Oz-China cooperative org bows

SYDNEY -- The Australia-China Screen Alliance, which aims to assist both nations setup co-productions with one another easier, released in the Australian Intl. Movie Convention on Tuesday. It is the creation of producer Mario Andreacchio, that has labored extensively in the area, and also the Screen Producers Assn. of Australia."ACSA will even function as a meeting place and project exchange between authors and producers, company directors, crew and bankers," Andreacchio stated.Move may come as Vietnamese-born Aussie helmer Pauline Chan's "33 Postcards," the 2nd Australia-China co-production, is out on 8,000 screens in China, the biggest opening to have an Aussie film in the united states.Picture, starring Guy Pearce, world preemed in the Sydney Film Festival in June, attended with a Chinese delegation headed by Zhejiang Hengdian Film Prods. topper Liu Zhijiang.Pic is really a Titan View (around australia)-Zhejiang Hengdian discharge of a Portal Pictures and Zhejiang Film production.It focuses on a Chinese orphan who comes to Sydney to uncover her Aussie sponsor does time for murder. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com