PEOPLE: Face to face with Bey Logan

Having spent a couple of weeks familiarising myself to the Good, Bad and the Weird of Hong Kong, I have finally come across the infamous Bey Logan. My first interactions with Bey was when Timothy Ly, a colleague of mine on the production of Australian indie flick “Maximum Choppage: Round 2” in 2008. Since then, independent filmmaking in Australia for the team have slowed to a snail’s pace, but with the words of wisdom and encouragement of Bey, I’m determined to keep on going.

A little bit about Bey…

Bey is like the expert on Hong Kong cinema. He’s also a whole bunch of different things, such as an active screenwriter and film producer. Actually no amount of my writings of Bey will cover it so please tune in to his Wikipedia page for further discoveries.

My first instance of meeting was at his office based in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, about 10

minutes by train from where I was staying. We immediately has a good chat and catch up about the filmmaking realm and also his own exciting horror slasher flick “Snowblade” that is productively in development.

I am fascinated with how things work here in Hong Kong. In particular to the synergies between people and projects (good or bad) gets churned out. Unlike Australia, we would possibly struggle for 5-10 years in getting a project backed up, made and distributed.

Bey and his B & E Productions (its stands for “Breaking and Entering” funky hey?) have also

wrapped up on action flick “The Blood Bond”, which Bey has kindly given me a copy of. I spent 6 hours on a lonely night,

locked away in my Mirador Mansion (its really a shoebox) reading all 26 chapters. It’s a very good read and I enjoyed Mr Logan’s style of writing and character development of Deva (Phoenix Valen) and Tremayne (Michael Biehn). I must admit, I haven’t seen the feature film of it yet, but the book seems like a much better and thorough version of the story.

For the electronic version of “The Blood Bond” click here.

Anyhow, I’ve been spending some time with Bey training in the

art of Hung Gar Kung Fu at the Star Ferry Pier, under the clock tower at 12 noon with Mak Sifu and a number of actors/ actresses.

Quest for Jackie Chan! Continues…

Bey has helped me out by calling around to Jackie Chan’s management team to see if I can book in an interview session for my project “Quest for Jackie Chan!”. No response as yet, but I hope I get something before I leave Hong Kong. I guess, if not then, my project wraps up with a failed expedition….

With love and signing out,

Maria Tran in HK.