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Maryknoll Sisters Film Project - "Trailblazers in Habits"

The alumni is supporting the film project produced by Fish Tail Soup Inc., Hong Kong. Nancy Tong (Yr of 71) is the producer. This film will focus on a few aspects, the Lives of the Maryknoll Sisters starting from the days when they arrive in Hong Kong in the 20's till the present date. Besides that, the film will intertwine other aspects, the social and political history of Hong Kong, focusing the Sisters' challenges in the Chinese culture but under the Bristish Ruling.

"The filming is almost complete. Nancy Tong and her camera men are in HK this week but will leaving next Thursday to return to NYC. She would have loved to film the get-to-gether of the the '56er on Friday or at least to meet the ladies. The purpose of this week's filming in HK is to film the 100th anniversary celebration of the MK Hospital in Wong Tai Sin. She has obtained consent from some retirees from the hospital and will be filming them in the next couple of days. They will talk about their work with the Sisters. Whilst Nancy is in town, she will continue to try to interview more Sisters in HK, as the film will be about their contribution to education , hospital work and social work.

Editing of earlier filmed footage has begun in NY, hence the need for Nancy to rush back to work alongside the editor. Simultaneously, we are looking into finding a few of Hollywood's well respected actresses (e.g. Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Redgrave, Sandra Bullock, etc.) to help us with the reading of some of the Sisters' diaries, as a voice over for the film. There is no telling which actresses would agree to work with us (and not be paid). My fingers and toes crossed.

Reason for reaching out to Hollywood is to find a way to further raise the film's profile to maximize future income generated by this film. We plan to submit this film to next year's international film festivals, probably under the category of "documentary films".

The post-production work would likely go till end of next spring, hopefully sooner. We should have our first cut ready by then. We would like to have a premier gala showing of the film in several cities, HK, NY, LA, Toronto, Vancouver, etc. This will be a fun evening when hopefully many of us will gather together to help celebrate our Sisters' work. We would like to invite our Sisters to attend and be of special guests of honor. Lots to plan ahead and I am going to once again, rally support from all the alum chapters in North America to help with this special evening.

~ Update on the film from Katy's email on October 14, 2011"

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