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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition World Hong Kong kicks off film fest with China focus AFP - Saturday, October 23 Send IM Story Print HONG KONG (AFP) - – Hong Kong's independent film festival kicks off Friday with a line-up that reflects the ever-changing landscape of China's booming cinema industry, on track to become the world's second biggest box-office earner in five years. The seventh annual Hong Kong Asian Film Festival features more than 60 independently-made films from across Asia, but this year it will shine a spotlight on the work of Chinese directors, organisers said. "Mainland Chinese films are the focus of this year's festival," festival director Gary Mak told AFP. "Previously, films from China were either extremely arty or big blockbusters but the industry is maturing. Now we are seeing much more diversity, as directors both new and established start to explore new genres." The festival, which runs to November 8, will show a range of Chinese films, from first-time director Zhang Meng's "The Piano in the Factory" and Wu Ershan's offbeat kung fu comedy "The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman" to a festival favourite, the Shanghai documentary "I Wish I Knew" by award-winning director Jia Zhangke. This year's opening screening also includes two local Hong Kong films -- violent mystery-drama "Revenge: A Love Story" by Wong Ching Po and romance "Lover's Discourse" by first-time directors Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan, which premiered at the Pusan International Film Festival earlier this month. Also set to show is acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou's latest love story "Under the Hawthorn Tree", which will close the festival. Zhang, nominated three times for an Oscar for best foreign film, is also known for directing the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing and for blockbusters such as "Hero" and the "House of Flying Daggers". For Tsang -- the son of well-known Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang -- the future success of the city's film industry depends largely on whether it can become a major player in the mainland Chinese market. "Right now every filmmaker wants to tap into the Chinese market. For Hong Kong filmmakers, China represents an amazing opportunity, as it's a huge market, right in our back yard," he said. The director said he can shoot independent films in Hong Kong -- a former British colony returned to China in 1997 -- while making bigger commercial films in mainland China. "I am lucky to have the best of both," said Tsang, who is currently in Beijing working on his second feature, "Lecuna". The festival's China-focused offering comes as the number of cinemas in China mushroom -- on average about one new screen opens every day, according to the government-run China Film Group. Chinese box office receipts are expected to break the 1.5-billion-US-dollar mark this year -- up from 909 million dollars last year and about 150 million dollars in 2003. The China Film Producers Association estimates that the country's movie market will become the world's second-largest by 2015, earning up to six billion dollars in annual box office revenues. The Hong Kong festival will also screen titles from Japan, Korea, India, Taiwan and Thailand, including Bangkok-based director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's supernatural drama "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", which won the top Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes film festival. Renowned Taiwan cinematographer Mark Lee -- best known for his collaborations with award-winning Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai -- is the subject of a tribute documentary, "Let The Wind Carry Me", with screenings of his signature works. In 2006, Wong became the first Chinese director to sit on the jury panel at Cannes, where he had previously picked up a best director prize. The festival will also pay tribute to the Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon, who died in August. It will screen four of his best-known works, including "Paprika", which is said to have influenced Christopher Nolan's 2010 thriller "Inception", starring Leonardo DiCaprio. 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