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No funding, no technological support, no broadcast platform, and no specific medium of communication? The only criterion for selection is simply a good idea. DocuChina Filmmaker Plan will provide support, giving access to a broader stage.

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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Danny BOYLE (British director)

One of the UK’s finest directors, Danny Boyle has a wide array of critically acclaimed and commercially successful film credits: Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Alien Love Triangle, 28 Days Later, Millions and Sunshine.  Slumdog Millionaire is his eighth international theatrically-released film and it won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director in 2009.

HUANG Jianxin (Chinese director)

Huang Jianxin, Chairman of the Beijing Film Director Association, has won awards at international film festivals in Shanghai, Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Rotterdam.  He has been honoured by inclusion in the “Top 10 Chinese Language Film” category at the Hong Kong International Film Festival three times.  His productions Black Cannon Incident and Back to Back, Face to Face have made Asia Week magazine’s list of the “Top 100 Chinese Films in the 20th Century”.  In 2005, Gimme Kudos won the Jury Grand Prix and Best Screenplay at the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival. Huang has been a jury member at many film competitions and festival events, such as China’s 12th and 26th Golden Rooster Awards; 11th Fukuoka International Film Festival; and 25th Cairo International Film Festival.  He was jury president in the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival.

Andie MacDowell has established herself as an accomplished actress in a career that is showing no signs of slowing down.  Her undeniable charm and talent have gained her in worldwide recognition.  She first received critical acclaim for her performance as a repressed young wife in Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989).  The film won the Palme d’or at Cannes, and garnered MacDowell the Independent Spirit Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress, as well as her first Golden Globe nomination. MacDowell earned the worldwide title of #1 female box-office draw with her performances in the smash hit romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, and the western Bad Girls with Drew Barrymore.  She also starred in the holiday classic Groundhog Day.  In other comedies MacDowell continued to partner with top leading men including Gérard Depardieu in Green Card, for which she again earned a Golden Globe nomination, Michael Keaton in Multiplicity, and John Travolta in Michael. Additional dramatic performances include The End of Violence, directed by Wim Wenders, which was selected to screen at the opening of the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival; Robert Altman’s The Player and Short Cuts, for which the cast earned a special Golden Globe Award for Best Ensemble; Unstrung Heroes, directed by Diane Keaton; and the ever-popular St. Elmo’s Fire.

OH Jungwan (Korean producer)

OH Jungwan made her debut as a producer in 1998 and established her production company in 1999.  Since then, she has focused on producing accomplished feature films with a unique style which challenges conventional ideas.  These have been well-received by film critics and audiences in Korea and around the world. Her production An Affair won the Newport Beach International Film Festival and Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.  The Foul King was selected at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum.  Tears was selected at the Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.  A Tale of Two Sisters was honoured at the Portugal Fantasporto Film Festival (Best Film/Director/Actress).  The Uninvited was awarded at the Sitges International Film Festival (Citizen Cane Award-Best New Director).  A Bittersweet Life was selected at the Cannes Film Festival.  Woman on the Beach was selected for special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival: Special presentation, and at the Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.  Night and Day was nominated at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival Competition.  My Dear Enemy was selected at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival Forum.

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Article from Guardian UK, here is the original post:

His Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire is a love letter to Mumbai, but its rags-to-riches story of a young orphan who rises from the slums to win a gameshow has found Danny Boyle favour across the border in China. The movie was recently approved for wide release by the country’s famously restrictive censors, and Boyle was today named jury president of the 2009 Shanghai international film festival.

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Release: 2008
3. Country: UK
4. Cert (UK): 15
5. Runtime: 120 mins
6. Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
7. Cast: Amil Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Azharudin Mohammed Ismail, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Madhur Mittal, Rubina Ali
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Speaking at the premiere of his film in Beijing, Boyle described the appointment as “fantastic”. He said he had never been on a festival jury before but added that he would not make a list of criteria by which to judge the films in competition.

“It’s very rare in normal life, going to a cinema, that you know nothing about the film,” he told the Xinhua state news agency. “You should always approach those films with a completely open mind. And that’s what I’ll be doing.”

Slumdog Millionaire, which won eight Oscars last month, opens across mainland China from tomorrow. Weng Li, spokesman for the film’s distributor, China Film Group, said he was confident Chinese cinemagoers would considerably boost the film’s global box office, which currently stands at more than $200m (£137m).

Tang Lijun, the festival’s general manager, said: “Slumdog Millionaire is a perfect example for the cultural exchange between the eastern and western world.”

Last year, the Shanghai film festival jury was presided over by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. This year’s event runs from 13-21 June.

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Ever Since Bright Shadow Films Set the distribution department, we have been very busy with some distribution work in China, we bring the western movies into Chinese Cinema.

In April 2009, Our first project ” Female Agent (Les femmes de l’ombre) ” went great in China, we brought the famous French actress Sophie Marceau into Beijing and Shanghai for the film premiere, the whole project went very smooth, if you search it in Chinese, you can find a lot of report about it.

Recently our distribution manager Gregory is in Cannes Film Festival, hopefully in this year you can see more work from Bright Shadow Films, same time if you have any thoughts regarding our project, feel free to contact us: info@brightshadowfilms.com

Here is a few random pictures from that night’s Shanghai premiere:

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• Oh, A Busy October!
• Bright Shadow does Cannes