Past Events


“HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” Local Short Film Highlights and Seminar on Pitching Strategies for Film Festivals and Markets

Production fund raising and project collaboration seeking may be a few of vital challenges that most young filmmakers struggle with. “HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” hereby invited filmmakers and professionals to share in the seminar their experiences on pitching strategies and further network expansion at international festivals and markets. By sharing individual foresights to industry fellows, the seminar brought together young filmmakers and professionals in the industries to examine potential addresses for filmmakers’ further development and creation.

Screenings on local-awarded short film titles were held along with the seminar. Over 20 local short films that had been exposed to various festivals overseas were brought back to offer the audience special online film screenings. Directors also shared their experience and inspiration gained from the overseas festivals at the after-screening discussions.

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FILMART Online 2020 Screening: “NEW ACTION EXPRESS” Short Film Highlights



“HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” (NAE) spares no effort in promoting excellent Hong Kong short films locally and abroad. To raise the profile of Hong Kong short films, this year NAE continues to engage in the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART), which attracts around 9,000 buyers annually in recent years and has been recongnised as one of the largest film industry events in Asia.

The 24th edition of FILMART will run virtually 26-29 August 2020 as “FILMART Online”. Eight Hong Kong short films awarded in overseas film festivals, where local filmmakers’ attendances were supported by NAE, will be showcased on the platform to massive amount of film industry practitioners from across the globe twenty-four seven during the event period.

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Macao Films Panorama 2020

Every year, “Macao Films Panorama” invites curators from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to recommend excellent films to screen at the festival.

A series of outstanding local animations, which had been screened under the sponsorship of “HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” (NAE), were showcased to Macao audience Macao at Macao Films Panorama 2020 through the recommendation of ifva, Hong Kong Arts Centre

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“HONG KONG SHORT FILM: New Action Express” Online Short Film Selection: And Here Comes the Dawn



Living together in the same city, there are people walking to work or returning home from dusk till dawn, trying hard to make ends meet. Passing by numerous or breadwinners closely every day, their stories remain unknown to any of us.

HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS: And Here Comes the Dawn will be held online late-night and in the afternoon this weekend, featuring 5 local short films. The 5 shorts illustrate various ways of living in our city. People depicted may be ordinary, yet they strive to make a living in the city, just like you and me.

As summer nights go by so very slow, let’s get your laptops ready, and take a walk into their life stories. When the journey ends, here comes the dawn.

Ticketing and screening procedures:
1. Register on HKAC website
2. Confirmation emails will be sent out a day before the screening
3. The link and password to view the short films will be sent via email, 30 minutes before the screening time
4. The link and password will only be valid for 3 hours from the screening time

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“HONG KONG SHORT FILM: New Action Express” Online Short Film Selection: Wish You Are Well



As the pandemic continues to evolve, countries around the globe are implementing social distancing and isolation measures to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. While with this extra time spending at home, are you and your family, relatives, friends getting closer or drifting apart?

Hong Kong Arts Centre is bringing you two online screening programmes this long weekend. 5 local shorts that had been invited to overseas festivals will be showcased, presenting you five stories of intimate and alienated relationships.

Ticketing and screening procedures:
1. Register on HKAC website
2. Confirmation emails will be sent out a day before the screening
3. The link and password to view the short films will be sent via email, 30 minutes before the screening time
4. The link and password will only be valid for 2 hours from the screening time

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Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market 2020



HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) has been relentlessly participating in international film markets, in a bid to foster the connections and re-warding exchanges between Hong Kong creative talent and overseas distributors, broadcasters, festival organisers and sales agents. Succeeding the positive feedbacks gained from its previous participation, NAE returns its fourth time to the biggest short film festival in Europe this year – Clermont-Ferrand Interna-tional Short Film Festival and Market.

The four-day Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Market (Short Film Market), will take place be-tween 3 and 6 February 2020 at Gymnase Jean & Honoré Fleury of Clermont-Ferrand, France. Aside from setting up a promotional booth at the Short Film Market, two market screenings will also be organised on 4-6 February to showcase 10 awarded Hong Kong original short films and animations, each rich in local cultural context while deals with universal and socially understandable themes, to overseas audience. NAE takes the participation of the Short Film Market as a platform to proactively introduce and promote outstanding Hong Kong original shorts and animations in international arena, while at the same time coordinates commercial meet up with overseas film practitioners and press for the attending Hong Kong creative talent in search of overseas collaboration and development opportunities.

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HKAC x HKBU: HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS – Animation Highlights



With the students returning to school, HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) collaborated with Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University and presented eight animated shorts, which were screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market 2019, to their students majoring in Film, Television and New Media during the Activity Week. The directors were also invited to share their experience in filmmaking with the up-and-coming young creative talents in the film industry in the post-screening Q&A session.

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Inflight Screening Programme: NAE x Cathay Pacific Airways & Hong Kong Dragon Airlines

In September 2020, “HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” (NAE) again collaborated with Cathay Pacific Airways and Hong Kong Dragon Airlines to present a series of exceptional local short films which were showcased in overseas film festival under the sponsorship of NAE on both short-haul and long-haul flights, spicing up international passengers’ flights with stories that depict family, growth and dream pursuing.

Screening period: from 1 September 2019 to 29 February 2020

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JCCAC Summer Films: HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Highlights



This summer, Jockey Club Black Box Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC) will bring you a fascinating array of independent films, not only from local creative powers, but also up-and-coming film directors and young talents around the world.

A series of documentary shorts and animations selected from “HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” will be presented. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the movie! To encourage creative interaction, post-screening talks and meet the director sessions will be arranged on all screenings.

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Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market 2019

Striving its best in promoting local animation works and bringing in new insights into local animation market, HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) NAE, a scheme launched by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and sponsored by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is participating in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market 2019! Seeing the significant growth in the production of animated works in Hong Kong in recent years, support in screening and distribution of these works become utterly crucial in propelling the development of local animation landscape. By participating in one of the major animated film festivals in Europe, NAE aims at proactively bridging the connections of local animators and their works with overseas potential buyers and distributors while continuously presenting local animations to the world at the same time.

The Short Film Market will take place from 11 June to 14 June at Impérial Palace in Annecy, France. Along with a promotional booth at the market, a market screening will be arranged on 12 June to showcase 8 incredible awarded animated works created by Hong Kong animators to overseas audience. Through the subsidy under NAE, directors will attend the festival, and reach out to international professionals in search of potential collaborations in the overseas market.


Hong Kong Short Film: New Action Express – Animation Highlights

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FILMART 2019: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights

To boost the profile of Hong Kong short films through the international distributor/festival/filmmaker community, a booth will be set up at the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART) 2019, which reached out around 8,000 buyers and exhibitors each year, from 18 March to 21 March 2019.

This year, eight outstanding titles having been sponsored by CreateHK under NAE to participate in international film festivals or are now again have an opportunity to be presented to distributors, broadcasters, festival organisers and sales agents from around the world. These stories about people from different walks of life telling in incredible film languages will definitely touch the audiences’ heart.


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24th ifva Festival: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights

HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) aims at broadening the horizons of Hong Kong creative talent and helping them gain exposure abroad. Six award-winning titles, having been screened at various festivals in Europe and America, are brought back to local platform for us to revisit the stories that we take pride in.

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FUTURE: Seeing the Unseen Film Festival 2018

Seeing the Unseen Film Festival selects a number of exceptional short films from Hong Kong and Macau every edition. To match up with the theme of 2018 edition – “FUTURE”, Hong Kong Arts Centre cherry-picked an award-winning short that has been sponsored by CreateHK under NAE and brought it to audience in Taiwan.

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Inflight Screening Programme: NAE x Cathay Pacific Airways & Hong Kong Dragon Airlines

By the end of 2018, HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) has expanded the broadcast platform to inflight entertainment programme of airlines. Collaborating with Cathay Pacific Airways and Hong Kong Dragon Airlines, NAE brought to international passengers of the two airlines from all over the world, regardless of short-haul or long-haul, flights of fancy and imagination through a series of local award-winning short films all constructed by local filmmakers in the skies.

Screening period: from 1 December 2018 to 30 June 2019

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Community Screening: “Where is Our Sea?” – A Rhapsody of the Isle

The work having been sponsored by CreateHK under NAE to participate in overseas film festivals for multiple times was brought back to the community again. During this screening, the audience had an enjoyable evening seeing films about “sea” in the autumn breeze.

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Outdoor Screening: Hong Kong New Generation Video

In recent years, Hong Kong short films and animations have made a name for themselves in different places around the world – not only frequently featured at overseas film festivals, but also won multiple awards in various international competitions. For two consecutive nights, Comix Home Base showed a series of award-winning works by emerging local talents. The “NEW ACTION EXPRESS” Short Film Highlight featured four pieces that were selected for overseas film festivals. In addition, there was a post-screening sharing session, in which the filmmakers shared their experiences of taking their Hong Kong stories to the international stage. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Animation Showcase brought to the audience an array of unique local animations that are well-acclaimed in the world.

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23rd ifva Festival: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights

Five award-winning titles being screened at 2018 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market with the sponsorship from CreateHK under NAE were brought back to local platform. At the 23rd ifva Festival, audience revisited stories that have brought pride to Hong Kong.

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2018 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market

Succeeding positive feedbacks from previous participation, NAE returned to the biggest short film festival in Europe – the 2018 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Market (“Short Film Market”). NAE relentlessly participate in international film markets, in a bid to foster connections with overseas distributors, broadcasters, festival organisers and sales agents, and further on to present original works from Hong Kong in international markets.

The Short Film Market took place between 5 and 8 February 2018 in the Culture Centre of Clermont-Ferrand, France. Aside from setting up a promotional booth at the market, NAE organised two market screenings on 6 February to showcase 11 awarded short films and animations to overseas audiences, each rich in local cultural context but deals with universal and socially understandable themes. NAE took the participation of the Festival to proactively introduce and promote outstanding local shorts and animations, at the same time coordinate commercial meet up with overseas film practitioners and press in search of overseas collaboration and development opportunities.

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Movie11 Premiere: Movie x Urban Sentiments

Riding on the theme of “Urban Images”, Hong Kong Arts Centre collaborated with Movie 11 and specially selected four local short films which have been supported by NAE to explore the interrelationship between Hong Kong independent movies and society development. The audience was first taken on a one-hour movie journey and experienced the unique urban sentiments of four city dwellers, followed by a 30-minute movie seminar hosted by experienced movie producers aiming to share the aesthetics of Hong Kong’s movies and their roles in shaping the city.

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34th Busan International Short Film Festival

At the 34th Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF), NAE proudly introduced a selection of the awarded Hong Kong female filmmakers’ short films, which honestly depict individuals, families and the society, overseas. With the support of NAE, the filmmakers took the opportunity to introduce their works to overseas audiences and attend screenings and various meetings with other festival curators, filmmakers, film investors and press at the Festival. While enjoying the shorts at the festival, audiences from all over the world were bound to be moved by the muted monologue in Disabled Novel, the ambiguous relationship in This Pair, the silent protest against rules and restrictions presented in The Empty Body as well as the issue of urban re-development came across in The Life and Times of Ho Chung Village and Disappearing in Central.

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22nd ifva Festival: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights

Four award-winning local titles, being sponsored by CreateHK under NAE, participated in different international film festivals this year. They were brought back to the local platform for their first free screening at the 22nd ifva Festival. The audience had an enjoyable evening by getting a taste of suspense, tenderness, emptiness, fantasy and excitements from the four brilliant works.

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ifva Carnival: “NEW ACTION EXPRESS” Short Film Highlights

We all have unexpected encounters, or unexpected experiences brought by encounters. Five short films about different encounters, five different stories about the unexpected: Through The Looking Glass (Hung Tsz-ching Michelle), ALOHA (Chan Siu-kuen Oliver), MOKSHA (Kwok Hon-fan Jeff), See You Once Again (Jane Leung) and Goldberg Variations (Jolyon Cheung). The creators of these five titles have all received subsidy from HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) to bring their works overseas for film festivals. The NAE is organised by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and sponsored by Create Hong Kong of the HKSAR Government.

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HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Films @ Viddsee

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HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) has been striving its best to promote Hong Kong short films through participation in international film festivals. In recent years, there has been an apparent increase in the number of awarded student short films under the NAE. To celebrate these blossoms and enable more students to showcase their shorts, the NAE continues the collaboration with Viddsee by co-presenting a new channel, the NAE x Viddsee Student Film Fest.! The first edition of the festival starts in July 2016. New student shorts of different genres are bought to this channel quarterly for the public to view.

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The 21st ifva Festival: "NEW ACTION EXPRESS" Short Film Highlight Programmes

Twelve award-winning local titles are sponsored by CreateHK under the NAE to participate in the 2016 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market in France this year. Six of them will be brought back to local platform for their first free screening in the 21st ifva Festival. You will definitely enjoy the show with a taste of creative touch in making tales built up of suspense, tenderness, emptiness, fantasy and excitements.

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2016 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market

This year, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market will take place for five days between 8 and 12 February 2016 at Clermont-Ferrand, France. Setting up a booth at the Market and organizing two market screenings on 9 February and 11 February to showcase 12 awarded Hong Kong short films to overseas audiences, NAE will continue to proactively introduce and promote outstanding local short films and animations. This time, under the sponsorship of NAE, 10 filmmakers are going to attend the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market. During their stay in France, the filmmakers will take the opportunity to introduce their works to overseas audiences and attend screenings at the Festival and various meetings with other festival curators, filmmakers, film investors and press.

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“NEW ACTION EXPRESS” Press Conference cum Screening

To celebrate the fourth edition of the HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE), and to enhance media and the trade’s understanding of the NAE, the “NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights” press conference cum screening was successfully concluded on 25th November, 2015 at agnes b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre. The Guests included the directors of three selected awarded shorts, namely Wong Chun of Good Take, Wong Chin-yan Doris of Journey and Wong Yee-lam Norris of From Here to There. All these three directors have been subsidised by NAE to participate in film festivals.

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HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Films @ Viddsee

HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS is bringing 10 short films which were officially selected in Film Festivals in Asia to Viddsee, a Singaporean online short film channel. 

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20th ifva Festival : NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights

Fifteen award-winning local titles were sponsored by CreateHK under the NAE to participate in the 2015 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market in France and received overwhelming response at the screenings. Eight of them are now brought back to local platform for their first screening in the 20th ifva Festival. You will definitely enjoy the show with a taste of creative touch in making tales built up of suspense, tenderness, emptiness, fantasy and excitements.

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2015 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market

NAE for the first time participated in the biggest short film festival in Europe – the 2015 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market. By setting up booth at the Market and organising market screenings for awarded Hong Kong short films, the NAE organiser aims to facilitate the local short film sector in proactively participating in international film markets, with a view to building connections with distributors, broadcasters, festival organisers and sales agents from around the world, exploring new markets for Hong Kong short films, and bringing commercial benefits to local short film and animation filmmakers.

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HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Films @ “World of Microfilms” UOne Channel, UTV

From 4 Oct 2014 8pm, UOne Channel (UTV 521) of UTV will commence broadcasting shorts from HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS. 23 shorts film will be broadcast in 15 episodes with director’s interview in consecutive Saturday nights.

UTV is the Mobile TV service of China Mobile Hong Kong’s (CMHK) cross-network entertainment platform. UTV is not limited to CMHK subscribers only but available to all users in Hong Kong. Once users downloaded UTV app, users could watch UTV channel programs via various handsets and devices including iPad/iPhone, Android handsets, tablets, and even Smart TV via WiFi and mobile networks.

UOne is UTV’s flagship free channel which provides a wide variety of programs including entertainment news, music videos, food, travel, and horse racing live broadcast. At the same time, it strives to serve as a “Creative Platform”. 

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Art @ Lunch: "NEW ACTION EXPRESS" Short Film Highlights

(Free admission)

Date: 17/04/2014
Time:  1 pm
Venue: agnès b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Duration: 44 mins

Art@Lunch is a programme emphasising community engagement, cultural exchange and diversity, offering an alternative way of art appreciation to the hustling Wanchai neighbourhood as well as those who live and work in nearby district areas during lunchtime. Short films are selected and shown on every third Thursday from March to August 2014.

HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS (NAE) is a scheme aiming to promote excellent Hong Kong short films and videos locally and abroad, by sponsoring local talents to attend international film festivals and first-class cultural events. They will be introduced to global audiences and to engage in rewarding exchanges. Four titles, including drama, documentary and animation, were officially selected in Hannover up-and-coming International Film Festival in November 2013. The Festival targets at providing a platform for young potential creative talents. These four titles will be brought to Hong Kong this April. It will be an opportunity to watch the outstanding work from local young filmmakers.

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The 19th ifva Festival: "NEW ACTION EXPRESS" Short Film Highlight Programmes

(Free admission, with after-screening discussion)

Date: 14 & 18 March 2014
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Venue: agnès b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Eight short films selected/awarded in international film festivals are brought back to local premier festival – 19th ifva Festival. In the 2 free screening programmes, audience can enjoy a total of 8 outstanding titles, as well as participate in the after-screening discussion with directors, who are invited to share their festival visit experience and learnings.

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"NEW ACTION EXPRESS" Networking Event and Seminar on Festival Participation

(Free Adission)

Date:  18 November 2012
Venue:  agnès b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Conducted in Cantonese, Free Admission

Shortage of resources is not the only obstacle most local independent short film filmmakers face, one of the keys to their success is to engage in international film festivals and to do effective networking with professionals alike – the question is, how? Rather than walking in the mist alone, why not join us in this programme to equip yourselves with information and strategies in planning for festival participation and to meet the like-minded in our creative community?

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