Download PDF [January 5, Hong Kong] The 8th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from March 22 to 24, 2010, announced today a list of 25 selected outstanding film projects from across Asia and beyond.
HAF is organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS), committed to promoting the development of the Asian film industry by providing an important funding platform for film projects. In the last seven years, it has attracted renowned directors, producers, filmmakers and emerging filmmakers in Asia to participate, allowing them to gain support from investors from all parts of world. The selected film projects for this year’s HAF come from 17 territories in Asia and other parts of the world, including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Macao, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.
These projects include productions from world-class talents such as SUZUKI Seijun, a veteran Japanese director known for his jarring visual style and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. His most famous work Princess Raccoon (2005) stars Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri. Another featured talent is Leon DAI, whose No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (2009) won four important awards at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards 2009, including Best Director, Best Film, Best Original Screenplay and Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year. Other filmmakers include HO Yuhang, praised as the most talented new director in Malaysia, and Dev BENEGAL, one of the few Indian native directors who makes films in English. His new film Road, Movie (2009) garnered several international awards before it officially opened in cinemas.
The selected projects also include films produced by renowned directors, including: the winner of the highest prize, the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival JIA Zhangke; Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan Golden Horse Awards winner Fruit CHAN; Hong Kong director Teddy CHEN, acclaimed for his recent work Bodyguards and Assassins (2009) (HAF 2003), and Ross KATZ, the Oscar nominated director of Lost in Translation (2003).
Jacob Wong, Director of HAF, said, “As we can see, the films made possible by HAF in the past years have achieved excellent results, and this year we are seeing a lot of pan-regional co-productions. The selected projects, which were led by diverse talents from veterans to first-time directors will definitely spark new excitement in Asian films and focus the worldwide film industry on Asian productions. In fact, aproximately one third of the selected projects have secured more than 50 percent funding before being selected by HAF, demonstrating unlimited market potential of Asian films and the high realization potential of the HAF selections.”
HAF projects have been highly successful and internationally acclaimed. Some of the most notable include Kinatay (HAF 2009), which won the Best Director Award for Brillante MENDOZA at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and Thirst (HAF 2008), which was directed by PARK Chan-wook and awarded the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Another outstanding film, Mother (HAF 2008) by BONG Joon-ho, had won multiple awards including Best Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards 2009. Tokyo Sonata (HAF 2007), directed by renowned Japanese director KUROSAWA Kiyoshi and starring seasoned actors and actresses such as KAGAWA Teruyuki, KOIZUMI Kyōko and YAKUSHO Kōji, won the Jury Prize for the Un Certain Regard section of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Film and Best Screenwriter awards at the 3rd Asian Film Awards.
For more HAF alumni projects accomplishments, please visit the official website at www.haf.asia.
A complete listing of all 25 projects selected for HAF 2010 is included [here] and in Appendix I of the attached PDF. An online project book with full project details will be available at the HAF website in mid-January.
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About Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)
Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) is widely recognized as one of the most important film-financing platforms in Asia. HAF brings Asian filmmakers with upcoming film projects to Hong Kong for co-production ventures with top film financiers, producers, investors, distributors and buyers. Attended by 1,000 filmmakers and financiers, more than 20 projects are selected to participate in this three-day event.
Past participants include Mainland China's JIA Jiangke, JIANG Wen and LOU Ye, Hong Kong's Stanley KWAN, Ann HUI, Gordon CHAN, PANG Ho-cheung, Taiwan's TSAI Ming-Liang, Japan's SABU, NAKATA Hideo, OTANI Kentaro, KORE-EDA Hirokazu, MIIKE Takashi and YUKISADA Isao, Korea's KIM Jee-woon, PARK Chan-wook, E J-yong and IM Sang-soo as well as Thailand's EKACHAI Uekrongtham, Nonzee NIMIBUTR and Pen-ek RATANARUANG.
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About The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS)
Uniting the World through Film
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to the discovery and promotion of creativity in the art and culture of film. Through its year-round programs, the mission of the Society is to strengthen global appreciation of Chinese film culture and to promote inspiring films from around the world, enriching the cultural life of Hong Kong. Committed to the development of a vibrant film culture in Hong Kong and Asia, the Society organizes three annual flagship events in March and April: Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) and Asian Film Awards (AFA). Passionately believing in the power of films to unite cultures and generations, the HKIFFS is devoted to giving thousands of film lovers around the region direct access to the world’s most inspired films all year round.
Director 導演: TAN Pin-pin
Producer 監製: TAN Pin-pin
Production Company 製作公司: BFG Media
2. Betok (Malaysia/Singapore 馬來西亞/新加坡)
Director 導演: Sherman ONG
Producer 監製: TAN Bee-thiam
Production Company 製作公司: 13 Little Pictures
3. Blood Of Wolves, The (Japan 日本)
Director 導演: SAKAGUCHI Tak 坂口 拓
Producer 監製: SHIOMAKI Yuko 汐卷 裕子, KUNIZANE Mizue
Production Company 製作公司: Pictures Dept. LLP
4. Chang & Eng (Thailand /Singapore/USA 泰國/新加坡/美國)
Director 導演: Ekachai UEKRONGTHAM 呂翼謀
Producer 監製: Ekachai UEKRONGTHAM 呂翼謀
Production Company 製作公司: Spicy Apple Films
5. Cosplay (China/France 中國內地/法國)
Director 導演: SHENG Zhimin 盛志民
Producer 監製: Olivier MILLE, Fruit CHAN 陳果
Production Company 製作公司: Artlinefilms
6. Dear Comrade (working title) (Japan/South Korea/Vietnam 日本/南韓/越南)
Director 導演: LEE Yoon-ki 李胤基
Producer 監製: TOYOYAMA Yuki 豐山 有紀, Sean SHIN申勝植
Production Company 製作公司: Esprit Inc.
7. Enchanter, The (Hong Kong/China/Macao 香港/中國內地/澳門)
Director 導演: KWOK Tsz-kin 郭子健
Producer 監製: Teddy CHEN 陳德森
Production Company 製作公司: Sum-Wood Productions Limited
8. Exit to Exist (South Korea 南韓)
Director 導演: JEON Yun-su 田允秀
Producer 監製: Peter CHU 朱弼鎬
Production Company 製作公司: Jupiter Film, Sidus FNH
9. Housekeeping (Lebanon 黎巴嫩)
Director 導演: Mazen KHALED
Producer 監製: Paul LEE
Production Company 製作公司: ii Films
10. I Love You So Much (Taiwan 台灣)
Director 導演: Leon DAI 戴立忍
Producer 監製: LIU Wei-Jan 劉蔚然
Production Company 製作公司: Atom Cinema
11. Immense Floating Life, The (working title) (Vietnam 越南)
Director 導演: Binh NGUYEN PHAN QUANG
Producer 監製: Hanh NGO THI BICH
Production Company 製作公司: Vietnam Studio & Feature Film No.1
12. Light of Darkness (working title) (China 中國內地)
Director 導演: ZHAO Ye 趙曄
Producer 監製: Helen CUI崔紅
Production Company 製作公司: Tianlin Film Productions
13. Mama Eva (Hong Kong/China/Switzerland 香港/中國內地/瑞士)
Director 導演: Kit HUNG洪榮傑
Producer 監製: LAM Yat-fung 林一峰, Kit HUNG 洪榮傑
Production Company 製作公司: Keep In Touch Company
14. Mythteries (Japan日本)
Director 導演: TEZKA Macoto 手塚 真
Producer 監製: HIRASAWA Sho 平澤 匠
Production Company 製作公司: PaxEterna Limited
15. Nanjing East Road (Taiwan/USA 台灣/美國)
Director 導演: Arvin CHEN 陳駿霖
Producer 監製: LEE In-Ah李仁兒
Production Company 製作公司: Greenskyfilms
16. Past Love (Thailand/USA 泰國/美國)
Director 導演: Lee CHATAMETIKOOL
Producer 監製: Anocha SUWICHAKORNPONG
Production Company 製作公司: Electric Eel Films, Houdini Studio
17. Private Party of the Dead (Hong Kong 香港)
Director 導演: CHUI Tien-you徐天佑
Producer 監製: PANG Ho-cheung彭浩翔
Production Company 製作公司: Making Film Productions Limited
18. Samurai (India/USA 印度/美國)
Director 導演: Dev BENEGAL
Producer 監製: Dev BENEGAL, Ross KATZ
Production Company 製作公司: August Entertainment
19. Sense of Honey, A (Japan 日本)
Director 導演: SUZUKI Seijun 鈴木 清順
Producer 監製: KITO Yukie 木藤 幸江, KANDA Yuji 神田 裕司, HIRATA Mikihiko 平田 樹彥
Production Company 製作公司: Arcimboldo Inc.
20. Straits, The (China/Taiwan 中國內地/台灣)
Director 導演: WANG Tung 王童
Producer 監製: Terence CHANG 張家振, David TANG唐在揚
Production Company 製作公司: Renaissance Films
21. Teenage Wildlife (China 中國內地)
Director 導演: Li Jingyi 李京怡
Producer 監製: JIA Zhangke 賈樟柯
Production Company 製作公司: Xstream Pictures
22. Twins (The Philippines 菲律賓)
Director 導演: Sherad Anthony SANCHEZ
Producer 監製: Ronald ARGUELLES
Production Company 製作公司: Salida Productions
23. Women and Children First (Malaysia/Japan 馬來西亞/日本)
Director 導演: HO Yuhang何宇恆
Producer 監製: ONO Kousuke 小野 光輔, SUGINO Kiki 杉野 希妃
Production Company 製作公司: Wa Entertainment Inc.
24. Written In Red (Hong Kong 香港)
Director 導演: Koan HUI 許安
Producer 監製: FUKAZAWA Hiroshi 深澤 寬
Production Company 製作公司: Ghostsoup
25. Youth (Israel 以色列)
Director 導演: Tom SHOVAL
Producer 監製: Gal GREENSPAN
Production Company 製作公司: GREENproductions
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