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Winter Chants
Jessey TSANG Tsui Shan
Release year: 2024
Run time: 102 minutes
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
Continuing her career-spanning contemplation of home and reunion, Tsang Tsui shan (Flowing Stories, 2014) once again turns the camera on her home village of Ho Chung. This time, she documents her village’s Tai Ping Ching Chiu Festival, a once-in-a-decade event that brings villagers back from all over the world to the village. But when the world is hit by a global pandemic, what will happen to this long-awaited reunion? Made amidst great change in Hong Kong and her own life, Tsang’s latest love letter to her home is a melancholic and wistful affair.
Director biography
Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan is a Hong Kong independent filmmaker, scriptwriter, and documentary filmmaker. After studying sound design at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and earning a Master’s in Media Design from City University of Hong Kong in 2005, she debuted with Lovers on the Road (2008), which won the Best Feature Award at the 2009 South Taiwan Film and Video Festival. Her second feature, Big Blue Lake (2011), set in her native Ho Chung village, earned her the Best New Director at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards, the Jury Prix at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the New Artist Award from the Hong Kong Art Development Council. Her documentary Flowing Stories (2014) explored Ho Chung’s diaspora, while her 2022 VR project Chroma 11 was the first Hong Kong VR film selected for the Venice International Film Festival’s Immersive Programme. Her latest documentary, Winter Chants (2024), continues her focus on Ho Chung’s cultural traditions.
