Since its inception, Maeya Culture Exchange Group has always been committed to building a platform for international high-end cultural communication. Its three annual film festival projects have been established for nearly 20 years. Universe Multicultural Film Festival, San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, and Epic ACG Fest have all made remarkable achievements in their respective industries and become the leading event brands and industry benchmarks in the industry. Every April, Universe Multicultural Film Festival, which focuses on ethnic culture content, will hold three days of screening activities and panel activities in the South Bay of Los Angeles to promote excellent ethnic culture-themed films. Every August, San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, which focuses on children and families, is based in Southern California and opens to the world. In October every year, the Epic ACG Fest promotes the comic animation game culture, as the original cultural brand of Maeya Group, has become a well-known animation game activity in Silicon Valley and neighboring universities. With the advantages of the three annual cultural platforms, Maeya Group has established a series of activities related to film production and distribution and has made corresponding efforts and contributions to help filmmakers from all over the world go further and higher on these platforms.
As an event brand and industry forum of Maeya Films, "Film Market" has been welcomed by filmmakers since its launch at Universe Multicultural Film Festival and San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, plus the Epic ACG Fest, Open to all members of the film industry, Film Market strives to create an event forum for the best Hollywood filmmaking experience and experts to exchange filmmaking experiences from around the world. "Film Market" is eager to be involved in all aspects of the film industry, including film approval, film investment, film location, film shooting, postproduction, and so on. In the previous "Film Market" activity forums, Maeya Films also tried to carry out effective communication and discussion on the three topics, aiming to help excellent film projects to enter the international market.
1. Film Distribution -- For film projects that have finished post-production and are ready to enter the market, the discussion on film distribution will bring new inspirations to the filmmakers attending the panel. Experts from Hollywood and the European film market will come to the festival to communicate with filmmakers from all over the world about the process of film distribution, platforms and considerations, as well as the new issues between different film markets. Promoting an excellent film work to a larger platform requires not only the highly completed and excellent production of the early stage of the film creation team but also the effective distribution means of the film production and distribution company. In this regard, "Film Market" expects to provide more communication and discussion opportunities for all filmmakers and help more good films to reach a larger audience group through good distribution and marketing methods.
2. Entertainment Intellectual Property Trade Zone -- Aiming at the intellectual property of various original works on film and media platforms and other relevant content, "Film Market" especially opens the content discussion on entertainment intellectual property transaction, aiming to cover the field of traditional intellectual property. For example, the rights to remake films related to original works or to adapt literary works (novels and comic books) and performances (plays and musicals). Digital IP market also included in the new media platforms (web, mobile, SNS, tablet, etc.) on the use of the rights of the original work is characterized by a story format, including online cartoon, online drama, novel, television shows, animation, commercials, mobile games, online games, and related industry and so on. In recent years, the increasing number of legal litigation cases related to reproduction copyright, plagiarism infringement, and so on shows the strengthening of copyright protection awareness in the domestic and foreign markets. Among them, the entertainment intellectual property trading section of the "film market" will discuss related topics such as how the party whose ownership has been infringed how to protect its own rights and interests, and how investors can effectively avoid investing in infringing projects without knowing it. At the same time, the relevant laws and regulations and knowledge content of this year will be effectively updated in the annual forum, so that more filmmakers can understand the correct and immediate copyright laws and regulations.
3. Film Talent Hub -- The advent of the Internet information age has greatly helped more talented young people to enter the international market, including some of the previously unknown behind-the-scenes workers who are known by the international market through their works, thus receiving opportunities from home and abroad. The "Film Market" is eager to establish a corresponding film talent hub while bringing together film industry experts, senior practitioners, and the main force of the future to help more film projects better establish and recruit staff in the early stage, while finding more reliable and capable filmmakers, and then invite them to join the team. The completion of an excellent film work depends not only on the director, screenwriter, actors, and other well-known departments but also on more outstanding practitioners of the film industry who have contributed their indispensable value to the completion and production of the film. The "Film Talent Hub" will help film talents from all over the world to the greatest extent without a difference, so that excellent film writers, film editors, and other major aspects of the staff can be contacted by the director, and other organizers directly, so as to join the film production more effectively. It also guarantees the exposure rate of film talents and effectively guarantees the future development of every film talent. The establishment of the "film market" not only hopes to help investors, distributors and producers but also hopes to help everyone in the film industry. And the setting of the "film talent hub" is to achieve this goal and make arrangements.
The 2022 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival will be held in late August and the Animation Comic Game event in Oct., 2022. If you are interested in learning about the "Film Market", please sign up for the booth at this year's San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival and Epic ACG Fest. Booths will have the opportunity to promote projects to filmmakers and fans from around the world, as well as face to face with Hollywood's A-list filmmakers, Producers, Distributors and investors.
06.05.2022 | Epic ACG Fest's blog