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My Wedding and Other Secrets

New Zealand 2011

Director: Roseanne Liang

Genre: Romantic comedy/coming-of-age feature film

Role: Mr. White

Working Title: Boy meets Girl

Cinema release: March 2011

Company: South Pacific Pictures

Other Cast: Michelle Ang (Emily Chu), Matt Whelan (James), Kenneth Tsang (Dr. Chu), Chang Pei Pei (Mrs. Chu), Katlyn Wong, Simon London, Celeste Wong.

Summary: Funny, touching and heartfelt, 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. By the time Emily realises that she’s sacrificing the respect of her family to follow her heart, James, too, has fallen irrevocably in love and there’s nothing for it but to try and keep their relationship a secret. Happy endings don’t come easy, if at all, but that doesn’t mean they don’t happen. But for Emily to get one, she needs to show James and her family that she has learned a lesson about the selflessness of love. (Source: SPP.com)

Info: The movie - which is baed on the 2005 award-winnig documentary Banana in a Nutshell by Roseanne Liang - is shot in Auckland, New Zealand. Filming started on the 28th of February 2010. It's funded by the NZ Film Comission and NZ On Air.

Links: Official Website | SPP.com: Filming starts on GIRL MEETS BOY | Imdb: Girl Meets Boy | TribeHeaven.co.uk: Michelle Ang : A Girl Meets Boy | Facebook: My Wedding And Other Secrets | CnaCasting.com: Trailer | TheMovingArts.com: ‘My Wedding and Other Secrets’ at Barbican’s New Zealand Film Festival | Variety.com: My Wedding and Other Secrets | MelbourneGeek.com: Review | Critic.co.nz: Review | YouTube: Lovely video with interviews and more | Buy DVD @ MightyApe.co.nz (International Shipping available)