China competition winner and finalists announced

Earlier in the week the Chinese judging panel announced the four finalists and the winner of the online competition run in partnership with British Council China and SOHU.com. The finalists are Fei Xiafeng with Another Day, Song Yidan with My World, Xie Yi with Cake World (shown during the BBC Blast/National Youth Theatre performance on 30 March) and Zhao Xi with Another Place. The winning script, submitted by Ding Tian from Shanghai Jiaotong University is Goodbye Heaven. Our thanks to the judging panel for their time and contribution.

A short film of Goodbye Heaven will be made in the next couple of weeks by the Chinese film director and photographer, 223. Meanwhile, award winning film director Asif Kapadia completed his shoot of Xing Ding’s script My World on Friday. Both films will be shown as part of East to East at Canary Wharf in London (at 13.00) and in the courtyard of the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing (at 20.00) on 30 April. 100 Words will be represented at both ends, with Natasha and Oliver Williams, an associate of the project, setting off for Beijing in a couple of weeks time.