HKIFF to launch monthly programme and privilege scheme
2013-03-09 8:00PM / 標準BLOG
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The
Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) is one of the territory’s
leading annual cultural events providing moviegoers with a diversity of
quality films from around the world. The Festival is now extending its
brand to a new year-round regular monthly programme called HKIFF Cine
Fan. Details and the line up for Cine Fan’s
first edition, running from 5 April – 19 May, were revealed today by
organiser The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS).
Funded
by the Hong Kong Film Development Council (HKFDC) and based at agnès b.
CINEMA at Hong Kong Arts
Centre, the monthly HKIFF Cine Fan programme showcases the best in
world cinema, past and present – including tributes to masters,
digitally restored classics, indies, genre films, and more. Filmmakers
and critics – both local and overseas – will be invited
regularly to attend meet-the-audience sessions, conduct seminars, and
join panel discussions to facilitate cultural exchange across borders.
The programme will launch on 5 April with
The Way We Dance, an empowering and engaging tale about aspiring street dancers by up-and-coming Hong Kong director Adam WONG (When Beckham Met Owen,
Magic Boy). Following the exciting kickoff is an extensive
showcase on Italy’s world-famous directing and screenwriting duo, the
Taviani brothers (Paolo & Vittorio TAVIANI), featuring eleven of
their works such as
St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972), Padre Padrone (1977), Night of the Shooting Stars (1982),
Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Night Sun (1990), You Laugh (1998) and
Caesar Must Die (2012) .
In addition, the Cine Fan programme features a retrospective tribute to French film pioneer and film essayist
Chris MARKER who died in July 2012. With selections ranging from the rarely seen
Sunday in Peking (1957) to his classic La Jetée (1963) and much acclaimed
Sans Soleil (1983), the programme also includes a documentary
essay on this enigmatic filmmaker who was obsessed with not being
photographed and avoiding the media.
To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter, directed by Japanese-American,
Emmy-award winning filmmaker Emiko OMORI who worked with Marker early
in her career in San Francisco Bay Area and remained friends with him
until his death, achieves the rare feat of assembling
fragments of personal life coupled with intimate interviews with people
inspired by the master, and provides a perfect complement to his rich
and edifying work. She will be in town to meet the audience.
Other highlights include four hidden gems from the late Shochiku master KINOSHITA Keisuke, and four all-time
classics of cinema, namely Tokyo Story (1953), Vertigo (1958),
The Grand Illusion (1937) and Pigsty (1969). The full programme can be viewed at
www.cinefan.com.hk, while tickets can
be booked online at www.urbtix.hk or in-person
at all URBTIX outlets.
In
conjunction with the new programme, the HKIFF Cine Fan privilege scheme
has been introduced to offer
ticket discounts both for the Cine Fan programme, the annual HKIFF, the
Summer International Film Festival, and other associated programmes. By
signing up now audiences will receive a welcome gift by selecting four
free tickets from a pool of 13 popular films
at the 37th HKIFF, including The Great Passage, Tokyo Family, and
A Werewolf Boy. Details are available at www.cinefan.com.hk.
“HKIFF
Cine Fan is an important addition to our activities in promoting film
culture,” said Roger GARCIA,
Executive Director of the HKIFFS. “We hope to fulfill our objective of
creating a regular and enjoyable programme for all who love the cinema
as we do.”
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