Industry Roundtables
British Council #ReConnect 2021
Women and Short Film: China and the UK
As part of its 5th anniversary progamme in 2021, ONEIWFF has worked with the British Council and Encounters Film Festival in Bristol, to initiate the Shorts by Chinese Women Filmmakers project, which supports five up-and-coming women filmmakers in China to make short films. The Encounters Film Festival has offered online mentoring for the filmmakers, and a UK platform for the finished films. The films will premiere in Chengdu during this year’s ONEIWIFF.
Panelists:
Sydney Lee, Curator and Co-founder of One International Women’s Film Festival (ONEIWFF)
Gaia Meucci-Astley, Short Film Programmer at Encounters Film Festival
Jude Lister, BFI NETWORK Wales Manager at Ffilm Cymru, the Welsh film development agency
Lydia Han, Filmmaker selected for the Shorts by Chinese Women Filmmakers project in 2021 ONEIWFF
Tu Lin, Filmmaker selected for the Shorts by Chinese Women Filmmakers project in 2021 ONEIWFF
ABOUT ONEIWFF
The One International Women’s Film Festival was founded in 2017 in Chengdu. It is China’s first and only official international women-themed film festival, and the only international film festival in southwest China. Moreover, it is striving to be the top women’s film festival in Asia in terms of market potential. The festival has five main sections: screening, pitching, forum, exhibition and award winning ceremony.