A Month of Hungry Ghosts

A Month of Hungry Ghosts is a 2008 film about the seventhlunarmonth Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore. A Month of Hungry Ghosts is directed by Singaporebased American film director Tony Kern and coproduced by Genevieve Woo, a Singaporean television news anchor and producer with Channel NewsAsia, and Tony Kern. The film was released locally in Singapore onAugust 2008. The film is distributed by Golden Village Pictures, and premiered at Golden Village VivoCity, Golden Village Plaza and Sinema Old School.

This film captures the seventhlunarmonth rituals in Singapore, a worldclass centre of business and culture inhabited by many different immigrants from other Asian countries. While the hungryghost rituals originated in China and are still practised throughout Southeast Asia in various forms, they are slowly dying out in many countries or may only be performed for several days of the month.Singapore is unique in that the rituals are brought to life throughout the entire seventh lunar month. At the same time, the immigrants in Singapore have brought their own native rituals to the small island nation where the hungryghost month still thrives. A Month of Hungry Ghosts captures these rituals and performances throughout an entire seventh lunar month in Singapore. ........

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