2016 Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Film Production Investment and Trade Fair Call for Submissions of Macao Film Projects
The 2016 Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Film Production Investment and Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as “the Fair”), will be held in August, with the aim of providing an exchange platform for film producers and investors from the three regions, facilitating pairing services, investment opportunities and the development of the film projects. The Fair is now calling for the submission of Macao film projects and all interested parties from the film industry are welcome to submit their works. The call for submissions is open from 14 June 2016 to 28 June 2016. Co-organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), the Guangdong Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the Hong Kong Film Development Council, the Fair has been held in Macao since 2014, with the aim of providing a high quality and convenient communication platform for film producers and investors from the three regions, establishing investment opportunities and pairing services for the film industry, in order to cultivate film professionals and promote the development of the film industry in the three regions. Applicants of selected film projects will meet up with investors from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao at the Fair. Every year the Fair invites 30 producers and over 60 investors and guests to participate. In 2015, through successful pairing, a Letter of Intent was signed between the Guangdong producer of San Chong Mei Ying and the Guangdong Zhujiang Film Group Co., Ltd. Applicants of Macao film projects to the 2016 Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Film Production Investment and Trade Fair must be 18 years old or above and must hold a valid Macao S.A.R. Resident Identity Card. Each applicant may submit one unfinished film only; he/she must be the director of the film and must have directed one feature film with a running time of over 20 minutes, which must have been screened to the public. The adjudicating panel, composed by a group of professionals from the film industry invited by IC, will select a maximum of ten film projects for the Fair based on four criteria: creativity of the story, experience and executive capability of the applicant, experience and executive capability of the executive producer and production company, and budget rationality. Application forms can be downloaded from the Cultural Affairs Bureau website (www.icm.gov.mo) and from the Macao Cultural and Creative Industries website (www.macaucci.com). Applicants should submit the completed application form and all required documents to the Department for Promoting Cultural and Creative Industries of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, located at No. 567, Av. da Praia Grande, Edif. BNU, 12th floor A-D, Macao, before 28 June 2016. For enquiries, please contact Mr. Chong, staff member of IC, through tel. no. (853) 2892 4040, during office hours.