Beijing International Film Festival - Beijing Film Factor Market

In economics, typically, “market” means the aggregate of possible buyers and sellers of a certain good or service and the transactions between them. It is in this sense that the traditional film market mainly caters to the demand for transactions between the major links of the film industry chain, leading to the formation of a variety of sub-markets including “script market”, “film market”, “distribution market”, and “film derivatives and licensing market”, among others.

As China is now the world’s second largest film market and third largest film producer, in addition to traditional film transactions, there also exists in the country a huge demand for collaborations centering around film production. To meet this demand, the Beijing International Film Festival- Beijing Film Market, based on China’s unique conditions, has successfully created the country’s first comprehensive transaction and collaboration platform covering the entire film industry chain- the “Film Factor Market”- by matching and merging the demand for traditional film transactions and production collaborations with each relevant factor of the film industry chain.

In addition to such traditional types of market as “script market”, “film market”, “distribution market”, and “derivative and licensing market”, the Beijing International Film Festival - Beijing Film Market also includes a “production collaboration market”.