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The Umbrella
TSANG Hing Weng Eric
Release year: 2018
Run time: 22 minutes
Film type: Fiction
Synopsis
University hall is a disciplined yet uncertain place. Young souls are assigned to different rooms in October 2014 in Hong Kong. These individuals, in Alfred Adler's term, mutually attract and also expel, constantly creating high level of love and hatred, or solitude. Emotions among them will lead to powerful relationships, even a revolution.
Director biography
TSANG Hing Weng Eric is a Hong Kong-based filmmaker and artist, and author of Tales of Honey: A Collection of Interviews with Post-80s Directors from the Greater China (2015). Eric’s debut feature film Hong Kong Family (2022) premiered in Busan International Film Festival. Eric’s short films have been selected by four Oscars-Qualifying film festivals so far including A Thousand Sails (2019) which was selected by Sundance Film Festival. Another short film The Umbrella (2018) earned several awards including the Edward Snowden Award at the 17th Festival International Signes de Nuit – Paris and Fresh Wave Award in Hong Kong. Eric co-founded Eye Catcher with Renaissance Foundation Hong Kong in recent years in order to promote independent filmmaking among Hong Kong young moving image creators through creative camps, workshops, pitching forums, etc.
