Reports
J-Pitch@Hong Kong2008
Date: March 3 – 20, 2008
Place: HAF (Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum), Hong Kong International Film Festival
Project market established by the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Due to its objective of linking foreign financing with Asian producers, almost all selected entries are Asian projects. Many selected projects are projects of experienced producers and the market is characterized by the large number of meetings.
Business meeting
Introduce at Lunch Meeting
Overview
Entertainment Expo which aims to be the base of International Film Market in Asia has lots of events including Hong Kong International Film Festival opened for one month, Filmart which is the biggest film market in Asia, Asian Film Award proposing to be the Academy Award of Asia and HAF which is the project market.
HAF 2008 selected two Japanese big name directors’ projects done by Hideo Nakata and Kentaro Otani. These two directors were popular hugely, and they had many meetings including the magazine and TV coverage in three days.
Moreover, five producers as observers participated in HAF as a result of the partnership with J-Pitch. The relationship between J-Pitch and HAF tight strongly as J-Pitch was only one organization which had the meeting space, J-Pitch room, in the HAF related establishments. HAF was very useful project market for Japanese producers who aimed to make their projects realized as international co-production film.
Program
- Held a Lunch Meeting with HAF and Filmart
-Introduce Japanese Producers to HAF and Filmart participants - Held pitching sessions of 5 Japanese producers (observers) for overseas production and sales companies with cooperation of HAF
- Joint HAF official seminar
- CO-PRODUCTIONS: The Road Forward for Asia hosted by Filmart and Variety
- DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION: Business Models and Rights Management in the New World Order hosted by Filmart and SCREEN
- FILM MERCHANDISING: the Mechanism and Prospect hosted by Filmart and Variety
- Placed the J-Pitch room in HAF
-Used for the business meeting for Japanese producers (observers) by J-Pitch network
HAF Official Participants
GENSENKAN
Director: Hideo Nakata
Producer: Jennifer Fukasawa (HIDEON PRODUCTIONS)
TSUTENKAKU
Director: Kentaro Otani
Producer: Ryosuke Mameoka (IMJ Entertainment)
J-Pitch Pitching Seminar Participants
- Atsuko Ochiai (SUPERSAURUS)
- Akihiro Suzuki (S.I.G)
- Stewart Levy (TOKYOPOP)
- Hiromi Honoki (GaGa Communications)
- Noriyuki Waki (GRUMBLE SIXTEEN)
