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Raymond Wong says that the pandemic relief movie cast will be announced soon
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As the novel coronavirus spread globally, it not only has
caused casualties but also impacted every business and industry
extremely. The Hong Kong film industry was not spared. The pandemic
has left the film industry in an almost complete standstill. Because
the industry has always operated with freelance and short term contracts,
basic level workers in the past half a year experienced a vacuum as job
opportunities were few and far between. The Performing Artists Guild and
the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers immediately called upon its
affiliated organizations and donors to star a "Hong Kong film workers
pandemic relief project". Through the industry's call for donations,
it hoped to be able to assist those basic level colleagues as soon as
possible. The Performing Artists Guild president Louis Koo Tin Lok
thanked each and every donors who have contributed money and effort to
the relief project, hoping that the donations would be able to provide
some relief to those in the industry in need.
This operation even received helping hands from 10 Hong Kong film
companies including China Star Film, Edko Film, Emperor Motion Pictures,
Mandarin Film, Media Asia film, Mei Ah film, One Cool Film, Shaw
Brothers International film, Sun Entertainment Culture and Universe film
distribution. Along with donations from other donors, a sizable sum has
already been raised. This sum will be distributed in its entirety to
film basic level personnel by the Hong Kong Performing Artist Guild to
provide temporary relief.
In order to provide assistance to industry personnel, currently
two stages of distribution have been confirmed for applicants. The
amount of applicants will determine whether there will be a third stage.
Colleagues who will benefit will include the 12 major affiliated
organizations of the Federation of Hong Kong Film Workers. (Hong
Kong Film Directors' Guild, Hong Kong Screenwriters' Guild, Hong Kong
Society of Cinematographers, Hong Kong Film Arts Association, Hong Kong
Movie Production Executives Association, Hong Kong Performing Artists
Guild, Hong Kong Cinematography Lighting Association, Hong Kong
Stuntman Association, Hong Kong Society of Film Editors, Hong Kong
Association of Motion Picture Post Production Professionals, Hong Kong
Film Assistant Directors' Association, Hong Kong Film Composers'
Association, 3 industry unions (Hong Kong Film Propsmen's Guild, Hong
Kong Film Photographer Association, Hong Kong Film Hair and Make Up
Designers (temporary) union) and other basic level workers without any
established organizations (including but not limited to: sound recording,
costume management, catering, set photography, production special crew,
production assistants), colleagues, who may be member on non member, in
need.
In addition, the aforementioned 10 Hong Kong film companies will
apply for a sum with the Hong Kong Film Development Council's "Film Production Financing Projects" for film production use and work together
on a movie to show that everyone was united to contribute to the
industry, hopefully bringing the workers back to their posts and helping
each other.
Reportedly the Performing Artist Guild president Koo Tin Lok
in order to help colleagues contacted 10 film companies to each invest
HK$ 3 million and received a HK$ 9 million allocation from the Hong
Kong Film Development Fund for a total of HK$ 39 million to make a
heart warming movie of Hong Kong people getting over the hardship
together under the pandemic to raise fund for basic level colleagues.
Vincent Kok Tak Siu will be the chief director. All the actors will be
volunteers. Actors' salaries will be donated to their basic level
colleagues as well. Each applicant for assistance would at most
receive around HK$ 9,000 in assistance.
Currently a group of workers have already begun planning for
a movie. Many actors and directors have volunteered to do their part
to help Hong Kong film workers. Rumors included Julian Cheung Chi Lam,
Simon Yam Tat Wa, Louis Koo Tin Lok, Eric Tsang Chi Wai and others.
After this pandemic, hopefully everyone would be able to cherish those
around them, cherish the Earth, and learn to positively face life.
The Performing Artist Guild president Koo Tin Lok replied, "I
really want to thank each and every person who have donated their money
and effort to this pandemic relief project. Through this operation, the
entire industry unites to help each other. Hopefully the donations will
be able to help those in need. This difficulty has almost halted the
entire industry, only a few films were in production. In the foreseeable
future the pandemic will still remain in place, normal production would
be unable to resume very quickly. Thus in the future everyone would
continue to need to help each other to get over ths crisis." Koo Tin
Lok's One Cool Film production and Albert Yeung Sau Sing's Emperor
Motion Picture earlier already announced a 10 Hong Kong film production
and distribution over two years.
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