To meet the legal needs of Chinese and foreign filmmakers, the Organizing Committee Office of the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) will designate lawyers to provide professional legal counseling to all the participants in the 11th BJIFF.

 

For online consultation, participants can search the booth of "Beijing Tiantai Law Firm" on the website of the Exhibition of the 11th BJIFF.

Headquartered in Beijing, Beijing Tiantai Law Firm has been the exclusive official legal service provider for the BJIFF since its first edition. With 25 offices at home and abroad, as well as more than 800 practicing lawyers, it is an ultra large and general law firm in partnership. After over 20 years of development, it has developed into a firm with a solid foundation, profound deposits, outstanding business performance and a good reputation. Having been named "Outstanding Chinese Law Firm" by the All China Lawyers Association and selected as "Beijing's Outstanding Law Firm" by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and the Beijing Lawyers Association for many consecutive years, it enjoys great influence in the industry.

 

The firm and its teams have provided outstanding legal services in the fields of culture and film & television. Among its customers are competent authorities and industrial associations like the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, China Film Administration, National Copyright Administration, National Press and Publication Administration, National Radio and Television Administration, Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Organizing Committee Office of the BJIFF, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, China Film Fund, China Television Production Committee and Television Screenwriting Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations, China Television Drama Production Industry Association, China Television Artists Association, China Musicians Association, Music Copyright Society of China, China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association, China Audio-Video Copyright Association, China Written Works Copyright Society, China Film Copyright Association and Beijing Representative Office of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), as well as representative domestic cultural enterprises like HLBN, China IPTV, Wo, Beijing Airport Advertising, Joy Leader, Huayi Brothers, Dadi Cinema, Jetavana Entertainment, Modern Sky, Shanghai New Culture Media Group, Hairun Movies & TV Group, Bona Film Group, Tencent Pictures, Beijing Wanda Cultural Industry Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd., Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd., Alibaba Information Technology Co., Ltd., Migu Group, China Record Corporation, Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Agency (Beijing) Ltd. and Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The firm has also provided legal services to overseas customers in China, including Group Publishing, eChinaCash Network Technology Co., Ltd., Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros., Universe Films and EMI. Besides, the firm has provided legal counseling to many A-list stars.

 

As the legal counsel for the Organizing Committee Office of the BJIFF, the culture & entertainment law service team led by senior partner lawyers Zheng Xiaoqiang and Dong Yuanyuan has long focused on providing legal services to the culture, film & television, media and entertainment industry, including full-process legal services for the development, investment & financing, shooting, promotion, distribution and derivative equity operation of domestic and overseas film & television projects, legal services for the establishment and strategic planning of film & television enterprises, legal services for the domestic and overseas capital operation of film & television enterprises, legal services for copyright registration agency and copyright management, legal services for film & television arbitration and litigation, etc. The team has provided legal services for the investment, shooting, production, distribution and derivative operation of hundreds of film & television projects. Among these projects are films such as Lost in Russia, My People, My Homeland, My People, My Country, Dying to Survive, Lost in Hong Kong, Adoring, A or B, How Long Will I Love U, Beloved, One Night Stud, The Composer (the first co-production between China and Kazakhstan), The Nightingale (Sino-French co-production) and Monk Xuanzang (Sino-Indian co-production), TV series such as Blade Attacking, Five Tigers of Shanghai, The Legendary Sniper, Seeking Holy Guiguzi, On Our Way Home and Run for Love, as well as TV programs like Lost in Food.

 

Profiles of Legal Counsels for the Organizing Committee Office of the BJIFF:

Lawyer Zheng Xiaoqiang:

 

Zheng Xiaoqiang is a legal counsel for the Organizing Committee Office of the BJIFF, a senior partner of Beijing Tiantai Law Firm, the founder of Tianze Entertainment Law, an expert invited for the national seminar on culture and film & television copyright legislation, one of the Top Ten Young Leaders in Cultural Law Services selected by the All China Lawyers Association, a member of the Committee of Professional Ethics Construction in TV Circles and Vice Chairman of the Culture & Tourism Law Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association.

 

Zheng has served competent authorities and industrial associations, renowned culture & entertainment enterprises and individual customers, major culture & entertainment and film & television projects, large culture & entertainment and film & television performances and new media operators, and settled a lot of influential disputes, so as to effectively safeguard the rights and interests of parties involved. At the invitation of the National People's Congress and other institutions, he has attended national seminars on the legislation of culture, film & television and copyright. He has been interviewed or reported many times by media outlets like CCTV, Xinhua News Agency and Voice of China, offering opinions on legal issues involved in social focuses in the fields of culture, film & television and entertainment.

Lawyer Dong Yuanyuan:

 

Dong Yuanyuan is a legal counsel for the Organizing Committee Office of the BJIFF and a senior partner of Beijing Tiantai Law Firm. Having been rated as a leading lawyer in the field of entertainment and sport laws by Legal Band, ranked as a recommended lawyer in the field of media and entertainment by Chambers and Partners, selected as one of the Top Ten Young Leaders in Cultural Law Services by the All-China Lawyers Association and elected as an executive council member of the Beijing Entertainment Law Society for many consecutive years, she enjoys great influence and popularity in the industry. She led the research on the legal issues of film and television organized by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China, participated in the research on the model of completion guaranty insurance of films and television in China organized by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, attended a seminar on the Law on the Promotion of the Cultural Industry and translated Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry: From Negotiations to Final Contracts, a book on the entertainment law. She has served more than 100 cultural, entertainment and Internet companies over the past 16 years, providing legal services covering project development, investment & financing, production, post production, distribution and sales for over 100 film & television works.

Contact Information:

 

Lawyer Zheng Xiaoqiang Mobile: 18610817511 E-mail: zxqlawyer@foxmail.com

Lawyer Dong Yuanyuan Mobile: 13911057981 E-mail: dongyy@tiantailaw.com