Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAsia Television, previously Hong Kong’s number two free-to-air broadcaster, may no longer be visible on local TV screens.
But the ex-broadcaster is now being recast as a content studio, with its new offshoot AMM Global leading the charge.The division is headed by Bizhan Tong, a Chinese-British former banker turned filmmaker (“The Escort”).
He joined the company after directing “Lockdown,” a U.K.-Hong Kong co-venture film produced and co-financed by Tong’s Phoenix Waters Productions, Hong Kong asset management firm YG Capital, and AMM Global.
International sales are handled jointly by AMM Global and US firm OneTwoThree.The movie, being launched at FilMart, is a pandemic-era thriller in which an actor must.
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