Les Copaque Production managing director Burhanuddin Md Radzi having a B2B meeting with Korean Animation Studio SAMG
KUALA LUMPUR, 1 APRIL 2009 – Five Malaysian multimedia companies have attended the 13th Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (HK Filmart 2009), according to Malaysian government agency Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).
The five Multimedia Supercorridor (MSC) Malaysia companies are Animasia Studio, Asia Pacific VideoLab, Cartoon4kids, KRU Studios, and Les Copaque Productions, said MDeC vice president (creative multimedia), Kamil Othman.
“The trade mission is jointly organised by the driver of the MSC Malaysia initiative, Multimedia Development Corporation and the National Film Development Corporation [FINAS],” said Othman. "Other supporting agencies include the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation with the collaboration of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council."
This will be MDeC’s fourth attendance in HK Filmart and third participation as co-organiser with FINAS in its 13th edition of the HK Filmart, he added.
Under FINAS, companies that participated in HK Filmart 2009 were Da Huang Pictures, Ed-Online Technologies, FrameMotion, Imagika, Line Clear Communication, Makmur Megah, Metrowealth Movies Production, Penumbra Communications and Purple Houz.
HK Filmart 2009 is expected to bring together more than 480 industry companies and more than 4,190 trade visitors from 50 countries around the world, with more than 80 per cent coming from the Asia Pacific.
Find market opportunities
Othman said the main objective of the trade mission is to help the companies find opportunities to market their products at a global platform. “It is our goal to promote local creative multimedia content industry at the HK Filmart 2009 and to assist MSC Malaysia Status companies to collaborate with their counterpart in marketing their creative multimedia content globally,” he said.
In addition, he said Malaysia had a lot to offer and should take advantage of the global creative multimedia pie, which will has been projected to be worth US$650 billion [RM2.4 trillion] by 2011. “At the same event last year, the mission generated outcome export sales value amounting to US$12.12 million [RM44 million] with two Memorandums of Understanding and five Memorandums of Agreement,” he said.
“Companies attend HK Filmart 2009 to exhibit, find partners, source products and explore new opportunities in the Chinese mainland and the booming Asian market beyond,” said Othman. “It is a great platform for Malaysian companies to join them and take advantage of the growing opportunities in the burgeoning Asian entertainment market.”
