Press Release - July 6, 2005

A series of Hong Kong’s recent films will mark their premiere in Montreal at the “Hong Kong Cinema” section of this year’s Fantasia Film Festival to be held from July 7 to July 25. In addition, the festival will also feature four representative works of the Shaw Brothers in the “Spotlight: Return of the Invincible Shaw Brothers” section.

The nine Hong Kong films, to be presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), include latest productions such as the "Breaking News", “Love Battlefield” , “White Dragon”, “Breaking News” and “Three…Extremes”. The Hong Kong Night on July 24 will specially screen film director Derek Yee’s “One Nite in Mongkok”, which won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards. Yee was also the winner of “Best Director” of the 11th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.

Shaw Brothers’ legendary productions “Heroes of the East”, “The New One-Armed Swordsman”, “Shaolin Temple” and Bruce Lee’s “Way of the Dragon” will complement the modern film series. All movies are to be shown at Théâtre Hall Concordia (1455 de Maisonneuve O.) and Salle J.A. De Sève (1400 de Maisonneuve O.) in Montreal.

Over 100 films will be screened in the festival. Apart from Hong Kong, Fantasia will also feature other Asian films, including 25 Japanese feature films, and 15 Korean feature films --including “Crying Fist”, winner of Prix de la critique at the last Cannes Film Festival. Other films are European, North and South American productions. Nine programs of short films will be featured, three of which showcase Quebec films.

Schedule of the Hong Kong films at the 9th Fantasia Film Festival:
“The New One-Armed Swordsman” by David Chiang, Ti Lung, Li Ching
July 9th, 2005 - 2:45 pm - Hall Theatre
July 10th, 2005 - 3:20 pm - J.A. De Seve

“Shaolin Temple” by Alexander Fu Sheng, David Chiang, Chi Kuan-chun
July 13th, 2005 - 5:15 pm - Hall Theatre
July 18th, 2005 - 7:30 pm - J.A. De Seve

Montreal Premiere “Breaking News” by Nick Cheung, Richie Ren
July 15th, 2005 - 9:55 pm - Hall Theatre
July 18th, 2005 - 5:30 pm - J.A. De Seve

Canadian Premiere “Love Battlefield” by Eason Chan, Niki Chow, Carl Ng
July 15th, 2005 - 3:00 pm - J.A. De Seve
July 18th, 2005 - 9:45 pm - J.A. De Seve
July 20th, 2005 - 9:35 pm - J.A. De Seve

Canadian Premiere “White Dragon” by Cecilia Cheung, Francis Ng, Andy On
July 17th, 2005 - 5:15 pm - Hall Theatre
July 24th, 2005 - 1:00 pm - J.A. De Seve

Hong Kong Night feature “One Nite in Mongkok” by Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung, Alex Fong:
July 19th, 2005 - 3:00 pm - J.A. De Seve
July 24th, 2005 - 8:00 pm - Hall Theatre

Montreal Premiere “Three… Extremes” by Tony Ka-fai Leung, Bai Ling, Kyoko Hasegawa, Lim Won-hee on:
July 22nd, 2005 - 11:55 pm - Hall Theatre
July 23rd, 2005 - 9:20 pm - Hall Theatre

“Heroes of the East” by Gordon Liu, Simon Yuen, Liu Chai-Liang on:
July 23rd, 2005 - 7:20 pm - J.A. De Seve
July 24th, 2005 - 3:30 pm - Hall Theatre

The screening time of Bruce Lee’s “Way of the Dragon” (restored version) is to be announced very soon.

Tickets are now available at the Concordia Hall Theatre and the Admission network (Tel: 514.790.1245 in Montreal or 1.800.361.4595) at $7.50 each.

Described as "the coolest festival in the world”, the Fantasia Film Festival highlights the best in contemporary international genre cinema from around the world. For details of the festival program, please visit “http://www.fantasiafestival.com”.


For more information, please contact: Stephen Siu, Assistant Director (Public Relations) of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office at: (416)924-5544 or email: [email protected].

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