China’s film market box office hit a new high in 2017, with box office structure seeing a new trend. How will the Chinese film market realize the progress from “large output” to “high quality”? Setting foot on the feasible demands of filmmakers both at home and abroad, linking up exchange and cooperation between industrial factors, the Film Market of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival will arrange four Industry Conversations, focusing on IP values, creative talents, industrialized production and distribution related topics, in a bid to provide a platform of ideological collision for professionals.
The four Industry Conversations of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival Film Market have respective emphases in topics, which jointly attach importance to the benign development of the Chinese film industry in terms of utilizing data to support film IP evaluation, supporting and cultivating film-making talents, reforming distribution and screening, and improving the soft power of genre film creation.
Ent Group shall propose the significance of big data for high-quality film IP development by taking “Analysis Chinese movie' heart - The value of big data in the IP developing” as the subject and getting started in the perspective of serving filmmakers. How will the consumption market upgrade affect the audiences’ hobbies? How will China’s genre films fare ahead? People will find the answer through this conversation.
Excellent young filmmakers have become the key power of bringing about industrial upgrade in time of the Chinese film market’s expansion and optimization. The second Industry Conversation will carry out discussion on this theme: “Carrying Forward the Craftsmanship Spirit · How to Perfect the New Directors Supporting System of Chinese Film Market, and Create a Film Industralization Road with High Standard”. By then, the principals of domestic film welfare institutions and commercial film & TV platforms will exchange their ideas on tapping and supporting young directors.
The Industry Conversations undertaken by Motion Picture Association of America will consist of two parts, emphatically discussing “Market Trends in Film Distribution and Exhibition” and “Industrialized Ecological Construction of the Chinese film production”, and transversely carrying out discourses on reforms of film distribution and screening mode and construction of a healthy and ideal industrialized production and management system, etc.
The last Industry Conversation will focus on “Development and Creation of Genre Film 2018”, carrying out comparisons on genre film creations. Bianjubang is to invite Hollywood Script Blacklist founder Franklin Leonard as well as Chinese excellent scriptwriters, directors, and first-rank film & TV companies’ producers to jointly offer strategies and suggestions and discuss the development and creation of genre films.
The Film Market of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival will kick off on April 18th. As an important sector of Film Market, Industry Conversations will make full of its function of weather vane for the film market by building up a pluralistic and inclusive platform and pooling domestic and foreign experts, scholars and industrial leaders to probe into the industrial hotspots and discuss the frontier trends, igniting a storm of conversations.