a small miracle
2000© kenbiroli films
Kenbiroli Films’ first production, A Small Miracle, is a digital video film written and directed by Kenneth Bi. Its World Premiere was held in Japan at director Takeshi Kitano’s Tokyo Filmex in December 2000, and has since been invited to director Shekhar Kapur’s Digital Talkies in New Delhi, India, Jeonju Int’l Film Festival in South Korea, locally in Hong Kong at the Ying E Chi 4th Annual Screenings of HK independent films, Taipei’s Best Chinese Cinema of the Year, Reel Asian International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, the Macau Cultural Screenings, Film Festival du Asiatique de Deauville in France, Singapore Int’l Film Festival, and the 10th IFF Festival of Festivals in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In August 2002, Bi wrote and shot a new ending for A Small Miracle. The new version premiered in the United States at the Chicago Digital Visions Film Festival in September and won Best Foreign Feature. A month later in October, A Small Miracle made its Australian premiere at Ausfest 2002 in Brisbane, Australia, and came in the top 1/3 in audience polls.
A Small Miracle is a comedy shot on DV.
