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Hong Kong's
low-budget film, Echoes of the Rainbow won the Crystal Bear award for
Best Feature Film in the Generation category. This is the first time a Hong Kong
film has won this prize.
With the appropriate funds from the HKSAR government, the film cost less than
10 million yuan ($1,470,588) to produce. In spite of limited funding, the
Crystal Bear Award having been awarded for the film has encouraged the Hong Kong
film circle.
Echoes of the Rainbow tells a story of a common immigrant family
striving in the 60s of Hong Kong. It's told through the perspective of a naughty
boy, who is the director and screen writer Alex Law himself. Although the film's
Chinese name is Time Thief, the story doesn't concern a thief at all.
Mabel Cheung, the producer and wife of the director, said time is a powerful
thief that can steal many things: love, friendship, and parents sometimes.
Cast members include Simon Yam and Sandra Ng, who play a cobbler father and a
happy-go-lucky mother. Through the elder brother's first romance, and the
family's encounters with love, hope, failure, death and rebirth, we travel back
to a place called old Hong Kong, a time we'll always remember, and a place we
have always called home.
(Source: ent.qq.com/ Translated by womenofchina.cn)