PARADISE GIRLS
SYNOPSIS
Three young women have been disrupted by men: a boyfriend, a father and a young son in three different places: Tokyo, Hong Kong and a small town in the Netherlands. Each girl's individual reaction to these recent misfortunes illustrate a determination as well as a subconscoius love of life.
| DIRECTOR | Fow Pyng Hu |
| YEAR | 2004 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | World Premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival 2004; selected for IFF Rotterdam 2005's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition |
| CAST | Eveline Wu Kei Katayama Jo Koo Guido Pollemans A.C. Chang |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | Motel Films (Netherlands) in co-production with Pandora Film Produktion (Germany) Nps Television (Netherlands) |
| SUPPORTED BY | Dutch Film Fund Cobo Fund Filmstiftung NRW Eurimages |
| WORLD SALES | Fortissimo |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Flax Film |
| LENGTH | 95 min. |
| FORMAT | colour 35mm 1:1.85 Dolby Digital |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | Kalkar (Germany) Amsterdam (Netherlands) HongKong Tokyo (Japan) |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | Dutch, Mandarin, Japanese, English |
| PRODUCERS | Jeroen Beker (producer) Frans van Gestel (producer) Judy Maat (line producer) Christoph Friedel (co-producer) |
| WRITERS | Fow Pyng Hu |
| CASTING | Kemna Casting, Joe Chang |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Benito Strangio |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Natascha Teunissen (production manager) Claudia Steffen (line producer Germany) Olaf Lehmann (upm Germany) Misako Furukawa (upm Japan) Candy Wong (upm HongKong) |
| EDITING | Menno Boerema |
| MUSIC | Mick Witkamp |
| SOUND | Marco Vermaas Andréa Seligmann (sound designers) Eric Leek (sound mixer) |
| ART DIRECTION | Floris Vos |
| COSTUMES | Marie Therese Jacobse |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Ka-way Chui Yoko Kinebuchi Chan Sau Han Wattana Garram |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | no |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | soon |
| LINKS | www.motelfilms.nl |
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