The Venice Film Festival showcases outstanding movies from filmmakers across the globe. (Photo : Getty Images)
Giorgio Gosetti, the director if an independent event during the Venice Film Festival, said that despite the growing Chinese film industry, Europe and China should work together to develop the art of making films.
Gosetti was the vice-director of the Venice Film Festival from 1992 to 1996 and has founded or directed the Rome Film Festival.
He explained that there are many Europeans who are interested to see Chinese movies and that filmmakers should work towards bringing their work to the global market.
He said, "The generation of masters like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, opened the Europeans' mind toward a different culture and through this passage, the international and European film festivals received and are receiving more works from china. This is a tradition and a good start."
There are changing trends in both China and Europe that filmmakers should explore, he added.
The director explained, "But now we have both in China and Europe a new generation of young audience and filmmakers, they have different taste and expectation for cinema."
"The integrating point is, in my opinion, the development of the diversity of contents and of talents. China and Europe should work together to match the tendencies and even to create a new group of audience," he added.
Gosetti emphasized the importance of creating venues to discuss the changing perspectives in film and that young filmmakers should take advantage of film festivals to meet other artists.
He said, "I do hope Chinese directors come to Italy and invent a story with its own sensibility."
During the event, the director organized a forum for Chinese directors and European film artists can exchange ideas.
Young filmmakers in China today are more professional than the last generation. I think Europe can offer certain partnerships in terms of professionalism and technique, which could be useful to the Chinese new generation," he said.
