Private screenings

Filmmakers zoom in the Internet's potential for the movie industry, Han Bingbin reports.

To show its determination to improve the quality of its Internet productions, Youku Original Master's Micro Film project invited some of Asia's most renowned movie directors three years running to make short films for the diverse tastes of a growing Internet audience.

This year, participating directors are Zhang Yuan from the mainland, Hong Kong director and film critic Shu Kei, international award-winning cinematographer Christopher Doyle and one of South Korea's most profitable film directors, Kang Je-kyu. They focus on controversial topics, which are rarely dealt with on the big screen, such as homosexual love and sexual passion.