FilMart Weighs its Options as Hong Kong Closes Border With China in Virus Response

Hong Kong on Monday severed nearly all of its land and sea connections with mainland China as part of growing measures in Asia to slow the spread of coronavirus. The move makes it ever more likely …

, the biggest film industry trade market in Asia, will be postponed. A decision is to be taken this week.

Sources close to the fair indicate that a postponement until May or June is the TDC’s preferred option. The TDC had also privately been able to reassure worried media executives that FilMart was able to go ahead uninterrupted, even during the 2003 SARS outbreak. The latest virus outbreak, however, appears to be of a different magnitude, and the measures to counter it are being implemented more widely across the planet.

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