A core event of the Entertainment Expo Hong Kong, the HAF is Asia's premier project market designed to connect Asian filmmakers with upcoming film projects with internationally prominent film financiers, producers, bankers, distributors, buyers, and funders for co-production ventures. The HAF is the ideal venue for discovering and investing in emerging Asian talent, and for first-look opportunities of their latest projects. Past participants have included Chinese mainland's Jia Jiang-Ke, Jiang Wen, Li Yang and Ning Hao, Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Gordon Chan, Pang Ho-Cheung, Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang, Japan's SABU, Nakata Hideo, Otani Kentaro, Kore-Eda Hirokazu, Miike Takashi and Yukisada Isao, Korea's Kim Jee-woon, Park Chan-wook, E J-Yong and IM Sang- Soo as well as Thailand's Yongyoot Tjonhkongtoon, Nonzee Nimibutr and Pen-ek Ratanaruang.

The HAF is supported by international partners that include CineMart, Hong Kong Film Awards, Paris Cinema, Asian Project Market, and Network of Asian Fantasic Films. Many of the completed projects have gone on to screen at the world's most prestigious film festivals, among them Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Locarno, Deauville, and Pusan.

Beginning in 2007, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society organized the inaugural Asian Film Awards (AFA) as the opening event of the highly successful Entertainment Expo Hong Kong which combines Hong Kong's leading film and entertainment events under one roof. Filmmakers, investors and stars from Asia and around the world come to Hong Kong to witness significant film industry events, adding to the appeal of the HAF.

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