First Feature Film Initiative
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The First Feature Film Initiative (Chinese: 首部劇情電影計劃; FFFI) is a scheme of the Hong Kong government, organised by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau and supported by the Film Development Council, to nurture talents for the film industry. It is a competition on screenplay and production proposals, and the winning teams receive funding from the Film Development Fund to make their first feature films.
The competition is divided into Higher Education Institutions Group (HEIG) and Professional Group (PG), the former recommended by higher education institutions or member institutions of the Vocational Training Council[Note 1] and the latter without quota. Each group awards up to three winners; prior to 2020, HEIG awarded up to two winners and PG at most one. For a team to be eligible, the directors must not have shot any commercial film with a running time of 80 minutes or longer as a director, co-director or executive director; the producers must have participated in the production of at least two films publicly exhibited in Hong Kong in the past 20 years in the capacity of a presenter or producer.
Inaugurated in 2013, the initiative has awarded 18 films as of 2020[update] and ten have been released publicly.
Funding
[edit]The winning teams receive full funding from the Film Development Fund in the production of their films. The amounts of the funding are as follows:
| Awards | HEIG | PG |
|---|---|---|
| 1st (2013) | 2 million | 5 million |
| 2nd - 5th (2016-2019) | 3.25 million | 5.5 million |
| 6th (2020- ) | 5 million | 8 million |
Winners
[edit]| Awards | Group | English Title | Chinese Title | Director | Release Date | Box office (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st (2013) | PG | Opus 1[Title 1][1] | 藍天白雲 | Cheung King-wai | 18 January 2018 | 771,424 [2] |
| HEIG | Mad World[3] | 一念無明 | Wong Chun | 30 March 2017 | 16,923,985 [4] | |
| Weeds on Fire[5] | 點五步 | Steve Chan Chi-fat | 25 August 2016 | 4,678,142 [6] | ||
| 2nd (2016) | PG | Love@The Square[Title 2][7] | 戀@廣埸[Title 3] | Chan Chit-man | 11 January 2021[Release 1] | |
| HEIG | In Your Dream[Title 4][8] | 以青春的名義愛你 [Title 5] | Tam Wai-ching | 11 January 2018 | 475,274 [6] | |
| 3rd (2017) | PG | G Affairs[9] | G殺 | Lee Cheuk-pan | 14 March 2019 | |
| HEIG | Still Human[10] | 淪落人 | Oliver Siu-kuen Chan | 11 April 2019 | 19,811,169 [11] | |
| 4th (2018) | PG | Elisa's Day[12] | 滄海遺愛[Title 6] | Alan Fung | 10 June 2021 | |
| HEIG | Hand-rolled Cigarette[13] | 手捲煙 | Kelvin Chan Kin-long | 17 June 2021 | ||
| My Prince Edward[14] | 金都 | Norris Wong | 11 June 2020 | |||
| 5th (2019) | PG | A Light Never Goes Out[15] | 燈火闌珊 | Anastasia Tsang Hin-Ling | In production | |
| HEIG | Time Still Turns the Pages[16] | 年少日記 | Nick Cheuk | In production | ||
| The Dinner[17] | 過時·過節[Title 7] | Eric Tsang Hing-wen | 24 November 2022 | |||
| 6th (2020) | PG | Love Lies[18] | 我談的那場戀愛 | Ho Miu-kei | ||
| Foster Love[19] | 流水落花 | Ka Sing-fung | 1 March 2023 | |||
| HEIG | Fly Me to the Moon[20] | 但願人長久 | Sasha Chuk | |||
| Blossoms Under Somewhere[21] | 寄了一整個春天 | Riley Yip | ||||
| Gamer Girls[22] | 電競女孩聯盟 | Veronica Bassetto | ||||
| Sophie Yang |
- ^ Hong Kong Independent Film Festival
Notes
[edit]- ^ Each of the following institutions can recommend two teams: The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong, the Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee), Hong Kong Design Institute, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Chu Hai College of Higher Education. The Savannah College of Art and Design (Hong Kong) was eligible for recommending teams until the 6th award.
References
[edit]- ^ 1st FFFI Winners: Somewhere Beyond the Mist
- ^ "香港電影業資料彙編2018" (PDF) (in Chinese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ 1st FFFI Winners
- ^ "香港電影業資料彙編2017" (PDF) (in Chinese).
- ^ The 1st First Feature Film Initiative Winners: Weeds on Fire
- ^ a b "香港電影業資料彙編2016" (PDF) (in Chinese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ 2nd FFFI Winners: Apart
- ^ 2nd FFFI Winners: In Your Dreams
- ^ 3rd FFFI Winners: G Affairs
- ^ "3rd FFFI Winners: Still Human". Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ 2019 年香港電影市道整體情況
- ^ 4th FFFI Winners: Elisa's Day
- ^ 4th FFFI Winners: Hand-rolled Cigarette
- ^ 4th FFFI Winners: My Prince Edward
- ^ 5th FFFI Winners: A Light Never Goes Out
- ^ 5th FFFI Winners: Time Still Turns the Pages
- ^ 5th FFFI Winners: The Dinner
- ^ 6th FFFI Winners: Love Lies
- ^ 6th FFFI Winners: Foster Love
- ^ 6th FFFI Winners: Fly Me to the Moon
- ^ 6th FFFI Winners: Blossoms Under Somewhere
- ^ 6th FFFI Winners: Gamer Girls