“We are not making a fetish of the past,” says Roger Garcia, executive director of the Hong Kong Intl Film Festival Society, and one of the co-founders of the fest 40 years ago.The festival runs March 21 – April 4.
Yet there is notable pride in Garcia’s voice when he is able to announce a Retrospective of films by Jet Tone Films, the production company founded and operated by the iconic Wong Kar-wai, pictured,which is 25 this year. “It is good to celebrate such a Hong Kong filmmaker in our 40th year,” says Garcia.