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Mama’s Affair, Hong Kong Family Drama Starring Mirror Members Keung To & Jer Lau, To Release In The UK

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EXCLUSIVE: Trinity CineAsia has acquired UK rights to Hong Kong family drama Mama’s Affair, which marks the film acting debut of two members of hot local boy band Mirror, Keung To and Jer Lau, from Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures.Directed by Kearen Pang, the film opened at the Hong Kong box office last weekend (August 11), where it took the number one position after grossing HK$930,440 ($119,000) from previews, in the process out-performing Brad Pitt-starrer Bullet Train now in its second weekend.Mama’s Affair is being released in the UK on August 19, just one week after its Hong Kong debut.

It premiered at Japan’s Osaka Asian Film Festival in March and recently played at New York Asian Film Festival.Cast in the film also includes Teresa Mo, playing a former top artiste manager, who chose family over career when she got pregnant.

When she meets a young waiter, played by Keung To, it creates tension between her and her 17-year-old son, played by Jer Lau.Pang is a writer, director and actress across both theatre and films, whose 2017 directorial debut 29+1 won best new director and picked up six other nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards.After a depressing start to the year, when Hong Kong’s cinemas were closed for four months between January and April due to Covid, the territory is starting to see a revival of sorts for local films with recent hits including work-from-home comedy Chilli Laugh Story.

More new films are being premiered at Hong Kong International Film Festival, which kicked off last weekend (August 15-31).Trinity CineAsia recently released Chilli Laugh Story in the UK, where it is tapping into a growing audience of Hong Kong people who are choosing to move to the UK following the introduction of the

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