Peggy Su! is a 1998 film written by Anglo-Chinese playwright Kevin Wong, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon and starring Pamela Oei. His own experience and background being the son of Chinese immigrants working in the laundry business was used.World Film Locations: Liverpool By Jez Conolly, Caroline Whelan Page 86 Peggy Su! (1997) Location > Liverpool Town Hall, High Street, Chamber It was directed by Trinidadian Frances-Anne Solomon who had previously worked on What My Mother Told Me in 1994 and Bideshi in 1996.Frame by Frame Three By Audrey T. McCluskey Page 1005 Index of International (non-US) Black DirectorsTrinidad and Tobago Newsday Thursday, May 22, 2008 Film Company hosts workshopTurner Classic Movies Freances-Anne Solomon Filmography
About the film This romantic comedy set in Liverpool in 1962. It is about the Chinese community there and 19-year-old Peggy who lives above a family laundry business with her brother and his wife. it centers on Peggy (Pamela Oei) her attempts to find a husband and also her coping with the changing times in the early 1960s.BFI screenonline Peggy Su! (1998)Caribbean Beat Issue 36 Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington
The film has the distinction of being the first feature film to receive National Lottery funding. It was joint funded with the BBC.BFI screenonline Peggy Su! (1998)Caribbean Beat Issue 36 Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington It was distributed by BBC Worldwide.New York Times Peggy Su! Production Credits
Film festival and award
Festival Reel Word Film Festival Canada (2001) Famous March 2001 Volume 2 No 3 Page 10 Get ReelCineplex http://mediafiles.cineplex.com/FamousMagazineArchive/MAR2001/Mar2001_lo.pdf Overseas Chinese Fim Festival Glasgow (2002) Bidding for the Mainstream?: Black and Asian British Film Since the 1990s By Barbara Korte, Claudia Sternberg Page 2, Introduction
Award RTS Television Award & BAFTA winner for best Costume Design by Joey Attawia.Imdb Peggy Su! (1997) Awards Royal Television Society, UK 1998francesannesolomon.net Press Kit, Page 2, Short synopsis http://francesannesolomon.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PEGGY-SU-PRESS-KIT-2-reduced.pdf
Review The Independent Sunday 23 August 1998 The Independent Sunday 23 August 1998 Television drama: In the end, Peggy Su gets married Positif n° 448, Page 41 & 60, 1998 Positif, Issues 447-450 Positif, Issues 447-450
Cast
Jonathan Arun as Brian Jacqui Chan as Ifec Mah Daphne Cheung as Jackie Alphonsia Emmanuel as Miss James Glen Goei as David Burt Kwouk as Dad Pamela Oei as Peggy Charles T.H. Ong as David's father Adrian Pang as Gilbert Vincenzo Pellegrino as Terry Stuart Richma as Vicar Sukie Smith as Rita Daniel York as Jack Barbara Yu Ling as David's mother
Crew (selective) Screenplay ... Kevin Wong Executive producer ... George Faber Associate producer ... Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo Director of photography ... Shelley Hirst Casting ... Carl Proctor Production design ... Choi Ho Man Costume design ... Joey Attawia Makeup artist ... Natasha Chambers Makeup designer ... Sharon Martin First assistant director ... Julian Holmes Second assistant director ... Pauline Oni Third assistant director ... Mzee Coffey, Lab Ky Mo
Company credits
Production Production Companies ... Arts Council of England, BBC Films, The Mersyside Film Production Fund
Other ADR Facility ... Goldcrest Post Production London Post production sound services ... The Sound Design Company
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