New umbrella will oversee Haf, Haf Goes to Cannes, Haf Film Lab, Hkiff Collection and the facilitation of co-productions.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (Hkiffs) is bringing all its industry initiatives under one umbrella, Hkiff Industry, as it gears up for a physical edition of its festival and projects market in 2022.
Hkiff Industry will oversee the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), which now includes both development and work-in-progress (Wip) programmes; Haf Goes to Cannes; Haf Film Lab; Hkiff Collection, and the facilitation of third-party co-productions.
Jacob Wong, previously Haf director, has assumed the role of director, Hkiff Industry.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (Hkiffs) is bringing all its industry initiatives under one umbrella, Hkiff Industry, as it gears up for a physical edition of its festival and projects market in 2022.
Hkiff Industry will oversee the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), which now includes both development and work-in-progress (Wip) programmes; Haf Goes to Cannes; Haf Film Lab; Hkiff Collection, and the facilitation of third-party co-productions.
Jacob Wong, previously Haf director, has assumed the role of director, Hkiff Industry.
- 8/31/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Behemoth (Zhao Liang)
There’s just one thing missing from Zhao Liang’s visually masterful documentary Behemoth: a before image of what this wasteland of coal and rock used to be before God’s beast was unleashed. That creature — as represented by the industrial machine — devours the mountains of Mongolia, exploding large formations into rubble to be separated by the Sichaun people acting as minions. These citizens become the cause and effect,...
Behemoth (Zhao Liang)
There’s just one thing missing from Zhao Liang’s visually masterful documentary Behemoth: a before image of what this wasteland of coal and rock used to be before God’s beast was unleashed. That creature — as represented by the industrial machine — devours the mountains of Mongolia, exploding large formations into rubble to be separated by the Sichaun people acting as minions. These citizens become the cause and effect,...
- 4/20/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) is showing April 17 - May 17, 2018 in the United States as part of the retrospective Chinese Independents, Part 1.Over the past few years, a wealth of filmmakers have embraced creative techniques while representing the toil and toll of manual labor across the broad spectrum of modern non-fiction cinema. There have been strict ethnographic chronicles, formally and visually dexterous meditations, sensory explorations as well as political histories. Chinese documentarian Zhao Liang adopts a poetic approach to the subject matter in his extraordinary Behemoth, taking Dante’s Divine Comedy as inspiration for an image-led descent into a hellish underworld (and out the other side) to lay bare the human cost of rampant industrialization in his homeland.Inferno“And of course it is doomed. The mountains, the moors; for a time, for a few decades, they will shelter the wilderness still.
- 4/4/2018
- MUBI
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