Lawrence Kan’s newsroom drama In Broad Daylight leads the pack going into the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards with 16 nominations.
The feature, which follows an undercover journalist who exposes the abuse of residents in a nursing home, secured nods in all but three of the 19 categories. It marks the second feature by Kan and proved the fourth highest grossing local film in 2023.
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Also gaining multiple nominations was Nick Cheuk’s emotive drama Time Still Turns The Pages and Felix Chong’s financial crime extravaganza The Goldfinger, which secured 12 nods apiece, while Jack Ng...
The feature, which follows an undercover journalist who exposes the abuse of residents in a nursing home, secured nods in all but three of the 19 categories. It marks the second feature by Kan and proved the fourth highest grossing local film in 2023.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
Also gaining multiple nominations was Nick Cheuk’s emotive drama Time Still Turns The Pages and Felix Chong’s financial crime extravaganza The Goldfinger, which secured 12 nods apiece, while Jack Ng...
- 2/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
In a moment of irresponsible negligence, sharp-tongued barrister Adrian Lam (Dayo Wong) mishandles a child abuse case and indirectly sentences the innocent Jolene Tsang (Louise Wong) to prison for 17 years. Falling from disgrace, Adrian decides to serve the public and defend the commoners, until an unlikely opportunity for appeal surfaces. Determined to right his wrong, Adrian gathers former partners Evelyn Fong (Renci Yeung) and Prince (Ho Kai Wa) to free Jolene, but that would mean fighting against the tycoons, Victoria (Fish Liew) and Desmond Chung (Adam Pak), who also have barrister James Tung (Michael Wong) as their private consultant. With pressure from media and police, and facing tough cross examination from prosecutor Kam Yuen Shan (Tse Kwan Ho) in court, how will Adrian uphold justice and punish the true culprit?...
- 12/19/2022
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The treatment of sapphic love in films could be an uncomfortable toss-up between tragedy and bliss, but “The First Girl I Loved” does neither of these. Co-directed by Candy Ng Wing-shan and Chiu Hoi Yeung, the entry to the 2021 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and 2022 Osaka Asian Film Festival instead explores the liminal space between the two, where love simply evolves and is not punctuated by anything.
“The First Girl I Loved” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
The film tells the story of Lee Wing Nam and Sylvia Lee Sum Yuet and how their romance blossoms in a Catholic all-girls school in Hong Kong during their youth, only to see its certitude challenged as they slowly enter the realm of adulthood. The hurdles to their love first come in the form of institutions, with restrictions and rules imposed by an educational system defined by dogma. Wing and...
“The First Girl I Loved” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
The film tells the story of Lee Wing Nam and Sylvia Lee Sum Yuet and how their romance blossoms in a Catholic all-girls school in Hong Kong during their youth, only to see its certitude challenged as they slowly enter the realm of adulthood. The hurdles to their love first come in the form of institutions, with restrictions and rules imposed by an educational system defined by dogma. Wing and...
- 4/27/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
The treatment of sapphic love in films could be an uncomfortable toss-up between tragedy and bliss, but “The First Girl I Loved” does neither of these. Co-directed by Candy Ng Wing-shan and Chiu Hoi Yeung, the entry to the 2021 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and 2022 Osaka Asian Film Festival instead explores the liminal space between the two, where love simply evolves and is not punctuated by anything.
“The First Girl I Loved” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The film tells the story of Lee Wing Nam and Sylvia Lee Sum Yuet and how their romance blossoms in a Catholic all-girls school in Hong Kong during their youth, only to see its certitude challenged as they slowly enter the realm of adulthood. The hurdles to their love first come in the form of institutions, with restrictions and rules imposed by an educational system defined by dogma. Wing and Sylvia...
“The First Girl I Loved” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The film tells the story of Lee Wing Nam and Sylvia Lee Sum Yuet and how their romance blossoms in a Catholic all-girls school in Hong Kong during their youth, only to see its certitude challenged as they slowly enter the realm of adulthood. The hurdles to their love first come in the form of institutions, with restrictions and rules imposed by an educational system defined by dogma. Wing and Sylvia...
- 3/12/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
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