A Sino-foreign co-production, simply put, is a contractual arrangement between a foreign party and a Chinese party to conduct filming in China. There may be multiple parties on each side, provided that the Chinese party/parties must be production entity/entities accredited by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) (for details, see “Structuring a Sino-foreign co-production”). For purposes of Sino-foreign co-production, investors or producers from the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administration Regions and the territory of Taiwan are considered as overseas parties.

Relationship of the parties.

The parties to a Sino-foreign co-production organize and conduct affairs of the co-production, including division of rights and obligations, in accordance with the co-production agreement entered into between them. The parties do not set up a separate entity for purposes of the co-production.

Approval.

All Sino-foreign co-productions must obtain the approval granted by the SARFT before any filming activity commences, and when the film is completed (that is, the censorship approval). Every co-production project can only be directed at producing and shooting one film, and a separate application is required for each project. The approvals are granted on a case-by-case basis depending on the relevant authority’s review of, among other things, the screenplay and the completed film. The regulatory regime captures all film genres and all formats in which filming will be conducted.

Governing authority.

The governing authority for Sino-foreign co-production is the SARFT, in particular, the Film Bureau of the SARFT. Nevertheless, the SARFT has appointed China Film Co-production Corporation (CFCC) as its sole agent to assist in managing and coordinating the applications, conducting preliminary review of the screenplay and completed film, and other logistical matters relating to Sino-foreign co-productions.

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As the main part of the 15th Shanghai TV Festival, the final of the 3rd “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” will be held through this international platform from 8th, June to 11th, June 2009, including two-day master training and one-and-a-half-day international proposal bidding along with an award ceremony. The 250 proposals the organizing committee has received are rich in subject, extensive in perspective, and attentive to folkways and folk customs. All these documentary proposals also attach great importance to social reality, arts ecology and political & economic phenomena.

At present, 15 nominees have just been selected, and they are The Story of Milk: culture and gene, The Lake, The Post Couple, A Hard Dream, The Community, The psychologist, The Three Gorges, The different Competition, The accident is always happened, Business Establishment, The Er Ma people, Internet-addicted, A colorful Life, Friends, The Industry chain. On 6th June, these 15 nominees will have the opportunity to present to the whole world their stories of great originality in fierce competition. The juries, made up of internationally recognizable documentary specialists and directors, will announce the 5 winners of Excellent Proposal Award as well as 1 Media Award winner at the Award Ceremony to be held on 11th June.

The current filmmaker plan has invited distinguished guests and juries, among whom there are the internationally famous director Jia Zhangke whose works 24 City and Still Life have won many international awards, the well-known screenwriter Ning Caishen for his My Own Swordsman, and the Shanghai comedian Zhou Libo reputed for his Shanghai-style stand-up Chat about the Past Thirty Years. Other guests and juries are also of great prestige like director Peng Xiaolian, Zhou Bin and host Wan Feng.

As the non-profit platform for newly emerging Chinese documentary makers, “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” constantly bears the hope of these documentary lovers. Some outstanding items that distinguished themselves at the 2nd “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” have recently been produced one by one. The growth of these young and promising directors from the “Filmmaker Plan” has witnessed how a script could be finally turned into a documentary. From 7th June on, three documentaries will be successively on documentary channel “Documentary Editorial Office”. These documentaries are the Lost Village in Desert, telling a story about the conflict and struggle between humans and nature, Cock Fighting, a reflection of the fighting between people through the fighting between cocks, and Pregnancy, a story about how pregnancy could change the destiny of a woman and a family as a whole.

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