2020 has gradually entered the end, and the film and television circle under the epidemic has been affected to varying degrees, but fortunately, this year, we have movies. Dramatists will also continue to launch relevant inventory of film and television, so stay tuned (the inventory series of new directors is being updated, click to review the inventory of the previous director: they are the new directors behind the scenes who can't hide the light)
In recent years, in the Chinese film market, we have seen more and more cutting-edge directors gradually rise. Their rise represents the support and recognition of young directors by the market and the industry, and new directors have gained more opportunities. At the same time, they have had corresponding successes in both business and art.
In fact, compared with the insurance strategy, newcomer directors can get creative support and upward paths, which is the healthy and benign state of industry development.
From commercial masterpieces such as "The Best of Us" to authorial artistic exploration works such as "Wild Horse Mane" and "More Than Endless", they have indeed brought a large number of unique fresh blood to the film market.
Today, we will take stock of these young directors, whose works are either well-received or highly anticipated, and each of them is eligible to become a new youth in the film industry. I believe that some of them will be the future of Chinese cinema.
Zeng Guoxiang ●●
Compared with the other star second generation, he is more sober
Representative works: "Lover's Whisper", "One Night After Drunkenness", "July and Ansheng", "Young You"
In terms of background, Zeng Guoxiang should be the strongest background among young directors, born in a film family, and the guide is Chen Kexin.
When the wings were not yet full, he invited a good cast of cass to star in his own movie. In 2016, a "July and Ansheng" made him famous.
Last year, he brought the movie "Young You" back to the audience's vision of Zeng Guoxiang, no longer bear the labels of "Zeng Zhiwei's son", "Zeng Baoyi's younger brother" and "Chen Kexin's apprentice", he became himself, a good director with his own distinctive style characteristics and can withstand the viewing and discussion of film masterpieces.
He knew that he was the second generation of stars, and he could easily enter this circle with such an aura, but he also knew that this aura could not top for a lifetime. He used his strengths to make people believe that they could go further on the road of film directing.
Snow ●●
"Hardcore Director" fiercely "passed"
Representative works: "Over Spring"
Released last year, "Over the Spring" tells the story of youth growth that has drifted across the border. And in Toronto, Hong Kong and even Berlin new generation units shine, Pingyao's best film and best actress honors are full of weight.
Director Bai Xue, as a Nortel director student who graduated from the class, when he graduated, caught up with the quiet period of the Chinese film market, and the directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy had almost no opportunity to work as film directors, and most of them went to shoot advertisements or change careers.
Bai Xue chose to get married and have children and became a housewife. Until she grew up in Shenzhen, she met the story of "cross-border schoolchildren" in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Snow was hit by it, and after two years of field interviews and collecting materials, he concentrated on his creation. Subsequently, he participated in the "Green Onion Project" sponsored by the Directors Association, and after receiving financial support, Bai Xue successfully filmed this debut of his own, handing over a perfect answer to the industry.
Teng Cong Cong Cong ●●
She shows that women's themes are a "less desolate" wasteland
Representative works: "Send Me to Qingyun"
Also last year, the same female director, young female director Teng Congcong's "Send Me to The Clouds", but it was to honestly show a woman's love entanglement.
"Send Me to Qingyun" is self-written and directed by Teng Congcong, with the help of lead actor Yao Chen and a number of senior filmmakers, including Lin Liangzhong, who has served as the director of photography for Ang Lee's "Family Trilogy" and "Donkey Got Water", and Wen Bo, the recording engineer of "Let the Bullets Fly" and "One Step Away".
The film focuses on the female group, unfolds from the perspective of the heroine "Sheng Male", and focuses on the reconciliation of family affection, the pursuit of love and the search for self, and gradually deepens, gradually opening up the problem of women's survival in real society.
With its unique observation and unique presentation, the film boldly shows the characteristics of contemporary women's courageous pursuit of themselves. Let people see that the female subject is a "less desolate" wasteland.
Olympic bid ●●
From commercials to movies, he finally waited for his own feature films
Representative works: "Beneficiaries"
"The Beneficiary" is a "Bad Monkey Project" movie, the director Shen Olympic is a Korean director, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2005, before making the film, he was an advertising director for nearly a decade, cooperating with major brands and various line stars, and almost all types of film and television advertisements were handy.
But he had a plan in mind to start making his own films by the age of 30. With the short film "Tide chasing waves", he won the best drama short film in the FIRST youth unit, which won the favor of Ning Hao.
His first theatrical feature film, The Beneficiary, was released last year. It's a black, insurance scam story. Associated with the film's executive producer Ning Hao, these elements are also quite familiar, a noir story of Chongqing.
Similar experience, similar starting point, can the Olympic bid become the next Ning Hao?
Wei Shujun ●●
Post-90s director, galloping all the way from Cannes
Representative works: "Wild Horse Mane"
Works to be released: "White Crane Bright Wings", "Yong'an Town Story Collection"
Born in 1991, Wei Shujun graduated from the Communication University of China, which can be described as a full-fledged "Cannes Department" director. As early as 2018, with the short film "Yanbian Youth", it was shortlisted for the short film competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival.
This year, he was shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival with his feature film debut "Mustang Mane", although there is no specific unit because of the epidemic, and it is expected that the visual should be shortlisted for "a kind of attention unit".
"Wild Horse Mane" tells the story of Akun and Tong Tong's youth, revolves around an old jeep, depicting the fierce collision between dreams and reality in the process of graduation and the two growing up.
The judging panel called him a talented young director and commented on the film as follows: under the minimalist narrative structure is a journey of youth as free as air, and its creative plot exceeds people's expectations, bringing a new perspective and power to the Chinese film industry.
Zhang Ji ●●
The Northeast "Renaissance" program records the drowning of the era
Works to be released: "Moses on the Plains"
Zhang Ji (right)
"Moses on the Plain" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Northeastern writer Shuang Xuetao, produced by Diao Yinan and directed by newcomer director Zhang Ji.
The novel triggers an old story through a taxi driver: the teenager of Northeast Yanfan Street has now become a criminal policeman, and when investigating the unsolved case 12 years ago, he found that the father and daughter of the neighbor's family in his youth were also involved, and he may also be a participant in the case....
Perhaps Zhang Ji's name sounds a little strange, he once did photography for the movie "North by Northeast", listening to the name, you know that this movie is also a story that takes place in the northeast, so I don't know whether Similar subjects, Zhang Ji can master it and release energy. I am very much looking forward to and optimistic about him and filming the atmosphere of the novel.
Zhang Dalei ●●
His blue train was finally about to leave
Representative work: "August"
Works to be released: "Blue Train", "Moses on the Plains" (drama version)
At the 53rd Golden Horse Film Festival in 2016, the unknown young director Zhang Dalei won the Best Film Award and the Best Newcomer Award of the year with his debut film "August", and there was no shortage of excellent works from both sides of the Straits and three places such as "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", "All the Way to the Wind", "Goodbye Wacheng" and so on.
As a black-and-white film, "August" recreates the small changes of a northern family of three in the 1990s against the background of the great changes of the times. A year later, Zhang Dalei's second work "Blue Train" was also officially launched, and after three years, "Blue Train" was finally officially unveiled at this year's Pingyao Film Festival, "This blue train is finally going to come out."
Although after the premiere in Pingyao, the evaluation of the film audience was different, but the aura of the Golden Horse was blessed, which still made people look forward to Zhang Dalei's new work.
Huo Meng●●
In the movie, he found the motivation and direction to move forward.
Representative works: "Passing zhaoguan"
To be released: "The Wind and the Crane"
Like most film students, after graduation, Huo Meng also lived for several years without a film to shoot, and the scripts he wrote were not cared for. In 2017, he spent half a month to write the script, and finally filmed in his hometown of Zhoukou, Henan, which was completed in 38 days, with a budget cost of only 400,000 yuan.
At the second Pingyao International Film Festival in October 2018, "Passing Zhaoguan" won two awards for Fei Mu's honor, Best Director and Best Actor.
The story of the film has been pondered in the mind of director Huo Meng for four or five years, and the inspiration for the creation comes from his grandfather and childhood life experience.
Along the way, he also knew, also confused, twisted and turned, and finally in the movie, he saw hope in despair, allowing him to find the motivation and direction to move forward.
Xu Lei ●●
Dreams still have to be had, in case they come true
Representative works: "Sherlock on the Plains"
Xu Lei, born in 1982, grew up in rural Hengshui and studied business administration at university. After resigning, because learning to choreography is a thousand yuan cheaper than learning to cook, he entered the film and television circle.
His debut film, Sherlock on the Plains, was filmed in his hometown, starring his father and fellow countrymen, and his wife was responsible for editing. Without investment, he took out his savings, and then found his sister to make up a little, and spent hundreds of thousands of shots to finally finish.
He was also appreciated by Ning Hao, and before the outbreak of the epidemic this year, he cooperated with Ning Hao as a director of Group B with the advertising short film "Bayir's Spring Festival".
Xu Lei revealed in an interview that he had a dream, he went to Ning Hao's crew, and stole a trick in the dream. He likes Ning Hao's "Incense" the most. In February this year, recalling the real cooperation with Ning Hao, Xu Lei wrote on Weibo: "It seems that dreams still have to be had. ”
Xiao Yifan ●●
The best director winner of this year's FIRST Youth Film Festival, excellent
Works to be released: "Dragon Gate Phase"
This year's 14th FIRST Youth Film Festival "Best Director" belongs to newcomer director Xiao Yifan, who won the award for the suspense drama "Dragon Gate Phase" written and directed by him and supervised by Gao Qunshu.
Xiao Yifan was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, majoring in comic publishing. During college, he worked as an art assistant in the crew of "The Sound of the Wind", thus stepping into the film and television industry. After filming his graduation short film at the New York Film Academy, he was signed into the studio by director Gao Qunshu;
Compared with other low-budget films at the FIRST Film Festival, Xiao Yifan has a higher starting point. "Dragon Gate Phase" is a film with millions of investment and a certain level of industrialization. Gao Qunshu, the film's executive producer, believes that "Dragon Gate Phase" can be evaluated as a "genre film of author consciousness". As young directors become more and more concerned by everyone, this "author-conscious genre film" can be seen by everyone as soon as possible.
Zhang Disha ●●
The best of us, the best of ZhangDisha
Representative works: "The Best of Us"
Also having graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts is the director Zhang Disha, who studied in the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art and later went to the Film School Directing Department. He has successively served as the screenwriter of "Heart Flower Road Release", the planner of "Get Out of the Egg Tumor Jun" and "Crazy Alien".
Until last year, the film version of "The Best of Us", a film about youth, gave the audience great resonance, let him successfully break the circle, the film finally earned 411 million box office, is the highest box office since 2016 domestic youth film, became a dark horse in the same period, let people see his potential.
Years of experience in the industry have exercised his control of the script, and the study of painting has shaped his aesthetic system in a subtle way. Now that he finally has his directorial debut, I believe it is also a new beginning for him.
Wang Jing ●●
Will his debut be the next "Medicine God"?
Works to be released: "More than Endless"
In September this year, Wang Jing's first feature film "More Than Ever" was shortlisted for the "Horizon" section of the Venice Film Festival, becoming the only Chinese-language film to be shortlisted for this unit at the Venice Film Festival. Its successful nomination for the Venice International Film Festival has also attracted much attention in the industry and has been praised by the media as the next "medicine god".
The film tells the story of Beijing in 2003, full of opportunities and hopes, the Internet has not yet swept everything, and print media is king. Han Dong (played by Bai Ke), a trainee reporter at a newspaper who is not deeply involved in the world, tries to change the fate of 100 million people through a news report.
Based on the experiences of real people, the film focuses on the small people in the north drift torrent in the early 21st century, and presents an inspirational story about choice and belief through the experience of the protagonist Han Dong.
Although it is not a genre at all with "I Am Not a Medicine God", the attention to the reality of Chinese society has also made us pay more attention and expectations for Wang Jing for this movie.