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9032024
Rex REN
Release year: 2021
Run time: 9 minutes
Film type: Fiction
Synopsis
To earn money for his ailing father's medical expenses, Ma Er needs to attend a job interview. The process is constantly haunted by past experiences, like a nightmare, which he responds to with intense, frantic behavior. 9032024 is a sequel to the award-winning short film Even Ant Strive For Survival, a work that resonates with the times. Viewers concerned about Hong Kong politics will easily understand Ma Er's anxiety and see the director's strong self-expression. Used as the director's debut work, the independent and free creation is highly symbolic.
Director biography
Rex REN(REN XIA) graduates from the School of Film & Television at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Directing. He was Fruit CHAN’s scriptwriter and assistant director before working as a Creative Team Supervisor for Andy LAU’s Infinitus Films. He won the Best Director Award with Even Ants Strive for Survival at the 11th Fresh Wave International Short Film Competition and the Gold Award at the 23rd Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards. In 2018, he won the grand prize with A Life of Papers at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion meeting. In 2021, he received the NETPAC Award with May You Stay Forever Young at the 58th Golden Horse International Film Festival. He was nominated for Best New Director and Best Editing at the Golden Horse Award. In 2022, He received the CNC Cash Award from the Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée (CNC) at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion meeting. In 2024, He was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film with Something About Us at the 61st Golden Horse Award. He is also the founder of Equal Write Union Hong Kong and one of the co-signers of the Hong Kong Free Cinema Manifesto.
