I found a talented director with a unique and gripping story set in one of the world's great cities, says Oscar-winning Moonlight producer of plan to film thriller set in Hong Kong

Andrew Hevia was a Fulbright scholar in Hong Kong when he bonded with fellow Star Wars fan Joshua Wong, with whom the Cuban-American is working on Dark Room, film about a crime that obsesses a witness

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Oscar-winning producer Andrew Hevia, pictured at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong, is collaborating on a film project with local director Joshua Wong. Photo: courtesy FCCHK

Published: 4:15pm, 28 Mar 2017Updated: 10:16am, 6 Apr 2017

Andrew Hevia – co-producer of this year’s Oscar winner for best picture – is developing a mystery thriller set in Hong Kong and hopes to start filming within the next 12 months.

Cuban-American Hevia first came to Hong Kong in 2015 on a one-year Fulbright scholarship and fell in love with the city.

“I wanted to spend more time in Hong Kong and having a project was a good excuse,” Hevia says.

Fresh from his Oscar success with Moonlight, Hevia returned to Hong Kong in mid-March for Filmart, a major film financing forum, and to announce the project he’s working on with local director Joshua Wong. The pair met at a coffee shop screening old Star Wars movies in 2015, within days of Hevia being in Hong Kong.

“He had just completed a series of commercials for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Cantonese and said he wanted to make a feature film. He had a movie replica light sabre – clearly we had something in common,” Hevia says.