A group of European and Chinese producers have joined forces to create a new professional organisation called Bridging Visions whose aim is to contribute filling the gap between these two film worlds. The programme Bridging the Dragon, which will be launched in 2015, intends to guide and help professionals contentwise and businesswise, all year long, in order to better position their films and companies on each other's market. The vital element is to start developing a network of pro-active film professionals, from both Europe and China, who have taken the strategic decision to build long lasting collaborations with the targeted film industry and market.

The Festival del film Locarno is the very first European festival to believe in this new initiative; it has thus become the main festival partner of the programme for 2015 and it will host a development workshop (for a limited number of projects bridging China and Europe), during the 68th edition in August. The workshop will also be linked to the Industry Days in order to benefit from the professionals attending and develop synergies with the Industry Office.

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