Hong Kong authorities should offer more incentives to attract foreign filmmakers to shoot in the city and create more job opportunities for the local industry, the incumbent lawmaker of the sector seeking another term has said.
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Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, who represents the sports, performing arts, culture and publication sector in the legislature, on Monday also called on the government task force that helps mainland Chinese enterprises go abroad to help local performing arts groups
Fok made the appeal at an election forum, in which he faced off against Lo Kwong-ping, deputy editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong China News Agency, for the functional constituency seat to be returned by sector-based voters.
“The biggest issue the local film industry faces today is that there is no job for them,” Fok said, when asked for suggestions to help the local film industry expand overseas and into mainland markets.
“I suggest that the government offers more incentives to draw large international productions to shoot in Hong Kong,” he added.
The government could craft policies to provide funds or offer locations for free so these foreign productions could hire locals, he explained. Supporting such projects would also help showcase the city’s “beautiful scenery” to the world.
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