Time: June 14th -16th, 2010
Organizer: Organizing Committee of Shanghai International Film Festival
About Co-FPC
Co-FPC (Co-production Film Pitch and Catch) originated from the Sino-European Co-production Film Forum in 2006. Together with CFPC, Co-FPC occupies the central focus of the SIFF Market.
In a global scale, Co-FPC requires co-production projects, investors, producers, distributors and other film project related titles. It is expected that through Co-FPC increasing foreign projects and capital would be absorbed into Chinese market.
Every year, Jury selects 32 Co-FPC projects, which are suitable for co-production and have market potentials. The selected 32 projects will join together with other 8 CFPC projects in the face-to-face discussion section for cooperation or financing possiblities organized by the Organizing Committee for a whole day. “Most Promising Project to Invest " will be awarded with funds according to buyers' evaluation .
In 2009, 32 Co-FPC projects and 8 CFPC projects participated in the face to fact meetings, 403 meetings in total, and 35 of them found their co-production partners successfully.
Selection Criteria of Co-FPC:
• cooperation between Chinese film projects and global capital
• cooperation between foreign film projects and Chinese capital
• diversified creation
• projects with detailed marketing plan
Co-FPC is open for film projects:
from all parts of the world and related with globalized themes; the projects coming from foreign countries must conclude Chinese or Asian elements, or plan to be produced in China; the projects that have secured 20% of the total budget are favored.
Why come to Co-FPC?
Co-FPC focuses on international communications. It is a multilayered firm market that accelerates the development of world film industry healthily. Co-FPC stresses transnational cooperation between directors, producers, investors who are seeking for opportunities to enhance their reputation around the world or to explore international film market with professional services assisted.
For foreign capital and movies, China film market is extremely attractive. In China, there are more than 40 thousands screens. Besides, co-production films share the domestic screening market. Investing in China film market is reliable due to stable rewarding.
As the only international festival in China, shanghai International Film Festival presents a globalized platform where the capital and film contents from both home and abroad are emerged together, smoothing up project communications and collaborations with high efficiency.
Award:
“Most Promising Project to Invest”: resulted by the buyers' evaluation
“Most Promising Project to Invest” 2009: “Goodbye Ani” by Director Jae-Yong Kwak as the executive director, offered by the awards:
The RMB 250,000-worth-service award sponsored by SOUNDFIRM (Beijing)
The RMB 35,000-worth-service award sponsored by Cinelabs (Beijing)
60000 feet films of 35mm sponsored by Kodak (China) Investment Company Ltd.
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