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Oct 19, 2023 · 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.
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.
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.
May 21, 2024 · Set in the 1860s, the eight-episode drama series Coolie follows a young Chinese girl who sets off from southern China to marry a political exile working on a...
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.
Meileen Choo is known for Last Life in the Universe (2003), Oh Lucy! (2017) and Army Daze (1996).
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.
