Find Your Voice
Find Your Voice is a 2020 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Adrian Kwan, produced by and starring Andy Lau as a former internationally renowned conductor who resides in the United States, returns to Hong Kong lead a pessimistic group of choir students. The film was theatrically released on 26 November 2020.
Plot
Form 4 student Fung Shun-Hei of a Band 3 secondary school is a well known typical neet who is bad-tempered and performs poorly in academics. One day, Shun-Hei gets in trouble for causing major havoc in school. However, headmaster Lo gives him a final chance to redeem himself by requesting him to participate in the "Find Your Voice Trial Program", a project which involves forming a classical music chorus composed of three Band 3 students who go in to nine months of special training to compete in the Intercollegiate Chorus Competition afterwards. Without a choice, Shun-Hei reluctantly accepts the offer. The outside world views this project as one that is more difficult than reaching to the skies and teases them as the "Rotten Orange Chorus". However, unexpectedly, renowned Hong Kong-American conductor Joseph Yim, dubbed the "Iron-Blooded Instructor" of the music industry, who have been living seclusion for a year, returns to Hong Kong to be the conductor of the chorus.Cast
- Andy Lau as Joseph Yim, an internationally renowned conductor
- Lowell Lo as Headmaster Lo
- Martin Wong as Fung Shun Hei
- Mark Lui
- Hugo Ng as a chancellor
- E Jingwen
- Tse Kwan-ho as Pok Man's father
- Rachel Lee as Shun Hei's mother
- Paulyn Sun as Siu Lung's mother
- Eddie Kwan Lai-Kit as Shun Hei's father
- Wan Yeung-ming as Wan Yee's father
Production
Find Your Voice was filmed primarily in Hong Kong and partly in the United States, with the latter location shoot taking place in January 2017 where producer and star Andy Lau took part. Lau stated he originally was only going to serve as the film's producer and his role was to be played by a little-known actor, but director Adrian Kwan and screenwriter Hannah Cheung persuaded him to take the role as his image suited that of a conductor. Therefore, Lau trained three months with a real conductor of a children's choir in order to convincingly portray the role. Production for the film wrapped up in March 2017.Music
The film's ending theme song is a cover of the 1993 song, Whom Will Understand Me, sung by Andy Lau. The song was composed by George Lam, who is also the original singer, with lyrics written by Cheng Kwok-kong.The film's insert theme song is a cover of the classic song, Below the Lion Rock, also sung by Lau. The song was composed by Joseph Koo, with lyrics written by James Wong and was originally sung by Roman Tam.