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HAF Work-in-Progress Movie ‘Salli’ Explores the World of On-line Romance

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Taiwan-France movie “Salli” marks the characteristic debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after a number of acclaimed shorts and a TV film.

“Salli,” which received the grand prize on the Chinese language-language movie challenge matching and co-production platform Golden Horse Movie Mission Promotion in 2019, is a work-in-progress choice on the Hong Kong — Asia Movie Financing Discussion board (HAF). The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language movie follows a lonely middle-aged rooster farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t converse English and develops a romantic relationship by means of an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. Within the on-line world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Regardless of everybody calling it a romance rip-off, she needs to show that love certainly exists.

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“The explanation why I wish to make ‘Salli’ is due to quite common information in Taiwan. Many women and men are deceived by love on the web,” Lien tells Selection. “As bystanders, we all the time giggle at why these persons are so silly. How can they imagine in love on the web? However I mirrored, is there one thing improper with these individuals who imagine in love? They only wish to be cherished. So I began Salli’s story.

“What I wish to say by means of ‘Salli’ is that everybody longs to like and to be cherished, however don’t get misplaced within the seek for love and neglect that, most of all, you need to love your self first,” Lien provides.

“Salli” is produced by Lee Lieh (“Detention”), Dennis Wu (“The Put up-Reality World”), Amanda Tseng Man-Yin (“The Forest”) and Uilin Ong (“The Silent Forest”) and manufacturing firms embrace ENLA Media, the Graduate Co. and Bole Movie.

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“Salli’s story is common and resonates with my very own journey as a Taiwanese lady. I like director Lien’s humor and expertise from his earlier work and that’s all a part of the explanations we began to work on ‘Salli’ collectively from the very starting 5 years in the past,” Tseng says.

The movie is budgeted at $1.2 million of which $1.1 million has been secured.

“We hope to seek out worldwide gross sales and distribution companions at HAF, in addition to competition screening alternatives. We’re additionally excited to get to know filmmakers for future collaboration alternatives,” Tseng says.

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There are plans to launch “Salli” in Taiwan this yr.

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