Hong Kong International Film & TV market (FILMART)

Hong Kong International Film & TV market (FILMART)

FILMART, the most exhilarating cross-media, cross-industry entertainment trade platform in Asia, returns 23-26 March 2009.

A record 4,200 visitors, half of them from overseas, took in the 2008 edition. And next year’s FILMART is sure to attract thousands more professionals from the global entertainment industry. They’ll come to FILMART, and Hong Kong, to exhibit, find partners, source products and explore new opportunities in the Chinese mainland and the booming Asian market beyond. Join them and take advantage of the growing opportunities in the burgeoning Asian entertainment industry.

Details of Asia’s foremost film, TV and digital entertainment industry event will be available in September. For more information, please contact Mr. Wayne Chung at (852) 2584 4130.

The most upbeat film projects from Asia’s top filmmaking talents will again be in the spotlight at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum, to be held concurrently with FILMART from 23 – 25 March 2009.

Proving itself as a pivotal co-production market for Asian films with remarkable achievements accomplished in its last 6 editions, HAF will again be the focal point of leading film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors and buyers in coming March!

For more information on HAF, please click here.

Senior representatives from the Japanese government and the Japan Association for International Promotion of Moving Images (UNIJAPAN) recently announced Japan's new plans aiming at promoting international co-operation among Asian filmmakers at a "Hong Kong & Japan: Collaboration Opportunities in the Entertainment Industry" seminar.

The first-time announcement of two new policies – “Asia Content Initiative” and “Strategic Technology Roadmap” by Yasuhiro Maeda, Director of Media and Content Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI, Japan’s entertainment industry, spearheaded Japan’s aspiration to step up collaboration with its Asian counterparts. With Hong Kong boasting a vibrant and diverse film industry in Asia, future co-production and co-venture opportunities between Japan and Hong Kong were enthusiastically discussed and strongly supported by other industry experts on the panel.

For more details of the seminar, please click here.

The unrivalled capabilities of Hong Kong’s film industry was under the spotlight at the “Creative Hong Kong” pavilion staged recently at the 4th ICIF, when Asia’s first-ever three-dimensional (3-D) movie crafted by Hong Kong creative professionals won applause from over ten thousands viewers.

The prime mover behind the 3-D movie was Centro Digital Pictures Limited, a pioneering local digital effects company renowned for its major contributions to international box office smash hits encompassing Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer and Kill Bill. While showcasing the innovativeness of Hong Kong creative talents in architecture, design, arts and culture, and film and entertainment, the 6-minute 3-D digital movie of Centro Digital Pictures underlined the prominence of 3-D digital technology as the most vibrant sector of the creative industries in the years to come.

To find out more about the 3-D Movie, please click here.

The latest HAF project to vie for honours at the upcoming 65th Venice Film Festival is Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City, a multinational co-production and the only Chinese-language film among the 21 other international productions selected for competition. Meanwhile, Tokyo Sonata(HAF 2007), directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi, HAF won the Best Film Award at the Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in India. Another outstanding project High Society, selected for HAF 2008 and directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat (“Wonderful Town”), was invited for presentation at the Paris Project of Paris Cinema International Film Festival held recently in July. “High Society” was among a selection of 13 projects in search of financing through tailor-made co-production meetings at the festival.