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In film market, China allures but also deters

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 21:15
In just a few years, China has become the world's most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts say. Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, according to specialists interviewed in China, Hong Kong and at the Cannes Film Festival. "China is extremely complicated when it comes to the cinema," said Jerome Paillard, director of the Marche du Film, or Movie Market, a meeting point at Cannes that gathers 10,000 buyers and sellers in the world cinema business.

In film market, China allures but also deters

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 21:15
In just a few years, China has become the world's most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts say. Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, according to specialists interviewed in China, Hong Kong and at the Cannes Film Festival. "China is extremely complicated when it comes to the cinema," said Jerome Paillard, director of the Marche du Film, or Movie Market, a meeting point at Cannes that gathers 10,000 buyers and sellers in the world cinema business.

In film market, China allures but also deters

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 21:15
In just a few years, China has become the world's most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts say. Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, according to specialists interviewed in China, Hong Kong and at the Cannes Film Festival. "China is extremely complicated when it comes to the cinema," said Jerome Paillard, director of the Marche du Film, or Movie Market, a meeting point at Cannes that gathers 10,000 buyers and sellers in the world cinema business.

In film market, China allures but also deters

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 20:45
In just a few years, China has become the world's most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts say. Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, according to specialists interviewed in China, Hong Kong and at the Cannes Film Festival. "China is extremely complicated when it comes to the cinema," said Jerome Paillard, director of the Marche du Film, or Movie Market, a meeting point at Cannes that gathers 10,000 buyers and sellers in the world cinema business.

In film market, China allures but also deters

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 22:01
In just a few years, China has become the world's most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts say. Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, according to specialists interviewed in China, Hong Kong and at the Cannes Film Festival. "China is extremely complicated when it comes to the cinema," said Jerome Paillard, director of the Marche du Film, or Movie Market, a meeting point at Cannes that gathers 10,000 buyers and sellers in the world cinema business.

At Cannes, shock movie tests China's boundaries

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 23:01
Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to rape her. And a young man drifts nightmarishly from job to job to try to make ends meet. These tableaux would not be out of place in a gritty European art-house movie, but at the Cannes Film Festival, they feature in one of the boldest works to emerge from China in years.

Chinese filmmaker in the hot seat for having 7 kids

Agencia EFEMay 9, 2013 18:45
Beijing, May 9 (EFE).- Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, famous for films such as "The Red Lantern," has become the target for much criticism after several media outlets accused him of flouting Beijing's one-child policy by fathering seven kids. The South China Morning Post reported Thursday that Zhang, 61, could be fined more than $26 million if the accusations - which first appeared in the Chongqing Evening News - are confirmed.

Report: Chinese director investigated for allegedly fathering 7 kids despite 1-child policy

The Canadian PressMay 9, 2013 04:45
BEIJING, China - Authorities are investigating whether one of China's top film directors has fathered seven children in violation of the country's strict family planning laws, state media and a local official said Thursday. Media reports circulated online this week that Zhang Yimou, who is also known as the architect of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, has seven children from his two marriages and from relationships with two other women.

French cinema shines hopeful spotlight on China

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 05:15
Cinema is one of France's greatest cultural exports but one market -- China -- remains largely untapped, and the industry is hoping President Francois Hollande can help pull the curtain back this week. Hollande arrives for his first state visit to Beijing on Thursday, in the starry trail of recent French visitors including movie directors such as Luc Besson and Jean-Jacques Annaud, and actors including Anne Parillaud.

Keep up censorship fight, urges acclaimed Chinese filmmaker

March 2, 2013 00:15
Chinese filmmakers must fight censorship even if it means removing their name from their own work, one-time banned Chinese director Lou Ye told AFP in an interview ahead of this month's Asian Film Awards in which his crime thriller "Mystery" has been nominated in six categories. Banned in 2006 from filming in China for five years, Lou's latest picture tackles the subject of a new breed of wealthy and middle income men in post-socialist China for whom taking a mistress is the norm, in a practice that harks back to imperial China.
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