Exclusive: Producers Andrew Bendell and Alistair McLean-Clark selected the memoir from Blue Horizon Productions. sea dragonsYvonne Foley’s story of how she believed her Chinese father as a child left her in Liverpool only to find out many years later that she and other sailors had been deported.
Foley only later found out that his biological father, who was a Shanghai sailor, had been blacklisted for seeking equal treatment with British sailors and not prevented from returning to the UK.
This story was first told in an article in the BBC’s online magazine. I am looking for my father from ShanghaiAnd an exhibition on Chinese sailors, pool dragonsOrganized by Yvonne and Charles Fall and made at the Liverpool Gallery.
The screenplay is written by up and coming Liverpool playwright and screenwriter Lizzie Nanner. Her work was shortlisted for the Blackburn Prize for Susan Smith and won Best New Play at the UK Theater Awards. Narvik In 2017.
Image courtesy of Taiwanese studio Ma Studios (Amy Ma) and Firefly Films in New Zealand (Emma Slade and Victoria Dops). The development is supported by the BFI Film Fund and also participated in the Chinese / European Bridging the Dragon seminar in Beijing. Subsequently, late-stage development funding was attracted from a Taiwanese industrial company, Kingston Technology, and the New Zealand Film Commission.
Project, titled With loveNow a leading actor is out in Cannes to hit the market.
Source: Deadline
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