Jockey Club ifva Everywhere
PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME
48 Hour Film Challenge 2018

The launch ceremony of Jockey Club ifva Everywhere - 48 Hour Film Challenge” was successfully held on 17 August (Friday) at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. 50 participating teams attended the ceremony.  The Challenge then took place from 7pm and completed at 7pm on 19 August (Sunday). The finalist showcase and prize presentation ceremony of the Challenge will take place on 30 September (Sunday) at Edinburgh Place in Central as the finale of the “Jockey Club ifva Everywhere Carnival”. Ten finalists will be further selected by professionals for the Jury Prize and voted by the audience of Carnival for the Audience Prize. Prizes totaling HK$100,000 will be awarded to respective winning teams. Come and join us!

“Audience Prize” Voting Guideline

You, as a voter, will have the power to vote and decide who can achieve the impossible - to win the prize of HK $50,000 ultimately! It is hoped that every voter will respect and support the filmmakers by completing all short films at the screening.

  • The programme starts at 7:45pm. Members of audience who want to vote are required to enter the designated area of Open-air Screening on time. Audience will be given one ballot paper for voting before screening starts. Staff will stamp the hands of those who have been given the ballot paper.
  • Distribution of ballot paper will stop upon MC’s announcement as such.
  • The voting process will be conducted after the 10 short films have been screened. Please tear off ONE black grid to indicate your favorite film, and place your ballot paper into the collection box at a designated time announced by the MC.
  • Vote for one film only on each ballot paper. You cannot get a replacement for a lost or used ballot paper.
  • No early submission of ballot paper is accepted. Leaving in the middle of the screening is not recommended. If you need to leave early, please return your ballot paper to the staff at the exit.
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Jury
Chai Zi-wen
Chai Ziwen, Samuel is a founding member and the director general of the Renaissance Foundation Hong Kong. He has led the team through a wide variety of cultural projects and events, including Renaissance Music Festival, The Inspired IslandII: Film Festival, Renaissance Summer Camp, Ear Up Music Program and Ear Hub music expo. Those programs aim to nurture youth talent in Hong Kong and the greater China. Before joining RF, he worked in the media industry for 11 years.
Teddy Robin
(Chinese version only)
泰迪羅賓是資深的電影人、演藝人。在兒時已開始編寫及主講兒童廣播劇;1960年代中,熱愛音樂的Teddy與朋友組成樂隊作公開演出,成為全香港第一位全華人rockgroup的主音歌手及結他手,瘋魔當年全港樂迷。其後演出第一部電影《愛情的代價》。同時學習電影製作。
 
七十年代末期從事電影製作,79年監製第一部電影《點指兵兵》,獲得非常好的口碑和票房,先後是珠城電影公司、新藝城電影公司的重臣;再成為好朋友電影公司、友禾電影公司、泰影軒電影公司的老闆之一。但他仍然不忘音樂,時會參與唱片及配樂等工作。
 
在多年的演藝生涯中,他曾監製超過二十部電影及導演過四部又三份一部作品,間中亦會參與演出;在樂壇及影圈中均獲獎無數。除熱愛演藝事業外,Teddy亦參與許多業界的推廣工作,Teddy是香港電影導演會的創始人之一及演藝人協會的永遠名譽理事。
Chan Hing-kai
Chan Hing-kai is a well-known writer, scriptwriter and director who pens regular columns in various magazines and newspapers in Hong Kong. He collaborated frequently with Lawrence Cheng, and together they created the “Yuppie Fantasia” series of comedies that revealed and satirised the psychology and behaviour of Hong Kong men in the 1980s and 1990s. He also wrote the script for A Better Tomorrow, which propelled John Woo to global stardom. He won the Best Screenplay Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Beast Cops, and the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award’s Best Screenplay for Jiang hu: The Triad Zone. Chan has crafted screenplays on a wide variety of subjects and his prolific output as a screenwriter has earned him widespread respect from film professionals.

The Best Script
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To Be Continued
Luk Siu-hin , Wong Ho-ming, Lai Wing-cheong
Col / 8’ 00” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
After all hiccups, the hitman finally makes his move to take revenge on Golden Dragon… But there is one huge obstacle ahead, i.e. the creative process itself.

Phantom of the Postman
IIB
2B studio
Chu Ka-shing, Chu Siu-fung, Adam Lo
Col / 7’ 57” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
The Adventure of Tingting – Postman the Ghost (Ep1)
Date: 17 August / Weather: Sunny / Temperature: 27°C
 
Tingting Wong and best friend Lingling Chan have been caught by the cops!
The policewoman tortures them forcing them to unveil who burnt down the postbox and why!
Tingting fights with the policewoman like a superhero!
Finally Tingting wins over the Postman Ghost to protect the future of Hong Kong!

City Fairy
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卅八味
Diu Hiu-foon, Pun Tak-fun, Mui Lok-him
Col / 7’ 15” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
Legend says, there is an elf living in all modern daily life machines and tools. The vending machine elf that drinks up soft drinks; the ATM machine elf that loves counting banknotes; the mailbox elf that peeps through our mails… I wonder how their lives are like.

Remember
IIA
Tomorroll Production     
Fung Ka-wing, Lam Ying-tung, Lau Sze-ki
Col / 6’ 57” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
Lee Tsz-kin and Chan Hiu-fung are bros back in the school days but lost contact after graduation. Years later they meet again at workplace and all good old memories are revisited in flashback. Some friendships fade away without knowing. The best of us might have remained in our memories.

Illusion
IIA
馬田史高西
Chi Yat-chung, Chan Zi-tao, Ng Man-yiu
Col / 6’ 40” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
Would you live a better life if you self-convinced to have remembered the wrong happenings? Nam is a white-collar who keeps forgetting this and that. By encountering the bald old man, Nam keeps seeing things that he believes would not remember wrong. Are these hallucination or reality? If we were to forget, where would we go from here?

Goodbye
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男子4x12接力賽
Tong Hoo-yin, Chan Ka-hin, Tang Ka-hei
Col / 6’ 04” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles 
 
He lives in loneliness in this vibrant city. Too many sounds, too little conversations. He wanders around the street and comes to realise that he loves no one but himself. Hating himself for being a hypocrite, he plans to leave the world today…

Man in Bald
IIA
綠色傳教士
Wong Ka-wai, Lam Ting-hin
Col / 8’ 00” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
Big Tung and Bald, a duo who makes a living by helping people erase their memories. Once looked at the beam from Bald’s head, the memories will be gone. Song is their long-term client and one day Big Tung attempts to peep into her unforgettable memories, which, in the end, is stopped by Bald. Song never returns to them, but Big Tung needs Bald’s help to erase memories about her.

Stay Over
IIA
The Crew Visuals
Lee Pui-yiu Daniel, Oliver Lau, Lam Hin-sing
Col / 6’ 28” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
A man is under interrogation inside a room of darkness. According to him, that woman, in her mid 20s, appeared in front of his door that night, asked for a room to stay over. He agreed and lent her the only bedroom in the apartment. A few hours later, she was found dead inside the room.
 
The above, however, is just a lie.

Part
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Shotgun!
Terrence Leung, Chester Siu
Col / 6’ 49” / In Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles
 
A young man in a troubling relationship relocates to a foreign city with his boyfriend due to his parents’ disapproval of his sexuality. A phone call one day changes the circumstances for him. Is this his chance to leave the chaos behind?

defoliation
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慢活的自由工作者們
Cheung Man-hong, Lui Kei-ching, Yiu Ka-yui Joshua
Col / 7’ 56” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
 
Our first memories come from our family and the city. Will the city and the family remain the same five years after one’s departure? Son of a family of four, he has left Hong Kong for work for five years and looks forward to coming home. Upon his homecoming, he finds that his parents have grown old but he has never taken care of them.