A proposed new law that will inject national security elements into Hong Kong’s censorship system has the city’s filmmakers worried. The law allows government officials retrospective power to change previously-issued exhibition approvals and provides for three year jail terms in case of breach.
“We are very worried,” Tenky Tin, chair of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers’ executive committee, told Variety. “Our greatest concern is whether we would be breaking the law.”
“The trade has a lot of questions. We have had meetings with officials, mainly to ask them what’s allowed and what’s not…. But the government hasn’t been able to give any concrete answer,” Mabel Cheung, a prominent director and producer of the quintessential Hong Kong feel-good movie “Echoes of the Rainbow,” told broadcaster Rthk on Wednesday.
Cheung also expressed worries over the proposal that filmmakers have no appeal mechanism if the censors invoke national security objections.
“We are very worried,” Tenky Tin, chair of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers’ executive committee, told Variety. “Our greatest concern is whether we would be breaking the law.”
“The trade has a lot of questions. We have had meetings with officials, mainly to ask them what’s allowed and what’s not…. But the government hasn’t been able to give any concrete answer,” Mabel Cheung, a prominent director and producer of the quintessential Hong Kong feel-good movie “Echoes of the Rainbow,” told broadcaster Rthk on Wednesday.
Cheung also expressed worries over the proposal that filmmakers have no appeal mechanism if the censors invoke national security objections.
- 8/25/2021
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
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