1st Brazilian Film Festival of China
June 17 to 25, 2006

The Brazilian Film Festival of China will be held in order to create a distribution market and the marketing of Brazilian audiovisual industry in Asia, aiming for the promotion of Brazil’s economical, social and cultural development in these countries.

China is the third largest country in the world in the film production industry, in which only the United States and India come before. In 2004, 212 movies were produced and the movie theaters from all over the world made 180 million dollars. In 2005, we celebrated 100 years of the Chinese cinema, which with the recent various productions and great amount of independent movies, has shown how cinematographers have been trying to understand and explain huge political, economical and cultural changes the country has been facing. And it is through the cinema that the Chinese seek for world recognition.

Therefore, we will be taking our movies to China, in an exhibition that will take place inside the renowned Shanghai International Film and TV Festival, allowing the Festival captivated audience to have access to our productions.

Our goal is to generate cultural exchange in order to create a potential distribution market for our movies in China; proceeding with the dissemination of our cinema around the world as well as strengthening our cultural identity even more.
The First Brazilian Film Festival of China will show the best of the national film production of 2005/2006. These productions, never seen in the country, will compete for the feature film award.