“I have participated in Japanese and Korean
film festival, this is my first time to European festival. I’ve not heard
Clermont International Short Film Festival before. I was so lucky to be
sponsored by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) and be able to participate in such a
high level film festival. I am willing to seize this opportunity.
I would like to share the memory of where I lived through this animation:
“Resettlement Memory”. Nowadays, more and more Hong Kong residents are thinking
about their personal identity in modern Hong Kong society. I hope to bring this
topic to the international audience and hear more feedback from them.
This time, I also co-directed another animation « departure» selected by NAE.
My specialty is different from other two artists. It was a quite pleasant
cooperation between animators and cartoonists. During the festival, I've been
thinking how to open the market and to observe how directors from around the
world are shooting short films. I also hope that I can cooperate with animators
from other countries in the future to create new animations.
In Hong Kong, the artwork is easy to be exposed. However, it will be much more
difficult to stand on the international arena and it will pay a great effort
and we need to attend many film festivals. NAE is the organization dedicated to
promoting Hong Kong films and they spent a lot of effort to introduce Hong Kong
short film to international market. As a director, I only need to focus on my
own creation, I will not be distracted from distribution and marketing jobs. In
particular, from the International Film Festival to Hong Kong, NAE hosts
numerous screenings to help us to be recognized by foreign film market and to
promote the exchange of filmmakers from Hong Kong.
Six years ago, I attended another Indian short film festival through NAE’s
support. For next projects, I still want to create an animation focused on the
city of Hong Kong. Because Hong Kong is such a special place for me. There are
many contradictions, dramatic elements, but all of them are very interesting. I
want to recreate this and share my feelings with the audience.”





— Shared by Lee Kwok-wai, director of Resettlement
Memory after attending Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film
Festival 2018 in France, under the sponsorship of NAE.











*picture is extracted from https://www.instagram.com/clermontfilmfest/