Mexican Filmmakers visit Shaw Studios

The morning of the world premier of "La Última Muerte" (the Last Death), representatives of the Mexican film industry took an exploratory tour of Shaw Studios.  The tour was organized by the Mexican Chamber of Commerce through the Hong Kong International Producers Film Forum committee members Patrice Poujul (Box Productions) and yours truly the Chairman(Laykin Communications).

The delegation toured the facilities and explored the possibilities of co-production in Hong Kong.

Left to right:Lorena Compean(MexCham), Alexis Friedman (Lemon Films), Cristina Obregon (actress, El Estudiante), Beatriz Tancock (MexCham)

On tour were:

Producer Alexis Friedman of Lemon Films, whose film "Salvando al Soldado Pérez" (Saving Private Perez) was a smash comedy success (has broken even since the 18 March 2011 release from the Mexican box office alone with over two million tickets sold) and "La Última Muerte" (World Premier in Hong Kong) were both selected for the 2 nd Annual Mexican Film Festival,  was interested to explore the feasibility of a future project with Shaw Studios.  prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

Ricardo Hernandez-Oseguera the founder of Richo Films who is currently producing its first short film “Un Lugar Tranquilo” (A quiet place) and has three additional scripts waiting for production.

Cristina Obregon , actress, “El Estudiante” (The Student) this film was chosen best Film by the ‘Diosas de Plata’ (the Hollywood equivalent in Mexico) and Cristina was nominated as the ‘Best Female Revelation’.  “El Estudiante” was the best selling DVD in the Mexican market in 2010!

it's huge....physically and technologically impressive!

More information on Shaw Studios can be found at:   http://www.shawstudios.hk/who_we_are.htm

And of course each sound stage and post production sound facilities are isolated from Hong Kong's urban noise enabling infrasonic recording capabilities.  The heart of this is the isolation bearing located under the buildings.

Cristina want to stay!

Mexico has a long history of film making and being used as a location dating back to before 1906 when the first cinemas were opened. Hopefully this visit is just the beginning for the future.

The Mexican Film Festival in Hong Kong is organized by the MexCham, the Mexican Chamber of Commerce, and supported by the Office of the Consul General of Mexico in Hong Kong and Macau to showcase the similarities  between the cultures of Mexico and Hong Kong.