Beyond the Great Wall: How Arab content creators see China

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  Big stories told in the palm of your hand.

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  For decades, artists and audiences have connected more or less through TV and cinema,

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  but now a new generation of storytellers is taking

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  that collaboration in a new direction on the small screen through a format known as Chinese microdramas or short dramas.

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  This new format has quickly found success in the United States,

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  while more American actors are also coming to China to join local productions.

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  This builds on decades of collaboration between chinese and american filmmakers to tap into each other's expertise

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  and markets so what is driving this new way of exchange how are chinese

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  and american creators influencing each other is this a short-term fad or the beginning of something bigger

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  Welcome to a special edition of The Point with me, Lu Xin, coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm pleased to be joined on the set by Zhao Yupei,

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  Vice Dean of the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University,

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  and Scotty Bobcox, an American actor who has appeared in more than 100 film and television productions here in China.

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  I'm also pleased to be joined online from Brazil by Richard Pena,

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  Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, and Professor Emeritus of Film...

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  And Media Studies at Columbia University the warmest welcome to all of you you pay really help us understand

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  exactly what is it and why is it called to Chinese micro drama First,

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  I would say, like, the Chinese arranged the format that brought it successful.

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