Hopes high in movie industry after a new road opens

The Raindance Film Festival staged in London this month is one of the world's leading independent movie festivals. This year's event began with a day devoted to discussion and debate on the state of Chinese cinema and its future. All delegates agreed that the future is very bright.

Elliot Grove, the festival's founder, said that as time passes, the Chinese movie industry is only going to expand.

"For any filmmaker in Europe, the Chinese market is huge, but they play by different rules, so you have to know what they want and how to appeal to them," he said.