CHAT GO! Let’s Watch a Movie (Film screening and Post- screening Discussion)Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile

Hong Kong's textile industry was once booming. Two short films “An Ordinary Day of Hing” and “Taste of Pomme” tell the stories of the disappearing textile industry through the daily lives of an old tailor and a sewing lady. On the other hand, documentary “Cotton” focuses on the factory workers in China. Spanning over eight years, it recorded the tireless lives of the workers under the influence of globalisation and fast fashion. Join us for the post-screening discussions with Yip Wai Ping, Director of “Taste of Pomme”; Lo Chun Yip, Mentor of the filming project “An Ordinary Day of Hing” and Zhou Hou, Director of “Cotton”.

Timetable

2:00-2:30pm Taste of Pomme
2:30-3:00pm An Ordinary Day of Hing
3:00-3:45pm Post-screening Discussion
Speakers: Yip Wai Ping, Lo Chun Yip
Host: Him Lo

4:00-5:30pm Cotton
5:30-6:15pm Post-screening Discussion
Speaker: Zhou Hao

Production / Artists
Taste of Pomme
Director/Script: Philip Yung Chi-Kwong, Yip Wai Ping
2014 | Hong Kong | 16 mins | Colour |
In Cantonese with Traditional Chinese subtitles

Old Uncle Bill is an experienced and excellent tailor in Hong Kong. Facing the ever-rising pressure on rent and unreasonable requests of customers, he could do nothing but tolerate. One day, a trendy young girl pumped into Uncle Bill’s old tailor shop, her youth revived his passion of garment-making back in the old days.

Director/Script Writer │ Philip Yung Chi-Kwong

Philip Yung Chi-Kwong is a Hong Kong based film producer, director and screenwriter. His movie Port of Call (2015) received 9 nominations at the 52nd Golden Horse Film Awards, and was awarded the Best Screenplay and 6 other awards at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Director/ Script Writer │ Yip Wai Ping

Bachelor of Social Science at Lingnan University, Yip Wai-Ping started filmmaking before graduation, he is now a documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. His work can be seen in cinema, mainstream broadcasting channels such as ViuTV and RTHK. Yip also made short films Olympics, Taste of Pomme and documentary short films The Hair Salon and Wheel Life.

An Ordinary Day of Hing

Director: “Grassroots Filmmaking Project 2016” members
Mentors: Lo Chun Yip, Vincent Chui
2016 | Hong Kong | 20 mins | Colour
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

Hing has worked with clothes alternation for 30 years. One day, her son suggests that the family should emigrate. While encountering various new customers in her shop, she starts to wonder if giving up her career is the right thing to do.

Grassroots Filmmaking Project 2016

“Grassroots Filmmaking Project 2016” is a community art and filming program co-organized by Ying E Chi and MILL6 Foundation. Independent filmmakers Vincent Chui and Lo Chun Yip were invited as mentors to work with a group of participants to produce a grassroot film An Ordinary Day of Hing, based on a story about garments and garment workers. The project kicked started in April 2016 and the film premiered in the August “MILL6 WARM UP – Make a piece of clothing for yourself” event.

*Capacity: 50
*In Cantonese and Putonghua