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Peggy Su!
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Wikipedia article
'Peggy Su!' is a 1998 film written by Anglo-Chinese playwright Kevin Wong, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon and starring Pamela Oei. His own experience and background being the son of Chinese immigrants working in the laundry business was used.'World Film Locations: Liverpool' By Jez Conolly, Caroline Whelan [https://books.google.com/books?id=qscwsriVMpoC&pg=PA86&dq=%22Peggy+Su!%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TZ87VafiL8T98QXd_YDYDQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Peggy%20Su!%22&f=false Page 86 Peggy Su! (1997) Location > 'Liverpool Town Hall, High Street, Chamber] It was directed by Trinidadian Frances-Anne Solomon who had previously worked on 'What My Mother Told Me' in 1994 and 'Bideshi' in 1996.'Frame by Frame Three' By Audrey T. McCluskey [https://books.google.com/books?id=z5qmplifVDIC&pg=PA1005&dq=FRances+Anne+Solomon+Trinidad+Peggy&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DaY7VYT4DIqA8QX9vICwDg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=FRances%20Anne%20Solomon%20Trinidad%20Peggy&f=false Page 1005 Index of International (non-US) Black Directors]Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Thursday, May 22, 2008 [http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,79438.html Film Company hosts workshop]Turner Classic Movies [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1429895%7C0/Frances-Anne-Solomon/ Freances-Anne Solomon Filmography]
About the film
This romantic comedy set in Liverpool in 1962. It is about the Chinese community there and 19-year-old Peggy who lives above a family laundry business with her brother and his wife. it centers on Peggy (Pamela Oei) her attempts to find a husband and also her coping with the changing times in the early 1960s.BFI screenonline [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/588353/ Peggy Su! (1998)]Caribbean Beat Issue 36 [http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-36/frances-anne-solomon-beating-system#axzz3YKMQS88Q Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington]
The film has the distinction of being the first feature film to receive National Lottery funding. It was joint funded with the BBC.BFI screenonline [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/588353/ Peggy Su! (1998)]Caribbean Beat Issue 36 [http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-36/frances-anne-solomon-beating-system#axzz3YKMQS88Q Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington] It was distributed by BBC Worldwide.New York Times [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310142157/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/437074/Peggy-Su-/credits Peggy Su! Production Credits]
Film festival and award
Festival
* Reel Word Film Festival Canada (2001) Famous March 2001 Volume 2 No 3 Page 10 Get ReelCineplex http://mediafiles.cineplex.com/FamousMagazineArchive/MAR2001/Mar2001_lo.pdf* Overseas Chinese Fim Festival Glasgow (2002) 'Bidding for the Mainstream?: Black and Asian British Film Since the 1990s' By Barbara Korte, Claudia Sternberg [https://books.google.com/books?id=MCc0DbyLaq0C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=%22Peggy+Su!%22+Chinese+Film+Festival&source=bl&ots=-hkwVkwP-Z&sig=5SwDw144rPg9QPhKXBnay24zm70&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MZU7Vb6bIonv8gWWpIHoDg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Peggy%20Su!%22%20Chinese%20Film%20Festival&f=false Page 2, Introduction]
Award
* RTS Television Award & BAFTA winner for best Costume Design by Joey Attawia.Imdb [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119876/awards?ref_=tt_awd Peggy Su! (1997) Awards Royal Television Society, UK 1998][http://www.francesannesolomon.net francesannesolomon.net] Press Kit, Page 2, Short synopsis http://francesannesolomon.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PEGGY-SU-PRESS-KIT-2-reduced.pdfReview
* 'The Independent' Sunday 23 August 1998 'The Independent' Sunday 23 August 1998 [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television-drama-in-the-end-peggy-su-gets-married-1173449.html Television drama: In the end, Peggy Su gets married]* 'Positif' n 448, Page 41 & 60, 1998 'Positif', Issues 447-450 [https://books.google.com/books?id=hDlAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Peggy+Su!%22Positif&dq=%22Peggy+Su!%22Positif&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_J88VZzcIaLcmAWh7ID4CQ&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA Positif, Issues 447-450]
Cast
* Jonathan Arun as Brian
* Jacqui Chan as Ifec Mah
* Daphne Cheung as Jackie
* Alphonsia Emmanuel as Miss James
* Glen Goei as David
* Burt Kwouk as Dad
* Pamela Oei as Peggy
* Charles T.H. Ong as David's father
* Adrian Pang as Gilbert
* Vincenzo Pellegrino as Terry
* Stuart Richma as Vicar
* Sukie Smith as Rita
* Daniel York as Jack
* Barbara Yu Ling as David's mother
Crew (selective)
* Screenplay ... Kevin Wong
* Executive producer ... George Faber
* Associate producer ... Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo
* Director of photography ... Shelley Hirst
* Casting ... Carl Proctor
* Production design ... Choi Ho Man
* Costume design ... Joey Attawia
* Makeup artist ... Natasha Chambers
* Makeup designer ... Sharon Martin
* First assistant director ... Julian Holmes
* Second assistant director ... Pauline Oni
* Third assistant director ... Mzee Coffey, Lab Ky Mo
Company credits
Production
* Production Companies ... Arts Council of England, BBC Films,
* The Mersyside Film Production Fund
Other
* ADR Facility ... Goldcrest Post Production London
* Post production sound services ... The Sound Design Company
References
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