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Hong Kong’s Haf adds 15 Wip projects ahead of first in-person edition since 2019.

The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has announced 15 work-in-progress projects, completing the full line-up of the 21st Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF21).

A total of 43 projects will be presented at Haf, including 28 in-development projects announced last month, which is set to run from March 13-15 alongside the 27th Hong Kong Film & TV Market (Filmart). It will mark the first in-person edition for both events since pre-Covid 2019.

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Emerging and established actors who lead the cast of the 15 Wip projects include Fish Liew,...

Well Go USA is releasing Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale in both a domestic version (150 minutes) and an international version (270 minutes) on Blu-ray and DVD August 7. We're giving away this Blu-ray to our readers in celebration of director Te-Sheng Wei historically accurate action adventure. Read below on how you can take home this epic film about the small Taiwanese tribe that waged war against Japanese colonialists.

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Te-Sheng Wei's epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th century history which is little-known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was...

Trailer, poster and images from Warriors of the Rainbow (Sàidékè balái) arrive. Well Go USA's action drama finds theaters on April 27th, under the helm of scribe Wei Te-Sheng (Cape No. 7). Starring are Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, Ando Masanobu, Kawahara Sabu, Vivian Su and Da Ching. The film reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history, which is little known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. It was to begin at a sports day meeting where the assembled tribesmen were to attach and kill the Japanese officials...

Trailer, poster and images from Warriors of the Rainbow (Sàidékè balái) arrive. Well Go USA's action drama finds theaters on April 27th, under the helm of scribe Wei Te-Sheng (Cape No. 7). Starring are Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, Ando Masanobu, Kawahara Sabu, Vivian Su and Da Ching. The film reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history, which is little known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. It was to begin at a sports day meeting where the assembled tribesmen were to attach and kill the Japanese officials...