Nom du projet: A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT LTD., Anastasia Tsang
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Résumé:
A Light Never Goes Out is a film about Hong Kong's neon light craft, a technology invented by French engineer Georges Claude and blossomed in Hong Kong. Neon light was invented in France in 1910, and first introduced in Hong Kong in 1920s, and bloomed between the 1960s and 1980s alongside the city's economic development. Streets filled with layered huge neon signs have made Hong Kong "the Pearl of Orient". With the new implementation of the new ordinance enacted by the Hong Kong government in 2010 to strictly control and remove neon signs bigger than certain size for safety reasons, these symbolic signs vanished. The film aims at arouse the sense of conservation of such great art of craft which combines the technology from France and calligraphy and culture from Hong Kong.
Valeurs clefs:
This film is about widowhood and it is ultimately a story about loss and how to deal with it. Like a widow, Hong Kong has been in a state of loss in recent years. Hong Kong’s blooming neon lights have always been an icon of its economic prosperity. They lined the city's streets during the economic boom of the 1980’s, lighting up a "Pearl of the Orient" that enchanted the whole world. As an iconic imagery of Hong Kong, neon lights represented the city's most prosperous era, and its fading glow seems like a metaphor of the city's fate. Like HongKongers who tend to hang on to the good old days, the widow in the film desperately wants to retrieve her husband's past. Even when it seems to be futilely stubborn, sometimes we need to insist in order to exist. Grief and sadness if not the only response to loss. Often When we talk about loss, we forget that we have the power to create again – from what we’ve lost. If the film asks the question “Is this the end of neon?" I think the film's response would be "No, we can transform it into something new and let it continue.”
A votre avis, en quoi votre projet contribue t-il au rayonnement de la France et/ou de Hong Kong ?
Audiences acknowledged that the technology of neon light originated from France. Many of them finds a french touch in the film and liked the french song in the film a lot and is amazed how french culture can be incoporated in such a very local story without feeling out of place.
Avez-vous reçu un financement pour ce projet ?
Yes. The film is a winner of the First Film Initiative of CreatHK and was thus granted an amount of funding for its prodcution.
Décrivez les participants du projet:
Scriptwriter, Director: Anastasia Tsang, Hong Kong Anastasia TSANG is graduated from the Film Department of Sorbonne University. Tsang is a writer-director with her first short film Marriage Sans Frontières (2011), which explored transgender issues, and participated in Cannes Short Film Corner and won Best Short Film at Seattle Translation Short Film Festival. Her surreal short film Marryland (2015) also screened at Udine Far East Film Festival. She recently co-directed a TV series Till Death Do Us Part (2018), which portrayed complexities of married life. Producer: Saville Chan Hong Kong film producer, screenwriter and songwriter. Saville Chan produced and wrote the films “The Way We Dance” (2013) which had nominated for Best Film and “She Remembers, He Forgets” (2015) which had nominated for Best Screenplay respectively in the 33rd and 35th Hong Kong Film Awards. He also won three Hong Kong Film Awards for the Best Original Film Song as the lyricist. Saville formed “Eyes Front Pictures Company Limited” in 2010 with a view to making sophisticated Hong Kong movies for the audience worldwide. Filmography: (To be released) "A Light Never Goes Out“ (Producer) 2021 "The Way We Keep Dancing“ (as Producer) 2015 “She Remembers, He Forgets“ (as Producer, Script Writer) - Best Original Film Song, Nominated as Best Screenplay in 35th Hong Kong Film Awards 2013 “The Way We Dance“ (as Producer, Script Writer) - Best Original Film Song, Nominated as Best Film in 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards
A Light Never Goes Out is a film about Hong Kong's neon light craft, a technology invented by French engineer Georges Claude and blossomed in Hong Kong. Neon light was invented in France in 1910, and first introduced in Hong Kong in 1920s, and bloomed between the 1960s and 1980s alongside the city's economic development. Streets filled with layered huge neon signs have made Hong Kong "the Pearl of Orient". With the new implementation of the new ordinance enacted by the Hong Kong government in 2010 to strictly control and remove neon signs bigger than certain size for safety reasons, these symbolic signs vanished. The film aims at arouse the sense of conservation of such great art of craft which combines the technology from France and calligraphy and culture from Hong Kong.
Valeurs clefs:
This film is about widowhood and it is ultimately a story about loss and how to deal with it. Like a widow, Hong Kong has been in a state of loss in recent years. Hong Kong’s blooming neon lights have always been an icon of its economic prosperity. They lined the city's streets during the economic boom of the 1980’s, lighting up a "Pearl of the Orient" that enchanted the whole world. As an iconic imagery of Hong Kong, neon lights represented the city's most prosperous era, and its fading glow seems like a metaphor of the city's fate. Like HongKongers who tend to hang on to the good old days, the widow in the film desperately wants to retrieve her husband's past. Even when it seems to be futilely stubborn, sometimes we need to insist in order to exist. Grief and sadness if not the only response to loss. Often When we talk about loss, we forget that we have the power to create again – from what we’ve lost. If the film asks the question “Is this the end of neon?" I think the film's response would be "No, we can transform it into something new and let it continue.”
A votre avis, en quoi votre projet contribue t-il au rayonnement de la France et/ou de Hong Kong ?
Audiences acknowledged that the technology of neon light originated from France. Many of them finds a french touch in the film and liked the french song in the film a lot and is amazed how french culture can be incoporated in such a very local story without feeling out of place.
Avez-vous reçu un financement pour ce projet ?
Yes. The film is a winner of the First Film Initiative of CreatHK and was thus granted an amount of funding for its prodcution.
Décrivez les participants du projet:
Scriptwriter, Director: Anastasia Tsang, Hong Kong Anastasia TSANG is graduated from the Film Department of Sorbonne University. Tsang is a writer-director with her first short film Marriage Sans Frontières (2011), which explored transgender issues, and participated in Cannes Short Film Corner and won Best Short Film at Seattle Translation Short Film Festival. Her surreal short film Marryland (2015) also screened at Udine Far East Film Festival. She recently co-directed a TV series Till Death Do Us Part (2018), which portrayed complexities of married life. Producer: Saville Chan Hong Kong film producer, screenwriter and songwriter. Saville Chan produced and wrote the films “The Way We Dance” (2013) which had nominated for Best Film and “She Remembers, He Forgets” (2015) which had nominated for Best Screenplay respectively in the 33rd and 35th Hong Kong Film Awards. He also won three Hong Kong Film Awards for the Best Original Film Song as the lyricist. Saville formed “Eyes Front Pictures Company Limited” in 2010 with a view to making sophisticated Hong Kong movies for the audience worldwide. Filmography: (To be released) "A Light Never Goes Out“ (Producer) 2021 "The Way We Keep Dancing“ (as Producer) 2015 “She Remembers, He Forgets“ (as Producer, Script Writer) - Best Original Film Song, Nominated as Best Screenplay in 35th Hong Kong Film Awards 2013 “The Way We Dance“ (as Producer, Script Writer) - Best Original Film Song, Nominated as Best Film in 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards