On the morning of November 11, the 2022 China (Xiamen) Digital Film and Television Industry Summit, hosted by the Organizing Committee of the 2022 China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival, was held in Xiamen under the theme “Digital and Film Symbiosis, Integration and Empowerment”. Planned and organized jointly by the China Film Association and the Publicity Department of the CPC Xiamen Municipal Committee, the summit had three parts: the summit opening ceremony and signing ceremony for film, television and cultural projects, the 13th China Film Technology Forum, and the Gulangyu Forum.
The summit was a major industry event launched for the first time at this year’s Golden Rooster Awards. Cui Yonghui, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and Party secretary of Xiamen, and Zhang Hong, member of the Leading Party Members’ Group and member of the Secretariat of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and secretary of the Leading Party Members’ Group of the China Film Association, attended and gave addresses. Meng Xianglin, executive deputy director of the China Film Administration, and Xiamen municipal leaders Wu Zidong and Zhuang Rongliang attended. The summit invited Zhang Wei, director of the China Film Science and Technology Research Institute; Fu Ruoqing, chairman of China Film Group; Gong Yu, founder of iQIYI; and Li Jie, vice president of Alibaba, 4 leading industry figures in all, to give keynote speeches and offer suggestions for the sound development of the digital film and television industry in Xiamen and across China. At the signing ceremony, 55 Xiamen film and television industry projects were signed on site, with a total value of more than 150 hundred million yuan (RMB 15 billion).
On the afternoon of November 11, the 13th China Film Technology Forum was held under the theme “The Path of Independent Research and Development in Chinese Film Technology”. It had three parts: the release of the white paper 2022 Specifications for Digital Film Production in China, academic talks and a roundtable. The forum was guided by the China Film Association, hosted by the Film Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Film Science and Technology Research Institute, and organized by the Network Information Division of the Film Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Digital Film Production Committee of the China Film Association. Yan Shaofei, deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members’ Group and secretary-general of the China Film Association, gave an address, and Zhang Wei, Party secretary and director of the China Film Science and Technology Research Institute, released the white paper. The white paper was edited by the China Film Science and Technology Research Institute, with the China Film Association, the China Film Producers’ Association and China Film Co., Ltd. as co-editors. Compiled over nearly three years, it is an important research result drawing on the technical expertise and strength of China’s film industry. It aims to make digital film production in China more regulated, standardized and professional, serving the production of quality films and supporting the building of an industrialized and modern film system.
The academic talks and roundtable covered the exploration and practice of independent innovation in Chinese film technology in the new era, the integration of digital technology with culture and art, cloud-native digital media infrastructure, AI technology for film and television, VR film and television production technology and interactive innovation, and the integration of film and television technology in the digital age. The participants offered many constructive suggestions for advancing independent innovation and self-reliance in Chinese film technology in the new era, and the forum drew a strong response.
