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Foreword Story of Flowing Remembrance of a Village Documentary of Hong Kong Sai Kung Aborigines

Synopsis Flowing Stories is a documentary feature about Ho Chung village located in Hong Kong’s New Territories. Director TSANG Tsui-Shan will interview several different generations of villagers, watching the past melt into the future, as both the village and the world have changed. This documentary is a visual record of Hong Kong’s disappearing village traditions, to reconstruct now-vanished landscapes through photo stills and document contemporary village life through interviews. It is not just a simple historical account of the Ho Chung Village. This documentary also explores the notion of home, to follow the waves of migration taken by the villagers to France and England. People travel and settle all over the world, always with a notion of finding a place called home.

Visual Treatment

Flowing Stories A film by Tsang Tsui Shan Visual Treatment

Interviews Live Image Recording Animation Old photograph

Animation

Old Photos

oldvillage05 + aerial06

Characters

Status & Summary Shooting: 60% completed in UK, France and Belgium Financing: 50% of funding secured Genre: Documentary Duration: 90 mins Country: Hong Kong, China Language: Cantonese Format: HD Release Date: February 2013 Budget: US$130,000

Status & Summary Produced by : In Association with : With the support of : Supported by : This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from :

Timetable Pre-Production: Jan – Dec 2010 Production: Jan 2011 – April 2012 Post-Production: May - October, 2012 Release: February, 2013

Company Introduction River Vision Production, based in Hong Kong, was formed with the objective of producing independent Hong Kong movies. In 2008, River Vision Production produced emerging filmmaker TSANG Tsui-Shan's first feature, Lovers on the Road, which received financial support from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Its most recent production, Big Blue Lake, was selected by the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival. The Gate of Youth, its latest drama project, has been chosen to participate in the 2011 Golden Horse Film Project Market.

Director Introduction TSANG Tsui Shan: Graduated from the School of Film and TV of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, TSANG Tsui-Shan’s first narrative short Lonely Planet won the Silver Award at the 10 th ifva awards (Incubator for Film and Visual media in Asia) in In 2006, she started working on commercial films such as Lust, Caution, The Mummy 3 and Strawberry Cliff as an assistant director, foley artist and planner. In 2008, her first feature film Lovers On the Road has won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. Tsang has been nominated for the Best New Director of the 31 st Hong Kong Film Award 2012 with her second feature Big Blue Lake. Big Blue Lake has been chosen as the Film of Merit of the 18 th Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

Producer Introduction Teresa KWONG: Born in Hong Kong, Teresa KWONG is a promoter, curator and producer for film and media arts. Currently the senior program manager of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and ifva Director, Teresa is committed to nurture and promote the next generation of Asian talents in creative media. Since 2001, she has become a member of NETPAC (Network for Promoters of Asian Cinema) and has been invited to be the jury member of various international film festivals, including the Pusan International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Vesoul Asian Film Festival. Teresa has started producing films with emerging filmmakers in Hong Kong and China since Addicted to Love (directed by LIU Hao, 2010), as an official selection in the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Cyclo d’or award winner (the 17th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema 2011), is her debut feature producing project. Teresa has been closely working with Tsang Tsui Shan since 2007 and produces Tsang’s latest feature Big Blue Lake (2011).

Previous Work Big Blue Lake