Originally known as China TV Golden Eagle
Prize awarding ceremony, the China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival is the first
national festival focusing on the appraisal and exchange of national TV art
programs, with appraisal and awarding of China TV Golden Eagle Prize as its main
activity. The China TV Golden Eagle Prize the only national comprehensive award
for TV art voted by the masses. The first China TV Golden Eagle Prize awarding
ceremony was held in Kunming of Yunnan Province in 1983. Since the
18th awarding ceremony held in 2000, it was renamed China Golden
Eagle TV Art Festival. Held in the fourth quarter of the year annually in
Changsha of Hunan Province, the festival is co-sponsored by China Association of
Literary and Art Circles, the People's Government of Hunan Province, China TV
Artist Association, the Bureau of Broadcasting and TV of Hunan Province, and
organized by Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co.,
Ltd.
China TV Golden Eagle Prize comprises 99
awards in five categories, namely TV series, TV literary and art program, TV
documentary, TV cartoon and TV advertisement, each of which consists of several
excellent program awards and individual awards. The judging panel of experts is
voted by the audiences, while the candidate programs, songs and performers are
recommended by TV artists' associations of provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities together with branch associations of China TV Artist Association.
After making a preliminary appraisal of the recommended programs and performers,
the judging panel then submits the list of winners to the higher authorities for
approval before the announcement at the awarding ceremony. Participant programs
should be shown on TV stations of city level or above in the Chinese mainland
within the appraisal year (from April 16 of previous year to April 15 of the
following year).
The China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival
provides an exchange platform for those who work in the trade of TV art from all
over the country and a window for them to communicate with the viewers. The
festival awards Most Favorite Actor and Actress Awards voted by the viewers and
also the Lucky Viewer Awards, attracting a number of well-known enterprises and
management, planning and public relations companies. Moreover, the festival also
conducts activities such as program exchanges between domestic TV stations and
overseas TV organizations, and showings of world excellent TV programs. It has
gained great achievements and social impact through celebration activities,
celebrities of cultural circle, and careful planning of the media and famous
enterprises. With the theme of cooperation, innovation, communication and share,
the art festival strives to make itself a TV gala for viewers while promoting
the prosperity of TV art, leading the fashion, serving people's life, exhibiting
achievements and exploring future objectives. By doing so, it can facilitate a
harmonious development of TV and the human beings in the 21st
century.
The China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival
attracts a wide range of participants as well as the attention of overseas
medias with its worldwide reputation.
(Official website:
www.hunantv.com/block/jinying3)