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Creative Industries
133. Hong Kong people are talented. Our vision is to engage creative and energetic people to develop their potential in our city, and to shape Hong Kong into a trend-setting creative hub as well as a metropolis rich in arts and culture.
134. Over the past ten years, the Government allocated $1.52 billion in total for the Create Smart Initiative (CSI) and the Film Development Fund to support the development of creative industries. We have also consolidated part of the resources of the CSI with other resources to provide a total of $500 million for the development of the fashion industry.
135. Our efforts are bearing fruits. The Design Incubation Programme has provided support to 181 start-ups, which have won over 50 international design awards. Last year, the HKTDC hosted the inaugural CENTRESTAGE, an annual international fashion event showcasing the latest collections and designs presented by some 200 fashion brands. The event attracted some 8 300 buyers.
136. The Animation Support Programme has provided support to 65 start-ups or SMEs. Some of these companies won Asia-Pacific awards in the DigiCon6 Asia hosted by the Japanese television broadcaster TBS while a company was also engaged by the international brand Prada for producing a multimedia animated commercial.
137. We have also sponsored a programme for supporting advertising and music talents. Sixty-six start-ups have benefited so far and one of them, being the only company engaged by Disney outside the US, worked for the advertising production for the film "Star Wars".
138. Over the past decade, we have provided financing or subsidy to over 40 films. These films together won about 100 prizes in different film festivals, showcasing their spectacular achievements.
139. 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. We will sponsor or organise a series of celebration events to showcase the robust development of Hong Kong's creative industries to our community and countries around the world. We will sponsor design exhibitions to be staged in Hong Kong, five Mainland and three overseas cities to present and promote our design industry. We will also organise thematic Hong Kong film shows in ten cities in North America, Europe and Asia to highlight the achievements of Hong Kong's film industry.
140. In addition, we will sponsor exhibitions to be staged locally and in Europe on the works of Hong Kong comic artists, a locally-held response exhibition of the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition and the organisation of fashion shows. These events will help present the accomplishments of various domains of our creative industries in a multi-faceted manner.
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