Icarus Films will be teaming up with dGenerate Films — the leading distributor of independent Chinese films in the domestic marketplace — on Oct. 25 for the DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Chan Tze-Woon’s award-winning, five-year labor of love, Blue Island.
On July 1, 1997, the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong was transferred to Communist China with the understanding that the “One Country, Two Systems” would be honored for a period of 50 years. Simple, Hong Kong would be free of the tyranny of Mainland China.
By 2014 it was becoming apparent that China was not going to wait 50 years to exercise full control over the former British enclave and filmmaker Chan Tze-Woon sensed this and began documenting the events in Hong Kong as early as 2017 when pro-democracy advocates were being rounded up.
In 2019, Tze-Woon was there when things erupted with massive protests, which continued for eight solid months. Blue Island personalizes these events as experienced by various individuals … a blend of documentary storytelling and real-life drama.
With the arrival of the Covid pandemic in 2020, the Communist government used forced lock-downs to crush the resistance. Chan Tze-Woon’s Blue Island is a living testament to the events; the struggle for freedom that have unfolded in Hong Kong over the past decade.
Blue Island is presented in Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles.
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