Goodbye Chinatown
Director: Wesley Lowe
Producer: Jenny Li
Production: New Look Film Entertainment
Screenplay: Wesley Lowe
Genre: Drama
Shooting Material: 35mm Length: 110 min
Stage of script: Finished
Language: English/Mandarin
Production Budget: 2,000,000 CAD
Finance in place: 400,000 CAD is confirmed under official co-production treaty
Business Partner involved: New Look Film Entertainment, WesleyLowe Productions Inc.
Seeking: Co-investor, Ads Sponsor
Synopsis: Hurt, never forgiven; love, never forgotten.
Middle-aged dentist, Dr. Jeffrey Chan, has never forgiven the Lew family, his family’s landlords in Chinatown, for their humiliating treatment due his family’s poverty, especially by Billy, Landlord Lew’s son. While Dr. Chan has moved to the modern suburbs, it galls him that his widowed mother refuses to leave the old, decrepit building and even more infuriating, the widowed Landlord Lew is trying to start a relationship with her.
Dr. Chan sees his chance for revenge when Billy surprisingly wants to make him a partner in re-developing the old Chinatown building. Secretly, planning a double cross, his plans tumble apart, when his mother suffers a heart attack. It turns out Mrs. Chan has secrets of her own and there are deep, long-hidden reasons as to why she finds it so hard to say goodbye to Chinatown.
Director's Statement:
Goodbye Chinatown will be a film that speaks to the heart. No special effects, no fantastic stunts, just the heart-wrenching story of love and hurt. Love hidden for sixty years, hurt hidden for a lifetime. This film will combine Chinese and Western sensibilities, traditional and contemporary settings and show that love and honor still have a place today, no matter how difficult it may seem. To make a film of significance, my role is to help the actors to fully express the human drama.
Director's Biography:
After completing a Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto, Wesley Lowe composed for several hundred films and television projects. A Chinese Canadian wanting to see more stories of his community onscreen, he moved into filmmaking and has written and directed for 12 years in both documentary and drama. In 2006, he was the winner of the Channel M Diversity in Cultures Award. Goodbye Chinatown will be his second feature film.
Producer: Jenny Li
Nanjing born Jenny Li was a Production Manager for many Chinese projects after completing a Master of Education degree. After immigrating to Canada and completing a Film Arts program in University of British Columbia, she saw how few Chinese films were available and began New Look Films, a company dedicated to the production, co-production and distribution of Chinese-themed films to the West. Attending international markets and festivals, she has acquired the rights to 15 Chinese film productions and believes that Goodbye Chinatown will attract audiences from East and West.
Contact:
Production: New Look Film Entertainment
Jenny Li
Add:1196 Foundry Quay, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Postcode:V6H 3P3
Tel:1-604-340-8118
Fax:1-604-732-5107
Email:jenny@newlookfilm.com
Web: www.newlookfilm.com
