30 March 2016 (Hong Kong)– The 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival is held from March 21 to April 4, screening over 240 films from 66 countries and regions around the world.
With an aim to promoting art and culture in Hong Kong, LeEco partnered with HKIFF to kick-off Hong Kong’s first Online International Festival, showing exclusively the most popular and reputed films from all over the world, highlights including the digitally restored in 4K films of Bruce LEE, Berlin International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize movie The Club (2015); The Past (2013) by the Oscar-winning director Asghar FARHADI; Men & Chicken (2015)with Mads MIKKELSEN as main cast, as well as the 4K-restored Taiwanese movie The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) directed by HOU Hsiao-Hsien. LeEco has also selected other spectacular short films in drama, animation, documentary genre, ensuring to meet the tastes of a wide range of audience.
As one of the icons of Hong Kong film culture, LeEco believes the digitally restored in 4K Bruce LEE’s films – including The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972), The Way of the Dragon (1972) and The Game of Death (1978) – will revitalize the spirit and martial-arts legends in the best possible way.
The film’s restoration works are conducted by L'IMMAGINE RITROVATA, a top-of-class film restoration laboratory in Italy. The professional technicians used the original film roll to undergo a complicated digital 4K restoration process, which took more 1,200 man hours to complete. With the same dedication in mind, LeEco wishes to breathe a new life to the Hong Kong film icon and sustain his inspiration and passion for local film culture.
