Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival

Led by founder and chairman Mr Johnnie TO, Fresh Wave Film Festival Limited proactively develops resources and channels to assist emerging filmmakers, striving towards a more dynamic local film industry.

Organised by Fresh Wave, the annual Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival takes place in March and April, with the aim to promote and encourage local short film production, and to discover and nurture young talents by providing funding support and a platform for showcasing their work, while enhancing their technical skills and quality through training. The Festival comprises of “Local Competition” and “International Selection.” On the other hand, the Festival collaborates with overseas film festivals and organisations in screening outstanding short films from around the world, so as to foster exchange between local and international film cultures and broaden the vision of local film practitioners and audience.

Fresh Wave also continues to explore into the areas of film criticism, outreach and cultural exchange, building a conducive environment for filmmaking and appreciation through retrospectives, school screenings and talk events. The Filmmaker in Focus Series was launched in 2017 to screen films directed by the filmmaker in focus accompanied by a series of post-screening talks and seminars. By sharing their insights in creative filmmaking process, appreciation and research findings filmmakers, scholars/practitioners in the film industry and/or multidisciplinary artists discuss and generate a broader and more comprehensive discourse in the art of filmmaking, so as to stimulate imagination and further explore possibilities of the art form. Following the inaugural All Those Magnificent Obsessions Allow: The Cinema of Todd Hayne (2017), this year we are presenting Stalker in the Dark - The Films of CHANG Tso-chi (2018).

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