1905 Film Network News The 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival "Firebird Awards", a total of 43 works participated in the four competitions, each set up an independent jury, will select a total of 12 awards, the results will be on April 11 Announced online.
Over the years, the "Firebird Award" has been known for promoting and rewarding new generations in the film industry and is highly respected internationally. The "Rookie Film Contest" added a Chinese language unit in 2019. In the past two years, many promising Chinese film players have been discovered, and the results are obvious to all. This year's judging tasks are three senior filmmakers, including Jia Zhangke's long-term photographer partner and director Yu Liwei, Hong Kong's famous film art director, costume designer and editor Zhang Shuping, and New York Museum of Modern Art film curator Xu Na. They will select four awards including the Firebird Award winner from the eight works with unique insights, and discover the rising stars of the Chinese film industry.
There are also eight films shortlisted for the "Rookie Film Contest (World)" unit. A three-person jury will select the winners of the Firebird Award and the four awards for Best Director, Actor and Actress. The jury spans three continents: Africa, Europe, and Asia: director Limoan Jeremy Moser from Lesotho, who won the Hong Kong International Film Festival Rookie last year with "This is not a funeral, this is a resurrection" (2019) The Firebird Film Awards and the International Film Critics Alliance Award, as well as a number of international film festival awards; the artistic director of the Nantes Tri-Continent Film Festival in France, Jerome Byron; and the local senior editor, film critic and curator Fu Huiyi. The jury of
"Documentary Contest" is composed of three experienced filmmakers. The film festival invited documentary director and Emmy award winner Luke Lorenzen, whose recent work "Midnight First Aid" (2019) won more than 35 awards at major film festivals around the world, including the Firebird Award in the Hong Kong International Film Festival documentary competition. He will work with Guo Minrong, the artistic director of the Singapore International Film Festival, and Li Zhanpeng, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau, to select two outstanding documentaries from a professional perspective.
The "International Short Film Competition" is judged by three experts, including Japanese director and artist Tomoya Nishikawa. His short film "Ten Morning, Ten Nights and One Ground Level" (2016) won the Hong Kong International Film Festival International Short Film Competition Jury Award; German director and Hamburg Short Film Festival Artistic Director Meke Mia Horn; and local photographer and director Liang Mingjia, he won the 2021 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay with his first work "Yexiang·Mandarin Duck·Sham Shui Po" (2019) And recommended movies. They will select two outstanding works from the 19 shortlisted short films.
The 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival will be held from April 1st to 12th in a mixed online and offline mode for the first time. Audiences can watch the finalists of the "Firebird Awards" in the cinema or on the HKIFF45 ONLINE online platform.
