He is also an alumnus of Talents Tokyo.
Deadline sat down with both Choy Ji and Mo Jinjin following the screening of their film in Pingyao.
DEADLINE: How did you start your career as a filmmaker?
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DL: So why decide to make a fiction film as your debut feature?
CJ:Because making documentaries takes such a long time.
Before this film I was shooting a documentary in the Tibetan region for almost ten years.
DL: Where did the idea for the story of this film come from?
We went to Hong Kong together to do some research, then she wrote the script.
There are lots of cross-border stories like this.
I wanted to capture all those feelings but do it through the story of a family.
DL: How did you finance the film?
In the end, all the investment came from friends and family.
MJJ:We just sat and waited for the typhoon to come!
But then two hit Hong Kong one after the other and gave us all the footage that we needed.
CJ:I guess my training as a documentary filmmaker gave me the patience to wait that long.
Were you also interested in exploring that side of the relationship between China and Hong Kong?
Why did you decide to take that route?
The tribe in the film in based on a real tribe in Malaysia that the scriptwriter has researched extensively.
DL: Whats your next project are you making a doc or staying with fiction?
But I also want to continue making fiction films set in the south.
