3RD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & AWARDS.MACAO

The 3rd International Film Festival & Awards‧Macao (“IFFAM” or the “Film Festival”) will be staged from 8th to 14th December 2018, poised to uncover new dimensions and boundless potential of the cinema under the theme “A New Avenue to the World of Films” once again.

The IFFAM Organizing Committee unveiled the dazzling line up of over 50 films from China and the rest of the world alongside 14 local film works, followed by an introduction of the programme and announcement of the Talent Ambassadors, including winner of the Oscar for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Nicolas Cage, award-winning best actor in Asia, Aaron Kwok, and rising Korean star Lim Yoon A. Aaron Kwok marked his glamorous appearance at the press conference.

Director of Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and President of the IFFAM Organizing Committee, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes; Artistic Director of IFFAM, Mike Goodridge; Executive Vice Presidents of the IFFAM Organizing Committee, namely President of Macau Films & Television Productions and Culture Association (MFTPA), Alvin Chau, and President of Cultural Affairs Bureau, Mok Ian Ian, were present at the occasion together with other guests. Senna Fernandes expressed, “We have poured exceedingly scrupulous efforts in the production of IFFAM as a young film festival. Opening our ears to opinions from different circles in the last two editions, we have flexibly adjusted our programme and meticulously selected a range of films, with the unyielding dedication to forge IFFAM into a prestigious brand in the international film industry as well as an East and West cultural exchange platform across borders and generations. This year, we feature ‘New Chinese Cinema’ as a new competition section to bring more Chinese-language films into the festival and enhance the lineup of outstanding films.”

Artistic Director of IFFAM, Mike Goodridge, remarked, “I am very pleased with the IFFAM programme this year. The whole programming team has worked tirelessly to find the right films for our unique audience in Macao and we are confident that we can build on the enthusiastic audiences we attracted last year. We feel that we have mixed a heady cocktail of bold brand new cinema, the best of the year’s festival titles, gorgeous classics and big ticket crowdpleasers, not to mention 11 stunning films in our international competition. I can’t wait for our audiences and juries to see the films."

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