ABSTRACT
On the evening of 3 April 2016, when the trophy for Best Film was presented to the low-budget independent film Ten Years at the annual award presentation ceremony of the Hong Kong Film Award, the first words articulated by the film’s executive producer, Andrew Choi, were, “Thanks to God,” before he went on thanking the jury, the audience and everybody behind the project. Calling God by the name shangdi (上帝)—a uniquely Chinese Protestant form of invoking the divine-Choi explicitly identifies his own religious identity in public, in front of tens of thousands of people in the audience who were watching the ceremony live on television.
