The Bridging the Dragon Labs’ programme will select five European and five Chinese film projects suitable for co-production or clearly showing a link for a collaboration between China and Europe. One Chinese project will be chosen among a pre-selection submitted by First Film Festival as a new Chinese talent discovery. Deadline for applications: 24 April 2015.

Specialised tutors and active professionals in the European and Chinese film industries will coach each duo of participants (director/producer or writer/producer) on the development of their project. Please download this DOC file for further details.

The programme is run by Bridging the Dragon, an association connecting European and Chinese film professionals. The two Labs have been designed in collaboration with the Torino Film Lab and First International Film Festival, as well as the hosting festivals Shanghai International Film Festival and Festival del film Locarno.

Bridging the Dragon is supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, D'Hive, Italian Ministry of Culture (MIBACT), Netherlands Film Fund and Goethe-Institut China. The festival partners are the European Film Market, Festival del film Locarno, Shanghai International Film Festival and First International Film Festival and the institutional partner is the Beijing Film Academy.