Maltese film-maker wins international award

Maltese film-maker Clifford Borg-Marks's feature-length documentary Sinews has won a Mention d'Honneur at the Sport Movies and TV International Festival held in Milan.

The festival is held under the auspices of the Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (FICTS).

This is Mr Borg-Marks's second international award. In 2005, he won a Guirlande d'Honneur for The Hobby, a documentary on table football.

Mr Borg-Marks's new film focuses on Chinese sports. It contains footage from about 20 Chinese sport movies as well as interviews with veteran film-makers and former athletes whose exploits were the subject of such movies.

These include swimmer Mu Xiangxiong, the first Chinese to break a world record in 1958, and table tennis player Qiu Zhonghui, the first Chinese woman to become world champion in any sport in 1961.