World Premiere of Dot 2 Dot at 38th HK International Film Festival Held Successfully

"Dot 2 Dot", a Hong Kong art film sponsored by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, invested by BPS Global Group, directed by the emerging filmmaker, Wong Ho-yin Amos, featuring a famous actor, Chan Ho Moses, had its world premiere at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) at The Grand Cinema on 2 April 2014, with the producer KWONG Pui Si, director Amos WHY and cast in attendance to greet the audience. After the success of Adam WONG’s The Way We Dance in the 37th HKIFF, Dot 2 Dot is again a 100% local film that explores pressing issues of urban change, cultural history and collective memory in Hong Kong.

Director Amos WHY, born and bred in Hong Kong, has experienced the best of times in the 70s and 80s, but is acutely aware of how Hong Kong’s economic success story has meant rapid change for its people. He said, “The idea of Dot 2 Dot actually has its roots back in the 1990s. It’s only now I have recognised that change has been so rapid, that as a society we have started to forget the past. I hope to remind the audience of the importance of the past through telling the story of Hong Kong.”

Moses CHAN said, “I am honored to be invited by Amos to be in his film, and I also believe that I share several common features with my character in the film. The changes of this city have been swift and absolute. So I am very much acting myself as Chung in the film, to a certain extent.”

MENG Ting-Yi may not yet be a household name in Hong Kong, but Dot 2 Dot definitely marks her first step into the Hong Kong film industry. On her role as a Putonghua teacher in the film, she said, “I think the way the two main characters interact with each other is really romantic. It’s wonderful that the film is receiving such a warm welcome from the audience, and I hope to have more chances to participate in film productions in Hong Kong.”

“Dot 2 Dot” is about a Mandarin teacher from northeastern China, Xue, who is a newcomer to Hong Kong. Xue accidentally finds some cryptic diagrams near every subway station, in the form of dot-to-dot games. She is able to solve all the riddles after exploring her surroundings and the history of this city. In a metropolis of more than 7 million people, and a colonial history of more than a century, Xue embarks on a mysterious journey and determines to find out who makes all these dots, with only very tiny, and subtle hints.