This article was first published on June 28, 1977.Film festival off to impressive startby SCMP reporterHongkong’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 people who intend to make Hongkong a world-famous film city.Sir Run Run Shaw said he was honoured with the selection of Shaw Brothers’ “The Last Tempest” for screening at the festival.A clipping from SCMP’s June 26, 1977 issue showing the film festival had sold out. Photo: SCMPBut the film’s director, Mr Li Han-hsiang, felt that perhaps more Chinese films should have been selected.