Made in China: Copy Artists

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Arts Documentary hosted by John Wyatt, published by BSkyB in 2010 - English narration

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Made in China: Copy Artists Sky Arts brings the world's finest paintings to your screen, but we've found a group of artists who want to go one step further and put a masterpiece straight on your lounge wall - meet the prolific copy artists from southern China in the documentary Made in China. The Dafen Village, the ‘copy capital of the world’, is host to thousands of painters who supply the world with oil painting copies of European masterpieces by Renoir, Rembrandt, Matisse, Raphael and many more. Generating over £20million in sales in 2006, the Dafen art community supply over 600 galleries, filling homes and businesses across the globe with convincing reproductions. Want to be greeted each day by Mona Lisa’s smile? Speak to Dafen to get hold of a copy for as little as £20. Made in China meets these prolific copy-artists to find out what in the name of art, is going on. The documentary won a Gold World Medal for Documentaries at the New York Festival's International Film and Video Awards 2010.