For those of you that missed it, there was a short film competition in Shanghai last December. You can find the winners on the Film Contest Winners page. I recently came upon an article in the Asia times that puts Shanghai’s Independent Film industry in perspective.

Government restrictions are always a constant scorn to independent filmmakers. Though, through gestures like this event they might be able to make a home for themselves in Shanghai. As mentioned in the article, once Independent Film start to make money, the Chinese might be more interested in releasing their tight grasp on the industry.

Independent films could be the cornerstone to bringing more, and bigger production studios to town, to set off a cascade that will see the Chinese film industry come back to its original home in Shanghai.