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Maggie Cheung and Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien will be collaborating on a trailer* to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival, it was announced on Monday.
It will mark the return of both the Hong Kong actress and the Taiwanese director after their prolonged* hiatus from filmmaking. Cheung’s last appearance in a film was in 2010, in a cameo in Wing Shya and Tony Chan’s romantic comedy “Hot Summer Days.” Hou’s most recent feature directorial effort was the Taiwanese-French co-production, “Flight of the Red Balloon” in 2008. Hou is also the chairman of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.
Apart from starring in the trailer — which will be lensed by Hou’s longtime collaborator Mark Lee Ping-bin — Cheung is also planning to appear in the festival’s publicity material featuring photographs by Shya and Taiwanese graphic designer Aaron Nieh.
According to a statement released by the festival, the trailer will see Cheung “not only look back at the history of Chinese-language cinema but leap towards an ever more challenging future” and will demonstrate the importance and cosmopolitan nature of the Golden Horse Awards through the work of past award-winning masters.
Organizers said the festival, which will run from November 8 to 23 this year, will add exhibitions and other visual arts events to its regular components of screenings, the award ceremony, the project market and the Hou-chaired film academy. The festival will also publish a book featuring interviews of 112 past winners at the Golden Horse Awards.
Cheung remains the most garlanded* actor at the Golden Horse Awards, having won the best actress title four times with “Full Moon in New York” (1989), “Center Stage” (1991), “Comrades: Almost a Love Story” (1997) and “In the Mood for Love” (2000), and also a best supporting actress prize with “Red Dust” (1990). The 48-year-old is also the only Chinese actress to have won prizes at both the Berlin (Center Stage, 1992) and Cannes (Clean, 2004) festivals.(SD-Agencies)
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