Intl film festival to open in Pingyao

The 6th Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival will officially kick off on Jan 14 in the Ancient City of Pingyao in Pingyao county, North China's Shanxi province. 

With the theme of "Pingyao CODE≠COLD", the festival will highlight that the year-round efforts, inner persistence and confidence of filmmakers are important to promote the vitality of film art. The festival is also calling on the public to come to Pingyao to get in touch with and pass on their enthusiasm for film.  

The film festival will continue to hold relevant screenings and activities centered around the four categories: screening, market, academics and cultivation.

On Jan 11, the film festival announced the shortlisted and recommended projects in the market category. Currently, 16 script projects, 12 film projects and 18 literary works with film and television adaptation potential were shortlisted for the Pingyao Project Promotion, the Work-In-Progress Lab, and the Literary Picturized Project.

The Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, first launched in 2017, is sponsored by the Pingyao Film Exhibition Co and the Shanxi Film Academy of the Shanxi University of Communications.