Hong Kong Film Fest Industry Director Talks Asian Animation Boom & Support For Sophomore Features
deadline.comRunning during the same week as Hong Kong‘s Filmart, the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) is one of Asia’s longest-running project markets.
In its 23rd edition this year, the three-day HAF will feature 25 shortlisted projects in-development from March 17 to 19. This year’s projects include Yellow, which is produced by top Japanese fillmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda for new director Miyoh Yamaura, as well as Republic of Mahalaxmi Apartment, the debut feature from Niladri Mukherjee, which is produced by Indian director Aditya Vikram Sengupta.
According to HKIFF Industry Director Jacob Wong, HAF received 276 in-development project submissions from 45 countries and regions this year, including Hong Kong, Thailand, Turkey, Kazakhstan and South Korea. “Geographically, Hong Kong is at the southernmost of East Asian and northernmost of Southeast Asia, and seems like an ideal place to bring together people from both regions,” Wong tells Deadline. “We do all the other things because we want to do a bit more, especially with younger filmmakers. “HAF has been in business for many years, is truly a regional and international event, which is quite attractive to people from mainland China.
It always has a decent line-up and a track record of projects attending and winning at major film festivals, and occasionally, becoming box office winners.
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