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Speaker: Johnnie To

With over 30 directing and producing credits to his name, Johnnie To enjoyed international breakthroughs with Election (2005), Election (2006) (aka “Triad Election”) and Exiled (2006); those films enjoyed multiple international film festival appearances and were separately sold to more than 21 foreign territories (including theatrical distributions in France and USA). Not only that, the release of 2 fine production titles in the same year back in 2003 was both award winners in Hong Kong Film Awards , a crime-noir thriller PTU (2003), and Running on Karma (2003), a story about a body builder / exotic dancer with super vision that assists cops in tracking a vicious killer.

Johnnie To’s Milky Way production company, often made collaboration with the same group of actors, which allowed the form of partnership such as frequent collaborator Wai Ka-fai in 1996, in fact, by right or not a hallmark of quality filmmaking in Hong Kong since the Handover in 1997. His filmography is a unique collection of films from almost every genre, frequently exploring the theme of friendship, and changing face of Hong Kong society, while featuring most of the major Hong Kong film star, including classic films from the late Eighties and early Nineties including Heroic Trio (1993) & All About Ah-Long (1989), some ultra-cool crime-noir productions during the late Nineties; The Longest Night, Expect the Unexpected, and The Mission. Romances; Loving You (1995) & Needing You (2000). As well as a number of crowd-pleasing comedies; Wu Yen (2001) and Love on a Diet (2001).

Moderator: Vivienne Oon
29/7/2023 | 1330-1500 | Hall 7, GSC MyTown
Conducted in: Cantonese

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• This forum will be conducted in Cantonese without any English subtitles or interpreters present.
• The forum will commence promptly at 1330. Please note that registration will begin at 1230.
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