Chollywood
The Chinese have the ambitious goal to overtake Hollywood with large investments to expand the industry. One visible example is Hengdian World Studios, the world’s largest film studios, with a 1:1 scale reproduction of Beijing’s Forbidden City. China has become the second-largest market in the world and is expected to overtake the US by 2018. Hollywood has countered Chinese restrictions (only 34 foreign films are permitted each year) by making blockbuster co-productions with Chinese film companies. The country is the fastest-growing market for film in the world. The number of cinemas has doubled in four years, and the number of tickets sold increased by 30% per year.
Giulio Di Sturco
Giulio Di Sturco (b.1979, Italy) is an award-winning photographer based between London and Paris. He studied at the European Institute of Design in Rome before moving to Canada and then to India, where he spent five years refining his visual language. He began his career as a photojournalist before dedicating himself to long-term projects which explore the society of the future in the face of environmental and technological changes.
His awards include three World Press Photo prizes, the Sony Photography Awards, the BJP International Awards, and two Getty Grants. In 2019, his project Aerotropolis was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Prize and nominated for the Prix Pictet.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals worldwide at York Art Gallery, Photaumnales Festival, Photo London, and Kolga Photo, among others.
He has recently published his first monograph, Ganga Ma (GOST, 2019) with essays by environmental activist Vandana Shiva and curator Eimear Martin.
