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Director's Statement
Love, Hope and Destiny. For more than a year, my co-writer Wong Kim Hoh and I grappled and struggled, trying to pin these themes down in a script.
It was only in the summer of 2003 that fate brought Theresa Chan - who’s deaf and blind - into our lives at a wedding dinner. When she learned that I make films, she immediately told me that I should make one about hope. I thought to myself: “How ironic … that’s what we’ve been desperately trying to do.’’
Overwhelmed by her personality and vigour for life, I asked if she’d act for me. Without any hesitation, she lifted her wine glass and said loudly: “On!”
We began to communicate through letters. I discovered that this one person represented everything I wanted to say in the film. What followed was a Parker pen from her in the Christmas of 2003 and on my birthday in March 2004, a watch. I got her hint … start writing and stop wasting precious time.
In the fall of 2004, we wrapped BE WITH ME in 16 days.