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CRI听力:Ausfilm Chinese Co-production

2014-06-27来源:CRI

As the movie market in China expands, more and more domestic and foreign investors are looking for projects to invest in.

Australia is one of the many countries interested in finding partners in China's booming film industry.

CRI's Doris Wang takes a look at what the country Down Under has to offer.

Over the years, a great number of film productions have taken advantage of Australia's diverse landscape. This year, however, the Australian film industry is looking for production partnerships in China. At the just concluded 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, the Australian delegation had a record-breaking attendance.

Six Australian films have been selected to screen in the festival, two of which were in the competition for the Golden Goblet Award. The two films include Canopy, which is about the friendship between an Australian fighter pilot and a Chinese soldier during the Second World War as they make their way through a jungle in Thailand, and Predestination, a time-traveling thriller.

Kristy Officer, Head of Marketing and Business Development at Ausfilm, shares her excitement.

"We've got six Australian films in the Shanghai International Film Festival this year, which is fantastic. I think that there's a growing interest for Australian filmmakers in the China region, especially in Shanghai due to a lot of collaborations between the SIFF and Screen Australia and Ausfilm to enhance opportunities for filmmakers in the region."

Ausfilm is a partnership organization, whose aim is to attract international film and television production and post-production to Australia.

According to Officer, even though the Co-Production treaty between China and Australia has just been signed in 2007, both countries have been working together on films long before that.

And it's that cultural understanding that led Adam Scott to looking for partners in China nearly 20 years ago. Scott is a post-production specialist and general manager of Spectrum Films.

"It's really about working with like minded people. I think if you find the right production company and like minded people, you'll instantly get on. At the end of the day, we're all trying to finish the film or the TV show or whatever we're working on. We're all working on this together and we all want to have a good finish product."

There are a lot of reasons that Chinese directors and producers should consider partnerships with Australian filmmakers. According to Ausfilm's representative Kristy Officer, those who qualify for the Co-Production Treaty can get access to three high levels of incentives.

"One is the location incentive, which is for if you come to shoot your film in various areas of Australia. One is a post-production incentive. So if you use Australian post-production services or visual effect services, there's a 30% incentive for the cost of your expenditure in Australia. And then the highest incentive that we have is for co-production. That's a 40% incentive available to those filmmakers from China on the cost and expenditure of that production in Australia."

Post-production company executive Adam Scott says that China also has a lot of offer to Australia and he is always on the lookout for new partners.

"There's a lot of crew up here, a lot of very good crew, very good operators. What we are looking for is a similar company up here in China to collaborate on projects together. Maybe we could help with the post-production. If they need to shoot in Australia, we can look after that part of it."

According to Kristy Officer, there's a lot more work that both countries can do together and there are still some very interesting story that can be told through collaboration between China and Australia.