Guangzhou Cultural Industry Fair
The annual Guangzhou Cultural Industry Fair is currently in full swing, with an aim to promote the city's cultural development and innovations to the global market.
Running through November 25, the high-end event focuses on the new economy and the business format of cultural tourism. It will bring to the city a battery of forums, performances and exhibitions covering 10 topics like film and television entertainment, arts, animation and game, cultural equipment, and transaction.
Some 24 featured activities are planned in the coming days, including exhibitions, a documentary film festival and a children's film festival.
The ongoing exhibition on Guangzhou's achievements in new trends of cultural tourism offers citizens a chance, free of charge, to taste the fruits of the city's explorations in culture-related fields.
Intangible cultural heritage products adopting cutting-edge technologies, for example, are displayed at the venue, along with new cultural products featuring cloud-based services. An on-site electronic sports competition of blockbuster Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), a multi-player role-playing online game popular among the young generation, also makes a lure to e-game enthusiasts.
The China International Children's Film Festival 2020 (CICFF), a large-scale international exchange event of the children's film industry, is underway with 34 domestic and international films being screened.
Running through the end of this month, the fest greets moviegoers with 17 films from across China and 17 ones from 14 foreign countries, including France, the Netherlands and Canada. These films cover three categories—feature films, animation and documentaries—and 14 foreign films will make their worldwide or Asian debuts in Guangzhou's cinemas.
Free tickets are available at the festival's WeChat account for 87 screenings between November 25 and 29 at 33 movie theaters.
Documentary film fans will be treated to a visual feast as the 2020 Guangzhou International Documentary Festival is set to hit the city next month. The carnival will bring together 3,227 acclaimed entries from 126 countries and regions, with Spain, Italy and France submitting the most films.
Domestic documentaries telling stories of Chinese people fighting against the COVID-19 epidemic will be highlights of the festival, along with films exploring the beauties of nature and narrating historical celebrities in ancient China. Babenco: Tell Me When I Die by Brazilian director Barbara Paz, an award-winning documentary at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, will also be staged during the fest.