Rice Distribution + nail 平安米 + 指月記
Rice Distribution 平安米
Hong Kong / 2003 / Colour / 35 mins / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles / Dir. Tammy CHEUNG
During the Ghost Festival, many Taoist organisations give away rice to the elderly and the poor. The rice distribution depicted in this film attracted over eight thousand people. Most of them waited over 20 hours.
The screening in Edinburgh on 26th March will be followed by a hybrid Q&A session Dialogue between the shores, featuring Dir. HUANG Ting-fu (online) and Dir. Tammy CHEUNG (in-person), hosted by Dr. Fraser ELLIOTT (in-person).
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Date/Time: 26 March 2023 14:30-16:30 (replay available online)
Venue: Summerhall, Edinburgh
Language: Mandarin, English, Cantonese and British sign language interpretation
Co-organised by Hong Kong Film Festival UK, Cultural Division of Taipei Representative Office in the UK and University of Edinburgh
Host: Dr Fraser Elliott
Guest speakers:
Tammy Cheung
Huang Ting-fu (online)
About the post-screening panel discussion:
This panel discussion will begin with tracing Tammy Cheung’s and Huang Ting-fu’s journey of documentary filmmaking. Tammy Cheung is one of the most iconic figures in the history of Hong Kong documentary filmmaking. Her films, including Rice Distribution (2003), Secondary School (2002), and July (2004), document important junctures in the history of Hong Kong. Huang Ting-fu, often described as being one of a kind, produces exceptional documentaries and was nominated in many prestigious film festivals in the world. His films, including Nail (2002) and Yellow Box (2006), demonstrate his personal take on direct cinema. Yellow Box, in particular, obtained a special mention at Visions du Réel, one of the world's most renowned documentary film festivals.
Both Cheung and Huang are known for their unique takes on direct cinema. In this panel discussion, we look forward to hearing their insights regarding the power of moving images in capturing the pulse of society and all its changes. This will be one of the more in-depth discussions of the works of the two great directors following our ‘Vicissitudes’ parallel screenings.
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Tammy Cheung is a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker. Cheung founded Visible Record Limited with other like-minded individuals from the fields of film, culture and education. In 2008, she founded the Chinese Documentary Festival. And in 2019, the Festival was expanded into an international film festival. It’s renamed as the Hong Kong International Documentary Festival.
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Grand Prize at the 8th IFVA 2003
Nail 指月記
Taiwan / 2002 / B&W / 45 mins / No Dialogue/ Dir. Ting Fu HUANG
“Nail” is Director Huang Ting-fu’s year and a half long (a year of filming and 6 months of editing) look at life through the window of Taipei’s historic Long-Shan temple. Shot in monochrome, in an area of only 200 sq. m., the film immerses us in the daily passing of time that is life at Long-Shan.
An architectural blend of the ornate, the garish and the traditional, Long-Shan temple sits in the midst of a crowded working class area of Taipei, filled with a diverse mix of the old and the new, with cheap good food, ageing prostitutes, and places to just hang out and have a smoke and exist. The temple itself is not beautiful, nor does it have an impressive view, every day it is filled with visitors. Frequented mostly by the elderly who pass away their days sleeping, engaged in idle gossip, or just watching the other visitors, it is a fascinating place where scant attention is paid to time.
The screening in Edinburgh on 26th March will be followed by a hybrid Q&A session Dialogue between the shores, featuring Dir. HUANG Ting-fu (online) and Dir. Tammy CHEUNG (in-person), hosted by Dr. Fraser ELLIOTT (in-person).
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HUANG Ting-Fu was born in Kinmen, a small island near Taiwan in 1961. He made his first film back in 1985 with his regular 8mm camera and he has been a devoted documentary filmmaker. He graduated in Broadcasting and Television from the National Taiwan College of Art in 1988. From 1989 to 2016, he was working as a film archivist in Taiwan Film Institute. HUANG currently works as a freelance filmmaker.
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Best Short Documentary at the 26th Golden Harvest Awards 2003
Best Audio Design Award at the Taipei Film Festival
Best Asian film at the Syracuse University Film Festival
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Best Documentary at the 2003 Golden Horse Awards
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Taiwan International documentary Festival, Yamagata International
Documentary Festival and International Human rights Film Festival in Spain
Cinéma du Réel (25th International Film Festival of Visual Anthropology and Social Documentation)2003
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, AVANCA, PORTUGAL
Syracuse International Film and Video Festival 2004
Singapore International Documentary Film Festival 2004
FILMER A TOUT PRIX", Bruxelles Documentary Film Festival 2004
DocBsAso4 (Productora Asociación Civil Cine Ojo) Argentina 2004
Taiwan Film Festival(Musée d'ethnographie de Genève) 2006