Everyone remembers Peter Chan Ho-sun’s crowd-pleasing 1996 hit Comrades, Almost a Love Story, but how many can still name UFO, the pioneering studio behind it?
The United Filmmakers Organisation (UFO) was formed by Chan, Eric Tsang Chi-wai and Claudie Chung Chun in 1992 with a specific purpose: to make quality commercial films that did not rely on action and reflected the lives of young workers from Hong Kong’s up-and-coming urban middle class.
While Comrades, Almost a Love Story was UFO’s biggest film, the studio scored numerous other hits during its short life, such as the gender-bending music industry film He’s a Woman, She’s a Man (1994).
UFO films offered a quality experience to viewers – they were capably scripted, well acted, beautifully photographed and elegantly edited. They also accurately represented the lives of their yuppie target audience without didacticism or condescension.
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