Hong Kong Selects First Projects for Streaming Development Funding
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hong Kong’s Film Development Council has unveiled the first shortlisted projects under its new scheme to develop content for streaming platforms.
The Content Development Scheme for Streaming Platforms was announced last year. It aims to nurture cross-sectoral production teams and expand new distribution market and takes the form of a competition to recruit participating teams that develop a mini-series for streaming platforms.
Its first call for tenders was open until June 2023. Making the announcement during this week’s FilMart convention, the FDC said that it had shortlisted ten projects.
It named them as “Bus Lightyear”; “Champion Turns Up”; “Kowloon Grand Hotel”; “Underworld”; “Today Will Never Return”; “Spirited Away”; “Eyes of Sparrow” “Balikbayan Box Club”; “Once There Were Jackals”; and “Las Mulas” but it divulged no other details such as producer, distributor, project genre or anticipated production budget.
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