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Legal Consultation Service Available During BJIFF

 
   Beijing Tiantai Law Firm will offer all-around legal services to guests of the Film Festival.
   In order to meet the requirements of Chinese and foreign guests of the Film Festival regarding film law, during this year’s film festival, the Organizing Committee of Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) will arrange consulting lawyers to offer professional legal consulting and guidance services to all attendees. To be specific:
1 Set a legal column in BJIFF Daily, providing information on common legal issues regarding film and television industry;
2 Host Cross-industry and Integration -- Chinese Film Investment and Financing Summit on April 19 from 13:30-18:00 at the International Hall of Beijing International Hotel (admission by invitation)
3 Set up a booth at the 6th Beijing International Film Festival Film Market E11 for on-site consulting from April 19 to April 21 at 9:30-17:30;
4 Set up legal consulting desk at the Guest Registry of Film Market and Beijing International Hotel, and at Sino-Foreign Film Co-production Forum, Chinese Film Merchandising Industry Summit and Summit on the Beauty of Film etc.
 
   Beijing Tanta Law Firm (hereinafter referred to as the Law Firm) serves as the legal advisor of BJIFF. The Law Firm enjoys outstanding reputation for the legal services it provides relating culture, film and television, and it also serves as the legal advisor of competent authorities and industry associations like State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the PRC, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, Organizing Committee of BJIFF, China Federation of Literature and Art Circles, Television Production Committee and Screenwriter Committee of China Alliance of Radio, Film and Television, China Television Drama Production Industry Association, Chinese Television Artists Association, Chinese Musicians Association, Music Copyright Society of China, and IFPI Beijing Representative Office; and enterprises like BONA FILM GROUP LIMITED, Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd, Alibaba Information Technology Co., Ltd, China Record Corporation, Warner Shengshi Music Rights Agent (Beijing) Co., Ltd, Baidu.com Inc which have representative clients in related cultural field in China. In addition, the Law Firm also offers legal service in China for overseas customers like American Publishing Online Group, (America) Beijing eChinaCash Network Technology Co., Ltd, Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers Studios, Universal Studios, EMI Music. At the same time, it is the legal advisor of many A-listers.
 
   As the legal advisor of the Organizing Committee of BJIFF -- the cultural, entertainment, and legal service team, led by two partner lawyers of the Law Firm, Zheng Xiaoqiang and Dong Yuanyuan, focuses on legal services regarding culture, film and television, media, and entertainment industry throughout the year, including domestic and foreign film and TV drama project development; investment and financing, production, publicity, distribution and derivative rights operation overall legal service; film and TV enterprise developing strategy layout and enterprise establishment legal service; film and TV enterprise domestic and overseas capital operation legal service; copyright registration agency and copyright administration legal service; film and TV disputes, arbitration and litigation legal service etc. The Law Firm provides legal services regarding investment, shooting, production, distribution and derivative operation to films like Lost In Hong Kong, Dearest, One Night Stud, The Nightingale which is a Sino-French co-production film, Xuan Zang which is a Sino-Indian co-production film, and over 100 film and TV projects including The Legendary Sniper, For The Holy Guiguzi, On Our Way Home and Run for Love.

Profile of the Legal Advisors of the Organizing Committee:

Lawyer Zheng Xiaoqiang: the legal advisor of the Organizing Committee of BJIFF, partner and lawyer of Beijing Tiantai Law Firm, member of Beijing Lawyers Association Media and Press Publication Professional Committee. He is an excellent Party member in Chaoyang District of Beijing, and wins Excellent Young Lawyer in Chaoyang District in its first session, and Excellent Lawyer in Chaoyang District 2011-2013. He was interviewed or on the special report written by Media like China Film News, China Art, China Culture Daily, Ifeng.com, XinhuaNet, people.com.cn, Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, Legal Daily·Legal Person on legal questions which are involved in social hotspots regarding culture, film and TV, and entertainment. He is the author of Study on Unfair Competition of Film and Television Work and its Dispute Settlement Mechanism, Chinese and Foreign Film Cooperation Legal Guidelines, Legal Problems That Should Be Noticed in China-Korea Corporation Film, Common Legal Issue and Operation of Film and Television Project, Risk and Control: Problems That Should Be Noticed in Film and Television Industry Related Contract, Legal Problems That Should Be Noticed in Film and Television Investment, Legal Problems That Should Be Noticed in Film and Television Marketing Process ,etc.

Lawyer Dong Yuanyuan: the legal advisor of the Organizing Committee of BJIFF, partner and lawyer of Beijing Tiantai Law Firm. She has devoted herself to legal affairs in the field of culture and entertainment, media and finance for a long time. Dong Yuanyuan is experienced in all fields relating entertainment industry, and she offers legal service to clients including State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China, BJIFF, producers, production companies, banks, film funds, directors, actors and actresses. She also has experience on dealing legal affairs in the field of development, production, sale, distribution and financing of related ancillary products of film, TV play, TV program, game, digital media project and its publications, commodity and new technology. In her career, Deng Yuanyuan has offered legal service to over 100 films and TV plays.

 

Contact Information of Legal Advisors:

Zheng Xiaoqiang mobile phone: 18610817511 E-mail: xq_zheng@qq.com

Dong Yuanyuan mobile phone: 13911057981 E-mail: dongyy@tiantailaw.com

 

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