

Production Budget: US$ 1.5 million
Commencement of Principal Photography: September, 2002  Delivery Date: March, 2003

A new adaptation of Director King Hu's masterpiece "Raining in the Mountain" (1979).

"Film directors come and go, but true masters of the craft are few and far between. Up there with luminaries such as John Ford, Yasujiro Ozu and Jean-Luc Godard is a less well-know figure KING HU." - Richard James Havis.
 
 
 

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