Slight sore head from the night before was nursed with dim sum with festival guests Teddy Chen and Xavier Jamaux.
Ran across the road to do a filmed interview with Coventry University East Asian Film Society, who we support as sponsors, and then to introduce our UK Premiere of COW - one of my two top picks (FISH STORY was the other).
Then back to dim sum and then took Teddy over to the press interviews we had arranged with him, starting with the lovely Cecilia from TVB.
Another UK Premiere - K:20 The Legend of the Mask this afternoon, a great family orientated action adventure.
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office kindly sponsored the pre-Bodyguards and Assassins drinks for Teddy Chen, winner of the Best Director Award at Hong Kong Film Awards. Was great way to stop and relax for a bit and meet the festival goers over a quick drink.
After introducing Bodyguards... to a sell out crowd, it was time to get the front of house staff ready for the end of the festival and prepare for the Q&A with Teddy Chen and the closing drinks.
The Q&A was a great success with Teddy Chen starting with a brief recap of the ten years he took to make the film, followed by questions from the audience regarding the production process and Teddys next steps (he is due to make a Shaw Brothers remake!).
At the Closing Drinks at Slug and Lettuce where we had a mingling of British actors and actresses talking with Teddy as well as festival goers chatting with journalists and organisers of other festivals, I chatted with Stewart from Podcast on Fire (did anyone get the play on the words of City on Fire?) the number 1 asian movie podcast and we announced the winner of the Terracotta Festival Audience Award 2010, as voted for by the audience:
Little Big Soldier scored 8.76......Summer Wars scored 8.94 and the winner of the award was......Teddy Chens Bodyguards and Assassins with an astounding 9.03 average!
We celebrated with some congee and duck noodles with Teddy afterwards with a small group of us and then it was off home, the end of another festival, and the prospect of all the post festival tidying up and onward forwarding of film prints around the world to other festivals, an apt metaphor for the brief coming together and then the disbanding around the world of our festival goersfestiva.
