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Screen cap from promotional trailer.
form y separately published work icon The Dragon Pearl single work   film/TV   fantasy   adventure   children's  
Alternative title: Xun long duo bao
Note: Philip Dalkin is credited as the script writer. John Armstrong is credited with 'original script'. Armstrong, Mario Andreacchio, and Ron Saunders are credited with 'story'.
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Dragon Pearl
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While on an archaeological expedition with their parents, Josh and Ling, exploring beneath the temple, find a golden Chinese dragon. Two thousand years earlier, the dragon lent his pearl to the emperor, to help defend the kingdom. But the pearl was buried with the emperor and, without it, the dragon remains entombed. Josh and Ling hope to dig up the pearl and free the dragon, but there are others who crave the pearl's power for their own purposes.

The production is a Chinese-Australian co-production. As a treaty co-production, the film is simultaneously considered a fully Chinese film and a fully Australian film.

Notes

  • The trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwgJ-HbwKlg (Sighted: 1/6/2012)

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it is set in China.

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Works about this Work

Chasing the Dragon's Tail : Sino-Australian Film Co-productions Weiying Peng , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Media International Australia , vol. 159 no. 1 2016; (p. 73-82)

'Sino-Australian film co-production was founded on a treaty signed in 2007 and implemented in 2008. This article looks at the impetus for Australian and Chinese film-makers to work together and analyses the challenges of Sino-Australia treaty co-production. It addresses the question of why only a few low-profile films have been made after several years. The rewards from the Chinese market remains elusive, but valuable lessons have been learnt. The two case studies examined by this article illustrate Australia’s junior partnership with China.'

Source: Sage Publications.

Chasing the Dragon's Tail : Sino-Australian Film Co-productions Weiying Peng , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Media International Australia , vol. 159 no. 1 2016; (p. 73-82)

'Sino-Australian film co-production was founded on a treaty signed in 2007 and implemented in 2008. This article looks at the impetus for Australian and Chinese film-makers to work together and analyses the challenges of Sino-Australia treaty co-production. It addresses the question of why only a few low-profile films have been made after several years. The rewards from the Chinese market remains elusive, but valuable lessons have been learnt. The two case studies examined by this article illustrate Australia’s junior partnership with China.'

Source: Sage Publications.

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