Renowned American film producer advises on co-production

American film producer Mitchell Peck is in China, providing insight on how to build movie characters which resonate in cross-cultural co-productions.

Renowned American film producer Mitchell Peck gives a lecture at a master class arranged by the organizers of Silk Road International Film Festival in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Nov 30, 2017. [Photo: China Plus]

"I think the opportunities for the Chinese film community are to incorporate western characters into Chinese stories to get western audiences to engage with them. I think the same are opportunities for western, for Hollywood and European [filmmakers]. We're to have more real and three-dimensional great Chinese characters, that's the same truth for both," Peck said.

Peck is best known in China for the movie "Priest."

He has been taking part in lectures on the sidelines of the ongoing Silk Road International Film Festival in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province.

The session involving Peck was attended by over ten young film directors from Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Laos, and China.