★ Based on the personal experience of director Norris Wong
★ Closing film of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2023
★ In Competition at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023
Believing that writing Cantopop is her God-given talent, Law Wing-sze decides to make it her lifelong career. But as hard as Sze tries to polish her lyrics writing skills and expand her social circle, nothing seems to go her way. What if there’s a will, but there’s no way? The first major motion picture about Cantopop lyrics writing. Norris Wong’s long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut My Prince Edward is an unsentimental autobiographical dramedy that reminds us no dream is guaranteed to come true. Ironically, the film’s star, up-and-coming actress Chung Suet-ying, is actually a real-life Cantopop lyricist.
Director: Norris Wong
Cast: Chung Suet-ying, Eric Kot, Anson Chan, Sabrina Ng, Tang Lai-ying
 | About the Director Norris Wong is a Hong Kong director, screenwriter and lyricist. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Film of the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2012, majoring in film production. Her debut feature film My Prince Edward won the Best Screenplay at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, and the New Director Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2023, and was shortlisted for the Best New Director at the Golden Horse Awards. 2024, she adapted her own book I Want to be an Illiterate Lyricist into a movie The Lyricist Wannabe, which is a story of her own quest to become a professional lyricist. | |