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‘Lilting,’ ‘Monsoon’ Filmmaker Hong Khaou Unveils Hong Kong-Set Epidemic Drama ‘Walled City’
Hong Khaou's next project is 'Walled City,' which has been selected for the 22nd Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum.
Khaou’s debut, “Lilting” (2014), starring Ben Whishaw and Cheng Pei-pei, premiered in the world cinema dramatic competition at Sundance, winning best cinematography. “Walled City,” set in spring 2003 will follow Rui, a U.S.-educated Hong Kong doctor who is distressed by the spiking number of cases of a new and unknown disease. Writer and producer Raymond Phathanavirangoon, who co-founded Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC) and whose producing credits include Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives”(2022) and Boo Junfeng’s “Apprentice”(2016), told Variety, “2003 was a very turbulent year for Hong Kong: the city was under a temporary lockdown, and two cultural icons, Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, passed away.
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