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SHOWTIMES<br />
Monday, Nov 9, 5:30pm, CP- Lauderdale<br />
Tuesday, Nov 10, 5:15pm, CP- Hollywood<br />
WORLD<br />
CINEMA<br />
FEATURE<br />
Sponsored by<br />
PARTY<br />
SEE PAGE 7<br />
INCLUDED<br />
DEAREST QIN AI DE XIAO HAI<br />
UNITED STATES PREMIERE<br />
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan<br />
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China / 2014 / 128 min / DCP /<br />
Mandarin w/English sub-titles<br />
Wen Jun (Huang Bo) and his wife Xiaojuan (Hao Lei) are busy<br />
parents in the bustling South China city of Shenzen. One day,<br />
as their young son Tian Peng plays in the streets with his<br />
friends, he's snatched by kidnappers, leaving his parents distraught<br />
— but not despairing. With extraordinary commitment<br />
and resourcefulness, they set out to find their lost son.<br />
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Venice Biennale /Toronto Film Fest /<br />
Rio Intl Film Festival / Busan Intl Film Festival / BFI London Film<br />
Festival / Tallinn Black Nights Intl Film Festival / Intl Film Festival<br />
India Goa / Hawaii Intl Film Festival / Hong-Kong Asian Film Festival<br />
/ China Intl Film Festival (Best Picture, Best Director) / Dubai<br />
Intl Film Festival / EFM Berlin / Portland Intl Film Festival / Glasgow<br />
Film Festival / Cleveland Intl Film Festival / Dublin Intl Film<br />
Festival / Cinemasia Film Festival<br />
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THE DIRECTOR: Chan was born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents. He spent infancy in Hong Kong before moving with his parents to Thailand. He<br />
later studied in the U.S. attending film school at UCLA. He returned to Hong Kong in 1983 for a summer internship in the film industry. He served as<br />
a second AD and producer to Basil Lee on Heroes Are Not Fat, which was set in Thailand. He was a location mgr on 3 Jackie Chan films, Wheels on<br />
Meals, The Protector and Armour of God.<br />
His directorial debut, Alan and Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye, was crowned best film at the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild in 1991. It also won<br />
best actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Eric Tsang, who would become a frequent collaborator with Chan.<br />
Chan produced a number of box-office and critical hits in Hong Kong, including his own: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father. Other critical successes followed:<br />
Tom, Dick And Hairy, He's a Woman, She's a Man and Comrades, Almost a Love Story. In the late 1990s, Chan worked in Hollywood,<br />
directing The Love Letter, starring Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Selleck.<br />
In 2000, Chan co-founded Applause Pictures with Teddy Chen and Allan Fung. The company's<br />
focus was on fostering ties with pan-Asian filmmakers, producing such films as Jan Dara by Thailand's<br />
Nonzee Nimibutr, One Fine Spring Day South Korea's Hur Jin-ho, Samsara by<br />
China's Huang Jianxin, and The Eye by Danny and Oxide Pang.<br />
Chan's 2005 film, the musical Perhaps Love closed the 2005 Venice Film Festival and was Hong<br />
Kong's entry for an Academy Awards nomination in the best foreign film category. Perhaps Love<br />
became one of the year's top-grossing films in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and received a<br />
record 29 awards. Chan next directed The Warlords (2007) and produced Derek Yee's Protégé<br />
(2007). The two films garnered 8 Hong Kong Film Awards and 3 Golden Horse Awards, including<br />
Best Director and Best Feature Film.
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