[2025.04.26] LOUIS CHEUNG RISES TO THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING ON HIS FIRST HONG KONG FILM AWARDS

Jeffrey Ngai, Louis Cheung and Dee Ho attend the worship ceremony.
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Jeffrey Ngai and Dee Ho attend the worship ceremony together.
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Jeffrey Ngai, Louis Cheung and Dee Ho.

Hong Kong Film Awards chief Derek Yee says that in case of heavy rain Sunday the red carpet would be suspended
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Yesterday the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards Association Derek Yee Tung Sing led the board of directors members and the award presenters for a worship ceremony. Louis Cheung Kai Chung revealed that he joined the board of directors this year and faced many challenges in preparing for the Hong Kong Film Awards for the first time. "The most difficult has been sponsorship negotiation. Because the general climate is not good, and finding sponsorship has been difficult." Earlier he has become the secretary general of the Performing Artists Guild earlier. He immediately invited Dee Ho Kai Wah and Jeffrey Ngai Chun Sun to join on the spot, to which Dee immediately offer to do the chores. Both said that they would gladly join. In addition, Cheung Kai Chung recently adopted a dog. "On its first day at home, it didn't sleep all night and wet the place 4 times. My wife and I spent all night wiping the floor and didn't get to sleep at all." Jeffrey welcomed his 27th birthday on the 23rd of this month. He said that he had a fever that day, but he still had to work on a movie. Fortunately the team celebrated his birthday, and a friend gave him a disinfecting dresser. Dee said about the Oriental Weekly report that the company has place a "gag order" on his group mate Poki Ng, "No such thing! Earlier there were talks of a refrigerator (suspension), I haven't seen it." He admitted that their group ERROR had less jobs, but it was not related to Poki. Many productions have been postponed. He also said that he had no tip for Keung To, because he has not done well enough himself.

In addition Yee Tung Sing talked about the arrangement in case of rain on the day of the award ceremony. He said that the location of the red carpet would not change, and he has already arranged for clear umbrellas for the guests. In case of heavy rain the red carpet segment would be cancelled. Last year the "Best Film" winner was interrupted during his speech due to time. Yee Tung Sing pointed out that this year the complete version would be online. He was confident that the video hit rate would exceed 50 million and hinted that this year would have mystery guests to present major awards.