The film exec sounds off on what China can learn from Hollywood (and vice versa) and why he doesn’t care that "Coming Home" didn’t score a competition slot: "I don’t need Cannes to tell me whether it is good or not."
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In order to make a true impact on the global film market, Asian cinema’s grande dame says that Chinese filmmakers need to produce more films of substance, “the kind that make you fall in love with cinema.”
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Chinese moviegoers now represent a huge and expanding market, with ticket sales that increased 27 percent to $3.6 billion last year over 2012.
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Chinese viewers have been watching television shows exclusively over the Internet for over five years, but the era of the industry has just arrived.
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The Jury will include five women and four men. Their task will be to decide between the 18 films in Competition in order to select the winners – to be announced on stage on Saturday 24th May.
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