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A Land Imagined and Wet Season won 3 awards at Golden Horse Awards
By Say Peng / 25 Nov 2019 (Monday)
Photo credit: A Land Imagined Facebook
Local films A Land Imagined and Wet Season won 3 awards at the recent Golden Horse Awards, held in Taipei.
Yeo Yann Yann, the lead actress of Anthony Chen's Wet Season, won Best Actress.
In the film, Yeo plays a Chinese language secondary school teacher who develops feelings for her student.
In her very moving speech, Yeo thanked Chen and said that, despite the arduous journey of making the film, she would dare to venture on another film with Chen again.
This is Yeo's second win at the Golden Horse. She previously won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Chen's ilo ilo.
Yeo Siew Hua, writer and director of the Golden Leopard winner A Land Imagined, won Best Original Screenplay.
The film follows a detective's investigation of a missing migrant worker.
Teo Wei Yong, the film's composer, won Best Original Film Score.
He joked that with the win, his parents, who was planning to kick him out of the house, would now allow him to stay on for a few more years.
Wet Season was the opening film of the 2019 Singapore International Film Festival, and will release in local cinemas from 28 November.
A Land Imagined will have a limited rerun at Cathay Cineplexes from 28 November, and is also available to watch on Netflix.