To all film buffs and documentary lovers, here's a brilliant movie to catch when it hits our big screens come August 7! Directed by Tony Kern of Mythopolis Pictures and co-produced by well-known Channel NewsAsia TV news presenter, Genevieve Woo, "A Month of Hungry Ghosts" will hit the big screens on August 7, 2008, at Cinema Europa, Golden Village VivoCity and Sinema!
SYNOPSIS:
Every year, in parts of Asia, during the seventh lunar month, it is believed that the "gates of Hell" are opened and all the souls are set free to wander the Earth. At this time, many spirits roam around trying to fulfill their past needs, wants and desires. These are the "hungry ghosts". Numerous religious rituals and folk performances, like street operas, take place during the seventh lunar month in order to try and appease the spirits.
This film captures the seventh-lunar-month rituals in Singapore, a world-class centre of business and culture inhabited by many different immigrants from other Asian countries. While the hungry-ghost rituals originated in China and are still practised throughout South-east Asia in various forms, they are slowly dying out in many countries or may only be performed for several days of the month.
Singapore is unique in that the rituals are brought to life throughout the entire seventh lunar month. At the same time, the immigrants in Singapore have brought their own native rituals to the small island nation where the hungry-ghost month still thrives. A Month of Hungry Ghosts captures these rituals and performances throughout an entire seventh lunar month in Singapore.
About the Director and ProducerTony Kern 's works include narrative, documentary and animated films and video. He owns a stock-footage company TK Time-Lapse and won a Silver Award at the 2004 International Promax and BDA Awards and the Audience Choice Award for "The Spooky Incident" at the 2002 World Horror Film Festival.
Genevieve Woo is a TV news presenter-producer with Channel NewsAsia and anchors the Singapore-based news network's highly-rated local-news bulletin "Singapore Tonight" every weekday at 10pm Singapore/Hong Kong time. She was formerly a copywriter in advertising, a corporate-communications vice-president and a newspaper editor.
BLOG ALOUD In addition, on Aug 1, the first day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, join Director Tony Kern and Producer Genevieve Woo for an interactive session on "A Month of Hungry Ghosts", which will officially hit our big screens come Aug 7. Find out what goes behind the making of this documentary and what strange happenings, if any, that they encountered.
"BLOG ALOUD" - A MONTH OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
Date: Friday, 1 August
Time: 7pm (Screening begins), 8.20 pm (Q&A with Director & Producer)
Venue: Cinema Europa, GV VivoCity
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