[8 September 2023, 13:30] The screening & post-screening sharing will be rescheduled to Wednesday, 13 September, 2023. Successful registrants do not need to re-register. To cancel your booking, please email to fionang@cityu.edu.hk 

[8 September 2023] Due to the black rainstorm and the "extreme conditions" announcement, tonight's screening has been cancelled. We will reschedule and announce later.

For SCM students, alumni and staff register only: https://forms.gle/E1S6PwPMfkpt4dYy6

Alumni and students will receive a confirmation email in due course. Students will need to scan their student card to enter the cinema on a first-come, first-served basis, while alumni will need to confirm your presence to our duty staff at cinema entrance.

To Be Continued

Directors: Dora Choi, Haider Kikabhoy

2023 | Cantonese, English | 80 minutes | DCP | Color | with Chinese and English subtitles

There will be a 45-minute discussion with the director, Dora Choi after the screening, conducted in Chinese and/or English, facilitated by SCM Professor Louisa Wei.

Synopsis:

Convenient, tired and vapid, ‘East-meets-West’ is a cliché that has for decades been used to sell the ‘Hong Kong story’ to the world. Yet in the forgotten legend of Harry Odell, Hong Kong’s first impresario, a rediscovery of the city’s soul awaits.

Flamboyant and cigar-chomping, Odell was a Cairo-born, Shanghai-bred Russian Jew who stamped his mark on the cultural life of post-war Hong Kong. His hopeful, if chronically loss-making adventures pushed the cultural frontiers of his adopted home, capturing the open, dynamic and inclusive spirit of a bygone era to leave a legacy that resonates to this day.

What began as a conservation campaign to save the iconic State Theatre in Hong Kong morphed into five years of research and interviews with those who witnessed Odell in action. The result: a film that is as much a study of one indomitable pioneer as it is a soul-searching journey of what defines Hong Kong.

About the Directors:

● Dora Choi

Dora has been a news feature and documentary director in mainstream media for more than 10 years, focusing on politics and social affairs. She co-founded cultural enterprise Walk in Hong Kong.

● Haider Kikabhoy

A fourth-generation Hongkonger with family roots in Mumbai and Guangdong’s Kaiping, Haider co-founded cultural enterprise Walk in Hong Kong. He was formerly an academic researcher on Hong Kong’s architectural history. “To Be Continued” is his first documentary film.

《尚未完場》

導演：徐岱靈、祁凱達

2023 | 廣東話, 英語 | 80 分鐘 | DCP | 彩色 | 設中英文字幕

放映完畢後創意媒體學院魏時煜教授將與本片導演徐岱靈主持一節45分鐘的討論會，以中/英語進行。

電影簡介：

歐德禮是一個時代，代表一個被遺忘的美麗舊香港。

直到七十年代，歐德禮是連的士司機也耳熟能詳的一代娛樂大亨，今天卻無人知曉。

他是皇都戲院前身 - 璇宮戲院的創辦人，五十年代戰後蕭條，他已一手引入多位國際知名音樂家，永遠叼着一口雪茄見報寫專欄，歐德禮的演藝事業虧損慘重，卻為香港文化開闢了新天地，被稱為「香港文化史前人物」。

然而，九七年皇都戲院結業，歐德禮的輝煌過去彷似正式落幕。

有人不甘心，五年來鍥而不捨去翻查資料，上山下海用盡古怪方法尋覓歐德禮的後人，甚至尋人尋到明星的家中，赫然發現跨時空的關聯。

在那個白天上映黃飛鴻和林黛電影的大戲院，晚上有名家如 Isaac Stern、Fournier坐鎮，華洋雜處，雅俗共賞，只此一家。標誌香港新時代的大會堂開幕，第一場演奏正是由歐德禮承辦。

五、六十年代那個消失的香港又再被看見：曾經如此兼容並包、不問身世、各種文化互相碰撞，有如初戀般令人心動。

讓我們記得這個故事。

歐德禮和香港的傳奇，尚未完場。

導演簡介：

● 徐岱靈

在主流傳媒製作紀錄片逾十年，題材多涉及香港政治及社會議題。文化企業「活現香港」聯合創辦人。

● 祁凱達

家族四代均紮根香港， 祖先來自印度孟買和廣東開平。文化企業「活現香港」聯合創辦人，曾參與香港建築歷史的學術研究。這是他首次參與紀錄片製作。