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Nurse.Fighter.Boy is the feature-length directorial debut film from award-winning director Charles Officer. It was co-written by himself and producer, Ingrid Veninger, and produced in conjunction with the Canadian Film Centre.

I had already made 3 fairy tale short films - LITTLE SUCK-A-THUMB, THE FROG KING, and LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD starring Christina Ricci - so making a fairy tale feature film was a natural progression. an early draft of the script was workshopped at the Sundance directors and screenwriters labs. YEAR OF THE FISH is a loose adaptation of an old Chinese folk tale, so I decided to set it in the wonderful, vibrant neighborhood of modern-day Chinatown.

I'm not sure what you call those large fishing nets that sweep the bottom of oceans floors in an attempt to capture mass quantities of fish, but I'd say that the curators from the NYFF certainly put this type of strategy into practice when setting up the line-up for the 46th edition to take place at the end of September until the midway point of October.

"A penchant for pretty things and pretty faces, mood over action, saturated, hazy, and glossy colours and tints, odd cuts, extensive use of slow and fast motion, skeletal storylines and explorations on the themes of loneliness and the passing of time—all Kar-Wai’s trademarks are present..."

John Woo’s much hyped return to the HK film industry the historical epic Red Cliff has pulled in north of $25 million from six East Asian territories including South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since Thursday. According to Variety Asia the film even set an opening day record for a Chinese release in South Korea with 139,000 admissions, a stunning 57% increase from the previous record of 60,000 admissions set by Zhang Yimou’s The House of Flying Daggers.