HKIFF Industry Adds Animation & Indonesian Sections To 2025 Line-Up
deadline.comHKIFF Industry Project Market has completed this year’s line-up with the addition of a new animation section and a tie-up with Jakarta Film Week in Indonesia.
According to the event organisers, there has been a 60% surge in animation submissions since last year reflecting the industry’s rapid growth in the region.
Chinese feature-length animation Nezha 2 shattered records over the recent Lunar New Year holiday in China, grossing $1.6bn (RMB11.93m) at the time of writing.
The animation section at HKIFF Industry Project Market includes three titles in development and three works-in-progress. The three works-in-progress include A Mighty Adventure from Hong Kong filmmaker Toe Yuen, best known for the McDull series of hit animated films; Li Jiajia’s Min, produced by Liu Jian, whose Have A Nice Day and Art College 1994 both screened at the Berlinale; and coming-of-age drama Wildheart from Marceau Nakayama, a Tokyo-born art director and concept artist now based in France.
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