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HONG
KONG: Mobiles make their mark at the Hong Kong Filmart 2008.
Joseph
Lam's Infection walks away with five awards at the
1st Hong Kong Mobile Film Festival Awards.
To
ensure even better quality of ideas and videos, the awards
for the first ever mobile TV Awards were introduced in various
categories. Thirteen finalists were selected from all the
entries who finally went up for the top honours.
Out
of the thirteen finalists, Lam's video Infection, which
emphasised self-improvement instead of complaining and criticising
everything about Hong Kong, bagged five of the honours including
best drama award, best animation award, best my Hong Kong
award, Nokia's most innovative film award (which also won
him a handset for HKS 5,000), as well the the grand award
category involving a cash prize of HKS 20,000.
Kowloon
City's Holy Family Canosian School bagged an equal number
of awards for their entry Graduation, which was about
two graduate students' emotional moments before they graduate
by snapping photographs, in the following categories: best
drama/MTV award, best acting award, best editing award, Nokia's
most popular film award as well as 3 Hong Kong best school
campus awards, a category which had invited entries only from
students studying in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools.
The
other winners were Mona Tang's No Discount, which was
about contribution to the needy without any discount for best
advertisement while best story was bagged by Lai Tsz Chun's
entry Watch, a story of a girl and a boy on a date
after school.
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