China News Service, September 7th. According to Eurotimes.com, the 78th Venice International Film Festival opened on September 1 on the island of Lido, Venice.
As the world’s oldest film festival, although the current situation of the new crown epidemic is still severe, the film festival still attracts many world-renowned film and television industry professionals to gather here, making Lido Island once again become the focus of world attention.
On the afternoon of September 6, the "Ca'Foscari Short Film Festival" (Ca'Foscari Short Film Festival, hereinafter referred to as "Short Film Festival") promotion meeting was held at Hotel Excelsior, the designated hotel of the Venice Film Festival.
As one of the co-organizers of the short film festival, the European Times Culture Media Group, the president of the group and the chairman of the Italian Chinese Film Festival Zhang Xiaobei gave a video speech at the promotion conference.
He introduced the development history and achievements of the Europe Times Group over the past 38 years, and expressed sincere blessings and gratitude to Maria Roberta Novielli, the organizer of the short film festival and the artistic director of the event.
As one of the co-organizers of the "University of Venice Short Film Festival", the European Times Cultural Media Group, the group president and chairman of the Italian Chinese Film Festival Zhang Xiaobei delivered a video speech at the short film festival promotion meeting.
Founded in 1983, the European Times Cultural Media Group is now a Chinese daily newspaper, weekly newspaper, weekly magazine, Chinese-French-English multi-language multimedia websites, video programs and various mobile Weibo and WeChat terminal platforms, French book publishing, tourism, Chinese education and A comprehensive all-media media and cultural group of the Cultural Communication Center.
The Group successively established the "German Chinese Film Festival" and "Italian Chinese Film Festival" in 2016, filling the gap that there are no regular Chinese film festivals in the two world-famous international film festivals in Germany and Italy.
This is after 2019, the European Times Media Group and the University of Venice have once again deepened their cooperation and jointly hosted the University of Venice Short Film Festival, building a profound cultural exchange bridge for the Chinese and Italian people.
It is worth mentioning that through this cooperation, the "Venice University Short Film Festival" and the "Italy Chinese Film Festival" have formally formed a friendly partnership, and will carry out broader and more profound cooperation and exchanges in the future . At the same time, the Fifth Italy-China Film Festival will also open on October 5. The preparations for this festival have received extensive support from the Chinese and Italian governments and people in the film and television industry. With the collaboration, the Fifth Italian Chinese Film Festival will once again become a large platform for Sino-Italian cultural exchanges.