International film festival recognizes Changchun films
2014-11-10
Two entries from China’s Jilin province — “Dragon Nest: Warriors’ Dawn” and “Old Boy: The Way of the Dragon” — won awards at the 10th Chinese-American Film Festival, in Los Angeles, on Nov 4.
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3D movie Dagon Nest: Warriors’ Down, gets Best Animated Feature Award, on Nov 4. [Photo provided to ejilin.gov.cn] |
The first took a Best Animated Feature award and the second, a Golden Angel Award. The two were produced by the Changchun Film Group, a major Chinese film producer.
There were 10 Golden Angel Awards and 20 finalists at this year’s festival, selected from more than 200 entries.
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“Old Boy: The Way of the Dragon” takes Golden Angel Award, on Nov 4. [Photo provided to ejilin.gov.cn] |
The annual festival was established in Hollywood, in 2005, to show how Chinese and Americans can cooperate in film and international cooperation in film education, film financing and film production and gets support from China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the China’s film association.
Another rural-life film from the Changchun Group was a finalist at the awards ceremony. Previously, the Group’s The Sun and Bronze Swallow Terrace (Tong Que Tai) took the Golden Angel Award, in 2011 and 2012.
The Group also handle TV production and has two TV series appearing on China Central Television (CCTV) and a new TV series about Zhiqing, a group of educated?young people?sent to work in the countryside during the "cultural revolution” (1966-76), which is expected to run by year’s end.
