PONTO FINAL newspapers reports on short film STAMPS

Macau Portuguese newspapers ‘PONTO FINAL’ published a feature article on Thomas Lim’s new short film ‘Stamps’. 

(26 Jan 2010, Tuesday, CENTRE PAGES 8 and 9)
澳門葡文報紙‘Ponto Final’在2010年1月26日刊登了有關林毅煒新短片《舊日》的報導。

             PONTO FINAl newspapers 23 Jan 2010 (CENTRE PAGE EIGHT)

              PONTO FINAL newspapers 23 Jan 2010 (CENTRE PAGE NINE)

Short film STAMPS stills

Short film STAMPS introduction

短片《舊日》簡介。

As a continuation to the short film ‘Blue Card’ filmed in September with Singapore singer Faith Yang Fuwei, ‘Stamps’ is the second short film of the three-short-film project titled ‘Pieces of Night and Light’. We shot ‘Stamps’ on 9th and 10th January 2010.

STAMPS

The director Thomas Lim’s statement:
In ‘Stamps’, a Macao girl LILI whom, because her mother passed away suddenly, was called to return to Macao in very short notice after having lived abroad for 12 years. Lili has very vague memories of her mom as she was brought up by her father CHONG. Chong though, is someone that Lili remembers very clearly, because he was a tyrant figure in her childhood… This film is about Lili’s first day back in Macao, about her emotions in seeing her father again after twelve years, and in dealing with her memories from twelve years ago.

Actors wise, I was very lucky to work with three fantastic actors from Macao. Lili is played by Sio, who is the chairman of the non-profit group ‘Associação dos Criadores de Macau’ (aka macau.creatives) that produced the hugely successful Macau album ‘Inside Out’. Chong is played by Billy Hui (more commonly known as ‘Big Bird’), who is a mentor figure for many theatre practitioners in Macau. I call Billy the ‘father of modern Macau theatre’. Also, worthy of special mention is an amazing young actress Firmina Mendonça. Firmina is only 7 years old and is flawless in her performance as a young Lili.

PIECES OF NIGHT AND LIGHT

A three-short-film project initiated by Thomas Lim, ‘Pieces of Night and Light’ is essentially about the experiences and memories that the director Thomas Lim have from living in Macao. These short films tell stories that take on the unique angle of the point of view of a foreigner (i.e, Lim himself). The first of these three short films ‘Blue Card’ finished filming in September 2009 and is currently in post-production. The second short film ‘Stamps’ has just finished filming on 10 January 2010 and the third short film is planned for shooting in the final week of January. There is a linking character in all three parts whose name is ‘Tom’. Tom is only a supporting character in these short films, and serves as the outside eye looking at these stories. This character is played by the director Thomas Lim himself.

Essentially, for this three-short-film project, the first was about a foreigner who was forced to leave Macao in short notice after failing to renew her work visa, and her feelings during her last day in Macao. The second is about a Macao local who suddenly needed to return to Macao after living abroad for 12 years, and her feelings during her first day back.

‘Blue Card’ on Macau Chinese newspapers ‘Macao Daily News’ (澳門日報）

A feature article on Thomas Lim’s new short film ‘Blue Card’ on Macau’s Chinese newspaper ‘Macao Daily’.

(29 Sept 2009, Tuesday. Page B6)

澳門中文報紙‘澳門日報’在9月29日（星期二）刊登了有關林毅煒的新短片《藍卡》的報導。

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http://www.macaodaily.com/html/2009-09/29/content_371227.htm

'Blue Card' early batch of stills

THE MACAU POST DAILY reports on BLUE CARD

A feature article on Thomas Lim’s new short film ‘Blue Card’ was published on Macau’s English newspaper ‘The Macau Post Daily’. (25 Sept 2009, Friday. Page 14)

澳門英文報紙‘The Macau Post Daily’在9月25日（星期五）刊登了有關林毅煒的新短片《藍卡》的報導。

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PONTO FINAL newspapers article on BLUE CARD

A feature article on Thomas Lim’s new short film ‘Blue Card’ was published on Macau’s Portuguese newspapers ‘Ponto Final’. (23 Sept 2009, Wednesday. Page 10)

澳門葡文報紙‘Ponto Final’在9月23日（星期三）刊登了有關林毅煒的新短片《藍卡》的報導。

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BLUE CARD as part of 'PIECES OF NIGHT AND LIGHT'

A new project by Island Man Pictures:
A 3 short film production titled ‘PIECES OF NIGHT AND LIGHT’

After a couple of long, hard months in preparations, the ‘Roulette City’ team is coming together again to shoot a new film titled ‘Pieces of Night and Light’. This new project consists of 3-interlinked short films that will see collaboration with artists from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau.

The first of these short films is titled ‘Blue Card’, and it will be filmed in Macau on 25th September 2009. This film will star Singapore pop singer Faith Yang in the lead role together with Macau actor Jacky Li. Toze Soares will be the film’s cinematographer, which will be directed by Thomas Lim, who also wrote the script. Island Man Pictures and Rebirth are co-producing this short film, and Thomas and Faith are the producers of this project, which is completely self funded.

BLUE CARD
Like most of us would know, the sudden boom of the casino industry in Macau propelled its economy to an all time high not too long ago. But more recently, the sudden fall of the world’s economy saw Macau sending many foreigners packing for home in short notice when their ‘Blue Cards’ (work permits) expired. Based on a true story, ‘Blue Card’ is about a Singapore girl who works as an writer/editor for her self-funded magazines, aiming to promote Macau to the region as a city that offers more than just gambling pleasures. But she was (obviously) unable to stay on longer because of her visa problems. Forced to leave Macau in a short one week’s notice, her world in casino city fell apart quickly...

PIECES OF NIGHT AND LIGHT
A 3-short film project initiated by Thomas Lim, ‘Pieces of Night and Light’ will kick off with shooting the first short film ‘Blue Card’ in September 2009. These short films tell 3 stories of incidents seldom discussed by Macau locals and the project takes on the unique angle of focusing on the problems that are encountered by foreigners and new immigrants in Macau.
After ‘Blue Card’, Thomas Lim will continue to develop at least 2 more short films planned for late 2009 or early 2010.

FAITH YANG FUWEI
One half of the successful girl group ‘2 Gals’, Singapore-born singer Faith Yang has since gone solo and will be in Macau to promote her first solo album ‘Simple Living’ on 22 September. Her former group ‘2 Gals’ was signed to EMI Taiwan and their album songs became top hits on ‘MTV’ and ‘Channel V’ in the late 90s and early 2000s.
To find out more about Faith Yang, please log on to www.rebirth.sg.

THOMAS LIM
A native of Singapore, Thomas Lim began working as an actor for theatre in 1999. He then moved to London in 2002 where he earned his Masters Degree in Theatre Practice. Thomas has since acted, directed and written scripts for theatre productions in London, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore. In 2004, Thomas relocated to Beijing to train in Chinese Kung Fu. Since the move to China, Thomas had also successfully found himself a TV and film acting career, often performing in principal roles in both American and local Chinese productions. Thomas moved to Macau in 2008 and has since completed the feature film ‘Roulette City’.
To know more about Thomas Lim, please log on to www.thomas-lim.com.