# First Feature Film Initiative

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The **First Feature Film Initiative** (; **FFFI**) is a scheme of the [Hong Kong government](/source/Hong_Kong_government), organised by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the [Commerce and Economic Development Bureau](/source/Commerce_and_Economic_Development_Bureau) and supported by the Film Development Council, to nurture talents for the [film industry](/source/Cinema_of_Hong_Kong). It is a competition on screenplay and production proposals, and the winning teams receive funding from the Film Development Fund to make their first [feature films](/source/Feature_films).

The competition is divided into Higher Education Institutions Group (HEIG) and Professional Group (PG), the former recommended by [higher education institutions](/source/Higher_education_in_Hong_Kong) or member institutions of the [Vocational Training Council](/source/Vocational_Training_Council)[Note 1] and the latter without quota. Each group awards up to three winners; prior to 2020, HEIG awarded up to two winners and PG at most one. For a team to be eligible, the [directors](/source/Film_director) must not have shot any commercial film with a running time of 80 minutes or longer as a director, co-director or executive director; the [producers](/source/Film_producer) must have participated in the production of at least two films publicly exhibited in Hong Kong in the past 20 years in the capacity of a presenter or producer.

Inaugurated in 2013, the initiative has awarded 18 films as of 2020 and ten have been released publicly.

## Funding

The winning teams receive full funding from the Film Development Fund in the production of their films. The amounts of the funding are as follows:

Awards 1st (2013) 2 million 5 million 2nd - 5th (2016-2019) 3.25 million 5.5 million 6th (2020- ) 5 million 8 million

## Winners

Awards Group English Title style="width:8%"; class="unsortable"| Chinese Title Director Release Date Box office (HK$) 1st (2013) PG Opus 1[Title 1][1] 藍天白雲 Cheung King-wai 18 January 2018 771,424 [2] HEIG Mad World[3] 一念無明 Wong Chun 30 March 2017 16,923,985 [4] Weeds on Fire[5] 點五步 Steve Chan Chi-fat 25 August 2016 4,678,142 [6] 2nd (2016) PG Love@The Square[Title 2][7] 戀@廣埸[Title 3] Chan Chit-man 11 January 2021[Release 1] HEIG In Your Dream[Title 4][8] 以青春的名義愛你 [Title 5] Tam Wai-ching 11 January 2018 475,274 [6] 3rd (2017) PG G Affairs[9] G殺 Lee Cheuk-pan 14 March 2019 HEIG Still Human[10] 淪落人 Oliver Siu-kuen Chan 11 April 2019 19,811,169 [11] 4th (2018) PG Elisa's Day[12] 滄海遺愛[Title 6] Alan Fung 10 June 2021 HEIG Hand-rolled Cigarette[13] 手捲煙 Chan Kin-long 17 June 2021 My Prince Edward[14] 金都 Norris Wong 11 June 2020 5th (2019) PG A Light Never Goes Out[15] 燈火闌珊 Anastasia Tsang Hin-Ling In production HEIG Time Still Turns the Pages[16] 年少日記 Nick Cheuk In production The Dinner[17] 過時·過節[Title 7] Eric Tsang Hing-wen 24 November 2022 6th (2020) PG Love Lies[18] 我談的那場戀愛 Ho Miu-kei Lost Love[19] 流水落花 Ka Sing-fung 1 March 2023 HEIG Fly Me to the Moon[20] 但願人長久 Sasha Chuk Blossoms Under Somewhere[21] 寄了一整個春天 Riley Yip Gamer Girls[22] 電競女孩聯盟 Veronica Bassetto Sophie Yang

1. Released as *Somewhere Beyond the Mist*

1. Released as *Apart*

1. Released as 散後

1. Released as *In Your Dreams*

1. Released as 以青春的名義

1. Released as 遺愛

1. Released as 陽

1. Hong Kong Independent Film Festival

## Notes

1. Each of the following institutions can recommend two teams: The [Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts](/source/Hong_Kong_Academy_for_Performing_Arts), [Hong Kong Baptist University](/source/Hong_Kong_Baptist_University), the [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](/source/Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University), the [City University of Hong Kong](/source/City_University_of_Hong_Kong), the [Open University of Hong Kong](/source/Open_University_of_Hong_Kong), [Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee)](/source/Hong_Kong_Institute_of_Vocational_Education), [Hong Kong Design Institute](/source/Hong_Kong_Design_Institute), the [Chinese University of Hong Kong](/source/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong) and the [Chu Hai College of Higher Education](/source/Chu_Hai_College_of_Higher_Education). The [Savannah College of Art and Design (Hong Kong)](/source/Savannah_College_of_Art_and_Design) was eligible for recommending teams until the 6th award.

## References

1. ["1st FFFI Winners: Somewhere Beyond the Mist"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181227032529/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_opus.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_opus.html#detail) on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["香港電影業資料彙編2018"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210302155646/https://www.fdc.gov.hk/doc/tc/HK_Film_Industry_Info2018_Preview.pdf) (in Chinese). Archived from [the original](http://www.fdc.gov.hk/doc/tc/HK_Film_Industry_Info2018_Preview.pdf) on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. [1st FFFI Winners](https://www.fdc.gov.hk/en/fffiwinners.php?edition=1)

1. ["香港電影業資料彙編2017"](http://www.fdc.gov.hk/doc/tc/HK_Film_Industry_Info2017_Preview.pdf) (in Chinese)

1. [The 1st First Feature Film Initiative Winners: Weeds on Fire](https://www.fdc.gov.hk/en/fffiwinners.php?edition=1)

1. ["香港電影業資料彙編2016"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180613085417/http://www.fdc.gov.hk/doc/tc/HK_Film_Industry_Info2016_Preview.pdf) (in Chinese). Archived from [the original](http://www.fdc.gov.hk/doc/tc/HK_Film_Industry_Info2016_Preview.pdf) on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["2nd FFFI Winners: Apart"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181227032535/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_love.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_love.html#detail) on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["2nd FFFI Winners: In Your Dreams"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181227032540/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_dream.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_dream.html#detail) on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["3rd FFFI Winners: G Affairs"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190915050855/http://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_G.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_G.html#detail) on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["3rd FFFI Winners: Still Human"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220719153830/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_human.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_human.html#detail) on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. [2019 年香港電影市道整體情況](http://www.mpia.org.hk/upload/file/00276/2019%E5%B9%B4%E5%BA%A6%E5%8D%81%E5%A4%A7%E7%A5%A8%E6%88%BF.pdf)

1. [4th FFFI Winners: Elisa's Day](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_elisa.html#detail)[dead link]

1. ["4th FFFI Winners: Hand-rolled Cigarette"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181227032608/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_cigarette.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_cigarette.html#detail) on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["4th FFFI Winners: My Prince Edward"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181227032603/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_edward.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_edward.html#detail) on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["5th FFFI Winners: A Light Never Goes Out"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220719153854/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_light.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_light.html#detail) on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["5th FFFI Winners: Time Still Turns the Pages"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220719153859/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_time.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_time.html#detail) on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["5th FFFI Winners: The Dinner"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220719153904/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_dinner.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi_dinner.html#detail) on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

1. ["6th FFFI Winners: Love Lies"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200719054614/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_love_lies.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_love_lies.html#detail) on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

1. ["6th FFFI Winners: Foster Love"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200719065406/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_foster_love.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_foster_love.html#detail) on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

1. ["6th FFFI Winners: Fly Me to the Moon"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200719054616/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_fly_me_to_the_moon.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_fly_me_to_the_moon.html#detail) on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

1. ["6th FFFI Winners: Blossoms Under Somewhere"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200719065352/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_the_wonder.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_the_wonder.html#detail) on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

1. ["6th FFFI Winners: Gamer Girls"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200719151654/https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_gamer_girls.html#detail). Archived from [the original](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/fffi6_gamer_girls.html#detail) on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

## External links

- [First Feature Film Initiative](https://www.createhk.gov.hk/fffi/en/)

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