Film and TV forum whets viewing appetites

As part of the 2024 Beijing Culture Forum, an event centered around the theme "Cultural Dissemination: Film and Television Production with Relevance to the Present Times" took place in Beijing on Friday.

During the forum, the key programs of the TV celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, titled "Marching with the Times, United with the People", were highlighted.

The celebration features 10 new dramas being broadcast between July and December by the China Media Group and provincial TV stations. They include Toward the Southwest, a commemoration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the revolutionary drama Blood and Glory, and When the Mountain Flowers Bloom, a tribute to rural teacher Zhang Guimei, who was given the title of "model of the times".

"These shows not only enrich peoples' lives but also ignite patriotic enthusiasm," says Yin Hong, one of the key speakers at the forum, who's vice-chairman of China Film Association and a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University.

Yin also gave a speech on the theme of cross-cultural communication in film and television production, a review of Chinese films and TV dramas that have won awards on the international stage and have been screened or broadcast abroad.

Other speakers included Feng Yuanzheng, actor, director and president of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, director Zheng Xiaolong, and international guests, including Oscar-winning director Malcolm Clarke, and French documentary producer Roman Jeanneau, CEO of Doc Services, the company behind international documentary markets, Sunny Side of the Doc and Asian Side of the Doc.