Roger Garcia Joins China's Hainan Film Festival as Artistic Advisor

Asian film industry veteran Roger Garcia has signed on to serve as the startup Hainan International Film Festival's top artistic advisor.

The hiring of Garcia, a co-founder and former head of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, will give the Chinese event an instant boost of credibility in the Asian film community. A producer, film scholar and occasional screenwriter, Garcia helmed HKIFF for eight years, and he is a familiar, respected presence at industry events and symposia across the region.

The Hainan fest will be entering a crowded end-of-year industry calendar. The event's dates directly overlap with the Macau International Film Festival, which is set to run Dec. 5-10 in the former Portuguese colony turned Chinese casino enclave. The Macau event was launched just four years ago with a very similar remit — to leverage its location's status as a tourism destination into a marquee cultural event for Greater China.

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