Beijing, China is a cosmopolitan city that welcomes all nationalities, cultures and societies and yet manages to maintain the integrity of the Chinese identity in everything they do. However it is also a city that gives the necessary due to International change and development.In the Education Industry, Beijing has continued to show a steady demand, Internationally for various courses of study on offer. Of these film and video also play an important role.
11 Years ago, the Beijing Film Academy introduced and began the much acclaimed International Student Film and Video Festival that became an annual fixture in the Institutions’ calendar and has in fact been listed as such in the curriculum and schedule for teaching. It forms an integral part of the school and what it stands for and prides itself on being one Festival that is entirely managed, organized and carried out solely by the students themselves.
Much thought and preparation go into making this Festival a success and a volunteer programme is initiated a month ahead in order to cope with the vast preparations. The Festival is one of International standards.
Films and videos of all types make their way into the entries and only a certain amount will make the cut for the festival itself. These selected entries will be screened at the 1000 seat Cineplex and introduction of the student filmmaker will be made with the screening of the relevant entry.
The Festival is an important forum by which many similar school representatives and other student filmmakers from across the world gather to share and learn in an exuberant atmosphere of festivity.
The 11th edition of the International Student Film and Video Festival will be held from the 4th to the 10th of November 2012. If you hope to be in the city for the festival or during such time and are looking to stay at a 5 star hotel Beijing then an accommodation option that offers star class facilities that you should consider is The Peninsula Beijing. With its elegant ambiance and grand lavishness, it remains an ideal Beijing luxury hotel you could find.Thanuja Silva is a travel writer who writes under the pen name Auburn Silver. She has a passion for fashion and a deep interest in admiring new and exotic attractions around the world.
