Xinhua News Agency, Sarajevo, August 21 .00
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xiuzhi
"The movie soothes us and makes us forget about the epidemic for a while." American film director Nils Mueller said in a remote video interview with reporters in the United States recently.
Mueller is a low-budget film director, but Chinese film fans are no strangers to him, and his debut film "Assassination of Nixon" has a good reputation among Chinese film fans. The film is based on a true story, telling the story of a furniture salesman who runs into a wall everywhere in his life, desperately risks assassinating President Nixon and is killed.
At the ongoing 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, Müller's new film " The Town of Wisconsin " was selected as one of the open-air screenings. Due to the epidemic, the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival has been held online for the first time, most films can only be watched online, and only a few films have the opportunity to "get close and personal" with fans offline.
"Wisconsin Town" tells the story of a decadent, divorced middle-aged man Wayne and his 9-year-old son Taylor on a journey, and at the end of the film, the estranged family relationship warmly exudes the hope of healing. Mueller sets the film in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but longs for the story to gain global success.
Mueller especially hopes that the film will enter the Chinese market. "It's a really, very exciting thing to imagine bringing your own films to China." He used two "very" in a row to express his yearning for the Chinese market.
Mueller said he had applied to the Hainan International Film Festival Organizing Committee and the Macau International Film Festival Organizing Committee to have Wisconsin Town participate in both film festivals. Two key members of the film's production team are Chinese students, and Mueller praised their contributions to the film.
Like many others, Mueller is trapped at home during the pandemic, but he has begun to think about how to use film to represent this unprecedented crisis in the future. "We're in this predicament today, and movies inspire us." He said that how to tell the story of the new crown epidemic and humanity will be an important theme for future movies.
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