Scud invites 37 actors to gather at the Rotterdam Film Festival! Hong Kong star Amanda Lee is still active and calls for development in Taiwan

Four Seasons Online/Reported by Liu Peiyu

Director Scud was invited to participate in the “Focus on Filmmakers” section of the 2024 Rotterdam Film Festival, where all 10 films have been screened; for the first time, he invited 37 actors who have participated in his works to gather in Rotterdam. The actors who had not seen each other for a long time reunited. Adonis He celebrated his 35th birthday locally, and the whole team celebrated together. Hong Kong star Amanda Lee, who once released records in Taiwan, is still active in the art scene and talks about developing in Taiwan! Eric East settled in Los Angeles and worked in finance and translation out of the camera. Taiwanese twins Karen Huang and Lina Tsai appeared one after another in sexy wedding dresses. Not only did they frequently take eye-catching photos at the venue, but they also had the DJ directly call out “Welcome Taiwan” to the nightclub because of their hot dancing charm!

Amanda Lee watched her old friend Director Scud take all the films to the international stage and said happily: “Film is a career that has to solve many difficulties every minute. He made these ten films and successfully conquered film festivals and audiences. It is really great.” I’m happy for him!” Scud said that this was not the first time that the two of them went to an international film festival together. “We received the Artistic Achievement Award together in Philadelphia.”

Amanda Lee was once a popular best-selling singer and has released 18 albums, including the Mandarin album “Singing on the Rooftop”. She is still active in the field of film, television and singing. After the epidemic, she has continued to make movies and perform, serve as a judge on singing competition shows, and hold her own oil painting exhibition. She has always been paying attention to Taiwan’s entertainment trends. She said that she is thinking about Taiwan’s development and is willing to try whether it is a movie or a musical. She immediately reached an agreement with Taiwanese producer Liu Fengqi, who was traveling with her this time, about future cooperation in Taiwan.
Karen Huang, who was once the “Goddess of Guoguang”, participated in”Plato vs Pasolini” and “Ghosts just want to have fun”. Seeing the large array of nearly 40 actors, she said happily: “The actors who participated in the director’s works this time came from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Australia, Germany. Normally it’s hard to see everyone, but this time we all live together, eat together, send movie postcards, and answer questions after the screening together. There are so many people together, the relationship is really different.”

Karen Huang just shot Li Qianna’s MV a while ago, and he hopes to participate in suitable works from various parties in the future. Scud said that she had been sending photos before departure to ask him to help choose a dress, and sure enough, she made many beautiful appearances at the film festival.

Lina Tsai has been dancing since elementary school and used to be a nightclub dancer. This time she dressed up gorgeously and was noticed at the venue or on the road, and even asked to take pictures. In the evening, she and another Taiwanese actor Huang Wei Kai showed her hot dancing charm in a local nightclub, attracting cheers from the audience. The DJ enthusiastically played Jolin Tsai’s songs and repeatedly announced a welcome to the Taiwanese group. In the end, everyone in the audience received free drinks!

Scud said with emotion: “Have you noticed that since the fourth film “Love actually…sucks!”, none of my films has been admitted to the Hong Kong International Film Festival, even though Zhang Shuping helped me with editing and color grading, Qiu Litao’s photography, and Yu Jia’an’s costumes (although Obviously there are less things to do), Yu Yiyao’s soundtrack, and none. I may not have given them the next few films (in anger), anyway, they all premiered in foreign countries, and my films continued to be Hong Kong’s best in international film festivals (referring to mainstream film festivals, The only representative of the non-gay film festival). A good example is the premiere of the 6th film “Utopians” at Palm Spring (Palm Springs International Film Festival). After I saw the film list, there were only 3 Chinese films, and the other two were “Assassin Nie Yinniang” and “Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers”, 1 each from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.”