Hong Kong’s Movement Image Trade Affiliation has chosen Zero to Hero, a household sports activities drama from director Jimmy Wan Chi-man, as Hong Kong’s entry in the very best worldwide characteristic race on the 2022 Academy Awards.
The movie is predicated on the real-life story of Hong Kong runner So Wa-wai, who was born with cerebral palsy to an impoverished household however went on to set quite a few world data and win 12 Paralympic medals between 1996 and 2012.
The movie has proved a preferred crowd pleaser at dwelling in Hong Kong, the place it stays on launch and is already town’s top-grossing native film this yr, having earned just a little over $3.5 million and counting.
Three actors play So at completely different ages within the biopic — Choi Tin-nok, Fung Ho-yeung, Leung Chung-hang — whereas his mom is portrayed by actress Sandra Ng, who is also a producer on the movie.
Produced by One Cool Movies, Zero to Hero made its world premiere on the pioneering Quick East Movie Competition in Udine, Italy earlier this yr forward of its business launch in Hong Kong in August.
Since first coming into the Oscar competitors in 1959, Hong Kong has submitted 36 movies for the Academy Award for greatest worldwide characteristic movie. To this point, three Hong Kong submissions have earned nominations within the class: Zhang Yimou’s Elevate the Crimson Lantern (1991), Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine (1993) and Derek Tsang’s crime drama Higher Days (2020).
