Chinese Big Screens Project
By Rosemary Richards, Editor, BBC Video Nation
BBC Video Nation and BBC Big Screens are planning a celebration focusing on British Chinese communities in the immediate lead-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Films made by local Chinese communities, with the support of Video Nation, will be shown on the Big Screens alongside films made for the China Now festival and other Chinese short films. These screening events are expected to take place on 19 July 2008, three weeks before the Beijing Olympics begin.
The film-making will begin at Chinese New Year in February when Video Nation will start to run workshops and work with individuals to make short films, exploring contemporary British Chinese life and how Chinese people in the UK still relate to historical Chinese culture and mythologies.
In London, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham the BBC is working with outdoor creative event producers to develop and run simultaneous Chinese-themed celebrations to enhance the screenings. Funding permitting, these events will be spectacles in their own right and will bring local Chinese communities, artists and outdoor theatricals right into the heart of our city centres. Historical and modern themes will be featured in inspirational outdoor events of a high artistic standard in each of the five cities. Smaller events are also being developed at all the other BBC Big Screen sites for the same day.
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