Shaw Film and Television received Dingjian Investment to focus on online students 'content to support emerging directors

On April 14, Shaw Films successfully obtained an angel round of financing led by Dingjian Investment and followed by Golden Seed Venture Valley Seed Investment Fund.

In the second half of 2015, online movies began to usher in a period of concentrated explosion. By 2016, as more capital and professional production teams joined, the online movie market was advancing by leaps and bounds, and its ecological industry chain was constantly improving. The industry predicts that the number of major online movies in 2016 will reach 1600, 2.5 times that of 2015, which shows the huge potential of the online movie market and has become another piece of gold mining in the film and television industry.

Shaw Films, as an Internet film company, has many representative works: "Angel of Violence","Cannonfodder","Hormonal Adventure","The Belle Candies","Two Rooms","The Sixth","Looking at the World", etc. Among them,"The Belle Candies" has more than 80 million hits on the entire network, and "Cannonfodder" has more than 30 million hits in one month. On April 14, Shaw Films successfully obtained an angel round of financing led by Dingjian Investment and followed by Golden Seed Venture Valley Seed Investment Fund. At the signing ceremony, Liu Haiyan, founding partner of Dingjian Investment, said that the deep integration of the Internet and traditional industries has formed a wide range of new economic development forms with great potential. This is a new positioning of traditional industries by using the Internet. There is broad room for development in the future. In the fierce market competition in the future, Shaw Films and Television will continue to improve its competitiveness and will surely withstand the test of the audience and the market.

Shaw Films is a self-circulating ecosystem based on the research and development, investment, production, and publicity of online content IP created in the new media era. It provides an all-round and full-industry-chain operation platform for independent online video producers around the world. From selecting and supporting cutting-edge directors and self-media people to opening up more distribution channels at home and abroad, setting more benchmarks for phenomenal content and providing a platform for monetization of more original video content.

In September 2015, the founder of Shaw Films, as the only representative of an Internet film company, accompanied Vice Premier Liu Yandong to participate in the China-UK film and television cultural exchange exhibition season, and reported on his work to the leaders of the two governments.

In August 2015, Shaw Films and Television promoted Cui Nan, the only invited actress in China, to join hands with Bai Ling to participate in the San Francisco International Film Festival in the United States and receive the International Filmmaker's Trophy.

At the beginning of the 2016 New Year, Shaw Films and Television will strive to support many outstanding film directors through the platform's resource advantages, vertically connect with the domestic market in 20 cities, deeply develop overseas markets including North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and jointly create a bridge to the international film market!

In 2016, the Shaw Project brought benefits to filmmakers, incubating 1000 outstanding young directors, jointly producing 100 new media films, cooperating with 500 domestic and foreign film festivals, and establishing a video self-media circle.

In the field of new media movies, romantic comedies have always been popular among the public, especially those represented by Northeast comedies, which are more sought after by users born in the 1990s. Shaw's new film "Hey! The "Big Girl" trilogy series is a mix of Northeastern comedy elements and American humor. It will be launched on May 12, 2016, so stay tuned!

Editor: yvonne