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Controlling Documentaries in China
From: Kevin Lee 
Source: AP (8/26/14): http://bigstory.ap.org/article/china-courts-documentaries-it-limits-expression
CHINA COURTS DOCUMENTARIES AS IT LIMITS EXPRESSION
By LOUISE WATT
In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, Li Xianting, a film critic and founder of the Li Xianting Film Fund, the organizer of the Beijing Independent Film Festival smokes as he meets journalists after he was released in Beijing, China. China is avidly wooing filmmakers to create more documentaries to replace popular dating, reality and game shows. But it is also stifling material with any whiff of challenging the Communist Party line. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
 
BEIJING (AP) — China is wooing filmmakers at the same time as it’s cracking down on them.
Authorities are handing more slots to documentaries, giving even independent filmmakers a chance to be shown on state television. But while China is avidly pursuing what it considers serious content to replace popular dating, reality and game shows, it is also stifling material with any whiff of challenging the Communist Party line. A weekend crackdown by authorities on an independent film festival in Beijing was the worst in its eight-year history, with police confiscating hundreds of films and briefly detaining two organizers. (more…)
by denton.2 at osu.edu on August 30, 2014
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