Film industry relations between China and Europe have been kept alive throughout the coronavirus outbreak by Bridging The Dragon, an informal trade organization now in its sixth year.
After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November. Travel restrictions and the cancelation of in-person film festivals and markets put paid to those ideas.
Knowledge-sharing, Btd’s core concern, can be achieved online as millions of students around the world have learned. And re-conceiving the organization’s autumn event as a virtual conference, not only allowed the connections to be kept intact, but even to be expanded. A delegation of New Zealand producers joined the virtual event for the first time with some participating in another first, informal coaching sessions.
The autumn edition included 90 participants who gathered for a series...
After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November. Travel restrictions and the cancelation of in-person film festivals and markets put paid to those ideas.
Knowledge-sharing, Btd’s core concern, can be achieved online as millions of students around the world have learned. And re-conceiving the organization’s autumn event as a virtual conference, not only allowed the connections to be kept intact, but even to be expanded. A delegation of New Zealand producers joined the virtual event for the first time with some participating in another first, informal coaching sessions.
The autumn edition included 90 participants who gathered for a series...
- 12/23/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Country’s Trip incentive rises to 40% from 30% for big VFX-related spending.
France has bolstered the incentives it offers international productions, with an enhanced rebate for large-scale works which generate at least $2.2m (€2m) in VFX-related spending in France.
Under the move, the rebate for eligible incoming productions will rise to 40% from 30%.
The bolstered rebate falls within the scope of the country’s Tax Rebate for International Production (Trip), aimed at internationally-backed films and high-end series shooting fully or partly in France, which was launched in 2012.
The rebate for all other live-action productions without a large VFX spend in France will...
France has bolstered the incentives it offers international productions, with an enhanced rebate for large-scale works which generate at least $2.2m (€2m) in VFX-related spending in France.
Under the move, the rebate for eligible incoming productions will rise to 40% from 30%.
The bolstered rebate falls within the scope of the country’s Tax Rebate for International Production (Trip), aimed at internationally-backed films and high-end series shooting fully or partly in France, which was launched in 2012.
The rebate for all other live-action productions without a large VFX spend in France will...
- 6/18/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Movistar Plus action thriller “Riot Police” (“Antidisturbios”), one of the most buzzed up of drama series from Spain this year, at least among the few who have caught its first episodes, will be brought onto the international market at next month’s Conecta Fiction Reboot.
The unveil comes as Movistar Plus, the pay TV/Svod arm of Spain’s Telefonica, fires up its drive to secure overseas markets for its premium drama slate with -reportedly, one of the most propulsive and full-on action-driven of its series, at least in Ep. 1, where a riot police squad is drafted in to carry out an eviction in the heart of a Senegalese community in Madrid. Captured in Ep. 1, their operation goes drastically awry as one protestor dies.
“Riot Police” marks first full series from Rodrigo Sorogoyen, whose kinetic, social-issue movies plumb the gut humanity of homicide police (“May God Save Us) and politicians...
The unveil comes as Movistar Plus, the pay TV/Svod arm of Spain’s Telefonica, fires up its drive to secure overseas markets for its premium drama slate with -reportedly, one of the most propulsive and full-on action-driven of its series, at least in Ep. 1, where a riot police squad is drafted in to carry out an eviction in the heart of a Senegalese community in Madrid. Captured in Ep. 1, their operation goes drastically awry as one protestor dies.
“Riot Police” marks first full series from Rodrigo Sorogoyen, whose kinetic, social-issue movies plumb the gut humanity of homicide police (“May God Save Us) and politicians...
- 5/29/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Ever since France revised its tax rebate for international productions in 2016, local authorities have embarked on a full-court push to attract Chinese projects. In 2019, that campaign saw its most successful expression to date with the arrival of Middle Kingdom mega-production, “The Hunting.”
“In recent years, we’ve welcomed more and more Chinese projects, especially series, but ‘The Hunting’ is really the biggest, and most ambitious film to date,” says Stephan Bender, interim CEO of Film France. “It was a project we knew about since 2016, though it took a few years to put in place. When it did come together, it saw more days of shooting, and brought together more Chinese and French technicians than ever before, marking a real step forward for Chinese productions in France.”
Directed by Leo Zhang (“Bleeding Steel”) and starring acclaimed leading man Tony Leung, this Mandarin-language potboiler shot for nine weeks in the Paris region this past summer.
“In recent years, we’ve welcomed more and more Chinese projects, especially series, but ‘The Hunting’ is really the biggest, and most ambitious film to date,” says Stephan Bender, interim CEO of Film France. “It was a project we knew about since 2016, though it took a few years to put in place. When it did come together, it saw more days of shooting, and brought together more Chinese and French technicians than ever before, marking a real step forward for Chinese productions in France.”
Directed by Leo Zhang (“Bleeding Steel”) and starring acclaimed leading man Tony Leung, this Mandarin-language potboiler shot for nine weeks in the Paris region this past summer.
- 1/16/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
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