HALF TEASPOON WIN A GRAND PRIZE IN HONGKONG INDEPENDENT FILM VIDEO AWARD 2008

Taken from www.filmfestivalworld.com

Hurray, creative talents! More than 20 local and Asian directors have just received prizes from the 13th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva) and are prepared to radiate their creative energies in the city and around the world.

The ifva is the most active promoter of creative media in Hong Kong and Asia.

From this year’s ifva award-winning works, one can see the diversity of styles and possibilities of “Moving the Images.” “Merry X’mas” by the Open Category Gold award winner AU Man-kit Jevons, as the jury Elaine Chow said, “is genuine and rather touching” showing the ordeal of poverty on a little girl. “A very direct way of letting viewers feel the problems of the blind and the response they elicit” as commented by the jury Chan Pik-yu.

“Voice in the Darkness” by Lee Ka-wai and Lau Chui-ting, Gold award winners of the Youth Category, brings the audience to the darkness through lens.

Leong Suet-yan Cherry reveals her great potential in joining the rapid-growing local animation field with her Gold-awarded work “The Hole” using paper-cutting techniques with a “delightful surprise” (commented by the jury Lo Che-ying Neco).

Isfansyah Ifa from Indonesia impresses the jury of the Asian New Force Category with his highly stylized work “Half Teaspoon.”

Suwichakornpong Anocha from Thailand plays around with the real and the fabricated real with respects to the ontology of filmmaking in his work “Jai.”

The full list of Awards include:

Single-Screen-Based Interactive Media Category-
Gold Award: "With hold"

Silver Award: "Alliance"
Director: kWONG Wing-fat

and "Rubbing Tool"
Director: KWOK Yu-ho, CHAN Wai-yu

Special Mention: "Pixsonic Playground"
Director: CHEUNG Hon-him, LAM Chi-fai, Jason

Animation Category-

Gold Award: "The Hole"
Director: LEONG Suet-yan, Cherry

Silver Award: "Link"
Director: CHUI Chun-yu, CHAN Wai-yee

Special Mention
The Red Buds
Director: LEUNG Man-ki

and "Wisdom Tree"
Director: HO Man-kit, TSUI Ka-hei, TSUI Ka-long, CHAN Siu-chung

Open Category-
Gold Award: "Merry X’mas"
Director: AU Man-kit, Jevons

Silver Award: Wong Tsz Ching in "Search for Wong Tsz Ching"
Director: WONG Tsz-ching

and The Young Dream
Director: CHOW Tze-chun, LAI On-ching

Special Mention: "Variable"
Director: WONG Wai-kit

Youth Category-

Gold Award: "Voice in the Darkness"
Director: LEE Ka-wai, LAU Chui-ting

Silver Award: "Family"
Director: HONG Chun-wai, LAM Chi-Kin, CHAN Fu-lim, TANG Ho-man

Special Mention: "GameLive"
Director: FONG Ching-kui

and "Lost View"
Director: CHAN Kai-lun, CHAN Shun-wa

"Deliverance"
Director: KWAN Tsz-wai, Alan

Asian New Force Category-

Grand Prize: "Half Teaspoon"
Director: ISFANSYAH Ifa

"Jia"
Director: SUWICHAKORNPONG Anocha

Special Mention: "Bare"
Director: Santana ISSAR

The Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva), hosted annually by the Hong Kong Arts Centre, has been actively promoting innovative creative media since 1995. In addition to supporting short film, video, and interactive media, ifva also organizes pre- and post-award activities to enhance public awareness of creative media and encourage media interaction. Committed to developing local indie talent, ifva seeks to break new ground and push the boundaries of innovation and creativity.