One-Month Countdown to The 3rd N. A. Chinese Directors Short Film Tour!

One last month to submit your short films to The 3rd North America Chinese Directors Short Film Tour! Initiated by EnMaze Pictures and co-presented by Blueberry Pictures, North America Chinese Directors Short Film Tour is the platform for overseas Chinese film students to begin their career in the flourishing film industries across the Pacific. This year’s Short Film Tour is estimated to attract over 2000 audiences with a combination of events, including screenings, Q&A sessions, press conferences and interaction sessions with filmmakers and industry specialists in major cities in the US and China.

The 3rd Short Film Tour will focus on broadening, diversifying, and expanding the platform to provide more opportunities for filmmakers. Short Film Tour will premiere at CAA’s headquarter in Los Angeles and tour in major US and Chinese cities, providing marketing opportunities, including coverage by US mainstream media, press conferences, industry fairs, and VC conferences. This year, the Tour will also establish strategic partnership with top platforms and streaming sites to provide a professional development hub for filmmakers.

Five years ago, being Chinese film students in the US themselves, founders of EnMaze Pictures realized the enormous potential of a community and the common dilemma they’re facing: in the past ten years, film schools in North America that have trained the backbones of today’s Hollywood also cultivated a generation of Chinese student equipped with strong professional skills. However, unlike their fellow American schoolmates who often find paths in Hollywood industry, Chinese film student often have difficulty beginning their career in the film due to their in-between status as an oversea student away from home. This distance limits the change of young filmmakers to exhibit their talents and it is also a great loss for Chinese film industry that is in need of talents who can create universal contents.

Based on this vision, EnMaze Pictures founded North America Chinese Directors Short Film Tour in 2014 with the goal to scout talented filmmakers and to support them with a warm community. The Tour has travelled far and beyond, helping filmmakers start new adventures in LA, Chicago, NY, Boston, San Francisco, DC, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing and Xi’an. Through various events in major US and Chinese cities, Short Film Tour has been supporting young filmmakers to jumpstart their careers.

The first two Tours received over 600 submissions with a stellar jury team consisting of scholars and industry experts, including Dai Jinhua, Peggy Chiao, Terence Chang Chia-Chen, Wuershan, Mabel Cheung, Jeffrey Sharp, Hardy Justice, etc.

Attendees for the past two Short Film Tours have made incredible achievements in the US and in China. Their projects have been selected by critically acclaimed film festivals as well as global online platforms to showcase their films to audience around the world.

Zao Wang (The Precipice Game, signed by UTA)
Sky Wang (Lost in Apocalypse, signed by CAA)
Dennis Liu (Raising Dion, ordered by Netflix)
Zhao Quan (End of Summer, Audience Award at 22nd BIFF)
Johnny Ma (Old Stone, Best Canadian First Feature Film at 41st TIFF)

After four years, Short Film Tour has successfully drawn a newly emerging power together to build a community of Chinese filmmakers in the US, creating a creative hub where overseas Chinese film students could communicate and learn from each other.

The 3rd North America Chinese Directors Short Film Tour is now open for submissions. Please visit https://www.shortfilmtour.org/ for more information.
Submit your films before the Aug 1 deadline!