The World (film) France's Lumen Films. It received additional financial support from the Shanghai Film Studio and several Japanese corporations including Bandai Visual and Tokyo FM, among others. The film premiered in competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2004, but failed to win the coveted Golden Lion, the festival's top award, which ultimately went to Mike Leigh's drama "Vera Drake", but which Jia would win two years later with "Still Life". "The World" also premiered in 2004 at the New York Film Festival and would go on to receive a limited release in New York City the following year
The YoungCuts Film Festival 2005. In 2007, the "YoungCuts Film Festival" added a charity component to its event. Since then the Festival has raised money for the "Canadian Colorectal Cancer Association", the "Cedars Cancer Institute" and in 2011 it raised money for the charity "Leave Out Violence". The Festival encourages participation from young filmmakers around the world. In 2009, more than one thousand films from twenty countries competed in the Festival. In 2010, entries were received from 30 countries. In 2011, more than 1,200 films were evaluated leading up to the Festival's 10th Anniversary celebration in September 2011. In 2012 over 1,100 films from