Country: Canada
Year: 1999
Duration: 10'
A quiet story of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and his young novice. Their relationship, from their first meeting to their final, tragic separation, is set against the slow changing of the seasons.
"The Offering is born of the pain I have felt at the premature death of dear friends - people who have left this world when they had barely begun to live, before their full potential could completely express itself. Their departure from my life has also made me confront my own mortality" (Paul Lee).
Biography
film director
Paul Lee
Paul Lee (Hong Kong, 1963) moved to Toronto with his family in 1976. He graduated in biology and anthropology in Canada, and has studied cinema in New York. Since 1991 he has worked in numerous American and Asian movie festivals and produces films for emerging directors. His short films have won dozens of prizes and have been presented in more than one hundred festivals.
FILMOGRAFIA
Thick Lips Thin Lips (cm, 1994), These Shoes Weren't Made for Walking (cm, 1995), The Offering (1999).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e scenografia: Paul Lee.
Director of photography: Antonin Lhotsky.
Costume designer: Anne-Marie Maduri.
Sound: Corby Luke, Dan Hamood.
Editor: Miume Jan Eramo.
Cast and characters: Laurance Tan (il monaco), Jason Chow (il novizio).
Producer: Paul Lee.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Ganymedia Inc., P. O. Box 261, Station P, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S8 Canada, tel. +1-905-8866554, fax +1-905-8862689, e-mail ganymedi@interlog.com.
Italian distribution: Village, via Cattaro 1, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-33254855, fax +39-06-33259658, e-mail village@mclink.it.
Director of photography: Antonin Lhotsky.
Costume designer: Anne-Marie Maduri.
Sound: Corby Luke, Dan Hamood.
Editor: Miume Jan Eramo.
Cast and characters: Laurance Tan (il monaco), Jason Chow (il novizio).
Producer: Paul Lee.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Ganymedia Inc., P. O. Box 261, Station P, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S8 Canada, tel. +1-905-8866554, fax +1-905-8862689, e-mail ganymedi@interlog.com.
Italian distribution: Village, via Cattaro 1, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-33254855, fax +39-06-33259658, e-mail village@mclink.it.