Jia Zhangke to unveil digital video platform in China


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 16 May 2016




Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhagke is launching an online video platform to showcase independent short films from around the world in China.



The Beijing-based video-on-demand (VOD) service will be called Jia Screen, with further details set to emerge from the Cannes Film Festival later this week, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“I would like for it to be a kind of United Nations for arthouse filmmakers, where people can share and discuss short films,” Jia told the publication.

In 2013, Jia won the best screenplay award in Cannes with his drama A Touch of Sin, while his 2015 film Mountains May Depart was selected to compete for the festival’s Palme d'Or.