Blue Island | |
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Directed by | Chan Tze-woon |
Written by | Chan Tze-woon |
Produced by | Peter Yam |
Cinematography | Szeto Yat-lui |
Edited by | Chan Tze-woon Silen Wu |
Music by | Jacklam Ho Tsz Yeung Guyshawn Wong |
Production company | Blue Island Production Company Limited |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Languages | Cantonese Mandarin English |
Blue Island ( Chinese: 憂鬱之島) is a 2022 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Chan Tze-woon. [1] It focuses on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The film won the Best International Feature Documentary Award at the 2022 Hot Docs Festival. [2]
The film received positive reviews in Variety and The New York Times. [3] [4]
Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com rated the film 2.5 stars out of 5, writing that it "features a lot of great footage, but a lot of it either doesn’t hang together or flow seamlessly from one episodic scene to the next." [5]
Blue Island | |
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![]() Japanese promotional poster | |
Directed by | Chan Tze-woon |
Written by | Chan Tze-woon |
Produced by | Peter Yam |
Cinematography | Szeto Yat-lui |
Edited by | Chan Tze-woon Silen Wu |
Music by | Jacklam Ho Tsz Yeung Guyshawn Wong |
Production company | Blue Island Production Company Limited |
Release date |
|
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Languages | Cantonese Mandarin English |
Blue Island ( Chinese: 憂鬱之島) is a 2022 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Chan Tze-woon. [1] It focuses on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The film won the Best International Feature Documentary Award at the 2022 Hot Docs Festival. [2]
The film received positive reviews in Variety and The New York Times. [3] [4]
Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com rated the film 2.5 stars out of 5, writing that it "features a lot of great footage, but a lot of it either doesn’t hang together or flow seamlessly from one episodic scene to the next." [5]