News — Amos Why

Dot 2 Dot 點對點 (2014) – Hong Kong [2014 HKIFF] Director: Amos WhyScreenplay: Amos WhyStarring: Moses Chan Ho, Meng Tingyi, Susan Shaw Yin-yin, Lam Tze-chung Reviewed by: Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Initial Thoughts: It’s a sentimental feeling when a film takes you back to your childhood, depicting what Hong Kong used to be like and how we used to value heritage and traditional over vast commercialism. Directed/Produced and Written by Amos WHY, “Dot 2 Dot” gives us that allowance and time to reminiscent about what had been changed, inquire our past connections and understanding what we truly value.   In-depth Analysis: “Dot 2...

Napping Kid 逆向誘拐 (2018) - Hong Kong   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     Four years after director and writer Amos Why’s “Dot 2 Dot”, a lovely little film that I described as a love letter in a bottle to Hong Kong. If the first film is a love letter to the past, “Napping Kid” is certainly a smart and intriguing film about the current and future of Hong Kong. Wrapped around a detective story of hi-tech hacking and ransoming, is a film at its very core about Hong Kong, it social issues and its...