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Film Title
金妹
Sister Kam
Director:
Lo Chun-yip
- Film Info
- Cast & Crew
- Awards & Screening
- About the Director
Production Country |
Hong Kong |
Production Year |
2013 |
Duration |
23’44” |
Colour |
Color |
Language |
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles |
Genre |
Documentary |
Shooting Format |
HD |
Synopsis |
As you step into that restaurant, French music plays. The colour scheme is mainly red and black, and the décor has a slightly cultural flavour. You keep going to the bathroom next to the back entrance, and perhaps you’ll see the dishwashing woman. She is taking a nap standing, with her hands still in the plastic bucket—a scene more surreal than the restaurant itself. Her name is Sister Kam. |
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Distribution & Screening |
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Director
Producer
Cameraman
Sound
Editor |
Lo Chun-yip
Lo
Chun-yip
Wong
Fei-pang , Lee Hoi-wah
Lee
Hoi-wah
Lo Chun-yip |
2013
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Hong
Kong
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Official Selection, Hong Kong Independent Film Festival
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2013
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Hong
Kong
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Official Selection, Hong Kong International Film Festival
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2013
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China
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Official Selection, Shenzhen Fringe Festival
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2013
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Hong
Kong
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Official Selection, Open
Category, 18th ifva Awards
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2013
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Taiwan
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Official Selection, 13th South Taiwan Film Festival
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Lo Chun-yip (siuyea) studies film at the
Hong Kong City University, School of Creative Media. And from 2010 onwards has been filming several short films: 《deep in mind》, 《21 years after》《to
be continued》,《Paradox》and the latest one
《Sister Kam》, which all set off from the socio-political perspective with regard
to changes in the society. He finished his first feature
documentary 《Days After n Coming》in 2012 and
joined number of film festivals around the world.
Filmography
2010 Deep in
mind
2010 to be
continued
2011 A short
film by soboring
2011 Paradox
2012 Days
After n Coming
2013 Sister
Kam
2014 At the
Contour End |
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Remarks shared after Festival
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“I have directed several short films since 2008. Meanwhile, I’m an actor
and organiser of a student film festival in Hong Kong. I’ve been to Saint
Petersburg OPEN CINEMA International Film Festival in 2011 under the
sponsorship of NAE short film.. [More]“I have directed several short films since 2008. Meanwhile, I’m an actor
and organiser of a student film festival in Hong Kong. I’ve been to Saint
Petersburg OPEN CINEMA International Film Festival in 2011 under the
sponsorship of NAE short film.
This time, thanks to NAE, I had a chance to discover one of the biggest
short film festivals in the world: Clermont Ferrand International Short Film
Festival and market and to present my documentary «Sister KAM».
Frankly speaking, this documentary is not targeting global audience and
people who watch it are supposed to have already acquired at least a basic
knowledge of Hong Kong society. Surprisingly, after screening, a French lady aged
70 told me that she really liked this documentary even she couldn’t understand
everything. She would like to know more about the working status and senior
citizens welfare in Hong Kong. She is very interested in the welfare system in
other countries. I’m glad to see that local senior citizens have enjoyed our
screening. It’s a very popular phenomenon here in France that retired people
love going to the cinema and I can tell that they fall in love with cinema they
were young. The cinema culture has been formed several decades.
I can see there were international professionals, amazing audience and a
powerful network in Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival. Comparing to the
short film projects in Hong Kong film festivals, it’s neither the same level,
nor the same quantity.
Thanks to this trip, I am inspired,
especially for the story-telling structure. In Hong Kong, the film academy students have been trained to make
feature films at the very beginning. After that, they try to reduce and edit a
feature-length creation into a short version. But here, we can see a real short
film structure. I’m
planning for my new short film project. I am going to reconsider my structure and create something more
international. ”
— Shared by Lo Chun-yip, director of Sister KAM, after attending
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival & Market 2016 in France,
under the sponsorship of NAE.
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