Laurel Films

Laurel Films is a privately owned company headquartered in China, founded in 2000. It specializes in content rights and operates as an independent film production company. The studio was established in Beijing by producer, screenwriter, and geo-scientist Fang Li, as an outgrowth of his earth and marine sciences technological enterprise, Laurel Industrial Company, Inc. Laurel Films focuses on developing Chinese auteur filmmakers, aiming to combine production standards and artistic quality with commercial viability. The company has built a critical and commercial reputation on the international film festival circuit and maintains an extensive intellectual property (IP) library. This library includes features such as Wang Chao's The Orphan of Anyang (nominated for the Caméra d'Or at Cannes) and Everyday Somewhere, Li Yu's Dam Street, Lost in Beijing (nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin), Buddha Mountain, and Double Exposure, Han Han's box-office hits The Continent and Duckweed, and Fang Li's documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, which served as China's official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.