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JOSIE HO 何超儀: MY VERY FIRST HONG KONG INTERVIEW... IN CANNES
Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 6:02PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Last night, I was turning with nostalgia and sadness, the pages of some old issues of "Kumite", a magazine which just disappeared (check out the Kumite is Dead entry) and realized that the first Hong Kong artist I interviewed in my life, was Josie Ho 何超儀.

It was in 2002, during the Cannes Film Festival (my first time there), after watching some short movies of the official selection (including Tai Tai 太太, a story about adultery if I remember, where she has the leading role), I went to the Hong Kong Pavillion, a place where you're supposed to find any informations related Hong Kong. Then, somebody from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council told me that Josie Ho was in Cannes, in a restaurant just in front of the Palais. I thought he was kidding, but no, and he took me to the place.

Josie Ho and the director Nicholas Chin, the cinematographer Charlie Lam 林志堅, and the actors Jimmy Wong 黃家諾 and Conroy Chan 陳子聰 were eating when I arrived, so I was a bit embarassed. But finally everybody were very cool and nice with me. I sat and talk with them and I did Josie's interview in the restaurant (I was working with a MD at that time).

After that, I took some pictures and the interview was published in "Kumite" one year and a half later (!) back to back with my preview article about Twins Effect 千機變, a movie which was supposed to be released in France in 2003 and was finally delayed until ...the end of 2007! You can check out all the Tai Tai stills and the Cannes pictures in the photo album HERE.

Frédéric Ambroisine (4 mars 2008)

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Frederic Ambroisine
posted on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 9:12AM

"Kumite" was published every three months, and at that time (2002 & 2003), there were only 36 pages (then, it became 68), so if we couldn't put all our articles, we had to wait for another issue.

"Twins Effect" was delayed because the previous distribution compagny who owned the rights of the movie, bankrupted or something. So the movie release was frozen for a few years. Then, it was picked up by another company...
Jaine
posted on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 9:01AM [Report]

how come the time delay for publishing? Is that normal?
JasonJason
posted on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 7:19AM [Report]

Wow, I love those serendipitous meetings! Conroy and Josie really are super nice and laid back. No diva attiitudes from those two!
StarKiss
posted on Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008 12:02AM [Report]

I bet the artical was great. I bet that night was a night to feel good about, not everyday you do an interview with cool people who see you as equal.
andy_lau_spain
posted on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 10:30PM [Report]

haha, Josie and Conroy are so nice!! ^^
Etchy
posted on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 7:13PM [Report]

ha, that was back when Conroy was still in Zoolander-level shape! cool story!
jezzjunk
posted on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 6:19PM [Report]

CONROY!!! wooow!

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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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