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In time for the Hong Kong premiere of Like a Dream (2009), Clara Law completed a short film, Red Earth (2010), financed by the Hong Kong Film Festival Society, as a companion to the feature. The chapter uses Red Earth to explore the various ways Chinese film festivals pair up with established auteurs to produce shorts, circulate them in various international festivals, exhibit them online, and exploit them for publicity. It concludes by using this case to expand the definition of “festival film” to include films financed by film festivals primarily for circulation within that environment, using that definition to look at Chinese filmmakers’ contribution to the evolution and translation of this type of “festival film” production.
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Marchetti, G. (2017). Clara Law’s Red Earth: The Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Cultural Politics of the Sponsored Short. In: Berry, C., Robinson, L. (eds) Chinese Film Festivals. Framing Film Festivals. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55016-3_13
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