The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (Hkiffs) and China’s Heaven Pictures announced that they will award six Asian filmmakers RMB1 million in a joint project to demonstrate how high-quality films can still be made inexpensively.
The six films that emerge from the new initiative, titled “Back to Basics (B2B): A Love Supreme,” will be co-produced by the two entities and released over the next three years. Hkiffs will handle international sales and festival strategies, while Heaven Pictures will handle mainland distribution.
Participating directors include Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan’s Ishii Yuya, Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu, Chinese independent filmmaker Yang Jin, Malaysian New Wave director Tan Chui Mui, and Hong Kong director Philip Yung, whose “Port of Call” won seven Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015.
“We aim to strip away the artifice of much contemporary movie-making, returning cinema to something raw and exciting,” said Jacob Wong,...
The six films that emerge from the new initiative, titled “Back to Basics (B2B): A Love Supreme,” will be co-produced by the two entities and released over the next three years. Hkiffs will handle international sales and festival strategies, while Heaven Pictures will handle mainland distribution.
Participating directors include Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan’s Ishii Yuya, Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu, Chinese independent filmmaker Yang Jin, Malaysian New Wave director Tan Chui Mui, and Hong Kong director Philip Yung, whose “Port of Call” won seven Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015.
“We aim to strip away the artifice of much contemporary movie-making, returning cinema to something raw and exciting,” said Jacob Wong,...
- 6/20/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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