LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) — The nineteenth Chinese American Film Festival and the Chinese American Television Festival kicked off right here Wednesday night.
Nearly 1,000 contributors gathered within the Sheraton Los Angeles San Gabriel for the cultural occasion, which goals to advertise movie and tv business exchanges and cooperation between China and the United States.
This 12 months’s festivals obtained over 500 movie and tv entries. A complete of 10 movies gained the Golden Angel Award on the occasion, together with “No More Bets,” “Lost in Stars,” “Hidden Blade,” “Manifesto,” and “Face in the Crowd.”
The Best Film Award went to “The Wandering Earth II,” whereas the Best China and U.S. Co-Production Film Award went to “The Meg 2: The Trench.”
Four American films gained the Most Popular U.S. Film in China Award, together with Disney Pictures’ “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” Universal Pictures’ “Fast X,” Paramount Pictures’ “Transformers: Rise of the Beats” and Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse.”
Founded in 2005 by EDI Media Inc., the annual occasion is often held in Los Angeles each November.
The Los Angeles County Office has named November as “Chinese American Film Festival and Chinese American Television Festival Month.”
A collection of panels will likely be held through the festivals, bringing collectively professionals within the Chinese and American movie and tv industries to share their experiences and focus on cooperation.
In a video handle on the opening ceremony, Yang Guorui, deputy director of China’s National Radio and Television Administration, stated that over the previous 19 years, the Chinese-American movie and TV festivals have arrange a profitable platform for China-U.S. exchanges and cooperation within the audiovisual business.
“We are willing to positively bring about co-productions with our American counterparts to present more high-quality content to the people of both countries and the international audience; explore better cooperation models and jointly develop high-quality services and products; promote experience exchanges and talent training, and jointly address opportunities and challenges brought by new technologies and new business formats,” he stated.
Calling the exchanges within the movie and TV industries an vital a part of China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges, Guo Shaochun, Chinese consul basic in Los Angeles, stated movie and TV works assist individuals from each international locations higher perceive one another’s tradition and traditions, which in flip, deepens friendship between the peoples of each international locations.
“Being the world’s top film markets, China and the U.S. have a big job. It’s not just about making and sharing outstanding movies and TV shows, but also about working together even harder. We should, through co-productions, team up to create more films and series that can attract and touch the audiences in both countries and the world,” he stated.