Hong Kong Hero
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2005
Logline
Kenya, Present Day: Internationally renowned martial artist and Hollywood movie star Johnny Tang is kidnapped from the set of his latest film by a resourceful young African boy who believes Johnny can save his village from a brutal war lord. Producer Karin Chien. Action.
Abraham Lim
Director/Screenwriter
Abraham Lim received his BFA/MFA for film at New York University. Lim paid his way through school by working as an editor and eventually as a director of music videos for Riviera Films, whose roster included Gus VanSant and Larry Clark. In 1996 he left Riviera Films to develop his feature film Roads and Bridges. In 1997 Lim’s thesis film Fly won a number of awards at the NYU First Run Film Festival including best directing, acting, editing, and cinematography. After seeing Fly, director Robert Altman invited Lim to L.A. and asked him to edit his next film Cookie’s Fortune. Altman then signed on to executive produce Lim’s next feature Roads and Bridges. In 2002 Lim was selected for Fox Searchlight’s Searchlab for new directors. His screenplay The Achievers made it to the top 50 finalists of HBO’s Project Greenlight, and in 2005 was awarded a production grant from the NAATA media fund supporting Asian American filmmakers.
Karin Chien
Producer
Karin Chien is an independent film producer based in New York City. Ms. Chien is currently co-producing The Motel (winner of the NHK Screenplay Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival) with producers Miguel Arteta and Matthew Greensfield (and Chuck & Buck). Ms. Chien has produced feature-length films MVP and Robot Stories, winner of 29 film festival awards, currently in theatrical release around teh country.