The 11th BJIFF Beijing Film Market Project Pitches officially launched on December 21st, 2020. A total of 839 projects were received. After nearly half a year of a rigorous first-round selection, 30 pitching projects and 10 WIP projects were shortlisted for the second-round selection.

Shortlisted Pitching Projects:

The Land in the River, The Incredible Wind, Sometimes Sunny, Twin Dreams, The Heroine's Office, Between Us, Ice Hockey Girl, The Age of Reason, From Ergun to Ejina, The Blade and the Red Plum Blossom, The Seashore Knight, Requiem of the Midnight Moon, The Golden Rhapsody, King of the Old City, Mom's Got Alzheimers, You Damn Liar, Ciao, Dear Child, Land of Burning Ice, Villa of the Times, Her Judgement, The Designated Driver, I'm Just a Little Bird, Painless, Orphan of the Misty City, A Raging Rhino Ran Down Gulou Street That Night, Summerfall, A Town Doctor's Secret, Joy, The Grandma Who Travels the North and South.

Shortlisted WIP Projects:

No. 23, When Will You Be Back, Castle in the Air, Wangmu's Summer, Till Love Do Us Part, Our Little Secret, Football on the Roof, A Monster's Secret, One and Four, In a Foreign Land.

The BJIFF Beijing Film Market Project Pitches has been committed to building a professional project pitches transaction platform with an international perspective. And it aims to discover and support high-quality film projects and young creators with market potential. At the same time, the Project Pitches gathers industrial energy to continuously train outstanding new talents and high-quailty films for the Chinese film market.

The jury of first-round selection for this year integrated creativity, genres, scripts and other aspects into the selection process. The jury aims to encourage high potential genre films with solid scripts and smaller market shares in the current film market. Furthermore, the jury strives to unearth excellent film projects with investment value and market potential.

There are a variety of shortlisted film projects. The 30 pitch projects include genres such as comedy, suspense, drama, fantasy, sci-fi, animation, musical, etc. The WIP projects have outstanding performance in subject type, theme expression, and completion. Among them, there is no shortage of excellent and artistic projects that can fulfill the commercial demands.

The first-round selection jury of Project Pitches are all industry professionals who are active in first-tier production companies. The following are the members of the jury:

Hu Zhengdong, film producer of iQiyi Pictures; Huang Yang, chief content officer/producer of Mountaintop Entertainment; Ji Jing, director of production department of As One Production; Li Jin, director/producer of Blue Balloon Studio of Maoyan Entertainment; Lin Shan, producer of the Sunac Culture Group; Lü You, producer of Director Guo Fan's Film Studio; Ma Shuang, Vice President/General Manager of Film Division of Hengye Pictures; Xu Jiqing, project director of the Youth Enlight of Enlight Pictures (*Sorted alphabetically in pinyin).

Each judge adheres to their initial goals of finding excellent stories and creators. They not only give high recognition to young creators, but also offer evaluations and opinions from a professional perspective of the market.

After the second-round selection, the top 10 pitching projects and 6 WIP projects among the 30 pitching projects and 10 WIP projects will be selected and receive training from mentors who are industry insiders. After that, they'll finally move on to the final-round selection – road show and compete for the major awards.

Another 10 pitching projects selected by the jury from the second-round selection will have the opportunity to join the negotiations with investors.