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Talk: Feasting on Futures – the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and the Celebration of New Cinemas

Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre 
Date: 2019.06.09
Price: Standard ticket: $40, Tickets are available at URBTIX now. 




Talk: Feasting on Futures –the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and the Celebration of New Cinemas

In May 1969, the first edition of the Quinzaine des Realisateurs - or the Directors' Fortnight in English - made its bow at Cannes, its mission being to provide a platform for "new voices, new cinemas" to receive the attention they deserve. Since then, independent festivals have emerged across the world with the same idea in mind - something even established A-list events have also tried to grapple with. As part of the New Waves, New Shores programme, the Fortnight's co-founder, former festival director and artistic director, Pierre-Henri Deleau and the chief executive officer of Taipei Golden Horse Executive Committee, Wen Tien-hsiang, will engage in an inter-generational, cross-cultural conversation with Hong Kong programmers Nose Chan, Didi Wu and Kiki Ho, with the aim of finding common ground and brighter futures for both filmmakers and cinephiles here and elsewhere.

Date: 9/6/2019 (Sun)

Time: 2:30pm

Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Languages: Conducted in English and Mandarin with Cantonese interpretation


Moderator: Clarence Tsui

Guests

Pierre-Henri Deleau  
Co-Founder, Former Festival Director and Artistic Director of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Wen Tien-hsiang
Taiwan Film Critic and Programmer, Chief Executive Officer of Taipei Golden Horse Executive Committee

Nose Chan
Programmer, Hong Kong Independent Film Festival

Didi Wu
Programmer, Broadway Cinemetheque and Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

KiKi Ho
Curator, Ground Up Student Film Festival


Introduction

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Clarence Tsui (Hong Kong-based Film Critic, Journalist, Curator) 

Clarence Tsui is a Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, and contributes reviews to The Hollywood Reporter and writes a regular column on Chinese cinema for the South China Morning Post. He has also written articles for the New York-based Cineaste magazine, the Film Quarterly journal published by the University of California Press, as well as other news and specialist media outlets. He teaches journalism and film studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He conceived and presented a programme of communist-era Albanian documentaries for the Cinema du Réel festival at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in March 2016, and was a co-curator of the China and Portuguese-language Countries Film Festival at the Cinematheque Passion, Macau, in July 2018. He has also served on juries at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Paris, Tokyo, Nantes (Festival des 3 Continents) and Hong Kong (Asian Film Awards).

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Pierre-Henri Deleau  (Co-Founder, Former Festival Director and Artistic Director of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight)

Pierre-Henri Deleau was born in France in 1942. He co-founded the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 1969 and led the section until 1998. He was also co-founder and general manager of the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes (FIPA) in Biarritz from 1987 to 2009. From 1990, he has been the General Delegate of the International Historical Film Festival of Pessac. He was the assistant of directors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Pierre Kast, and produced films by Claude Miller and Hugo Santiago. He served on the jury of international film festivals such as Berlin, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal and Chicago amongst others.

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Wen Tien-hsiang (Taiwan Film Critic, Programmer, Chief Executive Officer of Taipei Golden Horse Executive Committee)

Wen Tien-hsiang is a renowned Taiwanese film critic and festival programmer. He started writing review and column for newspapers and magazines from his teens, and has published several books on movies. Wen was the programmer for Taipei Film Festival between 2002 and 2006, and was appointed chief executive officer of Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival by chairman of the time, director Hou Hsiao-hsien, and then also entrusted with the same post by the succeeding chairpersons Sylvia Chang and Ang Lee. In his term of service, Wen has added Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival, Golden Horse Classic Film Festival, Golden Horse Film Academy, Movie Class for the Next Generation, and Asian Cinema Observers. Furthermore, he also teaches at the National Taiwan University of Arts and the National Chengchi University.

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Nose Chan (Chairman of Ying E Chi, Programmer of Hong Kong Independent Film Festival, Film Editor)

Nose Chan was a juror of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. His works include Darkness Bride (2004), Innocent (2005), Magic Boy (2007), High Noon (2008), Tomorrow is Another Day (2018) and I Miss You When I See You (2018) amongst others.

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Didi Wu (Programmer of Broadway Cinematheque and Hong Kong Asian Film Festival) 

Didi Wu received her first degree in architecture, and furthered her studies in film curating in London. After she graduated, she worked at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, and later joined the programming team of the Broadway Cinematheque, presenting a broad range of films. Aside from film series, she wants to curate programmes of other artistic media to explore the possibilities of space and image.

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Kiki Ho (Curator of Ground Up Student Film Festival, Member of Ground Up Film Society) 

Kiki Ho is an independent film producer and curator in Hong Kong. Her production credits include Keening Woman (2013), The Sea Within (2014) and Pseudo Secular (2016). These films were screened at several international film festivals including Busan, Torino, Montreal and Cairo. In 2014, she co-founded Ground Up Film Society with emerging independent film directors, and initiated Ground Up Student Film Festival, for which she has been the programme curator since its third edition. She has been involved in researching local moving images. Her latest research is on independent feature debuts in the recent decade.

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Ticketing Information

Talk: Feasting on Futures – the Directors’ Fortnight and the Celebration of New Cinemas - Tickets: $40/$32* 

Package B (one ticket each of 16 screenings and Talk): $930

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Presented byHong Kong Arts Centre | Financially Supported by: Film Development FundCreate Hong Kong

Festival Partners: Cannes Directors’ FortnightConsulate General of France in Hong Kong & Macau

An Associated Project ofLe French May

SupportersAlliance Française Hong Kong 

Travel & Hospitality Partner: Lavaux

Hotel Support: Conrad Hong Kong

Media Partners: CUPFilm PilgrimageSPILLZolima CityMag

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