Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has boarded worldwide sales of Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film ahead of its premiere at Cannes and has already closed two major deals.
The film, which is set to play in the Special Screenings section of the festival next month, has been snapped up by Bac Films for France and Lucky Red for Italy. A first look at the film can be seen above.
Set in January 2020, the story follows a film crew that reunites near Wuhan to resume shooting a film halted 10 years earlier, only to share unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.
The film, which is set to play in the Special Screenings section of the festival next month, has been snapped up by Bac Films for France and Lucky Red for Italy. A first look at the film can be seen above.
Set in January 2020, the story follows a film crew that reunites near Wuhan to resume shooting a film halted 10 years earlier, only to share unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.
- 4/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
by Cláudio Alves
Michel Hazanavicius joins the Official Competition with an animated film.
As expected, a few more titles have been added to this year's Cannes Film Festival lineup. In the Premiere section, Jessica Palud's Maria Schneider biopic joins a star-studded selection. One of this year's two Count of Monte-Cristo adaptations will screen Out of Competition, while a pair of buzzy documentaries will bow in the Special Screenings program. They are Oliver Stone's Lula and Lou Ye's An Unfinished Film. Other new titles in that section include Arnaud Desplechin's latest Paul Dedalus film and Nasty, directed by Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, and Tudor D. Popescu. But of course, the most important announcements concern the Main Competition, where three films complete the 22-title lineup…...
Michel Hazanavicius joins the Official Competition with an animated film.
As expected, a few more titles have been added to this year's Cannes Film Festival lineup. In the Premiere section, Jessica Palud's Maria Schneider biopic joins a star-studded selection. One of this year's two Count of Monte-Cristo adaptations will screen Out of Competition, while a pair of buzzy documentaries will bow in the Special Screenings program. They are Oliver Stone's Lula and Lou Ye's An Unfinished Film. Other new titles in that section include Arnaud Desplechin's latest Paul Dedalus film and Nasty, directed by Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, and Tudor D. Popescu. But of course, the most important announcements concern the Main Competition, where three films complete the 22-title lineup…...
- 4/23/2024
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Let’s catch up on all things Cannes Film Festival. For one, if you haven’t seen it, Cannes recently revealed its 2024 poster, featuring a scene from “Rhapsody in August,” directed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time (see it below in full). But there’s much more, including today’s announcement of new titles. This morning, the Cannes Festival announced the addition of thirteen titles to the line-up, featuring notable names from filmmakers like Oliver Stone and Lou Ye and French filmmakers like Arnaud Desplechin and Michel Hazanavicius.
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- 4/22/2024
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Oliver Stone is unveiling his long-awaited documentary “Lula” at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Stone filmed the documentary about thrice-elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that encompasses the ruler’s incarceration between 2018 and 2019 and his return to power. Stone was in production on the feature in 2021 during which time Lula da Silva contracted Covid while filming in Cuba.
“Lula” is the latest addition to the star-studded Cannes lineup, which also includes new films from Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, David Cronenberg, Ali Abbasi, Sean Baker, Jia Zhangke, and Paolo Sorrentino.
Stone teased “Lula” to Jacobin earlier this year, saying that the film would be released “hopefully before the end of the year.”
“As you know, I had him in the other films with Hugo Chávez. And of course, he’s gotten a very dramatic story, with his going to jail after his second term. Now...
Stone filmed the documentary about thrice-elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that encompasses the ruler’s incarceration between 2018 and 2019 and his return to power. Stone was in production on the feature in 2021 during which time Lula da Silva contracted Covid while filming in Cuba.
“Lula” is the latest addition to the star-studded Cannes lineup, which also includes new films from Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, David Cronenberg, Ali Abbasi, Sean Baker, Jia Zhangke, and Paolo Sorrentino.
Stone teased “Lula” to Jacobin earlier this year, saying that the film would be released “hopefully before the end of the year.”
“As you know, I had him in the other films with Hugo Chávez. And of course, he’s gotten a very dramatic story, with his going to jail after his second term. Now...
- 4/22/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Films from Oliver Stone, Michel Hazanavicius and Arnaud Desplechin have been added to the Official Selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. They join previously announced titles from David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos, Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Schrader. Greta Gerwig is the president of this year’s jury.
Stone’s film, “Lula” is a documentary about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and will have its world premiere as part of the Special Screenings section, which also features “Spectators,” from Arnaud Desplechin. His latest stars “Anatomy of a Fall” child actor Milo Machado Graner as well as Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”).
Hazanavicius, a Best Director Oscar winner for “The Artist,” joins the Competition lineup with “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises” (“The Most Precious of Cargoes”), an animated film about a Jewish child during World War II whose father, in a desperate attempt to save his son’s life,...
Stone’s film, “Lula” is a documentary about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and will have its world premiere as part of the Special Screenings section, which also features “Spectators,” from Arnaud Desplechin. His latest stars “Anatomy of a Fall” child actor Milo Machado Graner as well as Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”).
Hazanavicius, a Best Director Oscar winner for “The Artist,” joins the Competition lineup with “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises” (“The Most Precious of Cargoes”), an animated film about a Jewish child during World War II whose father, in a desperate attempt to save his son’s life,...
- 4/22/2024
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
The Cannes Film Festival has added 13 new titles to the selection for its 77 th edition, including new films by Oliver Stone, Lou Ye and Arnaud Desplechin as Special Screenings.
Three more titles have been added to competition including Michel Hazanavicius’ animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes.
Big budget French costume-adventure drama The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney as the titular hero will play Out of Competition.
The new additions are:
Un Certain Regard
When The Light Breaks
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Niki
Céline Sallette 1st film
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis
Cannes Premiere
Vivre, Mourir, Renaitre
Gaël Morel
Maria
Jessica Palud
Special Screenings
Spectateurs
Arnaud Desplechin
Nasty
Tudor Giurgiu
Lula
Oliver Stone
An Unfinished Film
Lou Ye
Out Of Competition
Le Comte De Monte-cristo
Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
Competition
LA Plus PRÉCIEUSE Des Marchandises
Michel Hazanavicius
Trei Kilometri Pana LA Capatul Lumii
Emanuel Parvu
The Seed Of The...
Three more titles have been added to competition including Michel Hazanavicius’ animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes.
Big budget French costume-adventure drama The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney as the titular hero will play Out of Competition.
The new additions are:
Un Certain Regard
When The Light Breaks
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Niki
Céline Sallette 1st film
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis
Cannes Premiere
Vivre, Mourir, Renaitre
Gaël Morel
Maria
Jessica Palud
Special Screenings
Spectateurs
Arnaud Desplechin
Nasty
Tudor Giurgiu
Lula
Oliver Stone
An Unfinished Film
Lou Ye
Out Of Competition
Le Comte De Monte-cristo
Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
Competition
LA Plus PRÉCIEUSE Des Marchandises
Michel Hazanavicius
Trei Kilometri Pana LA Capatul Lumii
Emanuel Parvu
The Seed Of The...
- 4/22/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
After announcing a whopping number of English-language films in competition, Cannes Film Festival has added some international titles: Michel Hazanavicius’ animated feature “The Most Precious of Cargoes” and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Variety has learned.
An auteur-driven allegorical feature, “The Most Precious of Cargoes” (first-look still below) is adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s bestselling novel of the same name, set during World War II against the backdrop of the Holocaust. It will be the first animated feature to compete in more than a decade, since Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir” in 2008.
The film is co-produced and represented internationally by Studiocanal, which also has Gilles Lellouche’s “Beating Hearts” in competition. “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is a passion project for Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “The Artist,” who has been developing the project for years. Hazanavicius penned the script with Grumberg and created the drawings,...
An auteur-driven allegorical feature, “The Most Precious of Cargoes” (first-look still below) is adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s bestselling novel of the same name, set during World War II against the backdrop of the Holocaust. It will be the first animated feature to compete in more than a decade, since Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir” in 2008.
The film is co-produced and represented internationally by Studiocanal, which also has Gilles Lellouche’s “Beating Hearts” in competition. “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is a passion project for Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “The Artist,” who has been developing the project for years. Hazanavicius penned the script with Grumberg and created the drawings,...
- 4/22/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
After the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989, the Chinese government implemented censorship policies that led to the emergence of a film movement known as “the Sixth Generation”. Many movies, due to the absence of government funding, were produced in a short amount of time and on a tight budget. They had a raw, documentary-like style with handheld camerawork, extended takes, and naturalistic sound. One of the representatives of this generation is Lou Ye, whose third full-length feature, “Suzhou River”, despite garnering praise internationally, was banned in China. What's more, Lou was forbidden from making movies for two years after an unauthorized screening of this picture at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1999 where it won the Tiger Award.
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“Suzhou River” depicts a story which is narrated by the Videographer (Fang Zhang Ming). His job is to film the...
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“Suzhou River” depicts a story which is narrated by the Videographer (Fang Zhang Ming). His job is to film the...
- 3/26/2024
- by Tobiasz Dunin
- AsianMoviePulse
Coproduction Office has acquired international rights to the catalogue of acclaimed post-War East German filmmaker Konrad Wolf. The Paris and Berlin-based company is working with Defa Foundation and Defa Distribution, part of a German government-run group of film studios founded in the late 1940s to restore Wolf’s 14 features to commemorate the centenary of his birth in 2025.
Wolf’s anti-fascist film Sterne (Stars) won him a Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1959 and his 1964 feature Divided Heaven captured the complexities of life in divided Germany. His 1971 drama Goya Of The Hard Way to Enlightenment,was a biopic of the Spanish painter.
Wolf’s anti-fascist film Sterne (Stars) won him a Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1959 and his 1964 feature Divided Heaven captured the complexities of life in divided Germany. His 1971 drama Goya Of The Hard Way to Enlightenment,was a biopic of the Spanish painter.
- 2/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
A high-powered panel at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents and Film Market pondered the condition of the theatrical market for arthouse films in Asia and Europe post-pandemic.
The two themes that emerged from the discussion were the necessity for films to have an X factor that can be marketed and, second, that restored classics are finding new audiences.
June Lee, content business team lead at Korea’s Watcha said that the company’s acquisition strategy for this year and the next is to either pick up a Hollywood blockbuster or “really arthouse films with elements that could go viral.”
The panel, which was moderated by Katarzyna Siniarska, head of sales at Poland’s New Europe Film Sales, also included Valeska Neu, international sales agent at Germany’s Films Boutique, Kini Kim of France’s The Jokers Films, Felix Tsang, sales and acquisitions manager at Hong Kong’s...
The two themes that emerged from the discussion were the necessity for films to have an X factor that can be marketed and, second, that restored classics are finding new audiences.
June Lee, content business team lead at Korea’s Watcha said that the company’s acquisition strategy for this year and the next is to either pick up a Hollywood blockbuster or “really arthouse films with elements that could go viral.”
The panel, which was moderated by Katarzyna Siniarska, head of sales at Poland’s New Europe Film Sales, also included Valeska Neu, international sales agent at Germany’s Films Boutique, Kini Kim of France’s The Jokers Films, Felix Tsang, sales and acquisitions manager at Hong Kong’s...
- 10/10/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It was more than a little heartening to see Roger Corman paid tribute by Quentin Tarantino at Cannes’ closing night. By now the director-producer-mogul’s imprint on cinema is understood to eclipse, rough estimate, 99.5% of anybody who’s touched the medium, but on a night for celebrating what’s new, trend-following, and manicured it could’ve hardly been more necessary. Thus I’m further heartened seeing the Criterion Channel will host a retrospective of Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running eight films and aptly titled “Grindhouse Gothic,” though I might save the selections for October.
Centerpiece, though, is a hip hop series including Bill Duke’s superb Deep Cover, Ghost Dog, and numerous documentaries––among them Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, making Michael Rapaport a Criterion-approved auteur. Ten films starring Kay Francis and 21 Eurothrillers round out series; streaming premieres include the Dardenne brothers’ Tori and Lokita,...
Centerpiece, though, is a hip hop series including Bill Duke’s superb Deep Cover, Ghost Dog, and numerous documentaries––among them Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, making Michael Rapaport a Criterion-approved auteur. Ten films starring Kay Francis and 21 Eurothrillers round out series; streaming premieres include the Dardenne brothers’ Tori and Lokita,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Szu-Wei Chen is a writer/director from Taiwan and earned his MFA from Columbia University's Graduate Film program. Having grown up with an interest in directors such as Edward Yang and Lou Ye, Chen is currently exploring a means to bridge the film language he grew up on with and his experiences as an international resident living in the US. “A New Apartment” is his latest work, which is currently having its festival run, having screened at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and Cinequest San Jose Film Festival.
“A New Apartment” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The film begins with Ms Wang, a real estate agent trying to sell an apartment to her client, Yu-Ting, a woman in her early 30s. Her efforts are crowned with success, and soon the focus changes to the new tenant, during her first day in the apartment.
“A New Apartment” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The film begins with Ms Wang, a real estate agent trying to sell an apartment to her client, Yu-Ting, a woman in her early 30s. Her efforts are crowned with success, and soon the focus changes to the new tenant, during her first day in the apartment.
- 6/20/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
A retrospective of Tod Browning’s dark world brings the likes of Freaks and Dracula, while the newly restored Drylongso starts screening. (Read our interview with director Cauleen Smith here.)
IFC Center
The Dardenne brothers are subject of a career-spanning retrospective, with L’Enfant, The Kid with a Bike, and Lorna’s Silence showing on 35mm; Fight Club, Akira, Jaws, Times Square, and Poison Ivy have late screenings.
Film Forum
Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45 begins a run; a Jeanne Moreau retrospective highlights her three, rarely screened directing efforts; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River continues showing in a 4K restoration, while The Conformist returns; Selena plays this Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
Dressed to Kill, Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders, Minnie and Moskowitz, Belly, and Synecdoche, New York have 35mm showings.
Museum of the Moving Image
With First Look underway,...
Film at Lincoln Center
A retrospective of Tod Browning’s dark world brings the likes of Freaks and Dracula, while the newly restored Drylongso starts screening. (Read our interview with director Cauleen Smith here.)
IFC Center
The Dardenne brothers are subject of a career-spanning retrospective, with L’Enfant, The Kid with a Bike, and Lorna’s Silence showing on 35mm; Fight Club, Akira, Jaws, Times Square, and Poison Ivy have late screenings.
Film Forum
Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45 begins a run; a Jeanne Moreau retrospective highlights her three, rarely screened directing efforts; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River continues showing in a 4K restoration, while The Conformist returns; Selena plays this Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
Dressed to Kill, Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders, Minnie and Moskowitz, Belly, and Synecdoche, New York have 35mm showings.
Museum of the Moving Image
With First Look underway,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
Dressed to Kill and Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders have 35mm showings; Mary Bronstein’s Yeast, starring a young Greta Gerwig, screens on Friday.
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Welles and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by David Lynch, Todd Haynes, the Safdies, and Rebecca Hall.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and continues its run.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Jaws have screenings, while Body of Evidence plays on 35mm.
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Roxy Cinema
Dressed to Kill and Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders have 35mm showings; Mary Bronstein’s Yeast, starring a young Greta Gerwig, screens on Friday.
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Welles and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by David Lynch, Todd Haynes, the Safdies, and Rebecca Hall.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and continues its run.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Jaws have screenings, while Body of Evidence plays on 35mm.
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- 3/10/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Malle, Becker and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while King Kong plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by the Coens, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Todd Haynes.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Minnie and Moskowitz has 35mm showings Saturday and Sunday, the latter day also bringing Polanski’s Frantic; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
Barbarella, Wr: Mysteries of the Organism, and more play in Wilhelm Reich series; Brakhage screens in Essential Cinema.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Akira have screenings, while Showgirls plays on 35mm.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Jeanne Moreau,...
Film Forum
A Jeanne Moreau retrospective brings films by Antonioni, Malle, Becker and more; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River and Una Vita Difficile continue showing in a 4K restorations while King Kong plays this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on snubs brings films by the Coens, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Todd Haynes.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Minnie and Moskowitz has 35mm showings Saturday and Sunday, the latter day also bringing Polanski’s Frantic; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
Barbarella, Wr: Mysteries of the Organism, and more play in Wilhelm Reich series; Brakhage screens in Essential Cinema.
IFC Center
Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, and Akira have screenings, while Showgirls plays on 35mm.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Jeanne Moreau,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Anthology Film Archives
“Working Girl(s)” highlights the working woman, spanning Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl, while a series curated by Borden gets underway.
Paris Theater
After Hours screens on Sunday with a Griffin Dunne Q&a to follow.
Film Forum
The Sorrow and the Pity begins a run; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River continues showing in a 4K restoration while Song of the Sea plays this Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The Todd Solondz retro continues with 35mm showings of Palindromes and Life During Wartime, while Wiener-Dog also shows; a puppet program plays on 16mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Miyazaki’s Ponyo plays Saturday and Sunday; Argento’s Deep Red plays Saturday.
IFC Center
House,...
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Anthology Film Archives
“Working Girl(s)” highlights the working woman, spanning Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl, while a series curated by Borden gets underway.
Paris Theater
After Hours screens on Sunday with a Griffin Dunne Q&a to follow.
Film Forum
The Sorrow and the Pity begins a run; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River continues showing in a 4K restoration while Song of the Sea plays this Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The Todd Solondz retro continues with 35mm showings of Palindromes and Life During Wartime, while Wiener-Dog also shows; a puppet program plays on 16mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Miyazaki’s Ponyo plays Saturday and Sunday; Argento’s Deep Red plays Saturday.
IFC Center
House,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Anthology Film Archives
Citizen Kane plays on 35mm this Saturday and Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The Todd Solondz retro continues with 35mm showings of Happiness, while Wild at Heart, Poetic Justice, Vanilla Sky, and Kuroneko also play on film.
Japan Society
The anime classic Whisper of the Heart plays on 35mm this Friday.
Museum of Modern Art
A series on Claudia Cardinale continues, including 8 1/2 this Friday.
Film Forum
Lou Ye’s Suzhou River has been given a 4K restoration, while Black Orpheus screens on 35mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on awards-snubbed films continues with Scorsese, Elaine May, von Sternberg and more.
IFC Center
House, Akira, and Rosemary’s Baby have screenings.
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Anthology Film Archives
Citizen Kane plays on 35mm this Saturday and Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The Todd Solondz retro continues with 35mm showings of Happiness, while Wild at Heart, Poetic Justice, Vanilla Sky, and Kuroneko also play on film.
Japan Society
The anime classic Whisper of the Heart plays on 35mm this Friday.
Museum of Modern Art
A series on Claudia Cardinale continues, including 8 1/2 this Friday.
Film Forum
Lou Ye’s Suzhou River has been given a 4K restoration, while Black Orpheus screens on 35mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on awards-snubbed films continues with Scorsese, Elaine May, von Sternberg and more.
IFC Center
House, Akira, and Rosemary’s Baby have screenings.
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- 2/16/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
In 2013, after a riot in a redevelopment district in Guangzhou, the Construction Committee Director Tang Yijie (Zhang Songwen) is found murdered. A young police detective Yang Jiadong (Jing Boran) is tasked with the investigation and soon discovers the involvement of the town´s real estate tycoon Jiang Zicheng (Qin Hao), Tang’s long-suffering wife Lin (Song Jia) who also turns out to be Jiang’s lover, and Tang’s daughter Xiaonuo (Ma Sichun). A cold case from several years ago concerning the mysterious disappearance of Lian Ahyun (Michelle Chen), who was known to Tang and Jiang, seems to be the missing link. Soon Yang finds himself framed, suspended from duty and on the run in Hong Kong…
A 2018 Chinese crime mystery directed by Lou Ye who is renowned for his controversial movies Suzhou River (2000) and Summer Palace (2006). The Shadow Play made its world premiere at the 58th Taipei Golden Horse...
A 2018 Chinese crime mystery directed by Lou Ye who is renowned for his controversial movies Suzhou River (2000) and Summer Palace (2006). The Shadow Play made its world premiere at the 58th Taipei Golden Horse...
- 1/27/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
Three years after the pandemic broke out, things––including moviegoing––are finally starting to feel normal again. It would have been an even more joyous occasion if only 2022 has yielded a stronger crop of films to offer those rushing back to theaters.
Of course many, many good films came out in the last twelve months; great ones too––entertaining, informative, artistic works that anyone would be doing themselves a favor by checking out. But films that make you go for the M(asterpiece) word, that you know right away would be top 10 material? Not that many by my count. Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, for example, is super fun and features awards-worthy performances from Zlatko Buric and Dolly De Leon, although I’m not sure if...
Three years after the pandemic broke out, things––including moviegoing––are finally starting to feel normal again. It would have been an even more joyous occasion if only 2022 has yielded a stronger crop of films to offer those rushing back to theaters.
Of course many, many good films came out in the last twelve months; great ones too––entertaining, informative, artistic works that anyone would be doing themselves a favor by checking out. But films that make you go for the M(asterpiece) word, that you know right away would be top 10 material? Not that many by my count. Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, for example, is super fun and features awards-worthy performances from Zlatko Buric and Dolly De Leon, although I’m not sure if...
- 1/2/2023
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Mulan International Film Festival (MulanIFF) announces The Trapped Pig by Lin Binghan and The Day Is Over by Qi Rui, as the winners of the first-ever Audience Award for Short Film and Audience Award for Feature Film in the Fountainhead Programme. Cash prizes of 250 and 1000 Canadian dollars are awarded directly to the directors, respectively.
Director Lin Binghan has directed several award-winning genre films, arthouse films and documentaries that focus on social issues in China. The Trapped Pig, tells a haunting, almost surreal story of a Wuhan truck driver, who is travelling home for the Chinese New Year with a precious boar, being trapped in one-person quarantine zone at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Director Qi Rui has been engaging in documentary filmmaking since 2001. He was selected to the Asian Film Academy (Afa) Training Program of the 2006 Busan International Film Festival. The Day Is Over, his debut fiction feature, won...
Director Lin Binghan has directed several award-winning genre films, arthouse films and documentaries that focus on social issues in China. The Trapped Pig, tells a haunting, almost surreal story of a Wuhan truck driver, who is travelling home for the Chinese New Year with a precious boar, being trapped in one-person quarantine zone at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Director Qi Rui has been engaging in documentary filmmaking since 2001. He was selected to the Asian Film Academy (Afa) Training Program of the 2006 Busan International Film Festival. The Day Is Over, his debut fiction feature, won...
- 8/17/2022
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
A marathon screening of all three “Infernal Affairs” films has been announced for the much delayed 46th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
The three films, all restored and upgraded to 4K digital prints, lead off a six- film section of Chinese-language restored classics at the festival.
The Hkiff was this year postponed from its usual March-April slot to August, due to the fifth wave of the Covid pandemic which closed Hong Kong cinemas for the first months of 2022. It will now take place from Aug. 15-31 for 17 days, again adopting a hybrid format, featuring screenings and audience-engagement events in theatres and online.
Other titles in the section include: Ann Hui’s “Boat People” from 1982; Lou Ye’s “Suzhou River” from 2000; and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Millennium Mambo” from 2001.
Delivered in 2002 and featuring a narrative about an undercover cop battling a triad mole, “Infernal Affairs,” was one of the...
The three films, all restored and upgraded to 4K digital prints, lead off a six- film section of Chinese-language restored classics at the festival.
The Hkiff was this year postponed from its usual March-April slot to August, due to the fifth wave of the Covid pandemic which closed Hong Kong cinemas for the first months of 2022. It will now take place from Aug. 15-31 for 17 days, again adopting a hybrid format, featuring screenings and audience-engagement events in theatres and online.
Other titles in the section include: Ann Hui’s “Boat People” from 1982; Lou Ye’s “Suzhou River” from 2000; and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Millennium Mambo” from 2001.
Delivered in 2002 and featuring a narrative about an undercover cop battling a triad mole, “Infernal Affairs,” was one of the...
- 7/20/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
While the specific sociopolitical moment (the re-emergence of censorship in China affecting the line-up of this year’s Berlinale with eliminating Zhang Yimou’s “One Second” from the official competition due to “post-production issues” being only the most prominent example) surrounding the world premiere of “So Long, My Son”, the newest film by the Chinese 6th generation director Wang Xiaoshui, might be forgotten in the next couple of months, the film itself, the skill it was filmed with and its social relevance are here to stay with us for quite a period of time.
“So Long, My Son” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The world premiere at Berlinale was crowned with the double Silver Bear for both of the leading actors and more of the festival exposure is likely to occur for Wang’s three-hour epic, examining the social and humane cost of the decades...
“So Long, My Son” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The world premiere at Berlinale was crowned with the double Silver Bear for both of the leading actors and more of the festival exposure is likely to occur for Wang’s three-hour epic, examining the social and humane cost of the decades...
- 2/7/2022
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
“Wisdom Tooth”, a directorial debut by the actor Liang Ming (seen in a leading role in Zhao Dayong’s “Shadow Days”), might prove to be the next big festival hit that comes from the ranks of Asian cinema. After bagging the awards on the national stage, from its world premiere at Pingyao (both Jury and Best Director prizes) on to Macao and Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, the film premiered internationally at the Bright Future competition of Rotterdam, and the tour continues.
“Wisdom Tooth” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Gu Xi, played by Lyu Xingchen (seen in a number of Chinese films last year), is a girl on the brink of adulthood. Her older brother Gu Liang (Wu Xiaoling) is not just the only family member, but basically all she has in life. They both struggle to survive, living in a shack next to a wreck of...
“Wisdom Tooth” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Gu Xi, played by Lyu Xingchen (seen in a number of Chinese films last year), is a girl on the brink of adulthood. Her older brother Gu Liang (Wu Xiaoling) is not just the only family member, but basically all she has in life. They both struggle to survive, living in a shack next to a wreck of...
- 12/5/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
The Chinese filmmaker Mei Feng is best known as the regular screenwriter for Ye Lou’s films, including “Summer Palace” (2006), Cannes title “Spring Fever” (for which Mei won the Best Screenplay award) and, most recently, “The Shadow Play” (2018). His directorial debut “Mr. No Problem” (2016) premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival and toured across the East- and South-East Asia afterwards. Mei’s second directorial effort, “Love Song 1980”, also premiered at Tokyo, while its European premiere took place at the competition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
“Love Song 1980” could be accurately described as an unofficial prequel to Mei’s debut screenwriting work, “Summer Palace”, dealing with the milieu of the students in Beijing during the times of the great change and paradigm change that occurred in the 80s. While the plot of “Summer Palace” takes place in the year of Tienanmen, “Love Song 1980” is situated at the beginning of the decade,...
“Love Song 1980” could be accurately described as an unofficial prequel to Mei’s debut screenwriting work, “Summer Palace”, dealing with the milieu of the students in Beijing during the times of the great change and paradigm change that occurred in the 80s. While the plot of “Summer Palace” takes place in the year of Tienanmen, “Love Song 1980” is situated at the beginning of the decade,...
- 11/26/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
James Su (Su Che Hsien) was born in Taiwan, but lived in Beijing from 2011 until 2014. He got his Film Director degree (Mfa) from the Applied Media Arts School, National Taiwan University of Arts. His first film, “Hip Hop Storm”was awarded as “best documentary” in Taipei Golden Horse Award in 2010, which made James the youngest person to be awarded this. James directed a lot of Tvc and Short Films covering Taiwan and Mainland China markets. In 2019, he worked on “Summer”, a mainland China-Taiwan co-production long feature film and also for the first time created a short feature film, “Nine Shots”.
On the occasion of Nine Shots screening at Vienna Shorts, we speak with him about his career, the difference between feature and documentary, the film and the situation with immigrants in Taiwan, and many other topics
You were the youngest director to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.
On the occasion of Nine Shots screening at Vienna Shorts, we speak with him about his career, the difference between feature and documentary, the film and the situation with immigrants in Taiwan, and many other topics
You were the youngest director to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.
- 5/29/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Wisdom Tooth”, a directorial debut by the actor Liang Ming (seen in a leading role in Zhao Dayong’s “Shadow Days”), might prove to be the next big festival hit that comes from the ranks of Asian cinema. After bagging the awards on the national stage, from its world premiere at Pingyao (both Jury and Best Director prizes) on to Macao and Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, the film premiered internationally at the Bright Future competition of Rotterdam, and the tour continues with Göteborg.
Gu Xi, played by Lyu Xingchen (seen in a number of Chinese films last year), is a girl on the brink of adulthood. Her older brother Gu Liang (Wu Xiaoling) is not just the only family member, but basically all she has in life. They both struggle to survive, living in a shack next to a wreck of a bus in a provincial coastal town in Northern China,...
Gu Xi, played by Lyu Xingchen (seen in a number of Chinese films last year), is a girl on the brink of adulthood. Her older brother Gu Liang (Wu Xiaoling) is not just the only family member, but basically all she has in life. They both struggle to survive, living in a shack next to a wreck of a bus in a provincial coastal town in Northern China,...
- 2/11/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
The New Chinese Cinema section returns for the second year.
The 4th International Film Festival & Awards Macao has unveiled its 2019 programme, including the return of the New Chinese Cinema section with a jury headed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu.
Mungiu will oversee a five-person jury watching six films from Chinese-speaking territories. His jury consists of BFI London Film Festival artistic director Tricia Tuttle; former Sffilm (San Francisco Film) executive director Noah Cowan; and filmmakers Kirsten Tan from Singapore and Qiu Yang from China.
Scroll down for the line-up
The films in the section include Anthony Chen’s Wet Season, which...
The 4th International Film Festival & Awards Macao has unveiled its 2019 programme, including the return of the New Chinese Cinema section with a jury headed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu.
Mungiu will oversee a five-person jury watching six films from Chinese-speaking territories. His jury consists of BFI London Film Festival artistic director Tricia Tuttle; former Sffilm (San Francisco Film) executive director Noah Cowan; and filmmakers Kirsten Tan from Singapore and Qiu Yang from China.
Scroll down for the line-up
The films in the section include Anthony Chen’s Wet Season, which...
- 11/6/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
After Ye Lou was the subject of controversy regarding his previous film, “Shadow Play”, he is back with another effort that recently premiered at the official competition of the 76th edition of Venice International Film Festival. It seems that he is back in mercy with his country’s cultural establishment and why shouldn’t he, since “Saturday Fiction” is a handsome spy noir set in the “Solitary Island” period of Shanghai’s history and is not even a bit controversial.
“Saturday Fiction” screened at
Venice International Film Festival 2019
“Solitary Island” refers to the early period of Japanese occupation of the city between 1937 and 1941. The city was occupied by the Japanese army, but the British and French concessions (business and cultural institutions) maintained the widest form of autonomy. Needless to say, it made Shanghai into a major spy hub at the beginning of the World War Two.
The plot of the film,...
“Saturday Fiction” screened at
Venice International Film Festival 2019
“Solitary Island” refers to the early period of Japanese occupation of the city between 1937 and 1941. The city was occupied by the Japanese army, but the British and French concessions (business and cultural institutions) maintained the widest form of autonomy. Needless to say, it made Shanghai into a major spy hub at the beginning of the World War Two.
The plot of the film,...
- 9/17/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Eager as ever to attend Tiff, a festival I have missed only once in the last 29 years, because a cat bite sent me to the hospital, I am looking forward to discoveries and have booked my calendar tight with films!
I am lucky to have seen three films already, two in Cannes, both wonderful, memorable funny and absurd films, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, So. Korea’s submission for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and a likely winner, as well as So. Korea’s first-ever Palm d’Or winner in Cannes this year; and Elia Suleiman’s This Must Be Heaven, sweetly surreal, as funny as a Jacques Tati film, wryly observing our human race and with a funny little cameo with Gael Garcia Bernal introducing Suleiman to his agent. The third, Synonyms, won this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear. A coproduction of France, Israel and Germany, it...
I am lucky to have seen three films already, two in Cannes, both wonderful, memorable funny and absurd films, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, So. Korea’s submission for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and a likely winner, as well as So. Korea’s first-ever Palm d’Or winner in Cannes this year; and Elia Suleiman’s This Must Be Heaven, sweetly surreal, as funny as a Jacques Tati film, wryly observing our human race and with a funny little cameo with Gael Garcia Bernal introducing Suleiman to his agent. The third, Synonyms, won this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear. A coproduction of France, Israel and Germany, it...
- 9/3/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The 76th Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia, and will be held on the Lido di Venezia from 28 August to 7 September 2019. The Festival is officially recognised by the Fiapf (International Federation of Film Producers Association).
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. In addition to the sections mentioned in the following paragraphs, the Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.
Here are all the Asian movies we found in the line-up:
La Vérité
Venezia 76 Competition – An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.
La VÉRITÉ (The Truth)
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu / France, Japan / 106’
Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan (Saturday Fiction)
Director Ye Lou...
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. In addition to the sections mentioned in the following paragraphs, the Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.
Here are all the Asian movies we found in the line-up:
La Vérité
Venezia 76 Competition – An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.
La VÉRITÉ (The Truth)
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu / France, Japan / 106’
Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan (Saturday Fiction)
Director Ye Lou...
- 8/14/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
While the specific sociopolitical moment (the re-emergence of censorship in China affecting the line-up of this year’s Berlinale with eliminating Zhang Yimou’s “One Second” from the official competition due to “post-production issues” being only the most prominent example) surrounding the world premiere of “So Long, My Son”, the newest film by the Chinese 6th generation director Wang Xiaoshui, might be forgotten in the next couple of months, the film itself, the skill it was filmed with and its social relevance are here to stay with us for quite a period of time.
The world premiere at Berlinale was crowned with the double Silver Bear for both of the leading actors and more of the festival exposure is likely to occur for Wang’s three-hour epic, examining the social and humane cost of the decades of the “one child” policy in China.
So Long, My Son was screened at...
The world premiere at Berlinale was crowned with the double Silver Bear for both of the leading actors and more of the festival exposure is likely to occur for Wang’s three-hour epic, examining the social and humane cost of the decades of the “one child” policy in China.
So Long, My Son was screened at...
- 2/20/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
There is a lot of controversy about the Chinese films being pulled out of this year´s Berlinale. Having in mind that Generation title “Better World” was yanked out just before the festival and Zhang Yimou´s “One Second” was canceled and replaced by his old title “Hero” just days before its scheduled premiere, some might say that the sensitive situation with Ye Lou´s “The Shadow Play” (it got its permission from the national board shortly before the festival) got resolved without much fuss. The film was screened at Panorama and faced immediate positive reactions from the international press.
It is a crime story in a noir-like mystery key set in the ever-growing city of Guangzhou and amongst its real estate tycoon elite. In the midst of the turmoil about an urban development project that would leave a number of poor people homeless, the supposed leading man behind it...
It is a crime story in a noir-like mystery key set in the ever-growing city of Guangzhou and amongst its real estate tycoon elite. In the midst of the turmoil about an urban development project that would leave a number of poor people homeless, the supposed leading man behind it...
- 2/15/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: French producer Sylvain Bursztejn’s Ambre Films is joining forces with Celine Loop and Q’s Kolkata-based Oddjoint to produce a feature version of Alka Raghuram’s documentary Burqa Boxers.
Entitled Houma, the Hindi and Bengali-language film tells the story of a teenage girl in a poor Muslim community in Kolkata who takes up boxing. She is determined to fight her poverty, but a girl who looks exactly like her starts raising uncomfortable questions about her past.
Raghuram [pictured] is working on the script and the producers aim to start shooting in the third quarter of 2016.
“India is one of the most interesting places in Asia in terms of new talent and dynamic young directors,” said Bursztejn who co-produced Lou Ye’s Summer Palace and Wang Chao’s Luxury Car.
Burqa Boxers, about four Muslim girls who learn boxing, is screening in this year’s Work-in-Progress Lab at Film Bazaar. The project...
Entitled Houma, the Hindi and Bengali-language film tells the story of a teenage girl in a poor Muslim community in Kolkata who takes up boxing. She is determined to fight her poverty, but a girl who looks exactly like her starts raising uncomfortable questions about her past.
Raghuram [pictured] is working on the script and the producers aim to start shooting in the third quarter of 2016.
“India is one of the most interesting places in Asia in terms of new talent and dynamic young directors,” said Bursztejn who co-produced Lou Ye’s Summer Palace and Wang Chao’s Luxury Car.
Burqa Boxers, about four Muslim girls who learn boxing, is screening in this year’s Work-in-Progress Lab at Film Bazaar. The project...
- 11/21/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Varèse Sarabande will release the Sicario – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally and on CD September 18, 2015, the same day that the Lionsgate film premieres in limited release, before opening wide on September 25.
The album features original music by Academy Award nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory Of Everything, Prisoners).
Sicario debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, earning rave reviews for both the film and the score. Vanity Fair Magazine called the score “rumbling, evocative” and “he (Jóhannsson) has a wonderful knack for balancing eye-popping technical flourishes with more organic texture and mood.”
Sicario is Jóhannsson’s second collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve, for whom he scored the 2013 film Prisoners.
“Denis didn’t use temp music while editing, so I began writing the music with a completely blank slate. This was both daunting and exhilarating,” said Jóhannsson. “Like Prisoners, it’s quite tense and has a certain sense of dread,...
The album features original music by Academy Award nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory Of Everything, Prisoners).
Sicario debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, earning rave reviews for both the film and the score. Vanity Fair Magazine called the score “rumbling, evocative” and “he (Jóhannsson) has a wonderful knack for balancing eye-popping technical flourishes with more organic texture and mood.”
Sicario is Jóhannsson’s second collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve, for whom he scored the 2013 film Prisoners.
“Denis didn’t use temp music while editing, so I began writing the music with a completely blank slate. This was both daunting and exhilarating,” said Jóhannsson. “Like Prisoners, it’s quite tense and has a certain sense of dread,...
- 8/6/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has boarded world sales rights on Benjamin Dickinson’s SXSW award winner Creative Control.
Set in the near future, it centres on a man who uses a new augmented reality technology to create an avatar of his best friend’s partner and conduct a virtual affair using new Augmented Reality technology.
“He is a true auteur, visually the film is stunning,” commented Bober of writer-director Benjamin Dickinson, who also stars. “I am confident that he will have quite a career.”
Coproduction Office, the company which helped launch the international careers of such directors as Carlos Reygadas, Ulrich Seidl and Lou Ye, is beginning sales on Creative Control here in Cannes.
Meanwhile, Bober has confirmed recent sales on older titles on his Cannes slate.
These include several sales of Jonathan Nossiter’s Natural Resistance, which has gone to Poland (Against Gravity), Austria (Stadtkino), UK (Soda Pictures), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Us (FilmBuff) and Canada...
Set in the near future, it centres on a man who uses a new augmented reality technology to create an avatar of his best friend’s partner and conduct a virtual affair using new Augmented Reality technology.
“He is a true auteur, visually the film is stunning,” commented Bober of writer-director Benjamin Dickinson, who also stars. “I am confident that he will have quite a career.”
Coproduction Office, the company which helped launch the international careers of such directors as Carlos Reygadas, Ulrich Seidl and Lou Ye, is beginning sales on Creative Control here in Cannes.
Meanwhile, Bober has confirmed recent sales on older titles on his Cannes slate.
These include several sales of Jonathan Nossiter’s Natural Resistance, which has gone to Poland (Against Gravity), Austria (Stadtkino), UK (Soda Pictures), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Us (FilmBuff) and Canada...
- 5/14/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The Marché du Film has confirmed the program and multiple speakers for the inaugural Marché du Film China Summit, which will take place during the upcoming Marché. The Summit has been established to help film industry professionals learn more about the Chinese marketplace and to enable Chinese professionals to connect with their industry peers, providing a platform that promotes international business connections.
This series of conferences and events, reserved for Marché Badge holders, includes numerous round-table panel discussions focusing on key topics identified as most relevant to the current Chinese market, including theatrical and VOD distribution as well as a discussion on international productions. A section of the Summit is to be co-hosted by Cnc (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée) under the umbrella title of “The French Chinese Meetings” which consist of two round-table panel discussions on Saturday May 16th. Variety, Screen International, The Hollywood Reporter and The Chinese Film Market are signed on as supporting media partners.
The Marché du Film China Summit will run from Saturday May 16th to Tuesday May 19th, concluding on the Tuesday evening
with the annual China Night Party, which is to be hosted in partnership with China Movie Channel and Champs Lis International.The Marché du Film will run from May 13th to 22nd.
On announcing the program, Marche du Film Executive Director Jérôme Paillard commented “With the increasing global interest in China’s film industry, combined with the increasing presence of Chinese executives at the Marché du Film, this exclusive 3-day series of conferences and events will help promote business opportunities and international partnerships amongst professionals. It will cover all aspects of partnerships with China, from international co-productions and French-Chinese collaborations to theatrical and VOD distribution.”
The Marché du Film China Summit will commence on the afternoon of Saturday, May 16th with an introduction by Frédérique Bredin(Cnc) and Yin Fu (China Cultural Center in Paris), followed by two round-table panel discussions welcoming Jean-Paul Salome, (Unifrance), Isabelle Glachant (Chinese Shadows), Valérie Lepine-Karnik (Film France) and Franck Priot (Film France), Richard Patry (Fncf), Xavier Castano (Loull Productions), Cary Cheng (Wanda), Michel Ferry (Cinéma des Carmes), Olivier Grandjean (Pathé), Gary Mak (Broadway Cinematheque) and Zhang Rengang (Tianjin North Film Group). The first round-table panel is titled “Attractiveness of French and Chinese Territories” followed by “Strategies of Exhibition and Distribution in France and China, examples of Chinese-French co-productions.”
The Marché du Film China Summit continues on Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th with the support of the Marche’s new leading Summit partner, Deloitte Consulting. Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China, will introduce the discussions, the first of which, on Monday, May 18th, will provide an overview of the Chinese film distribution market, moderated by Patrick Frater (Variety) and welcoming Jeffrey Chan (Bona Film Group), Chen Sijie (Smg Pictures), James Li (Wuzhou Film Distribution Co. ltd) and Lin Ning (WeChat Movie).
The final two round-table panel discussions are scheduled for Tuesday, May 19th, the first focusing on Video On Demand opportunities in China, moderated by Liz Shackleton (Screen International) and welcoming Marc Ganis (Jiaflix Enterprises), David U. Lee (Leeding Media), Li Yansong (iQIYI) and Allen Zhu Huilong (Youku Tudou Inc.). The second session will focus on international production with China, moderated by Clifford Coonan (The Hollywood Reporter) and welcoming Wendy Reeds (Lionsgate International), Shi Nansun (Distribution Workshop), Allen Wang Jun (Yingke Law Firm) and Zhou Yuan (Linmon Pictures).
All the conferences will provide bilingual English-Mandarin simultaneous interpretation.
The Summit will this year include the third edition of the New Chinese Film Talents Fund Forum jointly established in 2013 by Champs Lis lnternational and the Marché du Film. The Forum encourages and supports promising young Chinese filmmakers in their understanding of the global cinema marketplace, of the commercial requirements of the film industry and of their approach of the international production business. Eight projects, selected by a committee of international experts, will be pitched on Monday, May 18th at 2pm. More information on the projects will be announced soon.
Marche du Film Chine Summit Schedule and Information:
1) Subject: The Attractiveness of French and Chinese Territories
Date: Saturday May 16th 15:00-16:30
Venue: Cnc Space, Gray d’Albion Beach
Introductory speeches by Frédérique Bredin, CEO of Cnc, and Yin Fu, Director of the China Cultural Center in Paris. Description: France and China share a common ambition for their film industries. They consider film to have both a cultural and an economic impact. Providing attractive shooting locations and completion of post-production is proven to benefit the local economy. Directly and indirectly the industry creates jobs and, in the long run, tourism benefits from the attractive images that are shown worldwide.
France has considered the issue of territory attractiveness a priority for many years, setting up a network of local film commissions placed under the umbrella of Film France and offering a tax incentive dedicated to foreign pictures. Valérie Lépine and Franck Priot will explain the benefits of such policies and discuss cases of Chinese producers choosing France as a shooting destination.
Moderator: Jean-Paul Salome, President of Unifrance
UniFrance Films is a non-profit organization based in Paris with representatives in Beijing, Mumbai, New York and Tokyo, its aim is to promote French cinema worldwide. This association accompanies French films in the international marketplace, from their sale all the way through to their distribution, and on the international film festival circuit. Elected in 2013 President of Unifrance and re-elected in 2015, Jean-Paul Salomé is a famous French film director and writer.
Panelists to Include:
Isabelle Glachant, Producer and Delegate of Unifrance in China
Producer and Delegate of Unifrance in China, Glachant began her film career with Shanghai Dreams (Jury Prize in Cannes), then worked on the productions of numerous Chinese directors including Li Yu, Lu Chuan, Lou Ye and Wang Xiaoshuai, including 11 Flowers, the first official French-Chinese co-production. Her company Chinese Shadows focuses on Production, through Asian Shadows she represents Asian directors.
Valérie Lepine-Karnik, CEO of Film France
Lépine-Karnik, joined Film France as CEO in 2014. She previously held the position of Deputy Director of the Cinema Department at the Centre National du Cinéma et de L’image Animée (Cnc), after heading the international Federation of Film Producers associations (Fiapf).
Franck Priot, COO of Film France
Priot is Chief Operating Officer of Film France, the French Film Commission. His areas of responsibility include overseeing the Tax rebate for international productions. He is currently the key person spearheading Film France’s efforts to increase relationships with China, having worked with on numerous Chinese films and TV series, including Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac and Leon Lai’s Wine War.
2) Subject: Strategies of Exhibition and Distribution in France and China, Examples of Sino-French Co-Productions
Date: Saturday May 16th 16:30-18:00
Venue: Cnc Space, Gray d’Albion Beach
Description: Since the April 2010 French-Chinese Co-production agreement was signed, two French directors have shot their films in Chinese in China. The Nightingale and The Wolf Totem are pictures of different natures, but for both directors, the experience of working in China was both challenging and rewarding. This accomplishment was particularly impressive in the case of The Wolf Totem, which found great success at the box office in France and in China. The round table will discuss the issues of distribution and exhibition in France and in China. Can art houses and commercial theaters co-exist and draw large audiences in both countries? How do co-produced films succeed at the box office?
Moderator: Richard Patry, President of the French Cinema Exhibitors’ Association
Patry has served as President of the French Cinema Exhibitors’ association since January 2013 and was unanimously re-elected in January 2015. He is also CEO of Noe Cinémas which operates 62 screens in Normandy, the East of France and in the Paris region, and President of the grouping of Normandy Cinemas, a professional organization which brings together cinemas across the region’s 5 departments. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Festival de Cannes.
Panelists to Include:
Xavier Castano, Loull Productions
Cary Cheng, Head of International Production & Development, Wanda
Michel Ferry, Cinéma des Carmes
Olivier Grandjean, Head of exhibition, Pathé
Gary Mak, CEO of Broadway Cinematheque
Zhang Rengang, CEO of Tianjin North Film Group
3) Subject: Chines Film Market Overview
Date: Monday May 18th 10:00-12:00
Venues: Cinema Olympia 1
Media Partner: Variety
Description: With the great development of the Chinese theatrical network, China strengthens its position as the world’s second largest box office market. High profile panelists will illustrate the preferences and characteristics of Chinese audiences, the distribution protocols and the influence of marketing strategies on movie success.
Moderator: Patrick Frater, Asia Bureau Chief, Variety
Patrick Frater has over 20 years of experience writing about and analyzing the international film industry. He was Asia editor of Variety between 2005 and 2009 and re-joined the publication in July 2013. In 2010, he co-founded regional film trade publication Film Business Asia and consultancy firm F Media. He travels widely within the Asia-Pacific region, and is a regular radio pundit, conference host and public speaker.
Panelists to Include:
Jeffrey Chan, COO and Board member of Bona Film Group
Jeffrey Chan has over 20 years of experience in the film distribution and entertainment industry (Media Asia Holdings Limited, Pccw/Cable & Wireless Ltd). He joined Bona Film in 2008 and co-founded Distribution Workshop, a Hk based joint venture subsidiary of Bona. Bona Film Group is a leading film distributor in China, with an integrated business model encompassing film distribution, production, exhibition and talent representation.
James Li, General Manager of Wuzhou Film Distribution Co., ltd
James Li has worked in China’s film industry over the past 17 years, and has overseen and distributed over 200 films in China. He served as the Director of Film Distribution Department at Wanda Media from 2011. At the end of 2014, Wanda Media, Dadi Times Film Distributor, Guangzhou Jinyi International Cinemas, and Hengdian World Studios co-founded the Wuzhou Company which is a leading company in media industry focusing on film distribution, film marketing and branding.
Lin Ning, Founder of Beijing Weying Technology Co,Ltd,( WeChat Movie).
Lin Ning is an entrepreneur of internet and media who founded Weying in 2014. Their product Weipiao has covered more than 300 cities in China within a year, linked to 3500 cinema and 1200 theater's ticket system. As the exclusive service company embedded in WeChat with 700 million users, Weying’s marketing distribution model based on social networking has gained a large popularity among most distributors and producers.
Chen Sijie, CEO, Smg Pictures
With experiences in journalism and the world wide web industries, Chen Sijie is a major figure in the new media industry. Established in 2011, Smg Pictures is majority owned by Shanghai Media group, the 2nd largest media conglomerate in China. Smg Pictures conducts diversified business in the filmed entertainment industry, such as script development, production, distribution and entertainment marketing. Smg Pictures has a partnership with international mainstream media and production houses.
(Introduction by Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China)
4) Subject: Video on Demand Opportunities in China
Date: Tuesday May 19th 10:00-12:00
Venues: Cinema Olympia 1
Media Partner: Screen Intentional
Description: Due to its rapid growth, the Chinese VOD market attracts the attention of professionals from the world over. New key players in this booming industry will talk about their business strategies, present characteristics of the Chinese audience and share their experiences.
Moderator: Liz Shackleton, Asia Editor, Screen International
Liz Shackleton is Screen’s Asia Editor based in Hong Kong. She is also the founder of Chime Consulting, which helps Western companies and government organisations to work with the fast-developing Chinese and Indian film industries. She was also recently appointed as Asia Programmer and Producer for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Panelists to Include:
Marc Ganis, President, CEO and Co-Founder of Jiaflix Enterprises
Marc Ganis, co-founder of Jiaflix Enterprises, has been active in China for more than a decade in the capital markets, sports and entertainment sectors. In partnership with China Movie Channel/CCTV6 and its digital subsidiary 1905.com, Jiaflix has established Wow Cinema, a subscription and pay-per-view portal in China. Ganis has established with Jiaflix an affordable monthly subscription fee and developed strong anti-piracy efforts.
David U. Lee, Founder and CEO of Leeding Media
David U.Lee is one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs who successfully bridges the U.S. and China film industries. Under his leadership, Leeding Media has become an experienced marketer of international films in China. The company helped the subscription streaming service between Alibaba Group and Lionsgate. It also controls the exclusive digital distribution rights to the Lakeshore, Myriad, Im Global, Voltage, Exclusive Media and Sierra/Affinity libraries.
Li Yansong VP of iQIYI, President of iQIYI Motion Pictures
Li Yansong was one of the first to join the newly founded iQIYI in 2010. iQIYI, one of China's leading online video platforms, has successfully set up China’s first copyrighted video library covering diverse contents including movie, TV drama, variety show, comic, documentary etc. After managing iQIYI's Film Channel Division, he was recently appointed as President of iQIYI Motion Pictures as well as Vice President of iQIYI.
Allen Zhu HuilongSVP of Youku Tudou Inc. & CEO of Heyi Film
Zhu Huilong has joined Youku in 2006 and was a driving force to advance Subscription video-on-demand model in mainland China in 2009. Youku Tudou Inc., China’s leading Internet television company, has gradually set cooperation with major Hollywood studios for content acquisition and it began from 2012 to focus on trade cooperation between the Internet and the film industry. From 2014, Zhu Huilong became also the CEO of Heyi Film, a production company, wholly owned by Youku Tudou.
(Introduction by Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China)
5) Subject: International Production with China
Date: Tuesday May 19th 15:00-17:00
Venues: Cinema Olympia 1
Media Partner: The Hollywood Reporter
Description: International co-productions come under different arrangements. How is it with China, under a co-production treaty or not? Insiders will discuss the advantages and the pitfalls of co-producing with China. And how to co-produce films for the Chinese market, and abroad.
Moderator: Clifford Coonan, Asia Bureau Chief, The Hollywood Reporter
Clifford Coonan has worked as a correspondent in China for over a decade, enjoying a front-row seat on this world's second biggest movie market and on the fastest growing entertainment sector on the planet: Asia. Before moving to Beijing, he was a Reuters correspondent for seven years. He is widely published in The Irish Times, The Independent, Variety and The Times and has appeared on BBC Radio and NPR.
Panelists to Include:
Wendy Reed, Evp, International Sales of Lionsgate International
A 20-year int’l sales and distribution veteran, Wendy Reeds is in charge of licensing films in all of Asia, including China. For many
years, she ran Celestial Tiger Entertainment out of Hong Kong. She has been instrumental in building Lionsgate’s operations in
China, with 17 films released over the past 3 years. Lionsgate recently announced a multifaceted partnership with Hunan TV for slate financing, film production and distribution, and a content licensing agreement with The Alibaba Group
Shi Nansun Chairman, Distribution Workshop
Shi Nansun has produced such blockbusters as The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D and Young Detective Dee – Rise of the Sea Dragon. She founded Cinema City and Film Workshop Co Ltd. with acclaimed Producer/Director Tsui Hark. She was a member of the International Jury at the Berlinale 2007. She was a jury member at the 2011 Festival de Cannes. In 2013, she received the French title of Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2014, she was awarded as Best Independent Producer at Locarno Film Festival.
Allen Wang Jun, Senior Partner of Yingke Law Firm
Allen Wang has been named an Asia-Pacific leading Tmt/Entertainment lawyer consecutively for the last three years. He was named amongst the Top 15 Litigators in China in 2015. He represents more than 20 of the leading Chinese entertainment including Huayi Brothers, Hunan TV, Alibaba’s Entertainment Investment, Kofic and more. Yingke Law Firm is one of the largest Chinese law firms with over 25 offices across China and 24 international offices.
Zhou Yuan, Evp of Linmon Pictures
Zhou Yuan was the former Head of Motion Pictures of Smg Pictures, where he built up the company's film business by investing in project development, expanding distribution networks, delivering integrated marketing services as well as establishing an intimate relationship with international partners .In August 2014, he left Smg Pictures and founded Linmon Pictures, a new generation entertainment company invested by China's largest Internet service provider Tencent. As the Executive Vice President, he is responsible for the Motion Pictures business, Corporate Strategy and Investment.
(Introduction by Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China)...
This series of conferences and events, reserved for Marché Badge holders, includes numerous round-table panel discussions focusing on key topics identified as most relevant to the current Chinese market, including theatrical and VOD distribution as well as a discussion on international productions. A section of the Summit is to be co-hosted by Cnc (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée) under the umbrella title of “The French Chinese Meetings” which consist of two round-table panel discussions on Saturday May 16th. Variety, Screen International, The Hollywood Reporter and The Chinese Film Market are signed on as supporting media partners.
The Marché du Film China Summit will run from Saturday May 16th to Tuesday May 19th, concluding on the Tuesday evening
with the annual China Night Party, which is to be hosted in partnership with China Movie Channel and Champs Lis International.The Marché du Film will run from May 13th to 22nd.
On announcing the program, Marche du Film Executive Director Jérôme Paillard commented “With the increasing global interest in China’s film industry, combined with the increasing presence of Chinese executives at the Marché du Film, this exclusive 3-day series of conferences and events will help promote business opportunities and international partnerships amongst professionals. It will cover all aspects of partnerships with China, from international co-productions and French-Chinese collaborations to theatrical and VOD distribution.”
The Marché du Film China Summit will commence on the afternoon of Saturday, May 16th with an introduction by Frédérique Bredin(Cnc) and Yin Fu (China Cultural Center in Paris), followed by two round-table panel discussions welcoming Jean-Paul Salome, (Unifrance), Isabelle Glachant (Chinese Shadows), Valérie Lepine-Karnik (Film France) and Franck Priot (Film France), Richard Patry (Fncf), Xavier Castano (Loull Productions), Cary Cheng (Wanda), Michel Ferry (Cinéma des Carmes), Olivier Grandjean (Pathé), Gary Mak (Broadway Cinematheque) and Zhang Rengang (Tianjin North Film Group). The first round-table panel is titled “Attractiveness of French and Chinese Territories” followed by “Strategies of Exhibition and Distribution in France and China, examples of Chinese-French co-productions.”
The Marché du Film China Summit continues on Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th with the support of the Marche’s new leading Summit partner, Deloitte Consulting. Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China, will introduce the discussions, the first of which, on Monday, May 18th, will provide an overview of the Chinese film distribution market, moderated by Patrick Frater (Variety) and welcoming Jeffrey Chan (Bona Film Group), Chen Sijie (Smg Pictures), James Li (Wuzhou Film Distribution Co. ltd) and Lin Ning (WeChat Movie).
The final two round-table panel discussions are scheduled for Tuesday, May 19th, the first focusing on Video On Demand opportunities in China, moderated by Liz Shackleton (Screen International) and welcoming Marc Ganis (Jiaflix Enterprises), David U. Lee (Leeding Media), Li Yansong (iQIYI) and Allen Zhu Huilong (Youku Tudou Inc.). The second session will focus on international production with China, moderated by Clifford Coonan (The Hollywood Reporter) and welcoming Wendy Reeds (Lionsgate International), Shi Nansun (Distribution Workshop), Allen Wang Jun (Yingke Law Firm) and Zhou Yuan (Linmon Pictures).
All the conferences will provide bilingual English-Mandarin simultaneous interpretation.
The Summit will this year include the third edition of the New Chinese Film Talents Fund Forum jointly established in 2013 by Champs Lis lnternational and the Marché du Film. The Forum encourages and supports promising young Chinese filmmakers in their understanding of the global cinema marketplace, of the commercial requirements of the film industry and of their approach of the international production business. Eight projects, selected by a committee of international experts, will be pitched on Monday, May 18th at 2pm. More information on the projects will be announced soon.
Marche du Film Chine Summit Schedule and Information:
1) Subject: The Attractiveness of French and Chinese Territories
Date: Saturday May 16th 15:00-16:30
Venue: Cnc Space, Gray d’Albion Beach
Introductory speeches by Frédérique Bredin, CEO of Cnc, and Yin Fu, Director of the China Cultural Center in Paris. Description: France and China share a common ambition for their film industries. They consider film to have both a cultural and an economic impact. Providing attractive shooting locations and completion of post-production is proven to benefit the local economy. Directly and indirectly the industry creates jobs and, in the long run, tourism benefits from the attractive images that are shown worldwide.
France has considered the issue of territory attractiveness a priority for many years, setting up a network of local film commissions placed under the umbrella of Film France and offering a tax incentive dedicated to foreign pictures. Valérie Lépine and Franck Priot will explain the benefits of such policies and discuss cases of Chinese producers choosing France as a shooting destination.
Moderator: Jean-Paul Salome, President of Unifrance
UniFrance Films is a non-profit organization based in Paris with representatives in Beijing, Mumbai, New York and Tokyo, its aim is to promote French cinema worldwide. This association accompanies French films in the international marketplace, from their sale all the way through to their distribution, and on the international film festival circuit. Elected in 2013 President of Unifrance and re-elected in 2015, Jean-Paul Salomé is a famous French film director and writer.
Panelists to Include:
Isabelle Glachant, Producer and Delegate of Unifrance in China
Producer and Delegate of Unifrance in China, Glachant began her film career with Shanghai Dreams (Jury Prize in Cannes), then worked on the productions of numerous Chinese directors including Li Yu, Lu Chuan, Lou Ye and Wang Xiaoshuai, including 11 Flowers, the first official French-Chinese co-production. Her company Chinese Shadows focuses on Production, through Asian Shadows she represents Asian directors.
Valérie Lepine-Karnik, CEO of Film France
Lépine-Karnik, joined Film France as CEO in 2014. She previously held the position of Deputy Director of the Cinema Department at the Centre National du Cinéma et de L’image Animée (Cnc), after heading the international Federation of Film Producers associations (Fiapf).
Franck Priot, COO of Film France
Priot is Chief Operating Officer of Film France, the French Film Commission. His areas of responsibility include overseeing the Tax rebate for international productions. He is currently the key person spearheading Film France’s efforts to increase relationships with China, having worked with on numerous Chinese films and TV series, including Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac and Leon Lai’s Wine War.
2) Subject: Strategies of Exhibition and Distribution in France and China, Examples of Sino-French Co-Productions
Date: Saturday May 16th 16:30-18:00
Venue: Cnc Space, Gray d’Albion Beach
Description: Since the April 2010 French-Chinese Co-production agreement was signed, two French directors have shot their films in Chinese in China. The Nightingale and The Wolf Totem are pictures of different natures, but for both directors, the experience of working in China was both challenging and rewarding. This accomplishment was particularly impressive in the case of The Wolf Totem, which found great success at the box office in France and in China. The round table will discuss the issues of distribution and exhibition in France and in China. Can art houses and commercial theaters co-exist and draw large audiences in both countries? How do co-produced films succeed at the box office?
Moderator: Richard Patry, President of the French Cinema Exhibitors’ Association
Patry has served as President of the French Cinema Exhibitors’ association since January 2013 and was unanimously re-elected in January 2015. He is also CEO of Noe Cinémas which operates 62 screens in Normandy, the East of France and in the Paris region, and President of the grouping of Normandy Cinemas, a professional organization which brings together cinemas across the region’s 5 departments. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Festival de Cannes.
Panelists to Include:
Xavier Castano, Loull Productions
Cary Cheng, Head of International Production & Development, Wanda
Michel Ferry, Cinéma des Carmes
Olivier Grandjean, Head of exhibition, Pathé
Gary Mak, CEO of Broadway Cinematheque
Zhang Rengang, CEO of Tianjin North Film Group
3) Subject: Chines Film Market Overview
Date: Monday May 18th 10:00-12:00
Venues: Cinema Olympia 1
Media Partner: Variety
Description: With the great development of the Chinese theatrical network, China strengthens its position as the world’s second largest box office market. High profile panelists will illustrate the preferences and characteristics of Chinese audiences, the distribution protocols and the influence of marketing strategies on movie success.
Moderator: Patrick Frater, Asia Bureau Chief, Variety
Patrick Frater has over 20 years of experience writing about and analyzing the international film industry. He was Asia editor of Variety between 2005 and 2009 and re-joined the publication in July 2013. In 2010, he co-founded regional film trade publication Film Business Asia and consultancy firm F Media. He travels widely within the Asia-Pacific region, and is a regular radio pundit, conference host and public speaker.
Panelists to Include:
Jeffrey Chan, COO and Board member of Bona Film Group
Jeffrey Chan has over 20 years of experience in the film distribution and entertainment industry (Media Asia Holdings Limited, Pccw/Cable & Wireless Ltd). He joined Bona Film in 2008 and co-founded Distribution Workshop, a Hk based joint venture subsidiary of Bona. Bona Film Group is a leading film distributor in China, with an integrated business model encompassing film distribution, production, exhibition and talent representation.
James Li, General Manager of Wuzhou Film Distribution Co., ltd
James Li has worked in China’s film industry over the past 17 years, and has overseen and distributed over 200 films in China. He served as the Director of Film Distribution Department at Wanda Media from 2011. At the end of 2014, Wanda Media, Dadi Times Film Distributor, Guangzhou Jinyi International Cinemas, and Hengdian World Studios co-founded the Wuzhou Company which is a leading company in media industry focusing on film distribution, film marketing and branding.
Lin Ning, Founder of Beijing Weying Technology Co,Ltd,( WeChat Movie).
Lin Ning is an entrepreneur of internet and media who founded Weying in 2014. Their product Weipiao has covered more than 300 cities in China within a year, linked to 3500 cinema and 1200 theater's ticket system. As the exclusive service company embedded in WeChat with 700 million users, Weying’s marketing distribution model based on social networking has gained a large popularity among most distributors and producers.
Chen Sijie, CEO, Smg Pictures
With experiences in journalism and the world wide web industries, Chen Sijie is a major figure in the new media industry. Established in 2011, Smg Pictures is majority owned by Shanghai Media group, the 2nd largest media conglomerate in China. Smg Pictures conducts diversified business in the filmed entertainment industry, such as script development, production, distribution and entertainment marketing. Smg Pictures has a partnership with international mainstream media and production houses.
(Introduction by Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China)
4) Subject: Video on Demand Opportunities in China
Date: Tuesday May 19th 10:00-12:00
Venues: Cinema Olympia 1
Media Partner: Screen Intentional
Description: Due to its rapid growth, the Chinese VOD market attracts the attention of professionals from the world over. New key players in this booming industry will talk about their business strategies, present characteristics of the Chinese audience and share their experiences.
Moderator: Liz Shackleton, Asia Editor, Screen International
Liz Shackleton is Screen’s Asia Editor based in Hong Kong. She is also the founder of Chime Consulting, which helps Western companies and government organisations to work with the fast-developing Chinese and Indian film industries. She was also recently appointed as Asia Programmer and Producer for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Panelists to Include:
Marc Ganis, President, CEO and Co-Founder of Jiaflix Enterprises
Marc Ganis, co-founder of Jiaflix Enterprises, has been active in China for more than a decade in the capital markets, sports and entertainment sectors. In partnership with China Movie Channel/CCTV6 and its digital subsidiary 1905.com, Jiaflix has established Wow Cinema, a subscription and pay-per-view portal in China. Ganis has established with Jiaflix an affordable monthly subscription fee and developed strong anti-piracy efforts.
David U. Lee, Founder and CEO of Leeding Media
David U.Lee is one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs who successfully bridges the U.S. and China film industries. Under his leadership, Leeding Media has become an experienced marketer of international films in China. The company helped the subscription streaming service between Alibaba Group and Lionsgate. It also controls the exclusive digital distribution rights to the Lakeshore, Myriad, Im Global, Voltage, Exclusive Media and Sierra/Affinity libraries.
Li Yansong VP of iQIYI, President of iQIYI Motion Pictures
Li Yansong was one of the first to join the newly founded iQIYI in 2010. iQIYI, one of China's leading online video platforms, has successfully set up China’s first copyrighted video library covering diverse contents including movie, TV drama, variety show, comic, documentary etc. After managing iQIYI's Film Channel Division, he was recently appointed as President of iQIYI Motion Pictures as well as Vice President of iQIYI.
Allen Zhu HuilongSVP of Youku Tudou Inc. & CEO of Heyi Film
Zhu Huilong has joined Youku in 2006 and was a driving force to advance Subscription video-on-demand model in mainland China in 2009. Youku Tudou Inc., China’s leading Internet television company, has gradually set cooperation with major Hollywood studios for content acquisition and it began from 2012 to focus on trade cooperation between the Internet and the film industry. From 2014, Zhu Huilong became also the CEO of Heyi Film, a production company, wholly owned by Youku Tudou.
(Introduction by Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China)
5) Subject: International Production with China
Date: Tuesday May 19th 15:00-17:00
Venues: Cinema Olympia 1
Media Partner: The Hollywood Reporter
Description: International co-productions come under different arrangements. How is it with China, under a co-production treaty or not? Insiders will discuss the advantages and the pitfalls of co-producing with China. And how to co-produce films for the Chinese market, and abroad.
Moderator: Clifford Coonan, Asia Bureau Chief, The Hollywood Reporter
Clifford Coonan has worked as a correspondent in China for over a decade, enjoying a front-row seat on this world's second biggest movie market and on the fastest growing entertainment sector on the planet: Asia. Before moving to Beijing, he was a Reuters correspondent for seven years. He is widely published in The Irish Times, The Independent, Variety and The Times and has appeared on BBC Radio and NPR.
Panelists to Include:
Wendy Reed, Evp, International Sales of Lionsgate International
A 20-year int’l sales and distribution veteran, Wendy Reeds is in charge of licensing films in all of Asia, including China. For many
years, she ran Celestial Tiger Entertainment out of Hong Kong. She has been instrumental in building Lionsgate’s operations in
China, with 17 films released over the past 3 years. Lionsgate recently announced a multifaceted partnership with Hunan TV for slate financing, film production and distribution, and a content licensing agreement with The Alibaba Group
Shi Nansun Chairman, Distribution Workshop
Shi Nansun has produced such blockbusters as The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D and Young Detective Dee – Rise of the Sea Dragon. She founded Cinema City and Film Workshop Co Ltd. with acclaimed Producer/Director Tsui Hark. She was a member of the International Jury at the Berlinale 2007. She was a jury member at the 2011 Festival de Cannes. In 2013, she received the French title of Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2014, she was awarded as Best Independent Producer at Locarno Film Festival.
Allen Wang Jun, Senior Partner of Yingke Law Firm
Allen Wang has been named an Asia-Pacific leading Tmt/Entertainment lawyer consecutively for the last three years. He was named amongst the Top 15 Litigators in China in 2015. He represents more than 20 of the leading Chinese entertainment including Huayi Brothers, Hunan TV, Alibaba’s Entertainment Investment, Kofic and more. Yingke Law Firm is one of the largest Chinese law firms with over 25 offices across China and 24 international offices.
Zhou Yuan, Evp of Linmon Pictures
Zhou Yuan was the former Head of Motion Pictures of Smg Pictures, where he built up the company's film business by investing in project development, expanding distribution networks, delivering integrated marketing services as well as establishing an intimate relationship with international partners .In August 2014, he left Smg Pictures and founded Linmon Pictures, a new generation entertainment company invested by China's largest Internet service provider Tencent. As the Executive Vice President, he is responsible for the Motion Pictures business, Corporate Strategy and Investment.
(Introduction by Hou Po, Partner of Deloitte Consulting, Tmt Leader of Deloitte China)...
- 5/9/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Lou Ye's Blind Massage was named Best Film at the 9th Asian Film Awards, which were announced at a star-studded ceremony at The Venetian in Macau last night. The film also won the Best Cinematographer award. Jiang Wen's glitzy period piece Gone With The Bullets was the big winner of the night, however, taking home a trio of technical awards for its Production design, Costumes and Visual Effects.Liao Fan was named Best Actor for Black Coal, Thin Ice, which also bagged the Best Screenwriter award for director Diao Yinan, while South Korean actress Bae Doo-na won the Best Actress prize for A Girl At My Door. Ann Hui took home the Best Director for The Golden Era, which was also awarded the Best Supporting...
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- 3/26/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Lou Ye’s Blind Massage won best film at the Asian Film Awards in Macau on Tuesday night, while Ann Hui won best director for The Golden Era.
Hui’s biopic of writer Xiao Hong also picked up best supporting actor for Wang Zhiwen’s performance, while Blind Massage also won best cinematography for the work of Zeng Jian.
Liao Fan (pictured at left) was awarded best actor for Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, which also won best screenwriter for Diao’s script.
Best actress went to Korea’s Bae Doo-na (pictured at right) for A Girl At My Door, while Japan’s Ikewaki Chizuru won best supporting actress for The Light Shines Only There. The best newcomer went to Zhang Huiwen for her role in Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home.
Jiang Wen’s Gone With The Bullets was a multiple winner in the technical categories, picking up best VFX (Rick Sander and Christoph Zollinger...
Hui’s biopic of writer Xiao Hong also picked up best supporting actor for Wang Zhiwen’s performance, while Blind Massage also won best cinematography for the work of Zeng Jian.
Liao Fan (pictured at left) was awarded best actor for Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, which also won best screenwriter for Diao’s script.
Best actress went to Korea’s Bae Doo-na (pictured at right) for A Girl At My Door, while Japan’s Ikewaki Chizuru won best supporting actress for The Light Shines Only There. The best newcomer went to Zhang Huiwen for her role in Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home.
Jiang Wen’s Gone With The Bullets was a multiple winner in the technical categories, picking up best VFX (Rick Sander and Christoph Zollinger...
- 3/26/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Feature marks first co-production between Chile, Japan and France.
Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is launching a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming feature Endless Poetry (Poesia Sin Fin), which marks the first ever co-production between Chile, Japan and France.
Paris-based Satori Films is joining forces with Chile’s Le Soleil Films and Japan’s Uplink Co on the Spanish-language project, a continuation of Jodorowsky’s autobiographical The Dance Of Reality, which premiered in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in 2013.
The Kickstarter campaign will be launched on February 15, with an announcement by Jodorowsky on YouTube Live (http://www.poesiasinfin.com).
While The Dance Of Reality focused on Jodorowsky’s unhappy childhood in Tocopilla, on the edge of the Atacama Desert, Endless Poetry revolves around his life as a poet in Santiago during the 1940s.
His sons, Adan and Brontis Jodorowsky, will star in the film, which Jodorowsky plans to shoot in Chile this summer. His partner...
Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is launching a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming feature Endless Poetry (Poesia Sin Fin), which marks the first ever co-production between Chile, Japan and France.
Paris-based Satori Films is joining forces with Chile’s Le Soleil Films and Japan’s Uplink Co on the Spanish-language project, a continuation of Jodorowsky’s autobiographical The Dance Of Reality, which premiered in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in 2013.
The Kickstarter campaign will be launched on February 15, with an announcement by Jodorowsky on YouTube Live (http://www.poesiasinfin.com).
While The Dance Of Reality focused on Jodorowsky’s unhappy childhood in Tocopilla, on the edge of the Atacama Desert, Endless Poetry revolves around his life as a poet in Santiago during the 1940s.
His sons, Adan and Brontis Jodorowsky, will star in the film, which Jodorowsky plans to shoot in Chile this summer. His partner...
- 2/5/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Terence Chang, Philippe Bober and Naomi Kawase are among the producers of the 30 projects selected for this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 23-25).
Bober, one of the Europe’s most respected producers and distributors, is teaming up with award-winning Chinese director Lou Ye to produce Riddle from Zhou Hao, whose debut The Night screened at Berlinale 2014.
Chang, the longtime producing partner of John Woo, is co-producing coming-of-age drama That Summer, to be directed by new mainland Chinese talent Zhou Quan. Meanwhile, Kawase is serving as producer on a project to be directed by Cuba’s Carlos Machado Quintela, which is being made in collaboration with the Nara International Film Festival.
The Haf line-up also includes five projects from Hong Kong filmmakers of different generations. Following Doomsday Party, Ho Hong is returning to Haf with suspense drama Lost In Border, while Gilitte Leung is attending for the first time with inspirational sports drama Breathing...
Bober, one of the Europe’s most respected producers and distributors, is teaming up with award-winning Chinese director Lou Ye to produce Riddle from Zhou Hao, whose debut The Night screened at Berlinale 2014.
Chang, the longtime producing partner of John Woo, is co-producing coming-of-age drama That Summer, to be directed by new mainland Chinese talent Zhou Quan. Meanwhile, Kawase is serving as producer on a project to be directed by Cuba’s Carlos Machado Quintela, which is being made in collaboration with the Nara International Film Festival.
The Haf line-up also includes five projects from Hong Kong filmmakers of different generations. Following Doomsday Party, Ho Hong is returning to Haf with suspense drama Lost In Border, while Gilitte Leung is attending for the first time with inspirational sports drama Breathing...
- 2/4/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
While the first half of 2014 produced a number of genuinely impressive Asian films, including The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, The Raid 2 and Black Coal, Thin Ice, the second half of the year felt a little lacklustre to me. A number of potentially high profile titles, like Sono Sion's Tokyo Tribe, Miike Takashi's Over Your Dead Body, Ning Hao's Breakup Buddies and John Woo's The Crossing failed to make a connection with me. I have also yet to see a few potential candidates, including Ann Hui's The Golden Era, Kim Han-min's Roaring Currents, Jiang Wen's Gone With The Bullets and Lou Ye's Blind Massage.However, that is not to say that the back end of 2014 was completely without merit. Below you'll find a...
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- 1/1/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Chinese director Lou Ye's Blind Massage swept Taiwan's Golden Horse movie awards, picking up six gongs including best picture at the event often described as the Chinese-language Oscars. Based on the popular novel by Bi Feiyu, Blind Massage (Tui Na in Chinese) is set in Nanjing, a mid-ranking city in China not too far from Shanghai, and it refers to a popular kind of massage given by blind therapists in China. The film won the feature film, cinematography, film editing, adapted screenplay and sound effects categories, while Zhang Lei won best new performer. Lou's censorship history is well known–
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- 11/24/2014
- by Clifford Coonan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's your annual report of the Oscars of the Chinese world, the 51st annual Golden Horse Awards. Unfortunately this year had little crossover in terms of what made it into Us theaters. There's generally at least a few winners/nominees that opened in the Us. This year only one as far as I can tell - the Oscar submission The Golden Era though the Gong Li vehicle Coming Home will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics supposedly at some point.
It was a big night for Lou Ye's Blind Massage, a rough night for acclaimed festival hit Black Coal Thin Ice and just your regular Saturday night for Ann Hui who took home her third (third!) Best Director prize for the Oscar submission The Golden Era. It wasn't a good year for the internationally recognizable acting contenders: Tang Wei (The Golden Era) and Gong Li (Coming Home) lost to...
It was a big night for Lou Ye's Blind Massage, a rough night for acclaimed festival hit Black Coal Thin Ice and just your regular Saturday night for Ann Hui who took home her third (third!) Best Director prize for the Oscar submission The Golden Era. It wasn't a good year for the internationally recognizable acting contenders: Tang Wei (The Golden Era) and Gong Li (Coming Home) lost to...
- 11/23/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Lou Ye’s Blind Massage was the big winner at this year’s Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, scooping six prizes including best film and best new performer for Zhang Lei.Scroll down for full list of winners
The mainland China production also won best adapted screenplay (Ma Yingli), best cinematography (Zeng Jian), best film editing (Kong Jinlei, Jolin Zhu) and best sound effects (Fu Kang).
Ann Hui won best director for historical biopic The Golden Era, while best original screenplay went to Yee Chih-yen for Meeting Dr Sun.
Chen Jianbin won best new director and best actor for A Fool, along with best supporting actor for Paradise In Service, which also took the best supporting actress prize for Regina Wan’s performance. Chen Hsiang-chi took best actress for Exit.
Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After won best visual effects and Liu Qiang was awarded best art direction for Black Coal, Thin Ice. Brotherhood...
The mainland China production also won best adapted screenplay (Ma Yingli), best cinematography (Zeng Jian), best film editing (Kong Jinlei, Jolin Zhu) and best sound effects (Fu Kang).
Ann Hui won best director for historical biopic The Golden Era, while best original screenplay went to Yee Chih-yen for Meeting Dr Sun.
Chen Jianbin won best new director and best actor for A Fool, along with best supporting actor for Paradise In Service, which also took the best supporting actress prize for Regina Wan’s performance. Chen Hsiang-chi took best actress for Exit.
Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After won best visual effects and Liu Qiang was awarded best art direction for Black Coal, Thin Ice. Brotherhood...
- 11/23/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Lou Ye's Blind Massage won six prizes at last night's Golden Horse awards in Taipei, including Best Feature Film, Best New Performer and Best Adapted Screenplay. Hong Kong's Ann Hui was named Best Director for The Golden Era, while Chen Jian-bin won the Best Actor prize for A Fool and Chen Shiang Chyi won Best Actress for Exit.Regarded as the most prestigious awards ceremony for Chinese language cinema, the Golden Horse awards are now in their 51st year, and were handed out at a star-studded affair last night in the Taiwanese capital. While Blind Massage also collected awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Sound Effects, actor Chen Jian-bin enjoyed a fantastic night. He was named Best New Director as well as Best Actor for...
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- 11/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has said it will expand the country’s quota for mainland Chinese films to also include arthouse and award-winning Chinese titles.
Taiwan has a strict quota of just 10 mainland films a year, which are currently selected annually on a lottery basis.
Under the new ruling, which became effective on October 30, Taiwan will import mainland films of artistic merit, that have won major awards, outside of the annual ten-picture quota. Major awards are defined as prizes in the main sections of the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals, the Academy Awards or best film or best director at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards.
That would open the door to films such as Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, which won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin film festival and Lou Ye’s Blind Massage, which won a Berlin Silver Bear for cinematography.
Previously, films such as...
Taiwan has a strict quota of just 10 mainland films a year, which are currently selected annually on a lottery basis.
Under the new ruling, which became effective on October 30, Taiwan will import mainland films of artistic merit, that have won major awards, outside of the annual ten-picture quota. Major awards are defined as prizes in the main sections of the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals, the Academy Awards or best film or best director at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards.
That would open the door to films such as Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, which won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin film festival and Lou Ye’s Blind Massage, which won a Berlin Silver Bear for cinematography.
Previously, films such as...
- 11/14/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
From Focus Features comes the inspirational drama The Theory Of Everything. Starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones, the opens in select cities this Friday, November 7th.
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, director James Marsh went with Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson...
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, director James Marsh went with Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson...
- 11/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival's executive committee on Friday announced its nominees for the 51st Golden Horse Awards, widely regarded as Asia's most prestigious film awards. Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice , which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, leads the way in terms of nominations with eight, including for best feature film, best director, best leading actor and best leading actress. Lou Ye's Blind Massage, which picked up the Silver Bear honor in Berlin, got seven Golden Horse nominations. Taiwanese sports themed period piece Kano grabbed six. Read more Fox International Channels to Air
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- 10/3/2014
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Experts at the Asia Film Summit in Toronto discussed the growth and current issues in Asia and finding the key to cracking the East-West conundrum.
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
- 9/11/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Experts at the Asia Film Summit in Toronto discussed the growth and current issues in Asia and finding the key to cracking the East-West conundrum.
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
- 9/11/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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