On 22 October, the "UK-Hubei Film and Television Industry-Education Cooperation Forum", jointly organised by the British Consulate-General in Wuhan and Jackie Chan Film and Media College of Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences, with support from the Hubei Provincial Department of Education, was held in Wuhan. Geraldine McCafferty, Deputy British Ambassador to China; Dominic McAllister, British Consul-General in Wuhan; Jackie Chan, Dean of Jackie Chan Film and Media College of Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences; and representatives from the film, television and education sectors of both China and the UK attended the event to discuss frontier trends in higher and vocational education for film and television.

Lv Yi, Dean of our school, Sion Hughes, Foreign Vice Dean/Academic Head, Charlotte Blacker and Richard Parkinson, faculty representatives along with outstanding graduate Yang Siqi, were invited to participate.

At the conference, Professor Sion Hughes delivered a keynote speech. He emphasised that in the era of AI, creators must harness technology through humanistic insight, taming computational power with critical historical awareness, ethical consciousness, and aesthetic acumen to transform technology from an "efficiency engine" into a "contemplative organ", producing truly irreplaceable content.

Yang Siqi, an outstanding 2019 graduate of our school, founder of Wuhan Zhenqishe Animation Company, and a member of the animation production team for Ne Zha 2, shared insights on the topic "From Classroom to Studio: New Explorations in Cultivating Future Film and Television Talents and Industry-Education Cooperation between China and the UK". She analysed pathways for integrating industry and education between China and the UK, aiming to build a complete channel for film and television talents from campus creativity to industrial production.

The successful hosting of this conference has established an efficient dialogue platform for film and television education and industrial collaboration between China and the UK. In the future, School will continue to leverage such cooperation opportunities to innovate teaching models and expand practical pathways, nurturing more high-quality talents with international perspectives, humanistic literacy, and professional competence for the film and television industry, thereby contributing to the synergistic development of the Chinese and UK film and television sectors.