Market In Focus: HKIFF Industry, CAA China Talk Building An Ecosystem For Emerging Filmmakers
deadline.comTaking place alongside Filmart, the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) is one of Asia’s oldest and most established project markets, helping a string of award-winning films to get made.
Recent HAF successes include Mongolian drama If Only I Could Hibernate, which was selected for last year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard, and Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s Stonewalling, which won best film at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards and was sold to KimStim for North America.
However, HAF is now just one component in an expanding range of activities organised by HKIFF Industry, the industry platform of Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF).
This year, the festival has partnered with CAA China to launch the HKIFF Industry-CAA China Genre Initiative (HCG), which is presenting six selected projects to an industry-wide audience during HAF.
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