Hello everyone, here's a superb movie to catch when it hits our big screens come August! Directed by Tony Kern of Mythopolis Pictures and co-produced by well-known Channel NewsAsia TV news presenter, Genevieve Woo, "A Month of Hungry Ghosts" will hit the big screens on August 7, 2008, at the Golden Village @ VivoCity!
You can even win free pairs of tickets to the Press Screening of "A Month of Hungry Ghosts" on July 31, 2008, at Golden Village Plaza Singapura! To enter the contest, simply create a blog entry and write your favourite Hungry Ghost Festival story, fiction or non-fiction and submit it at www.hungzai.com/contest. Deadline is July 28, 2008, just before the film opens!
Below's a brief synopsis of the film:
In parts of Asia every year, during the seventh lunar month, it is believed that the "gates of Hell" are opened and all the souls are set free to wander the Earth. At this time, many spirits roam around trying to fulfill their past needs, wants and desires. These are the "hungry ghosts". Numerous religious rituals and folk performances, like street operas, take place during the seventh lunar month in order to try and appease the spirits.
This film captures the seventh-lunar-month rituals in Singapore, a world-class centre of business and culture inhabited by many different immigrants from other Asian countries. While the hungry-ghost rituals originated in China and are still practised throughout South-east Asia in various forms, they are slowly dying out in many countries or may only be performed for several days of the month.
Singapore is unique in that the rituals are brought to life throughout the entire seventh lunar month. At the same time, the immigrants in Singapore have brought their own native rituals to the small island nation where the hungry-ghost month still thrives. "A Month of Hungry Ghosts" captures these rituals and performances throughout an entire seventh lunar month in Singapore.
LOG ON TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE, www.hungryghostsmovie.com , FOR MORE INFORMATION AND UPDATES!!! ALSO, DON'T MISS THE BRILLIANT TRAILER AT www.hungryghostsmovie.com/trailer!
interesting~
a documentary?
yup, it's a documentary
Hello everybody, here's an update for those who have been following this thread!
On Friday, August 1, 2008, the first day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, Director Tony Kern and Producer Genevieve Woo will hold an interactive session on "A Month of Hungry Ghosts", which will officially hit our big screens come August 7! Find out what goes behind the making of this documentary and what strange happenings, if any, that they encountered.
Here are the details:
"BLOG ALOUD" - A MONTH OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
Date: Friday, 1 August
Time: 7pm (Screening begins), 8.20 pm (Q&A with Director & Producer)
Venue: Cinema Europa, GV VivoCity
Ticket Price: $10, $8 (Student price, only for sale at GV VivoCity Box Office)
Visit www.gv.com.sg or the movie's official site, www.hungryghostsmovie.com , for more information!!!
A documentary in a theater? Weird.