Eastern Shanghai: Stealing the Spotlight at the Shanghai TV Festival

During this year\'s Shanghai TV Festival, Eastern Shanghai International Culture Film & Television Group will be showcasing the all-around development of the company. It will have ten recently-finished and ongoing films, TV series, and cartoons at the festival, including a historical play named Su Dongpo, a dramatic play called The Promise of a Man, an urban romance dubbed New Looking Back in Anger, the thriller A Spy II, and Kids in Shanghai, a film that\'s already won Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Hollywood AOF International Film Festival.

Produced in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of new China and the liberation of Shanghai, the 32-episode Metropolitan Manoeuvre has already been praised widely by critics. Starring Xing Jiadong, Lin Xiyue, Gao beibei, Cui Bo, Liu Zifeng, and Wu Yufang, the film showcases the bitter life of PLA officers and soldiers who walked off the war field and into Shanghai in early 1950s when the city was first liberated from the reign of Kuomintang. The film has been praised for the way it portrays the integrity and unyielding faith of PLA officers and soldiers.
 

The romance Bride in Hard Times is another of the group\'s successes. The film tells the love story between Shaoning, a young master at the century-old Rui Sheng Xiang silk shop, and Qiuhe, a farmer\'s daughter and his bride to be.
 

Reporter in a Storm of Blood, directed by Yang Wenjun and starring Li Guangjie and Wang Qian, is a spy TV play based on the experience of the famous female reporter and “Legendary Talented Woman” Guan Lu. This TV play hopes to honor the wartime work of Chinese spies whose contributions are forgotten all too often.
 

The 25-episode TV series Ungodly Love told a story about several confused and uncertain youths all at a turning point in their lives. The play depicts their struggle for career advancement, romance and self-fulfillment. It stars Fu Dalong, winner of Huabiao and Golden Rooster "Best Actor" awards and Zhang Chenguang, a famous actor from Taiwan, bringing together two accomplished actors from opposite sides of the strait.
 

During this year\'s Shanghai TV Festival, Eastern Shanghai International Culture Film & Television Group also took the chance to show off its brand-new Beijing Film Post-production Base for the first time. It introduced its newest TV and film post-editing and production equipment and techniques and a team its best film editors, 3-D animators, sound engineers to the public.
 

Eastern Shanghai International Culture Film & Television Group works with a lot of famous actors such as He Saifei, Gao Beibei, Rong Rong, Zhou Jie, Zhan Xiaonan and fresh faces like Wang Rui, Dong Weijia, and Zhu Kexin, all of whom have performed in numerous films, TV series and stage shows in the past few years. This time, however, they\'ll be starring at the Shanghai TV Festival instead.