Title: The New Faces of Asian Film: Hong Kong International Film Festival 2004
Abstract: Coming back after the year of SARS, the Hong Kong (HK) International Film Festival took off its face mask and returned under a newly-privatized structure. The Closer Economic Partnership Agreement between HK and Mainland China, and the more realistic attitude taken towards non-official production by the Chinese, produced a more interesting range of Chinese production. As usual, the positioning of the festival a month before Cannes means that it misses out on many new films, though it generally makes up for this with the retrospectives based around the Film Archive. Hong Kong is still the best place to get a historical overview of Chinese cinema and to consider the way Asian cinema is emerging in response to its fast-changing region and a tortuous set of industrial conditions. So, what are the issues this year?
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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