Peggy Su!
{{distinguish|Peggy Sue Got Married}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Peggy Su!
| image =
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| director = Frances-Anne Solomon
| producer = Poonam Sharma
Colin Rogers
| writer = Kevin Wong
| starring = Jonathan Arun
Jacqueline Chan
Daphne Cheung
Alphonsia Emmanuel
Glen Goei
Burt Kwouk
Pamela Oei
| music = Peter Spencer
| cinematography = Shelley Hirst
| editing = Greg Miller
| distributor = BBC Worldwide
| released = {{Film date|1998}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
}}
Peggy Su! is a 1998 film written by Anglo-Chinese playwright Kevin Wong, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon and starring Pamela Oei. His own experience and background being the son of Chinese immigrants working in the laundry business was used.World Film Locations: Liverpool By Jez Conolly, Caroline Whelan [https://books.google.com/books?id=qscwsriVMpoC&dq=%22Peggy+Su%21%22&pg=PA86 Page 86 Peggy Su! (1997) Location > Liverpool Town Hall, High Street, Chamber] It was directed by Trinidadian Frances-Anne Solomon who had previously worked on What My Mother Told Me in 1994 and Bideshi in 1996.Frame by Frame Three'' By Audrey T. McCluskey [https://books.google.com/books?id=z5qmplifVDIC&dq=FRances+Anne+Solomon+Trinidad+Peggy&pg=PA1005 Page 1005 Index of International (non-US) Black Directors]Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Thursday, May 22, 2008 [http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,79438.html Film Company hosts workshop]Turner Classic Movies [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1429895%7C0/Frances-Anne-Solomon/ Freances-Anne Solomon Filmography]
About the film
This romantic comedy set in Liverpool in 1962. It is about the Chinese community there and 19-year-old Peggy who lives above a family laundry business with her brother and his wife. it centers on Peggy (Pamela Oei) her attempts to find a husband and also her coping with the changing times in the early 1960s.BFI screenonline [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/588353/ Peggy Su! (1998)]Caribbean Beat Issue 36 [http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-36/frances-anne-solomon-beating-system#axzz3YKMQS88Q Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington]
The film has the distinction of being the first feature film to receive National Lottery funding. It was joint funded with the BBC.BFI screenonline [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/588353/ Peggy Su! (1998)]Caribbean Beat Issue 36 [http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-36/frances-anne-solomon-beating-system#axzz3YKMQS88Q Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington] It was distributed by BBC Worldwide.New York Times [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310142157/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/437074/Peggy-Su-/credits Peggy Su! Production Credits]
Film festival and award
=Festival=
- Reel Word Film Festival Canada (2001) Famous March 2001 Volume 2 No 3 Page 10 Get ReelCineplex http://mediafiles.cineplex.com/FamousMagazineArchive/MAR2001/Mar2001_lo.pdf
- Overseas Chinese Fim Festival Glasgow (2002) Bidding for the Mainstream?: Black and Asian British Film Since the 1990s By Barbara Korte, Claudia Sternberg [https://books.google.com/books?id=MCc0DbyLaq0C&dq=%22Peggy+Su%21%22+Chinese+Film+Festival&pg=PA2 Page 2, Introduction]
=Award=
- RTS Television Award & BAFTA winner for best Costume Design by Joey Attawia.Imdb [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119876/awards?ref_=tt_awd Peggy Su! (1997) Awards Royal Television Society, UK 1998][http://www.francesannesolomon.net francesannesolomon.net] Press Kit, Page 2, Short synopsis http://francesannesolomon.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PEGGY-SU-PRESS-KIT-2-reduced.pdf
=Review=
- The Independent Sunday 23 August 1998 The Independent Sunday 23 August 1998 [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television-drama-in-the-end-peggy-su-gets-married-1173449.html Television drama: In the end, Peggy Su gets married]
- Positif n° 448, Page 41 & 60, 1998 Positif, Issues 447-450 [https://books.google.com/books?id=hDlAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Peggy+Su!%22Positif Positif, Issues 447-450]
Cast
- Jonathan Arun as Brian
- Jacqui Chan as Ifec Mah
- Daphne Cheung as Jackie
- Alphonsia Emmanuel as Miss James
- Glen Goei as David
- Burt Kwouk as Dad
- Pamela Oei as Peggy
- Charles T.H. Ong as David's father
- Adrian Pang as Gilbert
- Vincenzo Pellegrino as Terry
- Stuart Richma as Vicar
- Sukie Smith as Rita
- Daniel York as Jack
- Barbara Yu Ling as David's mother
Crew (selective)
- Screenplay ... Kevin Wong
- Executive producer ... George Faber
- Associate producer ... Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo
- Director of photography ... Shelley Hirst
- Casting ... Carl Proctor
- Production design ... Choi Ho Man
- Costume design ... Joey Attawia
- Makeup artist ... Natasha Chambers
- Makeup designer ... Sharon Martin
- First assistant director ... Julian Holmes
- Second assistant director ... Pauline Oni
- Third assistant director ... Mzee Coffey, Lab Ky Mo
=Company credits=
==Production==
- Production Companies ... Arts Council of England, BBC Films,
- The Mersyside Film Production Fund
==Other==
- ADR Facility ... Goldcrest Post Production London
- Post production sound services ... The Sound Design Company
References
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