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Commerce and Industry
programme was launched in August with a view to recruiting 90 incubatees in the next three years.
Other programmes sponsored by CreateHK to nurture creative talent include the First Feature Film Initiative, which provided funding for the two winning teams in its screenplay and production proposal competition in 2016 to make their first feature films. Eleven winners of the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2016 received sponsorship to undertake overseas studies or work attachments.
CreateHK's Fourth Animation Support Programme provides resources, training and mentorship to 15 animation start-ups and small animation enterprises. Its Third Microfilm Production Support Scheme (Music) supports 18 new advertising production companies to produce original music microfilms while offering more performance and exposure opportunities to budding singers.
Creative Events
CreateHK works closely with stakeholders to foster an environment conducive to the development of creative industries. In particular, it helps industry groups organise major creative events to engage the public and to attract enterprises, talent and academics in creative industries round the world to visit Hong Kong. Initiatives and events in 2016 included the:
• Second Hong Kong-Shenzhen Design Biennale;
• Entertainment Expo Hong Kong, coordinated by the HKTDC;
• Business of Design Week;
• Fashion Asia 2016 Hong Kong;
• 17th Asian Congress of Architects; and
• Fifth Hong Kong Comic Camp, featuring comic artists from Hong Kong, Guangdong, Macao and Taiwan.
Mainland, Taiwan and Overseas Promotions
CreateHK promotes the accomplishments of Hong Kong's creative industries to the Mainland, Taiwan and overseas countries and helps them explore new markets.
Hong Kong ETOS organise Hong Kong film festivals in major overseas cities to promote the territory as a film production centre. CreateHK takes part in major international events, including exhibitions, to promote location filming in Hong Kong, and helped 23 non-local production crews carry out shooting in the territory in 2016.
CreateHK provides funding to the trade to take part in major international events that open up opportunities to target potential clients in strategic markets. The publishing and printing sectors set up a Hong Kong pavilion at international book fairs in Bologna, Frankfurt and Taipei
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