At the award ceremony of the 39th Milan International Sports Film and Television Festival, which ended on November 14, the Chinese documentary film "Great! "Junior" won the nomination award in the "Sports and Society" competition unit.
This year's Milan International Sports Film and Television Festival received a total of 974 entries from 55 countries and regions, of which 120 were shortlisted for the finals. Jiang Xiaoyu, vice president of the Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association, said in a video speech that through excellent sports film and television works, human beings can be promoted to be "faster, higher, stronger - more united". Except for "Awesome! In addition to "Youth", the short video "Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Torch Propaganda Film" produced by the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee won the Golden Garland Award in the most high-profile "Olympic Spirit and Value" competition unit, and the Tokyo Olympic Games documentary "Chasing the Light: The Road to Tokyo" produced by Xinhua News Agency was nominated for the unit.
Milan International Sports Film and Television Festival, full name "Milan International Sports Film and Television Festival", founded in 1982, co-sponsored by the International Olympic Committee and the International Sports Film and Television Federation, is a global sports film, culture and exchange event, known as the "Oscar of sports". Directed by Zhang Yimou, The Beijing Olympic Bid film "New Beijing, New Olympics" won three awards at the film and television festival: the Best Film Award, the International Olympic Museum Award and the Best Sports Promotional Film in the Documentary Category.
Awesome! Produced by iQiyi, "Teenagers" tells the true story of a group of troubled teenagers from all over the country, led by former national players and 70-year-old legendary coaches, who learned to play baseball from scratch and went to the United States. Directed by Xu Huijing, the film took two years to shoot and nearly three years to edit, and was released in domestic theaters on December 11, 2020.
After its release, "Great! "Junior" immediately achieved a high score of 8.5 on the Internet, and won the Best Documentary Feature Film of the 14th FIRST Youth Film Festival, and the Special Recommendation Documentary Award of the 18th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary "Golden Red Cotton" International Documentary Evaluation Unit Jury. Netizens have praised the film as "the best Chinese language of the year" and "the best documentary of 2020", "taking the boys' experience as the starting point, condensing and refracting one of the current social conditions, and retracting freely".
Synthesized from 1905 Movie Network, Sina News, etc
Editor: Wang Yan