NEW YORK, NY, March 22, 2011 – Film Annex (www.filmannex.com), online film promotion and distribution company, announced today that it has joined forces with acclaimed filmmaker, Abel Ferrara, in a new Chinese – American film venture. They will be attending the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival to seek investors for a slate of films to star both Chinese and American actors. The projects will be filmed in Mainland China as well as their home base New York City.

Ferrara's official website (www.abelferrara.com), launched by Film Annex, in both English and Chinese has over 1 million monthly views (Quantcast). The site is the most visited and up to date Abel Ferrara source online and offers dozens of videos from exclusive interviews with his actors and crew people to exclusive director cuts of his latest films.

“China is a booming market with over 1 billion viewers and we want to produce movies there,” said Film Annex's founder and president Francesco Rulli. Embracing and bringing together Chinese actors and filmmakers with their American counterparts is a great opportunity for all concerned. Film Annex co-founder Tommaso Rulli, who has spent the last decade in Shanghai creating and developing a profitable textile company, will lend his vast experience and expertise in the Chinese market.

“In the vast, one-world aspect of the Internet, Francesco and Tommaso, have shown me the difference in ‘using rather than being used,’ said Abel Ferrara. With that in mind, we are here to take our next logical step as independent and productive filmmakers. The time to personally explore and experience China is now.


About Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara is a New York-based American screenwriter and film director best known for his movies, The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), which was awarded at the Venice Film Festival the same year. Ferrara also won a Best Filmmaker award from the Gotham Awards for his film The Addiction in 1995. His more recent film, Mary, starring Juliette Binoche, Matthew Modine, and Forrest Whitaker premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2005 and swept the awards ceremony, garnering both the Grand Jury Prize and SIGNIS Award.

About Film Annex

Film Annex is an online film distribution platform and Web Television Network with 220,000 registered users and over 1.5 million viewers a day. The company creates free Web TV channels for content providers and supports them financially through an ad-revenue sharing model. A meeting point for filmmakers, film festivals, film enthusiasts, companies, and organizations, Film Annex educates and entertains audiences by making meaningful, diverse, and high- quality films available to a global audience. For more information, visit www.filmannex.com.

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