Montreal festival makes more space for Chinese cinema

The Montreal World Film Festival is in the process of expanding space for China's burgeoning movie industry.

Serge Losique, founder and president of the festival, which began in 1977, says that the annual event will have a permanent section for Chinese movies as well as a Chinese-language website.

He says the Quebec-based festival was "a pioneer in promoting Chinese cinema in the West at a time when there were very few Chinese works being shown in Berlin, Cannes or Venice".