HAF expands scale and int'l collaboration

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Market News

The Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) 香港亞洲電影投資會, the annual film project market, today unveiled a larger than ever selection of 32 works in progress for its 10th edition (19-21 Mar 2012).

The move adds width and relevance to the Hong Kong event, which runs in parallel with the territory's foreign sales market, Hong Kong FilMart (19-22 Mar).

While HAF has not previously included non-fiction works, the 2012 selection includes six documentaries including Dain Iskandar SAID's (Un)Making the Betrayal, which examines the collaboration between cinema and a totalitarian political regime, and Music and the Nation 音樂中國, by local Hong Kong talent CHEUNG King-wai 張經緯.

HAF is increasingly collaborating with other project markets and co-production financing forums. This year's selection notably includes one project, You're A Big Girl Now 晴空萬裡任翱翔, by director Tze Chun 陳子翱 which came from New York's Independent Filmmaker Project, and two from Copenhagen's DOX-LAB; Hangman by Jakrawal NILTHAMRONG and Ionut PITURESCU, and Love: 1984 and SODA Kazuhiro 想田和弘 and Peter KEREKES.

The selection — 28 of which are Asian — assembles an array of projects from leading directors and producers from the Asia-Pacific region. Established names include Australian director Tony AYRES; Chinese director Pema Tseden 萬瑪才旦; Hong Kong producer-director PANG Ho-cheung 彭浩翔; Oscar-winner Ruby YANG 楊紫燁; Taiwan's CHANG Tso-chi 張作驥; and China's GU Changwei 顧長衛.

HAF says it received over 200 project submissions, from 45 countries and territories.

 
HAF ASIAN PROJECTS 2012

• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 明天記得愛上我; dir. Arvin CHEN 陳駿霖 [Taiwan]
• Ali's Wedding; dir. Tony AYRES [Australia]
• Another Country; dir. JEON Soo-il 전수일 | 全秀一 [South Korea]
• Balloon 氣球; dir. Pema Tseden [China]
• Be With You 碟仙; dir. PANG Ho-cheung [Hong Kong/Italy]
• Chocolate City GZ 巧克力之城; dir. Ruby YANG [China]
• City of the Lost Things 廢棄之城; dir. YEE Chih-yen 易智言 [Taiwan]
• Cross Road 路口; dir. PENG Tao 彭韜 [China]
• Curious Grandmas: The Murder of Annet Van Houten; dir. Lucky KUSWANDI [Indonesia]
• The Enemy: 1949 敵人　１９４９; dir. CHANG Tso-chi [Taiwan]
• Flowing Stories 河上變村; dir. Jessey TSANG 曾翠珊 [Hong Kong]
• The Fourth Direction Chauthi koot; dir. Gurvinder SINGH [India]
• Hangman; dirs. Jakrawal NILTHAMRONG & Ionut PITURESCU [Thailand]
• Igna; dir. Eduardo ROY Jr. [Philippines]
• Imperial Exam 狀元圖; dir. TAN Chui Mui 陳翠梅 [China]
• Love: 1984; dir. SODA Kazuhiro [Japan/Czeck Republic/Slovakia]
• The MacLennan Affair 麥樂倫事件; dirs. Derek TSANG 曾國祥 & Jimmy WAN 尹志文 [Hong Kong]
• Monsters 괴물들; dir. KIM Baek-jun 김백준 [South Korea]
• Music and the Nation; dir. CHEUNG King-wai [Hong Kong]
• My Dictator; dir. LEE Hae-jun 이해준 [South Korea]
• Night of Their Own 獵狗; dir. ZHAO Ye 趙曄 [China]
• Ready for War 偉大的和平來自於對戰爭的不懈準備; dir. Gu Changwei [China]
• Red Umbrella; dir. Andri CUNG & Edward GUNAWAN [Indonesia]
• The Seen and Unseen; dir. Kamila ANDINI [Indonesia]
• Tang Wong; dir. Kongdej JATURANRASMEE คงเดช จาตุรันต์รัศมี [Thailand]
• (Un)Making the Betrayal; dir. Dain Iskandar SAID [Indonesia/Malaysia]
• The Devil's Path 凶悪; dir. SHIRAISHI Kazuya 白石和彌 [Japan]
• You're a Big Girl Now; dir. Tze Chun [Malaysia/Taiwan/China]

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