CNEX is a nonprofit cultural and creative civil society organizations from the three places of those who love documentaries, and currently by the Beijing International Exchange Association, Taiwan Professor Jiang Jian Mei Cultural Foundation, the Foundation jointly promote Hong Kong CNEX.
Vision
CNEX to undertake cultural resources, foster cultural and creative talent, and promote the sustainable development of Chinese society and the Chinese culture, harmony and progress for the vision, expectations of the international community and the promotion of Chinese cultural exchange through theatrical documentary.
Mission
CNEX Changes in the era of globalization, providing a new generation of Chinese documentary creators and art works creation and exchange platform to help more professionals in the form of video and text preserving cultures of Chinese social development.
Target
1. Cultural Resource Integration:
Cooperation with the three places nonprofit organization to raise funds for working basis, to take corporate sponsorship, electronic and print media to promote cooperation with the Chinese social documentary literary program;
2. Establishment of documentary literature database:
In video creation driven text discussed, in order to facilitate text discusses the video creation for the Chinese community in the 21st century theatrical documentary leaves the database and promote sustainable development of documentary theatrical industry.
Action
Consecutive years since 2007, to observe the spirit of the collective consciousness of the annual Trends and Chinese each year, with the annual theme selected Chinese society is closely related to the global Chinese call this topic describes, in response, expression, dialogue, and this topic Zheng case photography, publishing, screenings, distribution and other activities.
- - Case and documentary collection produced
in accordance with the annual theme, documentary collection Case and workshop award, annually elected ten business case to shoot documentary makers also invited the Chinese region of filming, work together to create the annual influential cultural works.
- - Annual festival theme
in accordance with the annual theme, the theme of the documentary film festival held every year, the annual theme and invited relevant international documentary Chinese documentary, even text, images, music and other cultural works, the formation of the annual carnival image.
- - Print & Publishing
levy case CNEX subsidy grants behavior differs from the shooting of the general nature of the donation, CNEX cultural industries to create economies of scale for the vision, all text and visual works, eventually made a series of publications at home and abroad to promote the issue, create can not influence and historical value ignored.
CNEX is the short form of “Chinese Next” and “See Next”. It’s a non-profit foundation devoted to the production and promotion of documentaries of the Chinese people. CNEX strives to facilitate cultural exchange between Chinese and the rest of the world through supporting documentaries depicting contemporary Chinese – people of Chinese ethnicity, their living and their society.
CNEX aspires to become a platform supporting Chinese documentary filmmakers to enhance a sustainable strategy for the contemporary Chinese documentary making. CNEX aims to establish and develop a library of global Chinese non-fiction works to preserve visuals and cultures of Chinese communities, especially in a time of unprecedented and rapid changes happening in this ancient culture.
Who They Are
They have a great team consisting of professional filmmakers, passionate staff and volunteers, as well as an expanding advisory board. Three key founding members of CNEX are: Ben Tsiang (CEO), Ruby Chen (COO) and Chang Chaowei (Chief Producer).
What They Do
- - Annual Thematic Production
There will be a chosen theme announced annually to solicit documentary films, articles, publications, and art works through online and offline submission. This will allow CNEX to produce, collect and disseminate influential works. The goal is to preserve the development history of the Chinese people at the beginning of the 21st century to serve as a memoir for our future generations.
- - CNEX Documentary Film Festival
Based on the chosen theme of the year, CNEX will host a series of activities to explore and create cultural works, climaxing in the CNEX Documentary Film Festival with workshops and art exhibition
- - Publication and Distribution
CNEX will invite well-known commentators and culture experts from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong for composing articles or participating in the forums on the chosen theme. It will also promote the documentaries produced and the collated intellectual achievements through diversified channels, campuses exhibitions, cultural venues, international film and TV festivals, overseas Chinese communities, as well as forms of new media.
