The 6th Asia-Europe Film Meeting strived to engage participants from Europe and Asia in a dialogue through comprehensive film issues and to encourage independent film producers to increasingly collaborate in the creation of common cross-cultural work in this field.
The main aim of the film meeting was to give emerging producers the possibility to create a solid international network and to gain international expertise on how to present their projects in the international marketplace.
The film meeting targeted emerging film producers from the two regions: up to 20 film producers from 15 ASEM countries participated. The meeting was facilitated by two main resource people, Lorna Tee (Business Development Manager, Variety Asia and Producer) and In-Ah Lee (Producer, Greensky Films), and counted with the assistance of up to 12 pannelists and presenters from renowned film companies like Homegreen films, Fortissimo films, Kenbiroli films, Cine-@, Films distribution or The Match Factory.
The film meeting had two phases. In the first one, a two-days seminar was co-organised with RITS audiovisual and performing arts school in Brussels, and explored the reality of the current Asia-Europe exchanges on independent film and the initiatives to help emerging independent film producers to explore future collaborations between Asia and Europe.
The second phase of the meeting, consisted on a workshop on Asia-Europe film issues co-organised with CineMart of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the framework of the 5-days programme of the Rotterdam lab of CineMart. Two Asia-Europe film co-productions were analysed during the workshop: ‘The Drummer’ by Kenneth Bi (Germany/Hong Kong SAR China co-production) and ‘Shanghai Trance’ by David Verbeek (Dutch Director/Shot in China).
This meeting was co-organised by ASEF in association with CineMart of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and RITS film school in Brussels, and supported by Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie and Vlaamse Overheid.