Hong Kong Lift-Off Film Festival (7)

Início do Festival: 19 Janeiro 2017      Fim do Festival: 23 Janeiro 2017

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Hong Kong has a film industry bursting with opportunity for filmmakers from any where the world. Hong Kong is a priority city for the Lift-Off Global Network. As more and more film professionals head there from countries all over the world, this mega city for cinema is quickly becoming an alternative professional destination for filmmakers outside of NYC, LA and London.

A gateway to China and labelled as the Hollywood of Asia, the city has a fascination that goes beyond the artistic and into the realms of fantasy realism. Between Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, Hong Kong will be Lift-Off's gateway into the Chinese independent film community. We hope that the event will bring filmmakers from all walks of life to share their stories, engage in conversation and open the doors for their work to receive a global audience.

Hong Kong Lift-Off is a film festival that forms part of a wider network of connected film festivals around the world. A unique channel consisting of ten global cities and an on-demand platform. By submitting to any Lift-Off Film Festival you are giving your work the unique possibility of joining the only real alternative to global distribution.

If your work wins Hong Kong Lift-Off then you could be screened to audiences in Liverpool, Tokyo, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Singapore, Sydney and London. Along with the possibility of earning money by forming part of Lift-Off's On-Demand Initiative at the end of the respective season.

Lift-Off's aim is to help you launch your professional life in film.

Showcasing your work around the world, building press coverage, exposing you to global production companies, industry agencies, and worldwide producers.

The festival will welcome work from all over China and the rest of the world. We expect to receive films with courage, personable endeavour and unique voices.

Our motto and selection ethos...

Look beyond the gloss. Put talent before technology.

If your work is rich in substance, has exceptional subject matter, a superior execution of story structure and you want to screen your work to a truly remarkable and global audience then this is your film festival.

Extract from a recent interview between Film Festival Home and our co-founder James Bradley...

How does Lift-Off plan to bring back the art of film-making?
"The art of filmmaking doesn't need anything else added to it. It's the business, the industry on the whole which needs an institution like us. So many film schools and festivals have this "build our own reputation" agenda. I think many of them want to be the next Sundance or NYU. We couldn't give a rats ass about the glamour. We exist to launch the professional lives of the filmmakers we cross paths with, for no other reason but to eliminate the overriding pretence and closed door policy of many others..."

The festival invites new hopefuls from around the globe to screen with the winners of previous Lift-Off's, whom are all programmed together and go head-to-head, with the extended chance to win full official selection tours of all the proceeding Lift-Off global events.

Submitters automatically join the ever expanding network of emerging industry professionals that make up the Lift-Off family.

What we offer...

Promoting you as a filmmaker, and supporting your professional life.

Lift-Off is committed to launching the careers of the filmmakers we showcase. We don't exist for the false glamour, cheesy prestige, or hollow promises.

Lift-Off introduces you to global production companies, Hollywood, NYC and London based director agencies. And we get you press exposure.

Our laurels aren't enough, which is why every single Lift-Off winner and special mention is introduced to our press contacts and given as much exposure as possible to global production companies and agents.

At the submission level alone...

Every single filmmaker who submits will receive from us exclusive submitter only content that aim to coach and guide all filmmakers on the continuous marketing of their work. Please allow hong-kong@lift-off-festival.com to be accepted into your inbox!

On top of this we also engage with partnership social media marketing and weekly emails sharing posts written by our festival founders giving a wide insight into the festival workings and the market on a whole.

We can also offer simple feedback sent in from our judges at no charge, however sometimes this can be as simple as a single sentence and not very productive for you. So, with the help of our team we have come up with a solid/full-rounded feedback procedure called extended feedback.

We offer this to our filmmakers who are willing to pay for the valued time of the person assessing their work.

Based on levels of experience and involvement, we offer extended feedback at the following levels:-

Festival Founder Feedback
Industry Professional Judge Feedback
Peer Feedback

These are submission options displayed at the side of this listing. Each one is a flat fee.

Feedback will be delivered after the festival has finished it's event, or if the date is far in advance at the earliest convenience. For more information on the extended feedback options please see here: http://www.lift-off-festival.com/extended-feedback

About Hong Kong Lift-Off...

Hong Kong Lift-Off is part of the prestigious network of globally based Lift-Off Film Festivals. It is the 10th event in the Lift-Off Season and the 1st Festival of the network to ever be based in China PR.

Winners of the London, Amsterdam, Liverpool, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Sydney, Singapore and Las Vegas Film Festivals screen at Hong Kong Lift-Off, along with new hopefuls from around the globe looking to join the ever expanding network of emerging industry professionals.

As part of the Lift-Off International Film Festivals, the cultural global exchange: Hong Kong Lift-Off Takes place in January 2017.

Filmmakers of any background and professional or non-professional stage have the chance to showcase their work in an unbiased environment. We will be programming student films with professional/independent ones and then voting on them on individual merit rather than containment within category. Every single film and script that is submitted will be treated the same and entered into the same pot. Awards will be given to highest standards in drama, acting, story structure and artistic merit.

A large budget and glossy production value means nothing to us at Lift-Off -- all we care about is great delivery of an honest story.

Exclusive content only for those who submit to a Lift-Off Film Festival.

All of the content has been purposely written for those who wish to have greater success on the festival scene and possibly build their own filmmaking creativity into something marketable and sustainable.

Here's what we'll be sending you...

- I've submitted my film to festivals, now what.
- Top Five Indie Film Festivals.
- Looking to Start a Career in Film, can festival success help.
- Independent Films That Get Distribution & Why.
- Top Five Reasons Indie Filmmakers Make it In Hollywood.

If you wish to spread your risk, all of our other Lift-Off Film Festivals are listed on Festhome. All of them are at different stages of deadlines, so prices will vary, please take your pick and follow the links provided below…

Liverpool
Tokyo
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Amsterdam
London
Vancouver
Sydney
Singapore

Awards & Prizes

❀ Beautiful jaded glass statuettes awarded on our winners night for best narrative live action and best documentary.

❀ Join Our Global Network. Official Selections at all proceeding Lift-Off International Film Festivals.

❀ Professional Exposure. Introduction to a global production studio looking for fresh talent. (see http://www.lift-off-festival.com/lift-off-film-festival-production-company-great-guns)

❀ On-Demand* LifeTime Royalties. Inclusion on 'Lift-Off's Best of Season' On-Demand Initiative.

❀ PR Representation for the months that follow. (see http://www.lift-off-festival.com/lift-off-filmmakers-in-the-press)

Overall winners from the audience choice awards platform have their work screened at all of the proceeding Lift-Off Film Festivals.

❀ Best Narrative.
❀ Best Documentary.
❀ Script winners have their work put for for the Lift-Off Season Awards Show, where we will be presenting trophies for the best work.

Lift-Off announces unique link up with global production company Great Guns...

Lift-Off Filmmakers will have their work seen by one of the worlds most exciting and trail-blazing commercial production houses out there. GreatGuns has a carefully selected roster of director's work from around the world on a variety of platforms, from web content to global campaigns. Their search for new talent has brought them to the impeccable shores of our Filmmaker Network - where they hope to find fresh talent to add to their increasing roster of artistically driven directors.

Lift-Off is proud to announce our partnership with global production company Great Guns. They have a carefully selected roster of directors from around the world on a variety of platforms, and are renowned for their collaborative nature and ethos of original thinking. Complementing the core established roster at Great Guns, the company are also known for showcasing new talent in areas such as commercials, music videos and, of course, short film.

Collectively they have worked with most of the worlds biggest brands including the likes of Nike, Pepsi and Amazon; and media channels including BBC, Channel 4 and the CW. Notable works from their directors include the recent Band Aid 30 campaign, acclaimed music videos for Alt-J's 'Breezeblocks' and Biting Elbow's 'Bad Motherfucker', and the short films of directors such as Calum MacDiarmid and Stuart Gillies. With offices in over ten destinations internationally, Great Guns are a perfect match for the growing global reach of the Lift-Off International Film Festival network.

Giving our filmmakers real opportunities to build their careers!

*Lift-Off On-Demand is also taking separate submissions for their end of year compilation see here for details: www.festhome.com

Rules & Terms

We accept all films and scripts in any length or genre. Submissions are accepted on DVD, paper and secure-online screeners. Please label all work clearly with your name, contact information, exhibition format and running time. The festival cannot be held accountable for faulty or uncued preview DVD's.

Final programming decisions will be made by the screening committee in shortly after the final decision deadline. All entrants will be notified via Festhome.com.

If selected, an .mov or a data DVD is to be supplied with the film for screening.

* Hong Kong Lift-Off will be an English speaking festival, where we request that local work is to be subtitled into English.