China Announces 2nd Bi-annual Chinese Entertainment Industry Forum

The People’s Republic of China is holding its second international conference on the emerging Chinese entertainment industry Sept. 12-15, 2004.

(PRWEB) July 18, 2004 -- China Announces 2nd Bi-annual Chinese Entertainment Industry Forum

The People’s Republic of China is holding its second international conference on the emerging Chinese entertainment industry Sept. 12-15, 2004.

The bi-annual event, billed as the "International Forum on China Culture Industry" will host international media luminaries in the fields of film, television, music, publishing, and electronic media to meet with entrepreneurial Chinese counterparts and government officials in the historic cities of Taiyuan and Pingyao in Shanxi province.

Three days of presentations, panels, and press conferences with producers, directors, designers, actors and other entertainment industry executives will explore businessopportunities and share professional expertise.

This year’s primary focus will be in the fields of animation and children’s education, but many topics of discussion will be wider in scope to address various aspects of entertainment media.

“Companies that want to contribute to the culture and engage in Sino-American entertainment business should contact us about participating in the Forum,” said Sander Johnson, President of AMERICAN TELEVISION IN CHINA (ATC), authorized to extend invitations and coordinate American participation in the event. “Honored guests and featured speakers will have their travel and hotel accommodations provided by the Forum.”

The CEO of ATC, Michael R. Polin, and Johnson were both honored guests and feature speakers at the First Forum held in Nanjing, China in May of 2002 and have extensive partnerships and business ventures in China.

“The Entertainment Industry in China is growing as fast as Chinese society and its evolving free market economy” said Polin, an entertainment attorney specializing in international law, who spoke on copyright concerns at the Nanjing Forum in 2002. “In the last two years”, he said, “much has been accomplished in television, publishing, education, and merchandising, while the consumer market is mushrooming. We’ve had great success in partnering with prominent Chinese media companies to co-produce, and distribute children’s educational media”.

“Co-productions, Joint Ventures and cooperative projects are the way of the future in terms of American entertainment companies accessing this talented resource pool, and being involved in the opening-up of the largest consumer market in the world,” added Johnson, “it’s a dynamic event.”

For more information and participation arrangements, contact: Michael R. Polin, Esq.or Sander K. Johnson at AMERICAN TELEVISION IN CHINA (310) 860-7512.
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