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Tickets go on sale July 1 for the fully in-theater 20th anniversary edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center (Flc), running from July 15–28, 2022 at Flc, as well as on July 23 and July 28–31 at Asia Society, which will be co-presenting a selection of key films and a Hong Kong marathon day. International stars and acclaimed filmmakers will return in-person to grace the Nyaff red carpet at Flc, receive awards, speak at Q&a sessions, and impart wisdom during masterclasses and special talks.

Hong Kong cultural icon Josie Ho will headline Nyaff 2022 with her latest project as producer of the inspiring musical documentary Finding Bliss: Fire and Ice—The Director’s Cut, in which she travels with musicians and students from Hong Kong to Iceland for a transcendent collaboration. As a tribute to the acting superstar, the festival...

Exclusive: New finance-distribution company launched by former Tomson exec and a fund manager.

Former Tomson Entertainment executive Yvonne Chuang and fund manager Barry Lau have co-founded a new finance and distribution company, The One Entertainment Group, which aims to invest in Hong Kong talent.

The company’s first project is omnibus film Good Take!, produced by Eric Tsang, comprising short films from Hong Kong filmmakers.

The One Entertainment has executive produced and is distributing the film, which will open in Hong Kong in mid-April. It is also investing in a second instalment, Good Take! 2, also produced by Tsang.

“We aim to contribute to the Hong Kong movie business by nurturing new talent, although we’re also looking at Taiwanese filmmakers and may do some mainland China co-productions,” said Chuang.

Chaung and Lau, who is backing the new venture through Adamas Asset Management, are currently looking for new projects to invest in and will establish a distribution team in...

Full Strike

Written by Joe Chien, Chi-kin Kwok, Henri Wong, Pak-wing Yan & Ka Yee Yim

Directed by Chi-kin Kwok & Henri Wong

Hong Kong, 2015

Full Strike is a wacky sports comedy from directors Chi-kin Kwok and Henri Wong. In Full Strike, a group of society’s cast-offs come together to seek redemption through the sport of badminton. Bursting at the seams with obscenities and zany comedic performances, Full Strike is the perfect film for fans of filthy, over the top humor.

Disgraced badminton champion Ng Kau-sau (Josie Ho), was banned from the sport after her Hulk-like temper tantrums transformed her into a public menace; when the film begins, she has spent the past 10-years toiling away in obscurity. One stormy night, Kau-sau encounters a mysterious object falling out of the sky, which leads her to cross paths with three ex-cons (led by Ekin Cheng) looking to redeem themselves for their criminal pasts.

The 19th annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) is set to run from November 5 – 15, 2015 in Toronto and Richmond Hill. The festival highlights contemporary Asian cinema as well as work from the Asian Diaspora. Reel Asian also features a series of industry events in areas such as pitching and screenwriting to help guide and inspire creative minds.

After meticulously going over every synopsis, trailer, and bio that this year’s festival has to offer, I’ve put together a list of several can’t miss films at Reel Asian 2015.

Seoul Searching

During the 1980s, the Korean government instituted a policy which created summer camps aimed at enticing the country’s gyopo (foreign born) teenagers to visit their motherland. The plan seemed to be a win-win; parents could send their kids away on the Korean government’s dime, the kids would gain a first-hand cultural experience, and the country...

Halloween is coming to Montreal this summer, as the star-studded (both in front of and behind the camera) anthology horror film, Tales of Halloween, is scheduled to make its world premiere at the festival. JeruZalem, Turbo Kid, Deathgasm, and many more movies are also slated to screen:

Press Release -- "Montreal, May 6, 2015 – The 19th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is gearing up to rush Montreal with three weeks of cinematic inspiration and fantastical visions from across the world from July 14 until August 4, 2015.

Our complete lineup of programming and special events will be revealed in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, here’s an early First Wave Announcement of selected highlights and info to whet your appetite for the exciting things to come!

Unveiling Our 2015 Poster Art: Fantasia Continues Its Celebration Of Regional Folklore With The Wendigo

In recent editions, Fantasia has showcased poster art informed by various regional legends and myths,...

First wave of titles unveiled for 19th edition of Montreal’s genre film festival .

Keiichi Hara’s Miss Hokusai will receive its North American premiere as the opening film of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival (July 14-Aug 4).

Based on Hinako Suguira’s manga Sarusuberi, the film centres on the relationship between ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) artist Katsushika Hokusai and his talented daughter O-Ei.

Fantasia’s opening night will also see the Montreal premiere of Marvel Studios’ latest outing Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed.

The first wave of titles also includes the world premieres of horror omnibus Tales of Halloween, featuring segments directed by the likes of Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall and Lucky McKee, and Israeli duo Yoav & Doron Paz’s Jeruzalem which follows a group of American teenagers who find themselves inside their worst nightmare when they visit Jerusalem on Yom Kippur.

This year’s festival will also host the international premiere of Eiichiro Hasumi...

The Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, now in its 19th year, is one of our favorite festivals around and a fan favorite for Sound on Sight readers for several years now. This year’s festival runs July 14 to August 4, and the first wave of films on the lineup has just been revealed.

Marvel’s highly anticipated Ant-Man, with Paul Rudd, will be the opening night film, along with the Japanese animated film Miss Hokusai. Miss Hokusai comes from Production I.G., known for its other classics including A Letter to Momo and Giovanni’s Island.

Fantasia ’15 will also be home to several World Premieres, including Tales of Halloween, a collection of 10 short horror stories, and Jeruzalem, a horror film from Israeli directors and Tiff honorees Yoav and Doron Paz (Phobidilia).

The Canadian indie Turbo Kid, which we first caught up with at Sundance this year, will also be having its...

Hong Kong-based sales company acquires international rights to Derek Kwok’s sports drama.

Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop has picked up international rights to Derek Kwok’s sports drama Full Strike, starring Josie Ho, Ekin Cheng and Ronald Cheng.

Currently in post-production, the film stars Ho as a hot-tempered, former badminton player who decides to return to the sport to coach four reformed gangsters who are keen to play competitively. Ho’s Hong Kong-based 852 Films produced with Why Entertainment and Star Chinese Movies.

Henri Wong co-directed the film with Kwok, whose credits include As The Lights Go Out and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons, which he co-directed with Stephen Chow.

Distribution Workshop has also picked up the latest feature from China’s Xu Jinglei, romantic drama Somewhere Only We Know, in which the director-actress also stars along with Kris Wu and Wang Likun.

Also in post-production, the film marks the feature debut of Asian heartthrob Kris Wu...

Hong Kong-based sales company acquires international rights to Derek Kwok’s sports drama.

Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop has picked up international rights to Derek Kwok’s sports drama Full Strike, starring Josie Ho, Ekin Cheng and Ronald Cheng.

Currently in post-production, the film stars Ho as a hot-tempered, former badminton player who decides to return to the sport to coach four reformed gangsters who are keen to play competitively. Ho’s Hong Kong-based 852 Films produced with Why Entertainment and Star Chinese Movies.

Henri Wong co-directed the film with Kwok, whose credits include As The Lights Go Out and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons, which he co-directed with Stephen Chow.

Distribution Workshop has also picked up the latest feature from China’s Xu Jinglei, romantic drama Somewhere Only We Know, in which the director-actress also stars along with Kris Wu and Wang Likun.

Also in post-production, the film marks the feature debut of Asian heartthrob Kris Wu...

Lou Ye’s Blind Massage was the big winner at this year’s Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, scooping six prizes including best film and best new performer for Zhang Lei.Scroll down for full list of winners

The mainland China production also won best adapted screenplay (Ma Yingli), best cinematography (Zeng Jian), best film editing (Kong Jinlei, Jolin Zhu) and best sound effects (Fu Kang).

Ann Hui won best director for historical biopic The Golden Era, while best original screenplay went to Yee Chih-yen for Meeting Dr Sun.

Chen Jianbin won best new director and best actor for A Fool, along with best supporting actor for Paradise In Service, which also took the best supporting actress prize for Regina Wan’s performance. Chen Hsiang-chi took best actress for Exit.

Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After won best visual effects and Liu Qiang was awarded best art direction for Black Coal, Thin Ice. Brotherhood...

The 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards is expected to be a hell of a show with some great films going head to head. Leading the way with nominations is The Grand Master with 14, followed by Unbeatable (Dante Lam).

There were complaints last year, that the show didn’t live up to expectations, mainly due to the fact the movie Cold Wars, won nearly every award. Best actor award see the likes of these guys going head to head, Tony Leung (The Grandmaster), Louis Koo (The White Storm) and also Anthony Wong (Ip Man: The Final Fight).

Take a look at the list and comment who you think will win. The winners will be announced on April 13.

Best Film:

- The Grandmaster

- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

- The Way We Dance

- The White Storm

- Unbeatable

Best Director:

- Wong Kar Wai (The Grandmaster)

- Johnnie To...

With the success of Pang Ho Cheung’s foul mouthed and hilarious “Vulgaria” having proved that rude and crude are still popular at the Hong Kong box office, it’s only natural that other film makers would follow suit. And so, up step directors Andy Lo, Henri Wong and Chong Siu Wing with the category III rated “Hardcore Comedy”, which as its title suggests, aims for raucous pop culture laughs and unfettered bawdiness. Split into three linked stories and revolving around sex, drugs, superheroes and more, the film has a cast packed with attractive faces, including Dada Chan (“Vulgaria”), Michelle Wai (“Girl$”), Christine Kuo (“Lan Kwai Fong 2”), Kelvin Kwan (“Tales from the Dark 2”), Oscar Leung (“Young and Dangerous Reloaded”) and William Chan (“Triad”). The film opens with Henri Wong’s “Shocking Wet Dreams”, in which a couple of college losers (Kelvin Kwan and Terence Siufay) are forced by a...

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up

Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.

It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.

Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.

McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.

Line-up

The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.

As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...

Well this looks absolutely insane. Three different stories directed by emerging directors Andy Lo, Henri Wong and Chong Siu Wing, starring hot young stars Dada Chan, Michelle Wai, Christine Kuo, Kelvin Kwan, Oscar Leung and William Chan. No stone is left unturned in Hardcore Comedy, serving up a heady mix of sex, gambling, drugs and Hong Kong culture. Undoubtedly a large slice of hit and miss, but the trailer is exhausting (in a good way) and an English subtitled DVD is available from October 18th 2013, and you can pre-order your copy here. It'll probably be a good idea to keep the aspirin on standby if the trailer is anything to go by. You have been warned... Synopsis: In "Erotic Dream," two college geeks (Kelvin Kwan, Terence Siufay) move into an old building packed with brothels. Over time, they turn into superheroes trying to save these women from selling their bodies.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when browsing the refined corridors of Metafilter and happening upon a link to a stop-motion Batman short but it took me to a video that’s actually quite fun.

Fun and eerie. The photorealistic quality of the toys used by the filmmakers and the jerky stop-motion lend this six minute fight scene a strange quality, and don’t expect any actual story here. It is essentially a fight scene made with toys, nothing out of the ordinary, but there’s a keen sense of fun here – the Joker switch is a particular example.

It was directed by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong who are based in Hong Kong for their company Parabucks.

Here’s the vid, whack it up into full screen why don’t you?

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What the world needs now is stop-motion action figure brawls, sweet stop-motion action figure brawls. That's exactly what you'll get in "Batman: Dark Knightfall," a stop-motion short featuring your favorite Hot Toys-created Batman action figures going toe-to-toe against each other. Derek Kwok and Henri Wong are the mad geniuses behind "Dark Knightfall," which gives fans a whole lot of service including cameos from two Tim Burton era "Batman" favorites, a veritable army of Joker thugs and a back-breaking brawl between the Caped Crusader and Bane that puts "The Dark Knight Rises" to shame.

See it all below!

Mega thanks to friend of Splash Page and top-of-the-line toy nerd Caleb Goellner at Comics Alliance for pointing this one out.

Tell us what you think of the "Dark Knightfall" short in the comments or on Twitter!

Here's a terrific fan film that's been making the rounds called Batman: Dark Knightfall. Using detailed toys from the various Batman films, this stop-motion short features Batman battling Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight, Jack Nicholson's Joker from Batman and Tom Hardy's Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, all set to Hans Zimmer's haunting score (one of our favorites in recent years). For directors Derek Kowk and Henri Wong's first attempt at stop-motion, this is pretty impressive, if a bit too sensational. Make sure you stick around for the ending, which is our favorite part. Follow along on Twitter @ErikDavis and @Moviesdotcom.  

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So what have you been doing with your toys lately? Odds are, if you're not still a child, you've long since stopped using action figures to re-enact scenes from your favorite movies or TV shows, or best of all, mashing up different characters-- Ninja Turtles vs. G.I. Joes!-- to make entirely new ones. But that doesn't apply to animators Derek Kowk and Henri Wong, who put together a short, stop-motion animated film using the most detailed toys from many different Batman movies. Watch Batman fight two versions of The Joker, plus Bane, in this astonishingly realistic video below. No, it's not as seamless as a more traditional stop-motion movie, in which the animators are able to build fully customizable models to play around with. But it is really damn impressive, especially the way they use minimalist sound effects to tell the story, and have some genuine fun by...

Why so serious? Batman: Dark Knightfall, a fan made stop-motion animation is not the case apparently, using Batman figures from Hottoys Ltd to play out some of the unusual scenes just for the sake of fun.  The short is directed by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks co, a Hong Kong company that focus on art direction, graphic design and animation for TV and film. Some of the company's filmography include Ip Man 2, Dragon Tiger Gate and Galliants. (see their Vimeo channel for some examples).You'll find the 6-minutes short embedded below....

Batman: Dark Knightfall is seriously one of the coolest fan-made Batman films I think I've seen! It's a stop-motion animated short that was created with a collection of Hot Toys Batman action figures. The animation is done extremely well, it's action-packed, and I love that The Joker is in it! 

The film was created by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks co., and the full version of the film will be coming out soon! Watch what they've released so far, and let us know if you like it!