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Johnnie To Giveaway!

We are giving away two tickets for the Johnnie To classic “Breaking News”, which will take place 14 July 2022, 8:30 pm BST, at The Prince Charles Cinema in London, as part of the director’s retrospective.

All you have to do is subscribe to our YouTube Channel and leave a comment with your name in this video. The competition will run until June 10th.

Presented jointly by UK-China Film Collab and Trinity CineAsia, this programme provides a wider context of the societal changes in Hong Kong in recent decades. It wishes to inspire a new scope for ideas and discussion. Curated by Riley Wong, MA Film Curating student at Birkbeck University of London, who wishes to bring more Hong Kong auteurs to the UK audiences and provides them a better understanding of Hong Kong cinema 

During the mid-90s, by facing the depression of Hong Kong cinema, To decided to establish his own production studio, Milkyway Image, with his colleague Wai Ka Fai back in the time of working in television. Milkyway Image employs a unique business strategy among Hong Kong film production companies and produces both experimental and commercial films. The selected films in this programme are also productions of Milkyway Image

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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