Chapter 148 Film Festival Screening
In the next two days, the crews of China’s shortlisted films have basically arrived.
Although the Venice Film Festival receives a large number of films every year, the number of shortlisted films is limited.
There are 20 feature films in the main competition section and 20 films in the horizon section.
The remaining participating films are all out of competition.
The Horizon Section is different from the main competition section and mainly faces emerging directors, experimental films and short films.
Chen Linfeng’s animated short film can only be submitted to this unit. Among the people from China this time, two directors were also shortlisted for this unit.
Among the shortlisted films in the main competition, two are related to China.
One is "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Hong Kong director Guan Jinpeng.
The other film, strictly speaking, is a Canadian film, namely "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Li An.
After the Chinese Legion arrived, the Chinese Film Association, which led the team as a whole, opened a private room in the hotel to gather everyone to communicate with each other.
Chen Linfeng behaves very low-key, and he doesn't know many people in the film industry.
And he only shot a short film and participated in the film festival as a novice.
From an industry perspective, the gap between short films and feature films is huge, and they cannot be considered formal films at all.
Of those present, Chen Linfeng was not very interested in communicating. In the end, he only chatted with Zhou Xun for a while and then left.
After Chen Linfeng left, Chen Kexin suddenly snorted.
"This kid left without saying hello to us. He doesn't look like a junior at all."
The person he was talking to was naturally Li An.
Li An was surrounded by people, as if he had not heard these words.
He has many sources in Hollywood and would not simply regard Chen Linfeng as a novice director.
The achievements of "WALL-E" this year are well known, needless to say, he also knew that Chen Linfeng had negotiated a deal with Fox.
This writer Xiao Chen has established a firm foothold in Hollywood. He can get a share of the box office and is already a role that can be eaten on the table.
Li An is not willing to offend people easily. There are also actors from the Mainland at the scene, and they might be able to hear about the situation here.
Besides, what’s the point of saying such things behind your back, so he ignored it.
The scene was a little awkward for a while.
Guan Jinpeng laughed and smoothly directed the topic to the subsequent film festival.
Opening Ceremony of Film Festival.
The most important part of the opening is naturally the red carpet.
However, what is more embarrassing about Chen Linfeng is that he is somewhat famous internationally, but mainly in the field of writing.
This is the home of the movie, and most of the people here are movie fans, so not many people know him.
When he walked the red carpet, the atmosphere among the crowd was not exactly enthusiastic.
Fortunately, the media had a wide range of sources and knew who he was, so they greeted him and took photos with dignity.
Chen Linfeng didn't stay long and walked across the red carpet at a normal speed.
Then Tu Jingwei from the Sixth Princess asked him to interview him.
“Hello Chen Linfeng, how do you feel that your first short film has been shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival?”
This obviously does not regard Luo Shen Shui Fu as a serious short film. After all, the film has no plot and is mainly about dance.
"It feels pretty good. The organizer may have felt that I was young and needed encouragement, so I gave this opportunity."
"Are you confident about winning the award?"
"This It’s hard to say. After all, it’s not an exam. There are fixed answers. It depends on what the judges want.”
"Haha, I didn't say that."
Tu Jingwei wanted to ask a few more questions. Their movie channel had never had the chance to interview this person before because they were separated by industries.
However, the assistant kept reminding her that Li An was coming, so she could only let go of the walking hotspot in front of her and focus on that side first.
After the opening, there will be screenings of various films. Chen Linfeng's short film is scheduled to be screened in a few days.
He, Shi Xiaolong, Liu Qian, Qianshu and Chang went to watch various movies together.
This is also an opportunity for the film's creators to communicate closely with the audience.
Chen Linfeng often talks to the director and other creators after the movie ends to discuss the purpose of some plots or scenes in the movie as a way of learning and communication.
However, after only watching for most of the day, the three people couldn't stand it anymore.
The Venice Film Festival welcomes cutting-edge films. Many of the films shown here are simply inaccessible or incomprehensible to ordinary audiences.
Although the three of them are also practitioners in the industry, actors are relatively closer to the audience.
Shi Xiaolong watched several movies in a row and it was like this. The clouds and mountains were so foggy that he couldn't understand what the movie was about.
Liu Qianqian, who is usually relatively literary, couldn't accept it and almost fell asleep while sitting in the cinema.
Shu Chang just studies the acting skills of actors. After all, most of the actors in these movies are quite good.
Chen Linfeng himself majored in directing and doesn’t like watching these movies. But at least I had a learning attitude, mainly studying the director's intentions and shots in the movie, and didn't pay much attention to the plot, so I could still watch it.
In the afternoon, they decided to separate, each get some promotional posters, and then go to the movies they were interested in and distribute posters along the way.
The people at Shenmei Factory were more focused than they were, and they just went to distribute posters.
Sister Mei is using her money power to buy some billboards and contact the media to publish news about the release of "Wingless Bird" in newspapers and magazines.
The next few days were spent constantly watching films and communicating, until it was his turn for the short film to be released.
In the meantime, Chen Linfeng and others also went to watch movies made by other Chinese directors out of support.
The other ones were okay, like Li An's Brokeback Mountain, he knew what it was about in advance.
During the screening of the movie, Chen Linfeng kept his eyes open, but nothing came into his mind.
After the movie ended, the other three people had strange expressions. When they saw Chen Linfeng still looking calm, they were deeply impressed. He was worthy of being a director.
During these days, their awe for the director has greatly increased.
The early publicity of "Wingless Bird" was well done. As a well-known writer, Chen Linfeng also attracted some movie fans who knew his name to come and watch.
Now his short film has started to be screened, and people keep coming.
The effect is unexpectedly good.
Almost every audience's face was full of emotion after coming out of the screening room.
This work is completely different from other films. The good thing about it is that almost everyone can see the excellence of the film. The most important thing is that it can touch people's hearts.
Word of mouth began to spread, and more and more movie fans heard that there was an animated short film in this film festival that was very well done.
The chairman of the jury, Dante Feredi, arrived at the scene together with Li An.
As the chairman of the jury, he also heard about the short film.
After entering the screening room, some of the seats were already occupied. They were people who had not left after watching the last round and were ready to watch it again.
Freddy and Li An sat down side by side. After a while, everyone gradually filled up, and a new round of screenings began.
The film opens with the producer's LOGO, a mythical unicorn roaring up to the sky, and then a dragon appears. After hovering for a few weeks, it coincides with the unicorn, and the name of the company appears. Dragon and Kirin Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd. company.
Next is the factory logo of Shenmei Factory.
The main film begins.
What appears on the screen is a wingless bird, a flightless bird.
It was on the edge of the cliff, with the rope tied tightly to a tree.
Then we slid down the rope to the cliff, and there was a horizontal tree already arranged below.
Wingless Bird used a hammer to fix the tree to the cliff, making it look like a tree growing naturally on the cliff.
I don’t know how long it took.
After the hard work was done, the wingless bird climbed back to the top of the cliff. It looked down and saw that many trees had been densely fixed on the cliff below.
The wingless bird clapped its feet and cheered, then put on its flying hat.
It looked around a few more times and made up its mind.
With the starting motion, the wingless bird runs forward and then rushes down the cliff.
The bird in the picture is head down, swooping down.
“Ah, so that’s it.” Seeing this, Li An understood instantly.
He immediately guessed what the director would do next.
Sure enough, at this time, the originally vertical cliff was visually placed horizontally.
The swooping movement of the wingless bird has now become a horizontal movement, especially the trees that were originally horizontal, now vertical, just under the bird, like a naturally growing forest.
The birds seemed to be flying in the sky, and the trees below were quickly passed by.
“Oh, god.” Freddy on the side exclaimed in shock.
With the background music, the camera gradually zooms in, and the bird shows a satisfied expression, which is a kind of relief that a long-cherished wish has been fulfilled.
But under the background of music, it makes people look very sad.
The surrounding scenery became hazy, and the body of the wingless bird seemed to have grown wings and gradually started to flap.
Obviously, this is an imaginary picture.
The camera turned again, showing the bird's own vision. It watched the trees below quickly disappear from sight.
A tear fell from the corner of my eye.
How I wish I could really fly.
The audience unconsciously thought, wishing it could really fly.
The camera stopped moving, and the wingless bird flew deep into the clouds.
The screen turns black.
There seemed to be a sound of landing, but the sound was too low to be heard clearly.
The subtitles begin to scroll on the screen, showing the producer information of the short film.
If you are interested, you can watch the original film, it is quite good
(End of this chapter)