INTRODUCTORY CANADIAN-ASIAN CO-PRODUCTION SUMMIT

Date: Friday March 11th, 15:30
Venue: NFB CinéRobothèque
Host: Ciné-Asie
Admission: $8 (General), $6 (Student)
Subject: How to successfully begin and launch co-production projects with Asian countries?

Case study of director Yung Chang; Up the Yangtze (2008), China Heavyweight (2012), and The Fruit Hunters (2013)

This seminar will present an exclusive case study on director Yung Chang's films, Up the Yangtze and China Heavyweight. His work has been regarded as one of the most important Canadian-Chinese co-productions of this decade. Issues of Canadian-Asian co-production will be discussed.

Moderator: Bob Moore, Producer and head of business and legal affairs for EyeSteelFilm

Participating Panelists:
Video Conference between Seoul and Montreal: Presentation of the current climates on Co-Production in Asian countries by Kevin Chang, a producer and board of member at Association Film Commissioners International (AFCI)

Introduction of Yung Chang's films by Bob Moore

Video Conference between China and Montreal with Yung Chang, Director and Qi Zhao, Executive Producer of Last Train Home (2009), China Heavyweight (2012)

Government plans and steps towards Asian countries with Brigitte Monneau, Director of International Business Development at TELEFILM CANADA and Alain. C. Rondeau, Project Admissibility Analyst at SODEC

About the Panelists

Bob Moore is a producer and the head of business and legal affairs for EyeSteelFilms. He joined the company in 2008, as a rights and legal consultant on the multi-platform Rip: A Remix Manifesto. Moore now oversees films from development to delivery; responsible for financing, rights, distribution and co-production agreements.

Yung Chang is a Chinese-Canadian Montreal-based director with the multi awards-winning documentary Up the Yangtze (2007). The director displays a poetic sense of cinematic storytelling and has won the Best Canadian Documentary award at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2007, the Special Jury Award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in 2008, the Golden Gate Award in 2008, and Best Documentary Genie Award in 2009.

Kevin Chang is Secretary General of the Asian-Pacific producers' network, Association of Film Commissioners International, Chang will present the current co-production climate in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.

Note: 30 seats are reserved for professionals and a maximum of 10 seats will be given to cinema and film students.

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