Tonight is the Hong Kong premiere of HKAFF's spotlights The Way We Talk. The movie is  portrays the challenges faced by deaf people in society, and explores the choices of communication of the Deaf.

Director Adam Wong,  producer Jacqueline Liu, and lead actors Neo Yau, Chung Suet-ying, Marco Ng, were joined by a number of actors and actresses from the front and backstage. The delicate story and the sincere performances of the actors touched the audience with a lot of applause.

Wong especially mentioned the sound effects in the movie. For him, sound is an abstract but indispensable language in film. He has made reference to different Deaf films in the past, among which there are some that do not have a sound track at all, and some that keep the original sound track, so how to strike a balance is a major challenge in film production. As a hearing director, he chose to keep the sound track, but at the same time, he also tried his best to create the hearing experience of the deaf in different situations from the perspective of a hearing person, for example, to express the intermittent sound of the deaf in the case of cochlear implants, the silent environment in different situations, etc. He also hoped that the hearing audience could be able to relate to the situation of the three different deaf people through the different sound treatments in the movie.

The two hearing actors in the movie, Chung and Yau, also shared their challenges in preparing for their roles. Both of them were very grateful to their deaf teachers for teaching them to understand their roles better. Yau mentioned that he had to make adjustments with the director and the deaf teacher during the filming in order to get the best out of his performance and sign language. He also wore earplugs for most of the filming so that he could concentrate more on expressing his character's thoughts with his facial expressions and movements. Deaf actor Ng, who had no previous acting experience, gave a naturalistic performance that shone through, and he thanked Wong for arranging acting lessons for him.

Wong said that the movie was not intentionally sensationalized, but as a hearing director who is deeply moved by the identity and culture of the deaf, he hopes that through this movie, it can actually affect the audience and play its role.