John Yiu

THE UNKNOWN MOTHER

Cast: John Y as John the Son Susan Shaw as the Mother Chung Chi Deon Cheung as the Restaurant Manager

In their daily lives, John and his mother always engage in fights and arguments over minor matters – the mother never likes the smell of cheese that John loves, and he never likes the way his mother throws things randomly at home and always messes up his date of birth.

Prior to shooting the short film, John wrote the script together with another script writer, who has been an associate director of a number of commercial films in Hong Kong. The film focuses on an adopted son and a mother and it is quite tricky to put forward the message of love between an adopted son and a mother who quarrel most of the time in their daily life in a short film. This important theme is being delivered to the audience through the eyes of the restaurant manager who acts as the media to convey to the audience what he sees. There is a scene in the film in which the fight between the mother and the son seems to be nothing new to the restaurant manager. However, John’s behavior is somewhat absurd to the manager this time. Due to the importance of the manager role, the producer recruited a seasoned TV veteran, Deon Cheung Chung Chi, who has a number of TV dramas and movies under his title, to play this manager role, complementing the heart breaking performances of the mother and the son in the film.

The Unknown Mother is an award winning short film -- Best International Shorts, Best Actor (John Y), Best Actress (Susan Shaw), Best Director (Wai Ying Wong), and Best Original Screenplay from a number of film festivals in the United States and Europe under its belt.

The Unknown Mother

Best Actress & Best Actor winners , Best International Short Film & Best Original Screenplay

PRODUCER KENNY CHAN

DIRECTOR WAI YIN WONG

WRITTEN BY JOHN Y & STAN CHOW

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SUSAN YAMYAM SHAW

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JOHN Y

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