Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFilm industry relations between China and Europe have been kept alive throughout the coronavirus outbreak by Bridging The Dragon, an informal trade organization now in its sixth year.After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November.
Travel restrictions and the cancelation of in-person film festivals and markets put paid to those ideas.Knowledge-sharing, BTD’s core concern, can be achieved online as millions of students around the world have learned.
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