Shandong promotes its film and television sector at the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART) 2023. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART) 2023 is in full swing at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and will last until March 16.

As the largest event in the film and television sector in Asia, FILMART has become a world-class platform for copyright trading, industrial exchanges, and project promotion.

This year, 12 film and television enterprises, as well as a batch of excellent programs have been organized by the Shandong Film Bureau and the Radio and Television Administration of Shandong Province to participate in the exhibition.

Shandong has participated in the exhibition for eight consecutive years since 2015.

People visit the Shandong Pavilion at the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART) 2023. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Shandong Pavilion at FILMART

Shandong boasts the "Luju" brand represented by Guandong Adventure, Romance of Our Parents, and Nirvana in Fire.

Qingdao is known as the first "capital of film" in China and Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis has injected new vitality into film industrialization in China, as well as the film and television industry of Shandong province.

During FILMART, Shandong is fully showcasing its film and television enterprises, promoting its excellent film and television works, as well as strengthening communication and cooperation with industry enterprises and personnel from all over the world.

The Shandong Pavilion, covering an area of 72 square meters, showcases the province's high-level production hardware and software facilities, integrated service system, as well as the excellent industrial production level of film bases represented by Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis. It has the theme of "world film capital, leading the film industry and making Chinese blockbusters."

Shandong Pavilion at the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART) 2023 [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Oriental Movie Metropolis debuts "The Pearl of the East"

A promotional event of Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis was held at the Shandong Pavilion on March 14. In recent years, Shandong has built Qingdao Lingshan Bay Film and Television Industrial Park, improved the film and television industry chain, as well as cultivated industrial clusters.

Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis has 40 international top standard film studios and 32 multifunctional setting workshops. The Wandering Earth series of sci-fi blockbusters was shot in its ten thousand square meters single studio. A number of visual blockbusters have been filmed in its indoor-outdoor underwater production center, which is the largest in Asia.

In recent years, Lingshan Bay Film and Television Industrial Park has attracted many leading enterprises, such as Emperor Entertainment, Huayi Brothers, Cinemorph, and Baoi Movie Dress. It has built China's first 5G high-tech video experimental park and more than 120 industrial chain enterprises, including Huawei and Boe Technology, have signed contracts to settle here.

In addition to attending the opening ceremony and holding the promotional event of Qingdao Oriental Film Metropolis, the Shandong delegation will visit famous Hong Kong film and television agencies, as well as promote cooperation between Shandong-based enterprises and their counterparts.