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November 2008: - Download the latest festival media pack here.
October 2008:
July 2008:- Events：Saturday, 26 July 2008, 6pm - Late, Enering A New Phase Special Screening, Courtesy of SiLu. read more....
- The 30th edition of Filming East Festival column on UK-Chinese Times is out on 23 July 2008.
- Beijing Forbidden City Film Company’s lasted feature film Postman in Shangri-la will be screen in the Filming East Festival 2008
- Winning entries of last year’s One Minute Award will be screened on to BBC Big Screen in 9 UK cities from 25/07/2008 to 08/08/2008
- One Minute Award 2008 is open for submission now
- Special thanks to Yao Yi of Shanghai University School of Film and Television Art & Technology
June 2008:- Filming East Festival director SUN Xiaoxiao gave interview to Beijing based magazine, People’s DV and received more than 20 award-winning shorts. Thanks to People’s DV editor FUWEN Sili
- Filming East Festival launched it’s first documentary production collaboration with Dragon Page Group
- Artistic Director of the Filming East Festival, SUN Yuanjie has completed the design of the festival poster and postcard. Download them here…
May 2008:- Filming East Festival donated £3000 worth of clothing to the areas affected by the devastating earth-quake earlier this month.
- Filming East starts cooperation with My China Now on experimental shorts
- One of the partners of Filming East Festival, REC Documentary Biannual has submitted 10 entries to the Filming East Festival
- Filming East Festival Programmer DING Ni flew to Hong Kong as part of the global promotion scheme
- Filming East Festival will be working with China Institute of Youth Film to promote Chinese youth films in the UK. Special thanks to Mr LIN Amian and Mr JIANG Changhe.
- One Minute Award 2008 is now open for submission. Download application forms here.
- Recruitment for festival volunteers now starts. Download application forms here.
2007: - Visit FEF Photo Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/FilmingEast
- The official brochure of the FEF was published on October 10th.
- In cooperation with The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival, the FEF would like to recommend film goers the Chinese films: Lust, Caution, Ma Wu Jia and Mid-afternoon Barks.
- The Movies Show and POP DV have published reports about the FEF.
- A comprehensive report on the FEF has been published in the UK-Chinese Times.
- Thanks to Chinese director ZHANG YUAN, who granted us his latest film Little Red Flowers, and Eureka Films for giving us the UK screening rights.
- Thanks to Chinese director HE MINGSHENG for his support.
- Thanks to Chinese director HE JIANJUN for his contributions and support.
- Thanks to Chinese installation artist/documentary director SEN SHAOMIN for his contributions and support.
- Thanks to renowned Chinese painter WANG WANGWANG for designing the FEF poster.
- Festival director SUN XIAOXIAO was interviewed by POP DV during the preparation for the Beijing Pre-Reception & Press Conference.
- Thanks to the Oxford Chinese Students & Scholars Association for cooperating towards Keble Day.
- Thanks to the Centre of Chinese Studies at SOAS for cooperating towards the London Pre-Reception & Press Conference.
- Thanks to Dragon Page Media, Tiens Group, Spectrum Radio, Crystal studio, Yan Chinese Restaurant and Shanghai 30's for their support.
- Thanks to SUN YANJIE, HAO CHENYING, JIN XI and BU WEI for the Festival post-design and promotion.
- The first meeting of the Festival jury was on August 18th at the University of Westminster.
- Welcomes to Lai Wei, a lovely lady who is now the Marketing Officer of the FEF team.
- Rushes Soho Short Festival now hosts a link to the FEF: http://www.rushes.co.uk/sohoshorts/#/184.
- Hugh Purcell, chairman of the EsoDoc is now a member of jury for the One Minute Award competition.
- Multiple awards winner, Mr JIA ZHANG KE, who is currently visiting Switzerland, has agreed at a phone conversation with FEF Director Xiaoxiao Sun that one of his films latest films will be screened at the Filming East Festival 2007 Film Showcase.
- Raindance Festival, as a partner of FEF will include the Filming East Festival in its August Newsletter, thanks to our Advisor Joia.
- Mr WEN RUI, Chairman of the Oxford Chinese Students and Scholars Association (Oxford CSSA) and Miss ZHANG QIAN QIAN, the Communication Officer of Oxford CSSA are working with us in promotions in the Oxford region.
- One Minute Award continues to receive overwhelming responses from across the UK, thanks to Helen our Operations Programmer and Jet Sun, the Artistic Director.
- There have been a great number of submissions from China for the Film showcase, thanks to our China Representatives Minrui Ye, Yu Hu, Yuanwei Sun and Xiaoni Chang.
- During his last visit to Oxford, FEF Manager Yang Xiao had invited the Lord Mayor of Oxford to addressing the opening of the Filming East Festival.
- The venue of the festival is confirmed to be the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford
- FEF is now making sponsorship deals with a number interested companies, thanks to Lai Wei, our Marketing Officer and Dawei Guo, our Special Advisor.
- Mr ZHU RI KUN, the most significant Chinese independent film distributor and festival curator, and Li Xianting's Film Fund is now supplying FEF with top class films.
- The Chinese Embassy in the UK now has a link to the Filming East Festival website: http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/whys/z_2_e/default.htm. Special thanks to Ms Jiang Li Hua and the Culture Section.
- Appeal from Mr Wu Xun, head of the Culture Section of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, for the Filming East Festival to become a purely innovative, realistic, meaningful and sustainable annual event, during the three-hour visit by the FEF Director Xiaoxiao Sun and Development & Communication Manager Wei Bu to the Culture Section office at Hampstead in July.
- Meeting between the FEF Director Xiaoxiao Sun and Oxdox: MK curator John Hodges in July opens up more international opportunities for the Filming East Festival 2007.
- BECTU is now supporting the Filming East Festival and the FEF website: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3275/. We have also established a good workign relationship with the union, thanks to Joia, FEF Advisor.
- Agreement has been made with Sinoreel’s to screen their productions in the UK on FEF.
- FEF Development & Communication Manager Wei Bu is working on our partnership with Phoenix TV.
- Many agreements on our future co-operations with the CSSA Oxford were reached during the coffee meeting in July with the president, Dr. Wen Rui.
- We are now receiving massive supports from the CSSA groups across the UK, thanks to Mr. Wang Yong Da, head of the Education Section and Mr. Zhang Zong Ming, embassy secretary.
- One Minute short film submissions are doing great in London, thanks to Miss Helen He, our Operations Programmer.
- We are also receiving feature film submissions from the Department of Television Studies, Communications University of China, thanks to Mr. Mingrui Ye, our China Representative.
- FEF curator will be inviting films from the Memory of the Mid-Summer Festival, thanks to our friends at the Department of Television Studies, Communications University of China.
- The new jury list for the one minute award: Prof. Chris Berry, Prof. Tao Wang, John Quic, Hugh Purcell, Gideon Koppel.
- FEF Manager Yang Xiao and Special Advisor David Guo visited and gained support from the Oxford city council.
- FEF website gets the brand new look, thanks to Yan Xiang, our Techical Director.
- Thanks to Jet Sun, our Artistic Director for the new FEF logo and the beautiful images.
- The FEF team now has 19 wonderful man and woman but still welcomes new members!
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