A young rent-boy GaGa goes on a vacation at Lamma island with his drug dealer best friend during Dragon Boat Festival, but the trip turns haywire when he goes on a date with a mysterious legendary poet from 2000 years ago – Qu Yuan. GaGa falls in love and lives happily after with Qu Yuan in the ocean in the Lamma island. It is a fantasy, modern romantic comedy and folktale that marries Hong Kong superstitious tradition and local queer culture.
Kevin Yiu is a queer Hong Kong-Bostonian filmmaker with a passion for empowering his audience to be fully self-expressed and representing fringe humanity, especially in the LGBTQI+ space, through his work. He is currently completing his M.F.A. Film and Television Production at Loyola Marymount University. Yiu quitted his job as a pharmaceutical scientist in Boston to become a filmmaker in LA. His mission is to create a world without boundaries, where people with different ethnicities, sexualities and gender-expressions can coexist. Yiu’s work are inspired by his cultural and wild experience being out and about in both Hong Kong and America. His point of view is unapologetically queer and he loves exploring dark, messy characters through comedy.
Steamy, wild and absurd characters are the engine of my queer storytelling. I explore self-contradicting, redeemable characters from a hopeless romantic rent-boy to a sexually insatiable trans femme puss that are often mis-represented and marginalized in the mainstream media. My works take a satirical view of the hypocrisy in society such as gay racism, toxic masculinity, and sex positivity. With my Hong Kong cinematography influence and narrative experimentation with time, I aspire to create untamed cinematic moments of having the audience to experience my point of view of being unapologetically queer and free. My stamp of queer love “I Can’t Forget Him” is folktale short comedy fathoms a love story reinterpreting the ancient Chinese Shakespeare, Wat Yuen (or Quan Yuan in Mandarin), as a hip queer character in the modern world. After my career transition from pharmaceutical science and my completion of M.F.A. in Production in Loyola Marymount University, I am developing a queer crime feature and a queer Western pilot for production in continuation of my mission in building a queer universe.
