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Hong Kong filmmaker Mabel Cheung honours Zurich Film Festival
For the third consecutive year, the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) in Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Berlin Switzerland with the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Address: Berlin (HKETO Berlin) presents four Hong Kong productions to the Swiss Jaegerstrasse 33, 10117, Berlin audience. This year, Wong Chun’s drama Mad World, Herman Yau’s Telephone: +49 (0) 30 22 66 77 242 action film Shock Wave, Ho-Cheung Pang’s romantic comedy Love of the Cuff, and Kearen Pang’s tragicomedy 29+1 are screened in ZFF’s “Hong Fax: +49 (0) 30 22 66 77 288 Kong Window” – a special session in the festival dedicated for Hong Kong E-mail: productions. [email protected]
Website: th th th www.hketoberlin.gov.hk At its 13 edition from September 28 to October 8 , ZFF is welcoming more than 90,000 guests and some of the most promising filmmakers from across the world. Renowned Hong Kong film director, author and producer Mabel Cheung was selected as a member of the international feature film jury to attend jury screenings as well as official meetings, media conferences and finally the award night on October 7 to present the treasured Golden Eye Awards to the winners.
Mabel Cheung is one of Hong Kong’s leading filmmakers. She won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director with her feature debut The Illegal Immigrant (1985). Her list of award-winning films further includes An Autumn’s Tale (1987), The Soong Sisters (1997), City of Glass (1998) and Traces of a Dragon (2003). More recently, she completed the epic wartime drama A Tale of Three Cities (2015) based on the true story of Jackie Chan’s parents.
On October 4, Ms Cheung joined the reception hosted by HKETO Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Ms Betty Ho, Director of the HKETO Berlin, referred in her welcome speech to Hong Kong’s outstanding performance in the past 20 years, from completion of new infrastructure projects to achievements in economic performance, academic and cultural pursuits. “These were made possible under ‘One Country, Two Systems’, which enables Hong Kong to fully utilise our strengths to progress further. We stay together; we have made progress; and we are ready for new opportunities”, Ms Ho concluded before introducing the guest of honour. “Hong Kong has one of the largest and most dynamic film entertainment industries in the world and Mabel Cheung is one of its shining stars and an important ambassador of Hong Kong’s creative industry.”
After the reception, guests were invited to join the screening of Mad World.
Zurich Film Festival is not the only European festival to have established a successful partnership with HKETO Berlin. Munich International Film Festival screened the German premiere of Johnnie To’s Three in late June; for the first time, the Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival in Hungary introduced Hong Kong cinema to its audience by screening the classics Infernal Affairs and Dream Home in mid-September; and the Vienna International Film Festival (October 19- November 2) in Austria as well as the Five Flavours Film Festival in Warsaw (November 15-22) have again agreed to feature Hong Kong productions. Furthermore, a Hong Kong film series was shown in Berlin in the second half of July with the support of Create Hong Kong, a dedicated agency set up under the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the HKSAR.
About Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Berlin
HKETO Berlin is the official HKSAR Government representative in commercial relations and other economic and trade matters in Switzerland as well as Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
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1. Hong Kong film director Mabel Cheung and Ms Betty Ho, Director of the HKETO Berlin, at the Zurich Film Festival on October 4.
Contact
Kilian Becker Head, Public Relations Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Berlin Tel: +49 (0) 30 22 66 77 24 2 Fax: +49 (0)30 22 66 77 28 8 E-mail: [email protected]
HKETO Berlin 5 October 2017
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