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Oct 19, 2023 · Arvin Chen is to direct ‘Coolie,’ a Cuba-Set series for Asian industry veteran Meileen Choo’s new Cathay Film venture.
Nov 30, 2023 · When Asian movie veteran Meileen Choo revisited an idea hovering on her wish list for three decades, her retirement project became the multi-million dollar global drama series, Coolie. Janine Stein spoke to her on the eve of production, which kicks off on 4 December.
Meileen Choo is known for Last Life in the Universe (2003), Oh Lucy! (2017) and Army Daze (1996).
Feb 13, 2024 · The first project from film-industry veteran Meileen Choo’s three-year-old Singapore-based Cathay Film Company, Coolie is about an illiterate young Chinese village girl who sets off from southern China to marry a rebel son working on a sugarcane plantation in Cuba.
Mar 12, 2024 · The eight-part series is the first to emerge from Cathay Film Company, a recent production venture launched by Singapore-based industry veteran Meileen Choo.
Dec 4, 2023 · The Meileen Choo-created, Arvin Chen-directed 'Coolie' will be represented by Indra and Erlina Suharjono's I.E. Entertainment and launched at the ATF.
Oct 23, 2023 · Cathay Film Company, a new banner in Singapore’s Cathay Organisation Group, is developing the new drama series Coolie, with CEO Meileen Choo as creator and showrunner.
Arvin Chen Directing ‘Coolie’ Cuba-Set Series for Meileen Choo’s Cathay Film. Arvin Chen (“Love in Taipei,” “Mama Boy”, episodes of “Pachinko”) is to direct “Coolie,” a limited series featuring enslaved Chinese workers in 19th century Cuba.
Oct 19, 2023 · The little-known history of enslaved Chinese 'coolies' in Cuba in the 1860s, amidst the backdrop of the Spanish Revolution, has inspired a new limited series from Singapore-based Cathay Film...
Nov 28, 2023 · EXCLUSIVE: Cuban star Mario Cimarro and Hong Kong actress Nina Paw Hee-Ching are joining the cast of historical scripted drama series Coolie, produced by Meileen Choo’s Singapore-based Cathay...
