Hong Kong filmmakers find Google support for documentaries
Three independent documentary filmmakers are banking on Hong Kong’s penchant for “googling” what they don’t know to promote their latest works and rally support for the city’s film culture.
Three independent documentary filmmakers are banking on Hong Kong’s penchant for “googling” what they don’t know to promote their latest works and rally support for the city’s film culture.
Google and the Hong Kong Art Centre’s Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia (IFVA) have collaborated to launch the Hong Kong Search Stories project, which premiered on Wednesday.
According to the search giant, the project aims to provide local filmmakers an opportunity to “bring theory into practice, through inserting new and innovative elements into local film”.
The three winners of IFVA’s 18th greenlab short film project, Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan, Leung Ming-kai and Chris Ng Ho-yin, were chosen to present their 2½ minute YouTube films, which document the lives of three individuals and how search technology has helped change their lives.
Leung’s Search for the Dream of the Red Pavilion tells the story of an actress raised in the US returning to Hong Kong to rediscover her roots. Ng's film Search of Tourbillon is about a young entrepreneur leaving his job in finance to become a watchmaker.