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‘Green Wave’ Helmer Xu Lei Talks Chinese Film Funding And Directing His Father In The Comedy-Drama
'Green Wave' opened the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) this week in Udine, Italy, after sweeping the Best Actor and Jury awards at China's Pingyao International Film Festival.
Drawing laughter from the crowd of more than 1,200 people at the film’s international premiere in the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni, Xu tells Deadline that he did not intend to write a comedy at first, but humor gradually found its way into the story. Father and son live under the same roof again, as Lao Wei arrives in Beijing to have the bowl evaluated by experts, in the hopes of making a windfall. But through the casting process, I looked around and felt like my father would be very believable and convincing in this role, so I ended up choosing him.” It seems like a move that has paid off, with the elder Xu picking up the Best Actor prize at the Pingyao fest.
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