A proposed new law that will inject national security elements into Hong Kong’s censorship system has the city’s filmmakers worried. The law allows government officials retrospective power to chang…
has the city’s filmmakers worried. The law allows government officials retrospective power to change previously-issued exhibition approvals and provides for three year jail terms in case of breach.VarietyOther filmmakers say that the new law brings greater risks for investors. This may cause funding for the industry to dry up.Ordinance were examples of the July 2021 National Security Law being implemented across all sectors.
The creative nature of the filmmaking, however, makes it challenging to align the sector with the new, hard-line national security concerns, Tin said. There are serious concerns over whether fictional incidents, such as crime, challenges to police or terrorism, could lead to national security trouble for filmmakers, he said., because the imitation banknotes they provided for the crime film “Trivisa” looked too realistic, despite being clearly marked as props.
Amendments to the guidelines for film censors were introduced in June and the proposed changes to the film censorship law, likely to take effect from September, follow the March cancellation of screenings of “
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