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Help Kickstart a new short-film project starring Katie Leung and receive fantastic swag

by Keith Hawk · Published July 5, 2013 · Updated January 19, 2017

Harry Potter actress Katie Leung – who portrayed Cho Chang in the film series – has signed on to star in a new short film project called Sun Never Sets, which is directed and written by Daniel Jewel and produced by Ateh Jewel and Mandy Belnick. This team has previously created highly successful short films Sidney Turtlebaum and Drone. Sun Never Sets will also star legendary actor Derek Jacobi (The King’s Speech, Gladiator).

From the director, Daniel Jewel:

With your support we can make the film happen this year, and we will put all our efforts into making the very best film possible. We will treat this project with the same care, passion and attention to detail as if it was a feature film. If we exceed our funding goal perhaps we can achieve our dream of making a feature film based on the same characters and setting as this short film.

If you come on board and help green light Sun Never Sets, you can be guaranteed that we will produce the highest quality film and market it to all the major film festivals around the world.

Show your support to this new short film project now and donate to this Kickstarter campaign by simply clicking RIGHT HERE! When you donate to the film’s Kickstarter program you will earn some amazing rewards from the film team and cast.

The full synopsis of this wonderful short film is below.

Sun Never Sets is set in the near future where China has become the undisputed world power and the West is in disarray. Now, the tired and hungry people of Europe are fleeing to the great cities of China to seek a new life as economic migrants. Against this backdrop, a Chinese-born Englishman named HEDGES has decided to turn his back on the tide of history by taking his adopted daughter KATIE to a small abandoned island downstream from Shanghai, where his British ancestors used to trade to China from in the nineteenth century.

He has rebooted the abandoned island and staffed it with illegal English immigrants to China, creating his own world as if the British Empire had never fallen. The island is off the grid and has no electricity or running water. The small community living under Hedges use gas lamps, so it’s as if they are living a British version of an Amish village. One day a wealthy English family, who have started a successful new life in Shanghai, crash their boat on the shores of the island. Hedges and Katie are forced to take them into their community. The arrival of the family sparks off something in Katie – who has always wondered what life might be like away from the island. She spends her evenings gazing at the neon haze of Shanghai, which she can see through her grimy bedroom window. Katie can see how at ease the family are with life in Shanghai; they speak fluent Mandarin and are fully accepted into Chinese society, and this leads her to question everything Hedges has told her about the modern world. This brings her into conflict with Hedges, especially when the young son of the family, TOM, offers to take her back to Shanghai with them. In the climax of the film, Katie is pressured to make life-changing choices, which ultimately reveal the dark history of the British Empire in China and Hedges’s ancestors involvement in the Opium Wars.

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