China

MEDIA
Film, including every version thereof, made on any production support, existing or future, for any distribution platform intended for viewing that is subsequently recognized as a treaty coproduction by each Party.

This treaty covers Film only.

MINIMUM PARTICIPATION
Bipartite:  15%
Multipartite:  10%

SHOOTING AND PERFORMERS – LAB WORK – VERSIONING/DUBBING

Subject to sub-paragraph (b), location shooting of a film coproduction will take place in the coproducing parties.

The competent/administrative authorities may, by mutual consent in writing, allow for the location shooting of the film coproduction to take place in a non-party for storyline and/or creative reasons.

Unless otherwise specified in the Annex of this treaty, each participant involved in a film coproduction shall be a national of the coproducing parties.

The Parties, through their respective competent/administrative authorities, may by mutual consent in writing allow the participation of non-party nationals in the film coproduction, notably for storyline, creative, or production purposes.

The competent/administrative authorities may, by mutual consent in writing allow technical services to be provided in one or more non-parties provided that producers demonstrate the non-availability of those services in any of the coproducing parties, and provided that the value of such services does not exceed twenty-five (25) percent of the total production budget of the film coproduction.

For the purpose of this Annex, “dubbing” means the production of any version of the film coproduction in a language other than the original language or languages.

Subject to sub-paragraph (c), all dubbing services of the film coproduction in English and French or Chinese Mandarin will be performed in the coproducing parties.