Peggy Su!

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Peggy Su!
Directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
Written byKevin Wong
Produced byPoonam Sharma
Colin Rogers
StarringJonathan Arun
Jacqueline Chan
Daphne Cheung
Alphonsia Emmanuel
Glen Goei
Burt Kwouk
Pamela Oei
CinematographyShelley Hirst
Edited byGreg Miller
Music byPeter Spencer
Distributed by BBC Worldwide
Release date
1998
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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. [1] It was directed by Trinidadian Frances-Anne Solomon who had previously worked on What My Mother Told Me in 1994 and Bideshi in 1996. [2] [3] [4]

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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. [5] [6]

The film has the distinction of being the first feature film to receive National Lottery funding. It was joint funded with the BBC. [7] [8] It was distributed by BBC Worldwide. [9]

Film festival and award

Festival

Award

Review

Cast

Crew (selective)

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

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References

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  2. Frame by Frame Three By Audrey T. McCluskey Page 1005 Index of International (non-US) Black Directors
  3. Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Thursday, May 22, 2008 Film Company hosts workshop
  4. Turner Classic Movies Freances-Anne Solomon Filmography
  5. BFI screenonline Peggy Su! (1998)
  6. Caribbean Beat Issue 36 Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington
  7. BFI screenonline Peggy Su! (1998)
  8. Caribbean Beat Issue 36 Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System by Bruce Paddington
  9. New York Times Peggy Su! Production Credits
  10. Famous March 2001 Volume 2 No 3 Page 10 Get Reel
  11. Cineplex http://mediafiles.cineplex.com/FamousMagazineArchive/MAR2001/Mar2001_lo.pdf
  12. Bidding for the Mainstream?: Black and Asian British Film Since the 1990s By Barbara Korte, Claudia Sternberg Page 2, Introduction
  13. Imdb Peggy Su! (1997) Awards Royal Television Society, UK 1998
  14. francesannesolomon.net Press Kit, Page 2, Short synopsis http://francesannesolomon.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PEGGY-SU-PRESS-KIT-2-reduced.pdf
  15. The Independent Sunday 23 August 1998 Television drama: In the end, Peggy Su gets married
  16. Positif, Issues 447-450 Positif, Issues 447-450