48-hour Film Challenge
Eight teams participating in the challenge, including teams led by Adam Wong (director of She Remembers, He Forgets), Welby Chung (renowned TV commercial and music video director) and Mo Lai (cross-media artist), will push the boundaries of production and create a brand new short film within just 48 hours. These eight films will be screened at 7.30pm, 25 September during the Carnival, to be adjudicated by Nansun Shi (veteran film producer), O Sing-pui (renowned film director and cinematographer) and Eric Poon (documentary filmmaker / Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Chinese University of Hong Kong), as well as voted by the audience. The winner will get a prize of HK$100,000!
Jury
(Photo Courtesy of Teo Keng Beng)
Nansun Shi
Nansun Shi is an esteemed and prolific producer. She has produced such blockbuster hits as The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D (2011), Young Detective Dee – Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013) and The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014). She was pivotal to the success of Cinema City and Film Workshop Co Ltd., which she founded with internationally acclaimed producer / director Tsui Hark. Nansun Shi was a juror of the Berlin Film Festival’s main competition in 2007, and a juror of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. She received the honour Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government in 2013, Best Independent Producer Award at the 67th Festival del film Locarno in 2014, Golden Mulberry Lifetime Achievement Award at the 17th Udine Far East Film Festival and Marie Claire Asia Star Awards’ Special Achievement Award at the 20th Busan International Film Festival in 2015.
O Sing-pui
O Sing-pui is a cinematographer, director and producer. He studied film production at the Film Culture Centre and joined the industry when Tsui Hark spotted his talent. His directorial debut The Story Behind the Concert starred famous singer Alan Tam. In 1997 he served as the director of photography for Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong, and involved in quite a number of films as cinematographer since then: You Shoot, I Shoot, Heroes in Love, The Pye Dog, Gallants, etc. He was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Ip Man. In 2016 he produced and directed the photography of Weeds on Fire, a film about Hong Kong’s first youth baseball team, the Shatin Martins, beating the Japanese Buffalo team. He is currently the President of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers (HKSC).
Eric Poon
Eric Poon, veteran documentary producer, Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a winner of various international film and TV awards, Poon has made over 100 episodes for Radio Television Hong Kong’s flagship documentary series, Hong Kong Connection, in the past two decades. His major works include Child Soldiers, Defending Justice in China, Twenty Years On and Revolution 1911. Besides documentaries, Poon also produces programmes for youth, and encourages them to create their own work through multi-media projects.