Chloé Zhao

studios licensing Japanese IP and it's particularly manga IP and the adaptation process has been quite complicated for years and years and years now so I've always dreamt to be a bridge between the east and the west

And to be able to create a safe and nurturing garden in a way for international filmmakers, writer, directors, and Japanese senseis, manga artists, authors to come together and to at early stage,

allow the artists to really see each other.

Why did this artist create this story in Japan?

You know, what is really the core of it?

And then spiritually, emotionally, and then to find the right filmmaker.

And then can allow them to work together to develop the screenplay until the little, you know, the shoots of the plants are strong enough.

And then we go to our studio partners.

I think that's, I guess, one of my plays in the IP world.

And I think adopting from IP is beautiful.

I started my writing career as a fan fiction writer.

Oh, really?

In China.

A pretty well-known one, too.

But you'll never know because I will never share with you my pen name.

But I don't mind.

I think the word original is misunderstood in modern world because oracle means the source.

It means old, the beginning.

So original actually means going back to the source.

Yeah, but our modern culture is so obsessed with new things.