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S'pore director Nelicia Low (刘慧伶 Liú huì líng) named Best Director at Czech film festival

By Jan Lee for The Straits Times, The New Paper, 08 July 2024 at 06:35 pm


 Singaporean film director Nelicia Low (刘慧伶 Liú huì líng)(left) won Best Director for her feature film debut Pierce (刺心切骨 Cì xīn qiè gǔ) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 6.
PHOTO: Singaporean film director Nelicia Low (刘慧伶 Liú huì líng)(left) won Best Director for her feature film debut Pierce (刺心切骨 Cì xīn qiè gǔ) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 6.
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Singaporean director Nelicia Low (刘慧伶 Liú huì líng) has won the Best Director prize for her feature film debut, the fencing-themed thriller Pierce (刺心切骨 Cì xīn qiè gǔ), at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

The 33-year-old, who also wrote the screenplay, took home the honour at the festival’s closing ceremony on July 6.

In her acceptance speech – in a mix of English, Mandarin and Cantonese – she thanked the jury, the festival organisers, her cast and crew, and the Taiwanese fencers who stepped in as extras for the film. She choked up thanking her parents.
 

In her acceptance speech – in a mix of English, Mandarin and Cantonese – she thanked the jury, the festival organisers, her cast and crew, and the Taiwanese fencers who stepped in as extras for the film.
PHOTO: In her acceptance speech – in a mix of English, Mandarin and Cantonese – she thanked the jury, the festival organisers, her cast and crew, and the Taiwanese fencers who stepped in as extras for the film. She choked up thanking her parents.
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“My family who’s here in this audience, thank you for travelling to be with me here tonight. To my parents, sorry I’m such a rebel daughter,” she said in English, before adding in Cantonese: “You don’t have to worry so much about me from now on.”

Low also thanked her older brother, telling him: “Kor kor (Cantonese for older brother), I love you.”

Low – a former national fencer for Singapore – took inspiration from her experience with her older brother, who has autism, to write Pierce.
 

My family who’s here in this audience, thank you for travelling to be with me here tonight.
PHOTO: “My family who’s here in this audience, thank you for travelling to be with me here tonight. To my parents, sorry I’m such a rebel daughter,” she said in English, before adding in Cantonese: “You don’t have to worry so much about me from now on.”
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The Chinese-language movie is a thriller set in Taiwan starring Taiwanese actor Liu Hsiu-fu as Zijie, a teenage fencer who reconnects with his older brother, played by Taiwanese actor Tsao Yu-ning, after the latter ends a seven-year stint in juvenile prison.

Zijie is initially convinced that his brother is innocent of the crime he was convicted for – killing an opponent during a fencing competition – but begins to question this belief.
 

The Chinese-language movie is a thriller set in Taiwan starring Taiwanese actor Liu Hsiu-fu as Zijie, a teenage fencer who reconnects with his older brother, played by Taiwanese actor Tsao Yu-ning, after the latter ends a seven-year stint in juvenile prison.
PHOTO: The Chinese-language movie is a thriller set in Taiwan starring Taiwanese actor Liu Hsiu-fu as Zijie, a teenage fencer who reconnects with his older brother, played by Taiwanese actor Tsao Yu-ning, after the latter ends a seven-year stint in juvenile prison.
Taiwanese actor Tsao Yu-ning (left) with director Nelicia Low during the filming of Pierce.
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The movie had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival and was the only Chinese-language film selected for its top-ranked Crystal Globe Competition. The Crystal Globe Grand Prix eventually went to Northern Irish director Mark Cousins’ documentary of a modernist painter, A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things.

In an Instagram post made after the ceremony on July 7, Low posted photos of herself at the festival and a recording of her speech. She wrote in the caption: “Thanks to my entire team again, I couldn’t have done it without you.”
 

In an Instagram post made after the ceremony on July 7, Low posted photos of herself at the festival and a recording of her speech.
PHOTO: In an Instagram post made after the ceremony on July 7, Low posted photos of herself at the festival and a recording of her speech. She wrote in the caption: “Thanks to my entire team again, I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Nelicia Low with a poster of her upcoming film Pierce at Golden Village x The Projector at Cineleisure on Feb 8.
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Pierce is a Singapore-Taiwan-Poland collaboration, produced by Singapore production companies Potocol and Elysium Cine in partnership with Taiwan’s Flash Forward Entertainment and Poland’s Harine Films, with support from Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency and the Polish Film Institute.

A local release for the film has yet to be confirmed.
 

Pierce is a Singapore-Taiwan-Poland collaboration, produced by Singapore production companies Potocol and Elysium Cine in partnership with Taiwan’s Flash Forward Entertainment and Poland’s Harine Films, with support from Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency and the Polish Film Institute.
PHOTO: Pierce is a Singapore-Taiwan-Poland collaboration, produced by Singapore production companies Potocol and Elysium Cine in partnership with Taiwan’s Flash Forward Entertainment and Poland’s Harine Films, with support from Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency and the Polish Film Institute.
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The 33-year-old, who also wrote the screenplay, took home the honour at the festival’s closing ceremony on July 6.
PHOTO: The 33-year-old, who also wrote the screenplay, took home the honour at the festival’s closing ceremony on July 6.
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The movie had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival and was the only Chinese-language film selected for its top-ranked Crystal Globe Competition.
PHOTO: The movie had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival and was the only Chinese-language film selected for its top-ranked Crystal Globe Competition. The Crystal Globe Grand Prix eventually went to Northern Irish director Mark Cousins’ documentary of a modernist painter, A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things.
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The Chinese-language movie is a thriller set in Taiwan starring Taiwanese actor Liu Hsiu-fu as Zijie, a teenage fencer who reconnects with his older brother, played by Taiwanese actor Tsao Yu-ning, after the latter ends a seven-year stint in juvenile prison.
PHOTO: The Chinese-language movie is a thriller set in Taiwan starring Taiwanese actor Liu Hsiu-fu as Zijie, a teenage fencer who reconnects with his older brother, played by Taiwanese actor Tsao Yu-ning, after the latter ends a seven-year stint in juvenile prison.
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Low – a former national fencer for Singapore – took inspiration from her experience with her older brother, who has autism, to write Pierce.
PHOTO: Low – a former national fencer for Singapore – took inspiration from her experience with her older brother, who has autism, to write Pierce.
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Singaporean director Nelicia Low (刘慧伶 Liú huì líng) has won the Best Director prize for her feature film debut, the fencing-themed thriller Pierce (刺心切骨 Cì xīn qiè gǔ), at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
PHOTO: Singaporean director Nelicia Low (刘慧伶 Liú huì líng) has won the Best Director prize for her feature film debut, the fencing-themed thriller Pierce (刺心切骨 Cì xīn qiè gǔ), at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
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By Jan Lee for The Straits Times, The New Paper, 08 July 2024 at 06:35 pm
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