The upcoming Atlanta Asian Film Festival in the United States will feature two Hong Kong productions, the Information Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on August 29.

The two films representing Hong Kong will be Kenneth Bi's The Drummer and Derek Kwok's The Pye-Dog, the department said in a news bulletin.

The Chinese mainland and Taiwan will also be represented, with one film for each, alongside Japan, the Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia at the film festival scheduled for October 9 through 17.

At the press conference announcing the arrangements of the film festival in the United States on August 28, Monica Chan, director of Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York, said the HKSAR government has been supportive of local film industry.

Hong Kong is working hard this year to introduce the next generation of 33 film makers, who "add to Hong Kong's pool of existing talents ... They possess the flare, the vitality, and, most importantly, the vision to continue the robust development of our thriving creative film industry," she said.

Hong Kong films have been shown in a Hong Kong film festival in Chicago in May and in the New York International Asian Film Festival in June. More exposures are expected in Chicago and Boston in the later part of 2009.

(Xinhua News Agency August 30, 2009)