HK cinema road show kicks off in Udine

What fundamentally drove the documentary team was the importance of discussing mental health, a topic the film addresses with great depth, sensitivity and optimism. Meanwhile, Conroy Chan Chi-chung from 852 Films, which produced the documentary, said bringing the film to festivals like FEFF helped make the funding and production process feel worth the effort, and that the positive reception the film received pointed to opportunities for the team's future projects. Even word spreading that the film was screening in Udine had a positive effect, he said.

"We were in London just a week before (Udine)," Chan recalls. "And since then, all of a sudden, people heard about us coming to Udine to show our documentary, and all these documentary companies were coming up to us and asking, 'Do you want to produce this?' There were some really great projects there that showed personalities and people - their personal sides and the mental side of how people work. So there are definitely opportunities."