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Tight 75-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
Sometimes Naive
2013 1h 15m ZH
Drama
Synopsis
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Filmmakers love making films about filmmaking, but not many of those films can truly explain where the passion comes from. Who are more qualified to answer this question than the new Master of Fine Arts graduates from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ School of Film and Television? In their graduation thesis, award-winning director Man is sentenced to community service for drunken behavior. Assigned to a youth center, Man has to guide a group of eight-to-twelve-year-olds to make a short film. At first, Man feels he’s too good for such an assignment. However, the kids’ enthusiasm and unique perspective of life eventually inspire him to rediscover why he loved filmmaking in the first place.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Clifton Ko Chi-Sum
Ku Feng
Cecilia Chan Lai-Wan
Kenneth Cheung Moon-Yuen
Samuel Yau Man-Shing
Leila Tong
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Tracy Choi Ian-Sin
- Languages
- Cantonese, Mandarin
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The take
Tracy Choi Ian-Sin directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in Cantonese, Mandarin.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 75-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 13 years ago.
- 3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin.
- 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 5Clifton Ko Chi-Sum and Ku Feng and Cecilia Chan Lai-Wan carry the top of the cast.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 75 min · 1h 15m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- ZH
Also by
Tracy Choi Ian-Sin
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2013-11-18
