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“Breaking the Circle” and Reaching the Global Audience;

MSRDOC Asian Documentary Roundtable Focus on International Communication

Asian Documentary Roundtable.Photographed by reporter Zhang Xuyang

On the morning of March 15, the sub-activities of the 2nd MSRDOC Festival-two Asian Documentary Roundtable Meetings were held in 3 Lanes and 7 Alleys, focusing on “Charting New Pathways for Asian Documentaries to Reach the World” and “Exploration and Innovation of International Communication of Documentary Images” respectively.

How to help author films emerge and gain support in the international market? How to integrate resources, break down barriers and establish an efficient communication cooperation model? At the forum of “Charting New Pathways for Asian Documentaries to Reach the World”, the guests focused on broadening the communication channels and considering the needs of the audience, exploring ways to make documentaries cross mountains and seas and reach the global audience.

Xu Zheng, director of the documentary unit of Shanghai International Film Festival, brought the documentary “Time Machine”, which presents the creative process of the puppet installation stage play “Papa’s Time Machine” originally created by contemporary artist Ma Liang. “This film has adopted a cross-cultural narrative style and achieved great success all over the world, which gives us an inspiration that international communication should be embedded in the creation of the work, not just in the release stage.” Xu said.

“To tell the story of China well, you don’t have to tell the story of China.” Zhang Bo, the director of the international business and documentary film of Bilibili Documentary, believes that the way of “reaching the world” can be widened by using China narrative style to interpret world stories.

Paul Lewis, director of the World Science and Documentary Producers' Congress and founding member of the Committee, said that in the past 17 years, he has basically come to China every year, and he has seen many filmmakers in the documentary industry growing, and they are increasingly entering the international arena. “I expect more documentary creators to create more popular works from an international perspective.”

The forum also discussed the exhibition opportunities and industry resources provided by the film festival for documentaries, and how the platform can inject vitality into the global communication of documentaries by virtue of the advantages of content and traffic, and promote Asian documentaries to develop.

The forum “Exploration and Innovation of International Communication of Documentary Images” selects classic documentary cases, and through in-depth analysis and discussion of multiple images, reinterprets the unique value of documentary images and re-examines the significance of cross-cultural communication.

Participants believe that documentary images are a mirror of human civilization and an important carrier of emotional expression and cultural identity. They hope that documentary images will become an important force to tell the story of China, build the image of China and strengthen international communication, and promote the exchange and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign cultural civilizations in the face of convergence of views and wisdom collision. (Fuzhou Daily reporters Qian Jiayi and Yan Xiao)