Pitch Deck & Treatment Design

Pitch decks built for the Chinese market sit at the intersection of creative storytelling and a very specific funding and regulatory landscape. Submissions to NRTA for the mandatory script pre-approval that foreign productions must clear before shooting, applications to CFCC for co-production status (which unlocks full theatrical release and bypasses the foreign film quota), conversations with China Film Group, Huayi Brothers, Bona Film Group and Alibaba Pictures, and approaches to private investors connected to Tencent Pictures and iQiyi each carry their own template of expectation.

Here is how this works in practice. Our designers structure narrative, comparable titles, market analysis and financial projections in a sequence that mirrors how NRTA reviewers, CFCC officers and studio commissioners actually read a project, while keeping the deck legible to international partners weighing a China-set film alongside Zhang Yimou-era benchmarks and the box-office reality set by Frant Gwo's Wandering Earth franchise.

Each engagement begins with a strategy session covering creative vision, audience positioning and the funding or regulatory stage you are addressing, followed by a visual design pass that draws on a library of China-specific reference material. Location plates from Beijing's imperial axis, Shanghai's Bund, the Great Wall, Zhangjiajie, the Li River and Hengdian World Studios, plus infographics built around Qingdao's 40% Oriental Movie Metropolis rebate, the Wuxi, Xiamen and Hainan provincial incentives, China Film Co-Production status, 17% VAT recovery and the NRTA approval calendar with its four-to-twelve-week lead times.

The picture on the ground is more specific. We deliver decks within seventy-two hours and offer rehearsal coaching for in-person pitches at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival co-production market and the Jia Zhangke-curated Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival. The result is a document that can carry a project from a Sanlitun development meeting through to a Cannes or AFM conversation without losing its centre of gravity.