Hello everyone,
here's a superb movie to catch when it hits our big screens
come August! Directed by Tony Kern of Mythopolis Pictures and
co-produced by well-known Channel NewsAsia TV news presenter,
Genevieve Woo, "A Month of Hungry Ghosts" will hit the big screens
on August 7, 2008, at the Golden Village @ VivoCity!
You can even win free pairs of tickets to the Press Screening of "A
Month of Hungry Ghosts" on July 31, 2008, at Golden Village Plaza
Singapura! To enter the contest, simply create a blog entry and
write your favourite Hungry Ghost Festival story, fiction or
non-fiction and submit it at www.hungzai.com/contest.
Deadline is July 28, 2008, just
before the film opens!
Below's a brief synopsis of the film:
In parts of Asia every year, during the seventh lunar month, it is
believed that the "gates of Hell" are opened and all the souls are
set free to wander the Earth. At this time, many spirits roam
around trying to fulfill their past needs, wants and desires. These
are the "hungry ghosts". Numerous religious rituals and folk
performances, like street operas, take place during the seventh
lunar month in order to try and appease the spirits.
This film captures the seventh-lunar-month rituals in Singapore, a
world-class centre of business and culture inhabited by many
different immigrants from other Asian countries. While the
hungry-ghost rituals originated in China and are still practised
throughout South-east Asia in various forms, they are slowly dying
out in many countries or may only be performed for several days of
the month.
Singapore is unique in that the rituals are brought to life
throughout the entire seventh lunar month. At the same time, the
immigrants in Singapore have brought their own native rituals to
the small island nation where the hungry-ghost month still thrives.
"A Month of Hungry Ghosts" captures these rituals and performances
throughout an entire seventh lunar month in Singapore.
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, FOR MORE INFORMATION AND
UPDATES!!! ALSO, DON'T MISS THE BRILLIANT TRAILER
AT www.hungryghostsmovie.com/trailer!