On May 12th, as the request of the committee of Pusan International Film Festival(PIFF), Professor He Julius, vice dean of School of Journalism and Communication and dean of Chinese Documentary Research Center(CDRC), went to Pusan as the judge of the final stage of PIFF, and made “CDRC- the Special Release of China’s Documentary Industry”.
The forum was attended by media elites from China, Japan, South Korea and many other countries, Professor He released CUC’s research results about China’s documentary industry’s overall performance, highlights, tendency in 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. He pointed out that, in general, from 2015 to the first quarter of 2016, documentaries in China had been broadcast for more than 70,000 hours, with a steady growth. About the broadcasting time, documentaries has been broadcast at the prime time, taking up 15.9% of all the TV programs. Documentary commercials had been increasing, when other commercials were decreasing. As to the new media, documentaries had been hit about 5 billion times, and the business model gradually took shape under the context of “Internet+”. About the international broadcasting, the international cooperation has taken a “new moral”, and the diversified cooperation form and content are developing in depth.
Through the communication in the forum, the participating experts reached consensus on the achieved progress of China’s documentary industry, and reached tentative agreements in documentary creation and international communication.
“CDRC- the Special release of China’s Documentary Industry”is CDRC’s industry information brand under the support of CUC. After 2 year’s development, it made special releases in Shanghai International TV Festival, Sichuan International TV Festival, Guangzhou DOC and many other important festivals. And this release in Pusan this year, is an action for CUC’s brand to go international, to publish CUC’s important research results and to further expand CUC’s influence.
Translated by Yan Jiahao
