China has snubbed it and solely a handful of Hong Kong movies are on the slate. With entries from the Asian movie business’s two powerhouses principally absent from tonight’s Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, will Singapore nominees – the drama Moist Season and thriller A Land Imagined – have greater probabilities of victory at Asia’s most prestigious movie awards?
Taiwan-born documentary-maker Fu Yue’s speech eventually 12 months’s ceremony, voicing hopes that Taiwan “will at some point be handled as a real unbiased entity”, precipitated China – which sees self-governing Taiwan as a part of its territory – to boycott this 12 months’s occasion. Fearing retaliation, some Hong Kong movie producers have additionally withdrawn their work.
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