Kate Reilly

Kate Reilly

History

Kate Reilly wrote and directed Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down with Leung Ming-kai. She also acted in the film. Memories premiered internationally at Rotterdam and was awarded Best Screenplay by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in 2021. Hong Kong cinemas doubled Memories' screens and played it commercially for half a year. Hong Kong audiences voted Memories one of their favourite movies, and Reilly-Leung one of their favourite directors/directing teams, in the Movie6 Awards. Reilly has acted for filmmakers including Anocha Suwichakornpong and Lee Chatametikool in films selected by Rotterdam's Tiger Awards, Busan, Tribeca, and Tokyo Film Festivals. In New York, Reilly played Maurizio Costanzo in One Against All, a recreation of the Maurizio Costanzo Show, at the Whitney Museum; starred in A History of Launching Ships for experimental theatre group Polybe + Seats; originated the lead in American Soldiers at Theater for the New City; and played Dr. Balthazar in a new translation of Vaclav Havel's The Increased Difficulty of Concentration at The Ohio Theatre. Reilly writes and performs sketch comedy and improvises live comedy.

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Kate Reilly

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Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Producer
This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Screenplay
This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Director
This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.
Bangkok Stories
Bangkok Stories
The film features six themes of love in Bangkok's famous districts: Mo Chit, Yaowarat, Khaosan, Phahurat, Silom, and Sukhumvit in the hands of six different directors.
Someone Else
Someone Else
Kara
A tale of two Korean American cousins. A shy young law student, hungry for a more vivid, risk-taking existence, visits his playboy cousin in New York City. In his quest to emulate his cousin, the law student sheds his old identity and takes a leap into the unknown, where risk, adventure, and a chance at love await. But in a series of surprising twists, his dream of growth and metamorphosis threatens to become a nightmare from which he may never awaken.
Concrete Clouds
Concrete Clouds
Kate
Amidst the post-economic crash, a man must return from abroad after his father committed suicide. After return home, he must confront his past and struggle to hold on to his present.
Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile
Art History Student
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.