Imar Film Company Explained

Imar Film Company is an independent film production company in China. Imar was established in 1997 by American producer Peter Loehr. It was the first legal independent film company in the PRC. Imar handles production, distribution and marketing of films in partnership with Xi'an Film Studio. It specializes in producing low-budget films set in modern urban settings, targeting the urban Chinese youth.^[1]

Music

Imar Film Company works with Rock Records of Taiwan, the world's largest Chinese pop music conglomerate, which allows Imar use of Rock Record's substantial music catalog, Mandarin for their soundtracks.^[2]

Films produced

• Spicy Love Soup (1997)^[3]
• A Beautiful New World (1999)
• Shower (1999)^[3]
• The End of the Line
• Quitting (2001)^[3]
• Sunflower (2005)^[3]

Further reading

• News: Kehr . Dave . 30 June 2000 . Being an Indie In China Is Hard . The New York Times.

Notes and References

1. Web site: When Heroes Are Born - China's Production Industry Looking Forward to Change . 30 July 2000 . China Media Monitor Intelligence . https://web.archive.org/web/20111005165508/http://www.cmmintelligence.com/?q=node%2F6270 . 5 October 2011 . dead .
2. Tang Yuankai . 1 April 2005 . More and More "Mixed-Blood" Chinese Movies . China Today . 4 . 58–61 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110514235149/http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2005/e200504/p58.htm . 14 May 2011 .
3. Book: Zhang, Z. . 2007 . The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century . Duke University Press . 403–404 . 978-0822340744.