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Hong Kong’s New European Coproduction Funding Scheme Is Aimed at Industry Revamp: ‘We Want Our Movies to Be More Diversified’
Hong Kong newly-hatched co-production grants are intended to encourage production volume and diversity, the city's film chief says.
In unprecedented fashion, the territory’s Film Development Council is getting ready to start giving cash grants to movie projects that don’t necessarily have to shoot in the city or even use one of its three official languages. While Hong Kong cinema has recently enjoyed a measure of success through hyper-local titles such as “Anita,” “Men on the Dragon,” “Table for Six,” “Mama’s Affair” and all-time record-breaker “A Guilty Conscience,” market share and production volumes touched multi-decade lows during the latter years. The objective of the scheme is to subsidize film projects co-produced by filmmakers between Hong Kong and European/Asian countries with a view to enhancing exposures of such collaboration in European/Asian and international markets as well as achieving in-depth exchanges and mutual learning.
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