STORY: Warner Brothers Discovery hopes for deepening cooperation with Chinese documentary teams
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 20, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 23, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:14
LOCATION: SANYA, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the 5th Hainan Island International Film Festival
2. SOUNDBITE (English): VIKRAM CHANNA, Vice President of Warner Bros. Discovery, Head of Content & Products, Great China and South East Asia

STORYLINE:

Vikram Channa, Vice President of Warner Bros. Discovery, expected increased opportunities for collaboration and communication between Chinese filmmakers and international broadcasters in documentary production at the 5th Hainan Island International Film Festival, which concluded on Friday.

He said that Warner Bros. Discovery is willing to deepen its cooperation with Chinese partners to tell better Chinese stories in a more international tone.

SOUNDBITE (English): VIKRAM CHANNA, Vice President of Warner Bros. Discovery, Head of Content & Products, Great China and South East Asia
"We wish to collaborate sincerely with our local partners, platforms, talents, all the creativity that lies here, because they have the in-depth understanding of the topics, the details from a Chinese perspective. And we have some ability to internationalize ideas. If we collaborate in this sincere way, if we come together with this slightly different approach, but work together, bring different mindsets with sincerity and trust, then this kind of collaboration will in its own time lead to the kind of opportunities and new kind of opportunities in the future. That's kind of how we see it from our perspective as Warner Bros. Discovery.
Recently, we concluded the project over the last year with Waiwenju (China International Communications Group) called IP plan and we invited five emerging young talents from China to produce films on their vision, but in collaboration also with us, the Warner Bros. Discovery. I think this is the right way to come together and work on these ideas."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sanya, China.
(XHTV)