Golden Horse Fantasy Flash Film “Evil Grace” British-Filipino Director Reveals Deep Connection with Taiwan

The thriller “Evil Grace”, which just premiered in Taiwan at this year’s Taipei Golden Horse Fantasy Film Festival and immediately sold out immediately after going on sale on the first day, will be released in Taiwan this Friday. Director Paris Sasira is very happy to be able to release his film in Taiwan. movie, a specially recorded greeting video to the Taiwanese audience. Director Paris Sasira actually has a very close relationship with Taiwan. The TV movie “Preserved Egg Restaurant”, which was filmed in Taipei at the end of 2019 and co-produced by the United Kingdom, Singapore and Taiwan, was his first film. The film was directed by Lu Yi En, Ding Yetian, Li Liren, Ban Tiexiang, Ke Shuyuan and Wang Zhenlin performed by a talented cast, telling the story of people with different pasts who entered the mysterious “Preserved Egg Canteen” and expressed their wishes for the second time. The opportunity for rebirth, and the theme of this TV movie also shows the director’s fascination with the fantasy thriller genre. Unfortunately, due to the sudden COVID-19 global epidemic, this film has never been able to be released on the big screen or on any platform. This also caused the director to unexpectedly stop the post-production of the film and return to the UK to start over.

Although director Paris Sasira was unable to complete his previous work unexpectedly due to the epidemic, he also unexpectedly started preparations for “Evil Grace”. The whole story was inspired by the fact that after the global COVID-19 epidemic began in 2020, more and more people in the UK were concerned about East Asia. There is hatred towards Southeast Asians. And because the government chose to let things go, Filipino medical staff on the front line of the British public health system not only suffered from discrimination, but also the number of victims of the epidemic gradually increased during this global epidemic. As a British Filipino, He developed dissatisfaction and inner anger, but this also inspired him to use the horror genre as a packaging, in which an illegal immigrant accidentally enters a mysterious British mansion, is subjected to malicious curses and strange events, and finally triggers a shocking reversal of the ending of “Grace” . The director hopes that through this British horror story that is extremely unlikely to happen in real life, the audience can experience a completely different frightening experience, and also hopes that the world will no longer have racial discrimination and cause irreparable consequences. After completion, the film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, the highest venue of the world’s fantasy film festival. Not only did it take home the Grand Jury Prize, but it also received nearly perfect scores from the Rotten Tomatoes film review website, which can be regarded as a breakthrough in the director’s career. There are twists and turns, but there is also a turning point starting from this movie.

“Evil Grace” will be released in Taiwan this Friday. Lightyear Pictures and Wonderful Creation are responsible for Taiwan marketing and distribution. The story describes Joey, an illegal immigrant from the Philippines, who fights for a better life for his daughter Grace, and takes a desperate risk to accept a job. A mysterious entrustment to take care of an old man who lives in a luxurious old house but is terminally ill. Although this nursing job gradually improved the lives of Joy and her daughter, she also began to realize that this “nursing job” was not as simple as it appeared. Gradually, it was peeled off, and there were terrible dark secrets hidden behind it.

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