The Top Ten Competition of "Influence" is about to examine young directors in Jackie Chan, Zhang Yimou.
Special feature of 1905 film network On February 17th (Tuesday), at 20: 15, CCTV6 Movie Channel will broadcast the last program of "Top Ten Breakthrough Competition" in the short story film creation season of "China Influence" young directors before New Year’s Eve. For which ten young directors will Zhang Yimou and Jackie Chan be crowned as "China Influence" at the Top Ten Festival? Who will spend the huge shooting fund totaling 10 million yuan? Please pay attention to the ultimate decisive battle of this "New Year’s blockbuster" jointly presented by the movie channel and Maotai Group. Watch the live broadcast of the program and participate in the interaction. You can also log in to zgyxl.1905.com, the special program of 1905 Movie Network.
Zhang Yimou Jackie Chan appeared in the final and listened to the young director telling the story of China.
In order to give viewers a New Year’s gift, the movie channel deliberately changed the frequency of the "China Influence" program broadcast in prime time every Friday night, and selected the decisive night of the Top Ten Breakout Tournament to be broadcast at 20: 15 on the 29th night of New Year’s Eve (next Tuesday). On this night, the contestants who made it all the way to the top 14 from among the hundreds of young directors will win the voting support of the judges and the audience through the three-minute live script of "The Story of China in Maotai".
In the first five programs, Liu Yiqiao, Xu Lei, Jiang Rong, Zhou Yi, Tian Bo, Zhang Xinyuan, Song Linguo, Huang Li, Zhao Le, Keyi Han, Zhao Chunliang, Pan Long, Yao Qingtao and Liu Anqi have successfully advanced to the top 14. In the end, among them, 10 of the best directors will get the right to shoot China’s story, and each of them will get a shooting fund of up to one million yuan to shoot ten short stories with the theme of "China Story".
In order to witness the birth of the top ten directors, a group of top filmmakers in China — — "China Influence" young director Zhang Yimou, director Jackie Chan, literary consultant Wang Meng, director and mentor Tang Jili, Hu Mei and Feng Xiaoning, music director Jin Peida and famous director Zhai Junjie, famous photographer Zhao Xiaoding, famous actor Guo Xiaodong, famous screenwriter Gao Xuan, film channel of the organizer, Maotai Group, as well as film and television organizations such as Stellar Beauty, Bona, Iqiyi and LeTV, and representatives of third-party media observation groups were all present.
As early as the launching ceremony of "China Influence" last year and the launch conference of "Top Ten Breakthrough Competition" in January this year, the organizers repeatedly stressed that the outstanding young directors discovered through this activity will have the opportunity to go straight to the director team of the promotional film for Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and become the right-hand man of director Zhang Yimou. Therefore, Zhang Yimou’s appearance at the scene of the decisive battle of the Top Ten Breakthrough Tournament also meant to "pick an assistant". In the program, he predicted that there will be a future movie master among these young directors, and his expectation for the participating directors is six words — — Hard work, hard work and persistence.
Jackie Chan, who rushed to the "China Influence" venue from the studio, said with emotion: "Young people are very happy now, unlike before, no one knows that kind of suffering. Now they have such a good opportunity, such a good platform, and seize this opportunity, your dreams will surely succeed!"
Faced with such a luxurious jury of "Dreambuilders", the contestant Song Linguo said excitedly after telling a Hitchcock-style suspense story: "There are so many directors, so many stars and so many artists listening to my story, which I think is very worthwhile!"
Guo Xiaodong’s "Seeking Acting", Zhao Xiaoding’s "Free Shooting" and Hu Mei moved to tears for the young director.
In the "Top Ten Festival" broadcast next Tuesday, the audience can not only enjoy the wonderful stories told by 14 young directors, but also see the perspectives and feelings of China’s new film forces from them. Some of them are looking forward to making "China’s first road film directed by a woman", some are determined to become "Hitchcock of China", some focus on the struggle of humanity and emotion in organ donation, and some hope to interpret the true story of "keeping people under the gun" on the big screen to reflect the process of rule of law in China.
Yao Qingtao, a young director with the dual identities of "amateur racing master" and "professional director", appeared in the final on a heavy motorcycle. In his story, it is this motorcycle that will carry a suspenseful story of a husband with accidental amnesia and his wife looking for their memories and beautiful past. After listening to this story, Zhao Xiaoding, vice president of China Film and Television Photographers Association and known as "Zhang Yimou’s royal photographer", said on the spot: "If your film can be filmed, I will be your photographer, free of charge!"
Another young director, Zhou Wei, paid attention to the group of "boarding couples" among migrant workers in big cities five years ago. He hoped that through this competition, he could let himself shoot their stories, so that the whole society could care about the difficulty of life and inner loneliness of such a group of people. After hearing this story, Guo Xiaodong, a famous actor who once appeared in "The New Marriage Age", immediately said that he liked it very much and offered to "let me play this script if you have a crush on me".
Han Keyi, the last director to appear in the competition, spent one minute telling his own story, but spent the rest of the time talking about "these people who tell China stories" — — Those "directors who have been eliminated one after another in the course of half a year’s competition".
"I think the best thing about participating in this competition is that I can be with these people," Keyi Han said. "Perhaps the audience doesn’t know that behind the bright brilliance of the film, there is a bumpy and difficult lonely road in front of every filmmaker. You can have the ideal of a movie, but no one will promise to pay for the hardships of your movie ideal. Many of them have not come here, but they have convinced me that with their efforts and ours, we can definitely create the glory of China movies again, and the real prosperity and glory of China movies. This is China filmmakers’ own China story. "
After listening to this story, Hu Mei, the mentor who accompanied the young director along the way, shed tears and kept wiping away.
Zhang Yimou also said that Han Keyi’s speech touched him very much, especially praised the unsuccessful contestants. "This kind of team spirit is very rare, and he will be a good director in the future.". What kind of story moved the masters? Please pay attention to the peak night of "China Influence" young director’s short film creation season top ten breakout competition broadcast on the movie channel next Tuesday night.
Maotai Group did not vote for respecting movies.
It is worth noting that Zhao Shuyue, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of Maotai Group, did not vote for any young director. In this regard, he said, "If I want to judge the film in front of the master, I will teach fish to swim. In this process, some (stories) have wine, Maotai and Maotai Town. If I choose to press these in these aspects, it is disrespectful to the film art and unfair to those who have not mentioned these. " It fully demonstrates the broad mind of Maotai Group to respect film art and support fair competition. Finally, Secretary Zhao once again emphasized the original intention of participating in this activity. "Maotai, the national wine, is willing to make some contributions to the vigorous development and healthy progress of China’s film industry."
Please pay attention to the peak night of the "China Influence" young director’s short film creation season top ten breakout competition broadcast on the movie channel next Tuesday night, February 17th.And the full coverage of the official media 1905 movie network.