When Hong Kong hosted its first International Film Festival in 1977 – SCMP archive

This article was first published on June 28, 1977. Film festival off to impressive start by SCMP reporter Hongkong’s First International Film Festival got off to an impressive start last night (June 27, 1977). It was not quite the glittering social occasion as the Cannes Film Festival and there certainly was not the profusion of topless models and eager starlets that the Mediterranean occasion produces. But the cocktail party that opened the festival in City Hall yesterday did bring together...