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GOT MY SHINJUKU INCIDENT TICKET!
Monday, Mar 2, 2009 5:54AM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Having a press accreditation at the HKIFF (Hong Kong International Film Festival) is useful if you want to take photos, to video shoot smiling movie stars at press conferences or films premieres, or to interview people. But having a press accreditation at the HKIFF is completely useless if you want to have tickets for the opening movies, closing movies, award gala movies and films screened at the Hong Kong Film Archive (where there are usually the most rare and interesting movies screened).

And basically, if a journalist wants to see other movies at this festival, he/she has to wait to see if the tickets are not sold out, before having his/her ticket. If it’s sold out, well, too bad, no movie for you. Because of this strange system (How can you do a good interview if you can’t watch the movie?) I got screwed many times. When I was able to attend some premiere screenings (The Heavenly Kings, The Pye-Dog, Black Night, Run Papa Run or Election 2 for example), it’s because I got the tickets from friends.

So, this year, I took my precautions, and stayed awake until 3.00 am (French time which means 10.00 am Hong Kong time) to buy online my Shinjuku Incident premiere screening ticket. A few minutes later, It was booked! (Now, all the tickets are sold out – of course). So for once, I’m 100% sure that I’ll be able to watch a HKIFF opening film. Unless I miss my plane...

Frédéric Ambroisine (March 1^st, 2009)

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YANWU
posted on Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 6:27PM [Report]

Hi Fred, when will you be in HK? Hope to see you in Filmart!!!
JoanneSanderson
posted on Monday, Mar 2, 2009 7:55PM [Report]

I'm sure it will be well worth the fact that you had to wait till 3am in the morning to book it.
rottendoubt
posted on Monday, Mar 2, 2009 2:42PM [Report]

nice!!! i wonder if i will be able to see it? =)
Johnny Lu
posted on Monday, Mar 2, 2009 11:48AM [Report]

been waiting for this movie...please let us know how it is.
Etchy
posted on Monday, Mar 2, 2009 5:59AM [Report]

damn, i'm jealous. i have no idea if we're getting to see it or not. :-P

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Born in Istres (France), Frederic Ambroisine studied mathematics, then filmmaking in Paris in his twenties...
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Born in Istres (France), Frederic Ambroisine studied mathematics, then filmmaking in Paris in his twenties. At the same time, he was also trained as a stuntman by the Figlarz Action crew (SCORPION, 36, BABYLON A.D., LARGO WINCH etc.). He started as a filmcritic in 2000 on the website DVDRAMA, which is now one of the most popular French daily e-magazines about movies and DVD. Since 2002, he also wrote in several French magazines specialized in Asian Cinema, including KUMITE, ASIA PULP, MAD ASIA and SCORE ASIA. At the end of 2003, Frederic started to work as a documentary director on the SHAW BROTHERS French DVD collection distributed by WILD SIDE FILMS. He interviewed hundreds of Hong Kong artists and did more than 60 short documentaries between 2004 and 2006 related to Shaw Brothers kung-fu classics, inlcluding THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN, THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, COME DRINK WITH ME, KILLER CLANS, KING BOXER, THE 8 DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER etc. He also directed a few dozens of short documentaries about recent Hong Kong movies including the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy, ONE NITE IN MONGKOK, P.T.U., DUMPLINGS, S.P.L., DOG BITE DOG... In 2006, he directed INSIDE HO YUK, his first 52-minute documentary (the other ones were 26 minutes or less). He’s now preparing his first musical documentary, ROCK 'N' ROLL GIRLS.
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