Paul Carran, producer and Film Auckland board member attended the Asia Pacific Producers Network annual meeting and conference held in conjunction with the Tokyo International Film Festival at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo.

The Asia Pacific Producers Network is a network of film producers across the Asia Pacific region of which Paul is a member. He also attended last year's conference in Seoul, Korea.

This year it was the Japanese members turn to host the conference and over three days a busy schedule enabled members to network, explore co-production opportunities and discuss taking projects to other countries. The Japan Location Market enabled members to access new film and television projects in development. A new feature of the Tokyo International Film Festival was the Tokyo Producer Group that was a targeted networking meeting forum for specific Asian film and television projects looking for investors and co-production partners.

All members were interested in the potential of New Zealand to develop and co-produce with them new and
interesting stories that have an audience in the west as well as Asia. The SPIF (Screen Production Incentive) grant gives New Zealand producers a stronger place in the process of developing and financing movies with an Asian influence. New Zealand recently signed a co-production treaty with Korea and together with the SPIF grant, provides added opportunity for the New Zealand screen production industry. Next year the APN conference and annual meeting will be held in China and after that Korea. It is proposed that Film Auckland host the annual conference in 2011. In the meantime members use the new APN website, www.apninfocenter.com to communicate with each other as well as utilising the conference call services of skype. Paul's assessment of the conference was that, "there is a growing interest in New Zealand in Asia. Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan as well as other member countries are markets with much to offer the New Zealand screen production industry. Business in Asia will continue to grow and flourish. I see great things happening in the future despite the current financial turmoil sweeping across the globe."

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