The award-wining Macao film “Crash” has received another prize in the 13th China Independent Film Festival

Date of publication: 10/01/2017
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The film Crash, directed by local director Hong Heng Fai, after receiving a number of local and foreign film awards, has recently won the Best Short Film Award in the competition section of short fiction films in the 13th China Independent Film Festival. Hong received the prize in the award ceremony.

 

Being one of the works under the open category of short feature films of the “Local View Power 2016”, organized by the Macao Cultural Centre of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the film Crash won the Jury’s Commendation Award (Short Film) of the 10th Macao International Film and Video Festival—Macao Indies, the Best Film Prize of the 16th South Taiwan Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film of the 53rd Golden Horse Awards. Moreover, the film was selected in the 14th shnit International Shortfilmfestival, The 32nd International Short Film Festival Berlin and Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2017. Crash is a 20-minute short film that tells a story of a man, the protagonist “Choi”, in his fifties who finds himself and his mother lost in the new century. The film takes Internet and reality as theme bringing out the ethical issues and exploring the condition of “digitalization” in modern times.

Hong Heng Fai was the director of the Horizons Theatre (Macao) and has been involved in performing arts for more than a decade. In Taiwan, together with friends, he produced a documentary entitled Rice for The Dead, whose topic and experimental issues triggered widespread debates in the community. After he graduated with a degree in Advertising at Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, he founded “Day Day Studio” in 2014, whose first short film Before Dawn won the champion of Macao Cultural Centre’s 48 Rush Hours award. His three subsequent short films, Caged, In Memory of Her and Crash, were nominated at the Macao International Film and Video Festival.

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