| The Hong Kong Film Archive acquired more than 65 000 film-related materials from the 1950s to 1990s that were donated by Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited. |
Film Archive and Film and Video Programmes
Hong Kong Film Archive
The Hong Kong Film Archive's major functions are to acquire, preserve, catalogue, and document Hong Kong films and related materials. Its major facilities include a cinema, an exhibition hall, a resource centre and four temperature-controlled collection stores. It has already acquired 9 116 films and 1 020 067 related items, mainly through donations and loans. Major acquisitions include more than 65 000 film-related materials from the 1950s to 1990s from Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited and nearly 100 film print titles and 3 000 film-related materials from Dream Movie Entertainment Overseas Limited. During 2009-10, the Film Archive continued its film research efforts and carried out oral history interviews with film veterans. Several publications, including The Cold War and Hong Kong Cinema (in Chinese), Eileen Chang: MP & GI Screenplays (in Chinese) and Oral History Series (6): Director Lung Kong, were released during the year. Major exhibitions included In the Name of Love: The Films of Evan Yang, The Legend & The Beauty of Lin Dai and Humble Beginning: Early Films of the Yuen Clan. The Archive attracted 296 907 visitors during the year.
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Film and Video Programmes
The Film Programmes Office focuses on the cultivation and promotion of film culture in Hong Kong and, in 2009-10, organised a variety of very well-received film and video programmes and seminars, thus enabling local audiences to appreciate international cinematic arts and experience diverse cultural activities.
Highlights of the year included the International Children's Film Carnival, Chinese Film Panorama 2009, the 38th French Cinepanorama and Repertory Cinema 2009 Programme 2 : Jean-Luc Godard featuring world classics by French film master Jean-Luc Godard, and the showing of Fei Mu's long-lost film Confucius. Other thematic programmes included In the Name of Love: The Films of Evan Yang, A Wreath for Madame Kawakita, e-wave to new wave: Life as Art, Life as Dream ---- Allen Fong in Retrospective, The Legend & The Beauty ---- The Films of Lin Dai; and Images of the Silk Road.
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To support major local film events, the Department provides venue sponsorship to the annual Hong Kong Film Awards Presentation Ceremony. It also provides funding support to the Hong Kong Arts Centre and Microwave Co Ltd for the annual Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards and the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, respectively, to encourage creative, independent productions of short films and videos and to promote the media arts.
