Text/Lai Peijun
Recently, the 3rd Hong Kong International Youth Film Festival and the 2nd Asian Chinese Film Festival were successfully concluded at the Melco Film Festival Macau. Produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station, Guangdong Qunxing Film Media Group and other units, and directed by Zhou Yong, director of the Huabiao Award, the film "My Physical Education Teacher" won two awards: the best children's film award in the children's film unit of the film festival, and the best director award at this asian Chinese Film Festival. This is another realistic film "My Physical Education Teacher" participated in the production of Guangzhou Radio and Television Station after "A Little Starlight" won the best children's film at the 33rd Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards.
Director Zhou Yong was on the podium.
Previously, the film "A Little Starlight" produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station was based on the true deeds of Lai Xuanzhi, the eighth national moral model. Guangzhou Radio and Television Director Xie Deju made his story into a movie, named it "A Little Starlight" and invited the prototype to star. Also selected several primary school students with distinct personalities and different family backgrounds as the protagonists, with their life and training trajectories as the story line, the film tells the story of the primary school students of Qixing Primary School in Huadu District, Guangzhou City, under the leadership of Lai Xuanzhi, a physical education teacher with no skipping rope experience, won the jump rope world championship in just one year, and in the following years, a total of 33 world champions were trained, more than 10 jump rope world records were broken, and became the darling of major media reports. The film was named "Primary School Students' Favorite Children's Film" at the 2019 China International Children's Film Festival, and won the Best Children's Film Award at the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema in 2020. Since then, the film has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 23rd Montreal International Children's Film Festival (FIFEM), the 60th Czech Zlin International Film Festival, and has also been promoted to the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Canada, India and other 7 countries around the world for screening.
Poster of "A Little Starlight"
The film "My Physical Education Teacher", produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station and won another award, is directed by Zhou Yong, a local director who is known for shooting films that focus on realistic themes and is known as a "children's film professional". The film tells the story of Liu Haochen, a new physical education teacher, who fights with the teacher of "Yushuying" and insists on defending the right of middle school students to attend physical education classes. Led by the new generation of actors Sun Jialin and Wei Lu, famous actors Tao Yuling, Hou Tianlai, Sun Hongtao, Shen Danping, Miao Miao, Guo Xiaoxiao, Wang Yisheng, Zhou Haodong, Guo Fengzhou, Zhu Hanfang and other more than 20 old drama bones as supporting roles, more than 40 ordinary students jointly performed. More than 40 student actors in the film were also selected by the crew from more than 2,000 people who signed up for the audition, and finally entered the group after completing 15 days of fully enclosed high-intensity training, and their true appearances were also recognized by the audience. The style of the film is youthful and realistic, and there is no lack of rich comedic elements. The filming and production of the film lasted two years, the script went through 16 drafts of polishing, Nanwu is the main filming location of the film, 13,000 actors participated in the shooting, the whole film was completed a total of 78 revisions.
My PE Teacher poster
This realistic theme, the film "My Physical Education Teacher", which refers to the pain points of education, gathers many well-known creators, such as director of photography An Tao, composer Liu Sijun and other behind-the-scenes celebrities to jointly create. In order to ensure the quality of "My Physical Education Teacher", director Zhou Yong personally served as the chief screenwriter, and also set up a screenwriting team, including the famous writer Huang Sheng, the powerful screenwriter Zhou Yangfeng, and the powerful female screenwriter Li Xiaoyi. Screenwriter Huang Sheng has published more than 4 million words of scripts and other literary works, and has authored film scripts such as "The Past of Rongcheng" and "Xiao Balu Zhang Duofu"; screenwriter Zhou Yangfeng is a newly promoted young director and screenwriter, who has written works such as "Twenty Years after Graduation" and "Four Good Friends"; Li Xiaoyi, a powerful screenwriter, is good at creating comedy genre works. Adopting the team combat mode, the script was completed in a very short period of time, and the script was discussed as many as 12 times, and 16 drafts of the script were carefully polished. Director of photography An Tao, representative works include "Beishang Guangdong Does Not Believe in Tears", etc.; Lighting engineer Guo Guimao, who has worked as a lighting worker in "Big Red Lantern Hanging High" and "Red Sorghum"; Art Director Zhou Yao, who has worked as an artist in "Golden Age" and "Prequel to Kanto"; Liu Sijun, composer, who has composed music for 70 film and television dramas such as "Children of the Bay Area" and "The Taste of Happiness", has been nominated for the Best Music Award of the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Film for 5 consecutive times; sang the "Charlotte Troubles" episode "Once is Good" Xu Hebin, a young singer with more than 40 film and television theme songs, sang the theme song "Our Youth" affectionately.
Stills from "My PE Teacher"
The upcoming "My Physical Education Teacher" has conducted more than 30 roadshows across the country and won unanimous affirmation and praise from more than 20,000 viewers. The audience believes that the film "exceeds expectations", is very grounded, sunny and positive, inspirational and emotional; there are laughs, tears, and thinking, conveying positive and upward strength to teenagers. More than 30 roadshows have made the film famous. In addition, "My Physical Education Teacher" has also won awards at many domestic and foreign film festivals: after successfully being nominated for the international feature film unit of the 2021 Nice International Film Festival in France, winning five nominations for "Best Foreign Language Film", "Best Feature Film", "Best Scene Design", "Best Original Screenplay for Foreign Language Film" and "Best Director for Foreign Language Film", the film was nominated for the "Golden Maple Leaf" Single Award in the Theater Category of the 6th Golden Maple Leaf International Film Festival, and the feature film competition unit of the 18th San Diego International Children's Film Festival It will compete for the "Golden Angel Award" of the 17th Sino-US Film Festival; not long ago, "My Physical Education Teacher" won the 6th "Golden Boy Elephant" Outstanding Feature Film Award.
【Synopsis】
"My Physical Education Teacher" is a film directed by the well-known director Zhou Yong, tao Yuling, Hou Tianlai, Wang Yisheng, Sun Hongtao, Zhou Haodong, Shen Danping, Guo Xiaoxiao and other old drama bones, focusing on the small cost of middle school students' physical education class. It tells the story of Liu Haochen, a new physical education teacher at Nanwu Middle School, who insisted on defending the students' right to physical education classes under the circumstances that other teachers frequently "overbeared" and parents also believed that "physical education classes are not important", and finally "snatched" back the touching story of their physical education classes for their classmates. The style of the film is youthful and inspirational, and the comedy elements are rich and profoundly educational. The film directly hits the deep-rooted stubborn disease of ignoring sports, and has a positive and practical educational significance for today's stimulation and promotion of the whole people to love sports and pay attention to health, especially for the dissemination of the correct concept of youth physical education, and the strict prohibition of squeezing out physical education classes.
Courtesy photo: Courtesy of the producer
Editor: Zhang Jinzhi Guo Yingying
Editor: Xu Lei