The Hong Kong Film Awards just happened and last year’s Audience Award winner from the NYAFF, GALLANTS, has scored big. This low budget film (about US$1.2 million), shot in 14 days, took home Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Film Score. Go GALLANTS!!! Amazingly – not a single US distributor has picked this movie up. In fact, several of them told us to our faces that it “wasn’t our thing.” Really? An award-winning martial arts comedy starring a cast of new actors, hip hoppers and old school martial artists? Oh, right. Fun probably isn’t their thing, either.

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(Full list of Hong Kong Film Award winners)

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