The China region result was annouced on 18th June at Shanghai International Film Festival. We selected the Chinese winner of International Young Screen Entrepreneur of the Year 2008. The winner Ms. E.T from Beijing Filmblog, is the curator of China New Film: Yunnan Project. The Yunnan project invites ten female artists/directors/writers in China to make film about Yunnan.The Chinese winner of IYSEY07, Cindy Lin joined the event too.

ET HU

ET HU has been working as a film planner and producer. Her interest in creative industry encouraged her into the film career and found it the most exciting platform to develop the interest. She got the master’s degree in Beijing Film Academy and then worked as a scriptwriter and producer. In 2005, She and her partner Lola inaugurated the ‘Chinese New Cinema: the Yunnan Project’ for young women directors, managing the operation of the whole project. One of the reasons that ET wins is that she involved many new talents outside of the traditional Chinese film industry in her Yunnan film project, such as independant musicians and illustrators and has a strong sense of building network of young creative entrepreneurs.

‘Chinese New Cinema: the Yunnan Project’ aims to provide an exciting platform from which Chinese young filmmakers can explore their creative potential. The project has involved ten women filmmakers from the Chinese Mainland, Hongkong ,and Taiwan got together to make ten films in and about the mysterious Yunnan province, and three features of the project have been completed now. Since the time the project was started, many more talented filmmakers have joined it. You can find more about the project online:

http://www.cinecn.net/main.asp

Are you the China's young screen entrepreneur 2008?

Are you passionate about film; an innovator looking for entrepreneurial ways to move the China film and TV industry forward? Are you looking to broaden your international business opportunities and to build your network? If this sounds like you then you could be the winner of this prestigious new award: International Young Screen Entrepreneur Award.

ABOUT THE AWARD

In 2008 the British Council will present the International Young Screen Entrepreneur (IYSE) award for the second time, to champion and celebrate the importance of creative entrepreneurs working in the film and television sector.

IYSE was presented for the first time in 2007, when 10 young film entrepreneurs from 10 countries (Brazil, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Nigeria, Poland, Slovenia) took part. The winner of IYSE 07 was Wahyu Aditya from Indonesia. More details on IYSE 07 can be found at:

www.creativeconomy.org.uk/iysey

The award is a cross departmental collaboration between Creative Economy Unit (CEU) and Film Department to showcase international innovation in film promotion using the UK as the nexus for cultural, creative and commercial exchange.  Ten international finalists for the award will visit the UK in October 2008 to undertake a common programme where they will take part in valuable networking both with key UK film industry partners and amongst their IYSEY peers.  The programme will be run alongside the London Film Festival 2008.

The 10 participating countries are China, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Slovenia and Thailand.

SCREEN SECTOR DEFINITION

IYSEY participants can be drawn from any of the following areas of the Screen* sector:

• Development, production, post-production
• Distribution and/or sales
• Exhibition –  cinema/venue and/or festival/event programming and management
• Journalism (print and broadcast) and publishing
• Marketing, internet websites/ web networks, public and media relations
• Promotion, education and retail
• Artist management
• Consultants providing specialist services in any of the areas outlined
• In the term ‘Screen’ we include feature film, documentary, shorts, television production, and animation

ELIGIBILITY

To apply for the award, candidates must:

• Be aged between 25 and 35
• Already work in the film and TV sector (as defined above)
• Be entrepreneurial and have shown their ability in the promotion of film and TV sector in their country, in either a commercial context, public context, or both
• Through their character, drive and abilities demonstrate their potential to be a future leader of the film and TV sector in their country
• Good conversational level of English as each participant is expected to make a presentation in front of a panel of judges.

JUDGING PROCEDURE

All applications will be reviewed by a selection panel who will compile a shortlist of candidates to participate in the judging procedure. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview with an independent China film industry judging panel, who, through their existing application form and a Q&A session, will assess the candidates' entrepreneurial ability, leadership ability, market awareness, originality of ideas, and international outlook.

The judging panel will identify the IYSE winner to participate in the tour of the UK film industry. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.

TIMELINE

• 30 May - DEADLINE for applications
• Week of 2 June - Judging interviews
• 18 June - Winner announced at award ceremony at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival

HOW TO APPLY
You can download the IYSE application form here [Word Document].

Please, by the 30 May deadline, return and complete the application form, clearly marked 'IYSE application' (either in hard or electronic copy) to:

CONTACT
Any questions about the award or application procedure please contact:

Lisa Zhang
Cultural and Education Section
British Consulate-General
1st Floor Cross Tower
318 Fu Zhou Lu
Shanghai, China
Email: Lisa.Zhang@britishcouncil.org.cn

ORGANIZER AND SUPPORTER
The award in China is organised by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General in Shanghai, in association with Shanghai International Film Festival.