Michelle Ang joined My Wedding And Other Secrets director Roseanne Liang and fellow cast member Cheng Pei Pei at the 20th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in China. The movie which stars Michelle Ang and Matt Whelan was a finalist in the Chinese ‘Oscars’.
Michelle Nominated For Best Actress Award…
In other news the film is nominated for five awards in the Aotearoa Film and Television Awards (AFTAs); Michelle Ang is nominated in the Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film, best of luck to Michelle. The other awards the film is up for are: Best Feature Film, Best Director in a Feature Film (Roseanne Liang), Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film (Matt Whelan) and Best Screenplay for a Feature Film (Roseanne Liang & Angeline Loo).
The awards ceremony will take place on 12th November.
Michelle Ang fans in the UK, and in particular London, your prayers have been answered!
As part of The New Zealand Film Festival 2011 there will be a showing of the recent Roseanne Liang movie My Wedding And Other Secrets and Take 3, which both feature Michelle Ang in lead/co-lead roles. The double bill will play at 6pm on July 2nd 2011 at the Barbican, for booking details click here.
- Meanwhile over on New Zealand website 24/7 Girl their is an interview with Michelle Ang talking about acting to Sarah Illingworth, a friend and fellow Kiwi who’s living and working in America. Key quote from Michelle:
“I am currently in development on a one-woman theatre show too”.
Back to the Barbican… The New Zealand Film Festival is supported by the New Zealand High Commission, the New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand’s Ministry for Culture and Heritage and NZ-UK The Link Foundation.
Want more Tribe links with the festival? Also showing will be the movie Boy, introduced by Taika Waititi and Eagle vs. Shark which will have a Q&A with Taika Waititi it also features Jermaine Clement in the film. Jermaine and Taika both appeared in The Tribe – click here for more info on that appearance. (Please note: Taika Waititi attending the festival has not been 100% confirmed yet).
Sione’s Wedding (aka Samoan Wedding) will also play in London. Amongst the cast Fleur Saville (Ruby from The Tribe) and Kelson Henderson (Pony Joe in series 3 of The Tribe) have an appearance in the film.
These are definitely some of the best titles in New Zealand cinema.
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Michelle Ang returned to New Zealand for the world premiere of Roseanne Liang’s movie My Wedding And Other Secrets.
The premiere was held at Sky City in Auckland on March 6th. Click here and here for more photos from the event.
Michelle Ang stars in the movie opposite Matt Whelan playing a young couple; Emily and James.
Recently Michelle featured on NZGirl talking about her favourite things and life in NYC. Check out her Favourite Things article by clicking here (there’s a cute pic of her there too!) Continue reading…
Check out the awesome trailer for My Wedding And Other Secrets which stars Michelle Ang in the lead role as Emily Chu.
My Wedding And Other Secrets, by South Pacific Pictures, will be on in cinemas in New Zealand on Thursday March 17th 2011.
Update 30th November 2010: an official site for the movie has launched, check it out at MyWeddingAndOtherSecretsMovie.com. It will be updated soon
Press release and more info from SPP is below.
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Remember news about the movie Girl Meets Boy? It stars Michelle Ang (formerly The Tribe’s Tai-San) in the lead role. Well, the movie has been renamed to My Wedding And Other Secrets.
Described as: “A Romeo and Juliet story with a Kiwi-Asian twist, My Wedding and Other Secrets is a romantic comedy in which a young couple, James (Matt Whelan) and Emily (Michelle Ang), have to overcome the expectations of Emily’s parents in order to bring happiness to everyone.”
The movie has been picked up by Sony Pictures who will distribute the film, nationwide, in New Zealand with makers South Pacific Pictures. The film is set for release on Thursday March 17th 2011. The news comes via Flicks.co.nz (pasted below).
The new promo pic is so cute. Loving the ‘asian’ nerdy geek chic (though a bit steroetypical!). Continue reading…
There is a lovely interview with Michelle Ang and Roseanne Liang speaking about the up-coming movie Girl Meets Boy. The interview by Charles Chan originally featured in The Star Online (it is also pasted below).
| Michelle talks about education, her recent film and TV projects, her heritage and life in general. When she’s not acting, Michelle also works in the production side of the industry… |
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Key quotes:
There were times when she hit rock-bottom and she told her Kiwi boyfriend: “This is it. I have had enough. I quit. I am wasting my life.”
“I want to play many roles and different characters, not just appear in comedies and martial arts films,” says Ang who works in production on TV and commercial shoots to pay the bills when not acting.
“This industry is tough, somehow you have to find the faith and push past the doubts”
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Michelle Ang (aka The Tribe’s Tai-San) will be taking on the lead role in Roseanne Liang’s first feature film, titled Girl Meets Boy (it’s the working title so the name may change!).
Girl Meets Boy is “the contemporary story of Chinese New Zealand-born over-achiever Emily Chu, raised to believe she can get anything she puts her mind to. Even if ‘anything’ is at odds with her traditional Hong Kong born parents’ wish for her to become a doctor like her two older sisters. Everything is coming up roses – until she meets James, a European New Zealander, and accidentally falls in love with him. But if her father finds out, she will face disownment”.
Definitely sounds interesting! The press release (dated February) from South Pacific Pictures is below. The film is due to be released in 2011. Michelle Ang has previously worked with Roseanne Liang on the short film Take 3. Michelle is also appearing in the ‘directed by Jodie Foster’ movie The Beaver, it stars Mel Gibson and will be released this year.
With thanks to Ross for the info on Michelle’s new film. Hey if you have any news/cast goss you’d like up, do please e-mail me at clare@tribeheaven.co.uk – thanks! Images from South Pacific Pictures and Outrageous Fortune. Continue reading…
The 2008 short film Take 3 (aka Auditions I Have Known) by director Roseanne Liang has had an excerpt put online, check it out below. It stars Michelle Ang (Tribe’s Tai-San / Neighbours’ Lori Lee / Xena’s Akemi) as the character Melanie Shum…
The rest of the cast are as follows: Li Ming Hu as Lisa Fong, Katlyn Wong as Kaylee Hing, Justine Hunter as Casting Director (Doctor), Michael Lowe as Casting Director (Ninja), Toby Sharpe as Casting Director (Schoolgirl) and Richard Thompson as Casting Director (Bootygirls). The short follows three asian girls on a series of auditions. This post has been back dated.
 Short film ‘Take 3′, starring Michelle Ang, written and directed by Roseanne Liang, was “awarded a top prize at the 53rd Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid (Valladolid International Film Festival) in Spain on Saturday”.
According to this article here the short film won the Meeting Point Audience Award for Best Foreign Short, the top prize in this section. The Meeting Point Audience Award prize is € 5000. Nice!
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Michelle Ang joined My Wedding And Other Secrets director Roseanne Liang and fellow cast member Cheng Pei Pei at the 20th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in China. The movie which stars Michelle Ang and Matt Whelan was a finalist in the Chinese ‘Oscars’.
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