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Eastern Gate Productions The information contained in this brochure, while obtained from sources believed to be reliable, is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. This brochure is not intended to, and does not constitute an Oering Memorandum, Filing Statement Prospectus, Statement of Material Facts, nor any other type of oering document, but is intended solely as an introduction to, and an overview of, a lm project produced by Eastern Gate Productions. No securities of Eastern Gate Productions are oered hereby or in connection herewith.

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Eastern Gate Productions

The information contained in this brochure, while obtained from sources believed to be reliable, is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. This brochure is not intended to, and does not constitute an Offering Memorandum, Filing Statement Prospectus, Statement of Material Facts, nor any other type of offering document, but is intended solely as an introduction to, and an overview of, a film project produced by Eastern Gate Productions. No securities of Eastern Gate Productions are offered hereby or in connection herewith.

The People of Eastern Gate

Eastern Gateway Productions (“EGP”) is a Canada based production company with offices in Vancouver, and Beijing. Eastern Gateway has been set up to help Chinese production companies to shoot in Canada. We offer first class end-to-end production services for incoming foreign films and can help with budgeting, hiring crew, accounting, location services, casting and work permit applications. In addition, the company may also offers services in project development and financing.   Members of Eastern Gateway Productions have helped to create hundreds of hours Hollywood film and television shows. Their collective knowledge of development, financing, and the production of filmed and new media entertainment forms the backbone of a strong corporate team.

Andrew Ooi / Producer Andrew is the President of 852 Films, a Hong Kong based film financing / production entity. His producing credits include award winning films and commercially successful Asian films like DREAM HOME, REVENGE: A LOVE STORY, and DIM SUM FUNERAL; and Hollywood films like OPEN GRAVE (Tribeca Films) starring Sharlto Copley, Thomas Kretchmann, and Josie Ho. THE COURIER (Wellgo USA) directed by Oscar nominated / Golden Globe winning Hany Abu Assad, and SHRIEK IF YOU KNOW WHAT I DID LAST FRIDAY THE 13th (Lions Gate Films). Andrew also helped produce the highly rated CBC mini-series DRAGON BOYS, which has won many awards including Gemini and Leo Awards in Canada for Best Mini Series. Most recently, Andrew executive produced the feature FULL STRIKE! Which opens in theatres in Asia in April 2015. Andrew is also the president of Echelon Talent Management Inc.. Echelon manages some of the top Asian names in film and television today, and his clients have starred in films and television shows such as 2012, THE DARK KNIGHT, CONTAGION, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3, THE QUIET AMERICAN, LILTING, MILLION DOLLAR ARM, RISE OF THE LEGEND, SUPERNATURAL, ARROW, SERANGOON ROAD, CHICAGO PD, and ALMOST HUMAN. Upcoming projects for his clients include THE BIG SHORT, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 5, DIABLO, NEXT YEAR IN SHANGHAI, SATISFACTION, SPOILS BEFORE DYING etc. Finally, Andrew also sits on the advisory boards for the Vancouver International Film Festival Trade Forum, The Canadian Society for Asian Arts and Film Aid Asia.

Kevin Hui / Producer   Kevin is the founder and CEO of Latitude 39 Media. Based in China, L39 has established various subsidiaries creating an ecosystem for filmed entertainment in C h i n a . I n c l u d e d a r e E r a F i l m s (www.erafilms.com) and Impact Studios. The group had formed an exclusive partnership with the Relativity Education (A subsidiary of Relativity Media) for China in 2012. The China campus for the Relativity School is currently being build just outside of Beijing to cater to the vast Chinese film education demand. Prior to founding Latitude 39 Media, he was Senior Vice President and Executive Assistant to the Chairman at Sun Redrock Group (SRG) where he headed the overall business development, investments and investor relations of the group. Sun Redrock is also the parent company to Sun Media Group, one of China’s largest private media company led by media personality Yang Lan. While there, Kevin was primarily focused on Sun Redrock’s Seven Stars Media Group where they worked on film (development, distribution and financing), media company M&A, pay TV distribution and Sports Entertainment.

Ron French / Producer   One of Canada's most prolific television producers, Ron French is president of Unity Pictures and has worked with every major Hollywood studio - Fox, NBC Universal,

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The People of Eastern Gate Productions (cont.)

Warner Bros., MGM and Disney. A graduate of the Wilfred Laurier University, Mr. French has spent his entire career in the film and television industry as a producer and before that as a production manager and assistant director. Ron has wrapped a fourth season of THE KILLING for Netflix, WAYWARD PINES for FOX, and is currently in production on THE WHISPERS for ABC. Founded by Mr. French in 2009, Unity Pictures develops, finances and produces TV series and MOW's such as Hallmark Channel's first scripted television series, the family-friendly CEDAR COVE on which Ron serves as Executive Producer. Ron’s other notable credits include DEFYING GRAVITY, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, UNDERFUNDED and STARGATE SG1. Mr. French is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency.

Raymond Massey / Producer

Founder of Massey Productions Ltd, an independent film production company based in Vancouver, Canada. Raymond develops and produces their own feature films has a welath of experience providing full production services on other companies’ films. Raymond also handles a variety of other production formats. Raymond has great skills with immigration and all legal matters from chain-of-title to distribution, financing, production management, official co-production, co-venture, plus an enormous depth of creative experience from script to scoring to marketing. Outside of Canada, Raymond has primarily formed partnerships in India and China, where he has worked with some of the largest studios and production companies.

Andrew Ooi Kevin Hui

Ron French Raymond Massey

Eastern Gate Team

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China is the second largest film box office worldwide with RMB29.6 billion (US$4.82 billion) in 2014. Itis expected to become the biggest box office by 2020. Chinese Box office numbers pulled ahead of the US for the first time in February 2015 with US$650 million for the month.

Chinese producers seeking to shoot their films, or in part, in a western setting are seeking quality in production with much lower budgets than typical US productions.

The Canadian Film IndustryThe Canadian Film and Television industry and its labour-based production tax credit is one of the most stable in the world. The levels of production realised by Canada has shown astounding growth over the past 30 years. According to the latest figures released by the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) the Canadian film and television production industry showed an overall increase in production volume of 2.1% from 2012/13 to 2013/14 to $5.86 billion.

Vancouver is a destination of choice for many Hollywood productions, including:

• Fifty Shades of Grey (Universal) • The Twilight Franchise (Summit) • Warcraft (Legendary / Warner Brothers) • Godzilla (Sony) • Mission Impossible 4 (Paramount) • Fantastic Four (Fox) • 2012 (Columbia) • X-men (Fox) • Supernatural (Series) • X-Files (Series) • Battlestar Galactica (Series) • The Flash (Series)

Upcoming shows currently shooting in BC include:

• Star Trek 3 (Paramount) • Deadpool (Marvel) • Numb (Independent) • Big Valley (Independent) • The Flash (CW) • Arrow (CW)

Chinese Films that have been shot here include:

• Finding Mr. Right • Rumble In The Bronx

British Columbia & Vancouver Advantages• British Columbia is one of the largest

film and television production centres in North America;

• The favorable US / Canadian dollar exchange rate (currently at $0.80), so it is cheaper to shoot in Canada than in US;

• A stable and bankable (10-30%) labour-based production tax credit system * for production which has been in existence since 1997. The workforce is skilled and experienced in all creative and technical aspects of film and television production

• The province is equipped to handle every aspect of production. British Columbia has a sophisticated industry infrastructure from purpose-built stages to state-of-the-art post-production and visual effects facilities, as well as the capacity to service multiple projects;

• T h e w o r k f o r c e i s s k i l l e d a n d experienced in all creative and technical aspects of film and television production

• British Columbia encompasses scenery that can cover every State of America. It has an abundance of natural scenery, and varied urban shooting locations available in the province – the New York Times once called Vancouver “the city that can substitute for all of America”;

• Applications for British Columbia work permits have high rates of success and are attainable in short time frames; Approximately US$800, application duration: 6-8 weeks;

• Vancouver has a mild climate. • Vancouver has the benefit of being near

Hollywood and sharing the same time zone. Daily direct flights to / from Los Angeles (2:55 hours);

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• Br i t i sh Co lumbia ’s geograph ica l advantages include its proximity to Asia which allows easy travel access:

To / from Beijing (11 hours) To / from Shanghai (12 hours) To / from Hong Kong (13:30 hours)

• Vancouver is home to some of the world’s best Asian cuisine making it easy for visiting workers to adapt.

* PSTC (Production Services Tax Credit) is a labour-based tax incentive that provides refundable tax credits to Canadian or international film and television production corporations that have incurred eligible labour costs in British Columbia. FIBC (Film Incentive BC) is a labour based tax incentive that provides refundable tax credits to Canadian controlled production companies based on eligible BC labour costs. DAVE (Digital Animation or Visual Effects Tax Credit) is designed to provide an incentive to production companies employing BC based talent to create digital animation and visual effects in BC. Effective March 1, 2015 the DAVE tax credit will also apply to post-production activities. It must be claimed as part of either an FIBC application or a PSTC application. Select one of the programs below for more details.

Producing Services

• Prepare detailed production budgets and schedules;

• Report as required on all production, cost reporting, etc. matters during entire production period;

• Hire top level key creative personnel and production crew;

• Use preferred relationships with local vendors, suppliers, rental houses etc. to negotiate best rates for your production

• Negotiate agreements with local unions (IA 891, IA 669, Teamsters 155, UBCP, DGC);

• Maximize cost savings throughout production process.

Corporate & Legal

• I n c o r p o r a t e t a x a b l e C a n a d i a n production company;

• File all required government reports to ensure good standing and compliance.

Business Affairs

• P r e p a r e P r o d u c t i o n S e r v i c e s Agreement;

• Prepare deal memo templates and production related agreements;

• Negotiate producer, cast and key creative personnel deals as required;

• Assistance In Work Permit and Visa application for foreign workers;

• Ensure that production paperwork complies with applicable provincial and federal laws, union requirements etc;

• Obtain production insurance and E&O insurance (if required);

• Certify production with the federal tax credit agency (CAVCO);

• Certify production with provincial tax credit agency (CREATIVE BC);

• Manage all legal and business affairs documentat ion through to f ina l certifications.

Production Accounting and Finance

• Set up bank accounts and appoint signing authorities;

• Register for a federal business number for HST/GST and other tax purposes;

• Prepare production cash flow; • Prepare pre l iminary Product ion

Services Tax Credit (PSTC) estimate; • Obtain auditor’s opinion letter re: PSTC

estimate (if required); • Provide interim financing to cash flow

the value of the provincial and federal tax credits on a weekly basis (if required);

• Ensure qualifying labor costs are tracked properly in accounting system;

• Audit all production costs to ensure all qualifying costs are identified to maximize tax credits.

Audit Prep and Tax Filings

• Prepare production company’s year end financial statements;

• Prepare and file production company’s federal and provincial income tax r e t u r n s a n d r e l a t e d i n c e n t i v e documentation;

• Manage al l tax incentive audits conducted by federal and provincial government auditors (if required).

Our Services

British Columbia & Vancouver Advantages (cont.) 4

Andrew Ooi Vancouver, Canada

#268 – 718-333 Brooksbank Ave. North Vancouver BC V7J 3V8

+1 (604) 720-3639

Contacts

Kevin Hui Beijing, China Mega MOMA 7-2508, #1 Xiangheyuan Road, 10000 +(86) 186-1179-0554