Why Australia must kowtow to China ?
Because ... ?
CHINESE blockbusters worth up to $30 million could be filmed on the Gold Coast in coming years.
Senior delegates from the Beijing Film Academy have already been planning to collaborate with Australian film companies to make bilingual sci-fi films.
BFA will "test the waters" by funding two or three low-budget co-produced films worth about $2 million as soon as they have story ideas and adequate scripts.
BFA vice-president Sun Li Jun said that could be as soon as next year.
"As long as we have good ideas (for the films), we'll come here as soon as possible (to film)," he said. "We hope to do two or three low budget films first to test the waters, and also some short films which we will submit to international film festivals."
Mr Li Jun said, if successful, they would be happy to fund big-budget projects worth between $20 million and $30 million.
The BFA delegates arrived on the Coast yesterday after spending the week in Brisbane.
They toured Griffith University, Surfers Paradise beach and Village Roadshow Studios and will leave for Melbourne tomorrow.
Although the delegates have only seen the southeast Queensland corner so far, Mr Li Jun said they were likely to film at the Gold Coast because of its studios, previous experience with films and television series such as Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova and House of Wax, as well as the city's diverse landscape.
BFA will start exchanging students and staff with Griffith University's film school next year.
They will then consider scripts from Griffith and BFA students, as well and those from independent script writers.
Griffith's film school has organised the three-week tour around Australia to better its partnership with the academy.
Film school head Professor Herman Van Eyken said there was plenty of room for the region's film industry to grow and strengthening ties with BFA and other Asian film institutes would accelerate the process.
"There's a huge market in China, so getting the dialogue right and creating films for an international market is what we are aiming for," he said.
Mr Van Eyken said BFA was recognised worldwide for their advanced cinematic teaching facilities, leading innovation and academic results and remained the cradle of Chinese film talent and the only institution specialised in film in higher education in China.
"The 60-year-old school has about 20,000 applicants and only 600 places," he said.
"All Chinese film-makers of any stature have all come from there. It's very difficult to get in."
By the way, a small recap of this one (in case you missed it ...)
Miss China crowned Miss World 2012
Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned the 2012 Miss World in Ordos, China, on August 18. The 23-year-old music student became the second Miss World winner from her country after Zhang Zilin in 2007. The first runner-up is Sophie Elizabeth Moulds of Wales and the second runner-up is Australia's Jessica Michelle Kahawaty…
As usual there's plenty post-event debates online after a major beauty contest, but this one drawn more flak in particular, probably due to the fact that the event – the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant – has became a bit too "Chinese" in the past decade with six of the past 10 finals being held in Chinese cities.
The 2013 final will move to Indonesia for a change – could be a challenging one.
Ren Li Meng 任丽萌 from Tianjin, China
Name: Coco Ren Li Meng 任丽萌
Date of Birth: Sept 12, 1988
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Measurements: 35B 25 35
Blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/kuuhg
Weibo: http://www.weibo.com/renlimeng
About: Coco Ren Li Meng 任丽萌 is a popular and uprising Chinese fashion model, car show girl and Internet celebrity from Tianjin, China. Ren Li Meng is also known as the "Princess Mermaid" (人魚公主) from her previous series of mermaid photo shoots.
Ren Li Meng was also invited to serve as a judge for the yearly "Ze Ming Cup" (泽酩杯) Miss Mermaid Talent Competition (美人鱼小姐) - an important event at China First World Aquarium and Pet Supplies Expo.
Ren Li Meng photo shoots were like picture-perfect with a perfect face and body until we came across some of her real life photos from her Weibo account. We still couldn't believe it if she looks like that?! It was a drastic difference.
Could it be the miracles of PhotoShop and new age make-up techniques? Models these days are physically photo-shopping themselves out of reality! Anyway, enjoy the best of Ren Li Meng available here, all filtered by http://dailylenglui.asia.
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