PERMANENT RESIDENce
By Scud
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Hong Kong IFF, Taipei IFF, FebioFest Prague
SYNOPSIS
Shot in Israel, Japan, Australia, Thailand and mainland China, PERMANENT RESICENCE is the life story of a man who indulges in thoughts of after life and passionately falls in love with a straight guy.
Ivan (Sean Li) has been searching an answer to a lifetime question: Where will we be after the present life?
On the way, he went through a difficult passion with Windson (Osman Hung), a straight guy, made a longtime friendship with Josh (Jackie Chow), a Palestinian, experienced the death of his beloved elderly, witness the wedding of his brother (Lau Yu Hong) and the birth of a nephew.
Eventually he designed a permanent residence at his own soil to host all his love ones for the next life, in case there is any, while his friend Josh created a home at the Dead Sea for those not so much loved.
DIRECTOR´S BIOGRAPHY
Scud was born in mainland China amid the Great Culture Revolution on March 20th, 1967, raised by his grandmother, before moving to Hong Kong at 13. He devoted the next 20 years to a career of IT, worked for multi-national companies, founded a public listed company, and acquired a bachelor degree through part-time study. He then moved to Australia for a permanent residence. Realizing that he has fulfilled the dream of others but not his own, he returned to Hong Kong in 2005 to start the film production company Artwalker. He wrote and directed the feature films CITY WITHOUT BASEBALL (2008), PERMANENT RESIDENCE (2009) and AMPHETAMINE (2010). PERMANENT RESIDENCE and AMPHETAMINE are part of an autobiographical trilogy to be completed by the film LIFE OF AN ARTIST.
CAST
Ivan: Sean Li
Windson: Osman Hung
Josh Aviv: Jackie Chow
Nam: Lau Yu Hong
Eva: Eva Lo
CREW
Producer/Script/Director: Scud
DOP: Herman Yau
Editor: Jacky Leung
Art Director: Ron Heung
Music: Teddy Robin Kwan
Sound: Tam Tak Wing
Associate Producer: Heman Peng
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Original Title: 永久居留 / 35mm / 1:1.85 / Colour / DOBLY SRD 5.1 / 115 min /
Original Language Cantonese with English Subtitles / Hong Kong 2009