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Singapore’s ‘Warrior of Love’ Shortlisted for the 14th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum!

By Flora / 03 Mar 2016 (Thursday)

‘Warrior of Love’ is Singapore’s first car racing film that will be featured at the 14th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum!

The film will be directed by Derrick Lui and produced by well-known film producer Han Pui Yin, together with Boris Boo and Chan Yan-Yan. Boo will also be writing the screenplay for the film.

Warrior of Love is the only Singaporean project out of the selected 31 film projects at the 14th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which will be held from 14 to 16 March. The HAF received a record-breaking number of submissions; more than 350 projects in total. This year’s projects cover a wide range of topics and feature a mix of renowned filmmakers as well as new and young talents. Other film projects selected for the financing forum includes high-profile filmmakers from Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.

The HAF is a film financing platform in Asia, bringing Asian filmmakers with upcoming film projects to Hong Kong for co-production ventures with top film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors and buyers.

Lui, who previously directed 1400 shared with InCinemas that he is very excited to start on his film. “I’ve always wanted to do a film about cars! As far as I know, no one in Singapore has made a film about cars,” he said excitedly.

“In Hong Kong, you have your Initial D, and in Hollywood, it’s the Fast & Furious franchise. So I guess I also wanted to show that Singapore can do the same too! Why not I merge my two passions together and do a car movie. We were lucky enough that the idea was chosen by Hong Kong to be a part of this financing forum… I’m very happy.”

Don’t expect the film to have massive, out-of-this-world explosions, but Lui assured us there’ll be ‘action’ in his 2nd feature film.

“You will see cars, you will see action scenes, but it won’t be of a scale like Fast & Furious. I have to be realistic. No cast has been finalised at the moment till the script is ‘more or less the final draft’, but principal photography will start by the last quarter of 2016.”

Past participants include China's Jia Jiangke, Jiang Wen and Lu Chuan; Hong Kong's Peter Chan, Stanley Kwan, Ann HUI and Pang Ho-cheung; Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang, Wei Te-Sheng and Leon Dai; Japan's Kor-eda Hirokazu, Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Iwai Shunji; South Korea's Park Chan-wook, Kim Jee-woon and Bong Joon-ho; as well as Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ekachai Uekrongtham and Pen-ek Ratanruang.

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Singapore’s ‘Warrior of Love’ Shortlisted for the 14th Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum!