The website of the Chinese Film Festival Studies Research Network (sponsored by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council) has been launched at: http://chinesefilmfeststudies.org/. The research network brings together scholars in the UK, China, other parts of Asia, Europe and the USA who are working on film festivals in Chinese-language territories and cultures (including the People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere). It will run for approximately one year.

If you are interested in film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world or festivals that feature Chinese-language cinema elsewhere, please visit the website and sign up for updates. Do you have a festival report you’d like to contribute to the website? Or perhaps you have a question for network members? We want to hear from you and know why you’re interested in Chinese Film Festival Studies. Please feel free to write in either English or Chinese to chinesefilmfestivals@gmail.com

We are currently compiling a bibliography of Chinese Film Festival Studies, which we will post at the website. If you have written anything or know of anything appropriate for the bibliography – academic article, report, blog post – please send it to us at the above email address before 30 September.

Thank you

Chris Berry and Luke Robinson (network coordinators)