CYBERJAYA: Five MSC
Malaysia status companies from the Creative Multimedia cluster will
feature their productions at the 13th Hong Kong International Film and TV
Market (HK Filmart 2009).
The cross-media, cross-industry entertainment trade platform will take place
from March 23-26 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in
Wanchai.
The companies -- Animasia Studio, Asia Pacific VideoLab, Cartoon4kids, KRU
Studios and Les'Copaque Productions -- will be part of a trade mission
jointly organised by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the
National Film Development Corporation (Finas).
Other supporting agencies include the Malaysia External Trade Development
Corporation with the collaboration of the Hong Kong Trade Development
Council.
HK Filmart 2009 is
expected to bring together 483 companies and over 4,000 trade visitors from
50 countries around the world, with more than 80% coming from the Asia
Pacific region, MDeC said in a statement Monday.
Its vice-president of creative multimedia, Kamil Othman, said the main
objective of the trade mission was to help the companies find opportunities
to market their products at a global platform.
Trade delegates will be attending the event "to exhibit, find partners,
source products and explore new opportunities in the Chinese mainland and
the booming Asian market beyond.
"It is a great platform for Malaysian companies to join them and take
advantage of the growing opportunities in the burgeoning Asian entertainment
market," he said.
He also said that Malaysia had a lot to offer and should take advantage of
the global creative multimedia pie, which will has been projected to be
worth US$650bil (RM2.4 trillion) by 2011.
"This should be enough motivation for anyone and any country to take content
creation seriously," Kamil said.
At the same event last year, a similar trade mission generated an outcome
export sales value amounting to RM44mil with two memoranda of understanding
and five memorandum of agreements being sealed, MDeC said in its statement.
