Jaman Celebrates Hong Kong Movies With Its First Online Film Festival

Jaman Celebrates Hong Kong Movies With Its First Online Film Festival

'I Love Hong Kong Online Film Festival' Premiers on Jaman.com

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaman.com, the leading online destination for quality independent and international film, pays tribute to the remarkable influence of Hong Kong cinema on Hollywood. This month, in partnership with premier Asian cinema distributor Fortune Star, Jaman kicks off a six-month Hong Kong Online Film Festival.

This epic retrospective dedicated to the breathless action and dangerous beauty of Hong Kong cinema is more than just kung fu spectaculars. During the online festival, which will run until June 2008, movie lovers can watch gut-busting comedies, engrossing crime thrillers, elegant dramas, and spotlights on Hong Kong's gorgeous leading ladies and action stars like Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.

"From Kill Bill and The Matrix to Rush Hour and the Bourne series, martial arts have permeated the Hollywood action scene so thoroughly that it's easy to forget their fast-and-furious film origins in Hong Kong," said Kathleen Powell, VP of Worldwide Programming, Jaman. "We are thrilled to showcase Fortune Star's films to our worldwide viewers through this exclusive online event."

Rent or buy these spectacular Hong Kong films now at http://www.jaman.com/hongkong.

About Jaman

Jaman.com is revolutionizing the way people discover, enjoy and share movies all over the world. Viewers can browse and select from Jaman's library of thousands of high-definition films and then download these movies directly onto their PCs, Macs, televisions and home-set-top boxes such as AppleTVs and TiVos. Jaman's popular community features provide a forum where people around the globe review and share world-class films with each other. Jaman is based in San Mateo, California and is backed by luminaries in technology and media. Join Jaman, Join the World(TM).

About Fortune Star

Fortune Star Entertainment is the feature film and television programming production and distribution entity of STAR. Fortune Star distributes the world's largest contemporary Chinese language feature film library, including more than 600 feature film titles featuring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and renowned filmmakers John Woo, Yuen Woo Ping and Ronny Yu. Fortune Star also distributes STAR's television library of more than 20,000 hours of top-rated Indian and Chinese programming. Fortune Star produces feature films and high-definition movies.

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CONTACT: Jenny Michalski, Director of Corporate Communications of Jaman,
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