On April 14th, the Organizing Committee Office of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival held a press conference on the establishment of the news center in Hall 2 of the Beijing International Hotel, announcing the preparations for the opening and closing ceremonies and the red carpet star lineup; introducing the media service arrangements of the news center, the progress of the recording unit, the venue and service of the opening and closing ceremonies; and the preparation of the "Focus on the Future" unit. Han Fanghai, director of the Film Division and deputy director of the Office of the Organizing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, Ai Dongyun, deputy editor-in-chief of Beijing Television Station and deputy secretary general of the Organizing Committee, Yan Wei, director of the Program Center of The Documentary Channel of Beijing Television Station, Wu Guanping, director of the Film Department of Beijing Film Academy, and Zhao Jiansuo, secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group, attended the press conference.
Chinese and foreign filmmakers gathered at the opening and closing ceremonies, and the stars shone brightly
Director of the Film Division of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television,
Han Fanghai, deputy director of the Office of the Organizing Committee
The opening and closing ceremonies of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival will be held on April 15 and April 22 at the Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center, with the Movie Channel and Beijing Satellite TV broadcasting live on TV and iQIYI online.
Among them, the opening ceremony showed cultural self-confidence through a distinct Chinese style and capital feelings, highlighted the style characteristics of the film festival's "master, the public, and the big market" in the gathering of Chinese and foreign filmmakers and the integration of Chinese and foreign cultures, and embodied the purpose of "sharing resources and win-win future".
The opening ceremony expressed gratitude and respect to the domestic and foreign guests present through the opening large-scale song and dance "Gathering in Beijing", singing a new era and opening a new voyage, in Beijing, greeting the spring that Chinese cinema has arrived; the famous singer Wang Lihong took the first Chinese film starring Peking Opera master Tan Xinpei in 1905 as the core creative idea, personally compiled the song "Descendants of the Dragon", and sang together with Tan Zhengyan, the seventh generation of Tanmen and young Peking Opera actor, to pay tribute to Chinese films and filmmakers in the form of cross-border cooperation The famous singer Karen Mok will bring the perfect integration of singing and acting, and will adapt the three classic songs "Like the Light of the Beginning", "Love of a Lifetime" and "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" into a movie-themed musical drama "City of Time", showing the charm of light and shadow art in the endless melody; the large-scale kung fu show "True Hero" brought by Zhang Weijian will take you to relive the unique charm of Chinese kung fu in the art of screen; subsequently, several "true heroes" of Chinese films will appear on stage. Wu Jing, the three Chinese film history box office champion "Wolf Warrior 2" starring from Beijing Film Production Agency, Lin Chaoxian, director of box office runner-up "Red Sea Action", and Zhang Hanyu, director of box office runner-up "Detective Chinatown 2", will join forces to open an important scene in the history of Chinese cinema - the first release of Chinese film big data.
Wong Kar-wai, chairman of the International Awards Committee of the 8th Temple of Heaven Awards, and six other international judges, the famous American film and television actor Chloe Moretz, and the Thai actress Judymun Joan Charong Suin will attend the opening ceremony, which will be jointly presided over by the famous hosts Li Kun, Lan Yu and veteran actors Zhao Lixin and Zhang Weijian.
The closing ceremony and award ceremony of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival took the attitude of "International Vision of China Expressing Beijing Style", focusing on the core elements of "Film Feelings, Paying Tribute to Classics, Pursuing the Oriental Aesthetics of the Times", and expressing the film dream with a new audiovisual experience.
Li Xuejian, Feng Xiaogang, Gu Changwei, Anthony La Merlinara, Huang Bo, Isabelle Yupel, Zhao Wei, Chen Chong, Fan Wei, Hu Jun, Lin Zhiling, Su Youpeng, Zou Jingzhi, Lei Jia and other well-known filmmakers (the above guests are ranked in no particular order) will also appear at the award ceremony to open ten Temple of Heaven Awards.
The closing ceremony will break the convention, and the actor Huang Bo and his first directorial work starring Wang Baoqiang, Yu Hewei and Wang Xun will perform the opening show as special guests, and interact with the guests on and off the stage. Temperament actress Tong Liya brilliantly performed the "Temple of Heaven Award" trophy, showing the dialogue and blood blending between Beijing and the film. When the popular little flower Guan Xiaotong, the popular queen Huo Siyan, and the immortal goddess Zhao Yazhi cooperated for the first time, they starred in the sitcom "Light and Shadow Build Dreams", showing the different styles of female filmmakers. The ink light and shadow instrumental ensemble "The Unity of Heaven and Man", through the perfect combination of the traditional Chinese wind instrument Sheng and the classic masterpieces of Chinese ink animation, leads the audience to start from Chinese culture and review the classic moments in the history of the film through time and space. Irish temperament idol group boyzlife, the strength of singing songs skewers, pay tribute to the world cinema classic.
The closing ceremony and award ceremony were presided over by Wu Dawei, Chun Ni and Lan Yu. At that time, Wong Kar-wai, chairman of the international jury of the "Temple of Heaven Award", and 6 international judges Duan Yihong and Shu Qi will appear at the closing ceremony in a special way.
The guests, crew and creators who walked the red carpet at this year's Beijing International Film Festival include: Famous Hong Kong filmmakers Chen Kexin and Wu Junru; famous domestic directors Huang Jianxin, Zhang Yibai and Wang Xiaoshuai; Xu Zheng, Wang Likun, Wang Yanhui and Zhu Zhu of the "Behind the Scenes" crew; Lin Chaoxian, Haiqing, Huang Jingyu, Du Jiang, Zhang Hanyu of the "Red Sea Action" crew; Haas Chaolu, Chen Weiting, Hu Jun, Lin Yun, Li Guangjie of the "War God Chronicles" crew; Huo Jianqi, Du Juan, Wang Jia, Ma Su of the "Shadow Of the Heart" crew; and Su Lun of "Living together in Time and Space" , Lei Jiayin, Tong Liya; Yan Ni and Zou Yuanqing of "I Am Your Mother"; Dong Dong, Liu Xiaolingtong, Ma Dehua, Liu Dagang of "Cai Fan" crew; Rao Xiaozhi, Chen Jianbin, Ren Suxi, Pan Binlong of "The Unknown Generation"; Wang Jing, Liu Yan, Cai Guoqing, Bao Wenjing, Wang Taili of "Li Cha's Aunt" crew Wu Yuhan, Huang Cailun, Chang Yuan, Lu Jingshan; "Passing the Future" crew Li Ruijun and Yin Fang; "Just Want to Talk to Strangers" crew Yu Shaoqun, Zhu Shengyi, Li William, Chen Handian; "Passing the Future" crew Yu Shaoqun, Zhu Shengyi, Li William, Chen Handian Li Jinzhu, Si Qinggaowa, and An An of the crew of "Eji in Heaven"; Wu Kequn and Zhou Zheng of the crew of "Write Poems for You"; Zhang Xiaobei, Qi Xi, Song Yang, and Qu Jingjing of the crew of "Pioneers"; and the crew of "Rescue Wang Xingren", "Kimchi Loves Crayfish", "Dear, I Want to Marry Someone Else", "Looking for Snow Mountain", "SuSu", "Help Love", "Please Give More Advice for the Rest of Your Life", "The Source of Dreams", "China Blue Helmets", "The City of Adventures", "Eighteen Degrees North Latitude", etc.
The press centre was officially established
Serve the media
Ai Dongyun, deputy editor-in-chief of Beijing Television Station and deputy secretary general of the organizing committee
Since February 1, 2018, the Organizing Committee of the Film Festival has officially accepted registration from domestic and foreign media, and media participation has been active. A total of 587 media and 1560 people registered, including 517 domestic media, 49 overseas media, and 21 Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan media. In order to ensure the smooth development of the news and publicity work of the film festival, the organizing committee will follow the principle of treating the media well and providing good service, and will open a press center in the Rainbow Hall on the second floor of the Beijing International Hotel from April 13 to April 22, 2018, and a press conference hall in the multi-functional Hall 2 on the first floor of the Conference Building of the Beijing International Hotel, providing Chinese and foreign media reporters with various software and hardware services such as registration, interview reservation, material download and news release. The press centre is open from 14:00-19:00 on 13 April and from 09:00-19:00 daily from 14 to 22 April. At the same time, the news center set up an SMS notification platform to publish information such as event changes, reminders and precautions for important events the next day. Below are the media arrangements for some of the important events during the festival.
From April 18 to April 20, the conference building of Beijing International Hotel will hold a press conference for 14 shortlisted films of the "Temple of Heaven Award", and from April 16 to April 19, a special media session for the shortlisted films will be arranged, and the media can enter the film with media ID, the number of places is limited, first-come, first-served, and the film schedule is detailed in the media brochure.
The opening ceremony of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival will be held on April 15 at the Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center, and the organizing committee will accept reservations from the official websites of Chinese and foreign media from April 13, and provide reporters with round-trip shuttle bus and light meals for the opening ceremony. After the opening ceremony, the press release will be uploaded to the official post, and the media who have not successfully booked can download the video promotional materials from the official website.
From April 14th to April 21st, the screening unit of the film festival will hold more than 30 pre-screening or post-screening meetings of the main creators of the film, the creators and the audience will interact with the Q&A, and the media can refer to the media brochure to make reservations and participate in various activities.
Beijing Planning • Theme Forum, including the Sino-foreign Film Cooperation Forum, the International Film Market Forum, the Film Technology International Forum, and the Exploring the Beauty of Film Summit Forum. Media can refer to the media brochure to make reservations and participate in various activities. In the process of each forum, the organizing committee arranged shorthand personnel. After the forum, the media can download the documents by post at the press center and edit the manuscript as needed.
The 8th Beijing International Film Festival • Film Market is scheduled to be held from April 18 to April 20, 2018 at the Beijing International Hotel Convention Center. Including investment exhibitions, project venture capital, industry dialogue, special activities, signing ceremony five major sections. Beijing Film and Television Policy Interpretation Conference will be held on April 18, 09:00-10:30 in the International Hall of Beijing International Hotel, and further relevant information will be notified by SMS. The film market signing ceremony was held on April 20 from 14:00 to 16:00 in the International Hall of Beijing International Hotel, and you can go to report on it with your media ID.
The 8th Beijing International Film Festival Film Carnival will be held in the China (Huairou) Film and Television Industry Demonstration Zone and will be open to the media from April 14 to May 1.
The closing ceremony and award ceremony of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival will be held on the evening of April 22, 2018 at the Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center.
The media brochure prepared by the organizing committee specifies the specific time arrangement of the various activities of the film festival, and media friends can refer to the manual to choose the activities for relevant publicity and reporting.
In order to make full use of resources and achieve better publicity effects, some activities of this year's film festival require interview reservations. This year's appointments will continue to be made through official website and telephone reservations, online and SMS notifications. The press centre's media reservations started at 9:00 a.m. on 13 April, allowing media to book events within two days, all on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you media friends need help during the film festival, you can contact the news center, the news center will try to cooperate with media friends, provide material materials, hope that media friends to carry out all-round and multi-angle in-depth reports on the film festival, the two sides cooperate to run a high-level film festival.
The "Focus on the Future" section encourages the original spirit of cinema
Stimulate the vitality of film art innovation
Wu Guanping, head of the Department of Film Studies at the Beijing Film Academy
The "Focus on the Future" international screening unit was first established in 2014, when it was the fourth Beijing International Film Festival, it was established by the Organizing Committee and the Beijing Film Academy in the spirit of encouraging film originality, stimulating the vitality of film art innovation, discovering the purpose of introducing new film talents and enhancing cooperation and exchanges among young filmmakers from all over the world. In 2015, the first recognition activity of "Most Watched Film", "Most Noticed Director" and "Most Watched Screenwriter" was set up, which greatly enhanced the attractiveness and professionalism of the "Focus on the Future" unit. This year's "Focus on the Future" international screening unit will, as always, uphold the unchanged purpose, in line with the Beijing International Film Festival exhibition charter, regardless of the theme, genre, style, encourage new directors, fully display the artistic talent of film newcomers, and present the current artistic trend and aesthetics of new international films.
The preparatory work for this year's "Focus on the Future" unit has been launched since December 2017, and on the basis of the official registration channel of the organizing committee, it continues to follow the effective selection system of last year, divided into North America, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, China and other regions, after four months of selection, a total of 16 films have been shortlisted for screening. Among them, there are 13 foreign films and 3 Chinese films. 13 foreign works covering 20 countries and regions, namely "Secret Ingredients" (Macedonia), "The Miracle of the Pig Farm" (Lithuania), "Family" (Iran), "Winter Brothers" (Denmark/Iceland), "Forgotten Poems" (France/Germany/Netherlands/Chile), "Ava" (France), "Lucy" (Japan/USA), "Hurricane Squad" (Denmark), "Meda" (Romania), "Laurel with Long Eyelashes" (Finland), "Gabriel and the Mountains" (Brazil/France), "The Hurricane Squad" (Denmark), "Meda" (Romania), "Laurel with Long Eyelashes" (Finland), "Gabriel and the Mountains" (Brazil/France), " Vacuum (Switzerland), Mercy (Greece/Poland). The three Chinese works are "Wangza's Rain Boots", "Summer in Xixiaohe" and "A Certain Day and a Certain Month" from Hong Kong, China.
The debut of the new director of this year's "Focus on the Future" unit accounted for a large proportion of this year's screening, with a total of 12 films, of which 10 were abroad, namely: "Secret Raw Materials", "The Miracle of the Pig Farm", "Family", "Winter Brothers", "Forgotten Poems", "Ava", "Lucy", "Hurricane Squad", "Meida", "Laurie with Long Eyelashes"; China 2: "Wangza's Rain Boots" and "Summer in the West Creek". The directors of these films were born after the 1980s and completed their debut feature films around the age of 35, and the youngest director is Lahuaga, who graduated from the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, born in 1989, only 29 years old. In addition, female directors' works accounted for a considerable proportion of this year's screening, with a total of 6 female directors in 16 works, namely: Christine Repond (Switzerland), director of "Vacuum", "The Miracle of the Pig Farm" director EgreVertelyte (Lithuania), director of "Ava" Léa Mysius (France), director of "Lucy" Atsuko Hirayagi (Japan), director of "Hurricane Squad" Annika Berg (Denmark), "Long Eyelash Laurie" Director Hannaleena Hauru (Finland).
The films will be screened in the Beijing Film Academy's Standard Screening Hall from April 14 to April 21. At that time, there will be 9 film creators to meet and communicate with the audience. This year, the "Attention to the Future" unit will continue to set up three commendation projects: "Most Watched Film", "Most Noticed Director" and "Most Watched Screenwriter".
This evening, the "Focus on the Future" section is about to open, opening with Brazilian director Felipe Barbosa's second work, Gabriel and the Mountains. The film was shortlisted for Critics Week at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and best film at the São Paulo Film Festival Film Critics Awards.
The closing film of this year's "Focus on the Future" section has also been determined, and it is the Georgian film "Mama", which was shortlisted for the Temple of Heaven Award in this year's main competition unit.
In addition to the screening activities, the "Focus on the Future" international screening unit will also hold the second International Film Forum at the Beijing Film Academy on April 15, this year's theme is Nordic film research, experts and scholars from home and abroad gathered together to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions on the theme.
There are five major sections of the record unit
Explore the path of documentary cinema
And documentary industrial reform and development road
Yan Wei, director of the Program Center of the Documentary Channel of Beijing Television Station
As a special independent unit of the Beijing International Film Festival, the record section of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival in 2018 will be fully launched on April 16.
The documentary unit of the Beijing International Film Festival has been successfully held for four sessions, attracting the attention of the documentary industry at home and abroad with forums, screenings, salons and other activities, and effectively promoting the integration and development of the documentary industry. This year's documentary unit is hosted by the Organizing Committee of Beijing International Film Festival, organized by Beijing Television Documentary Channel, the Faculty of Journalism and Communication of Communication University of China, and jointly organized by Wuzhou Communication Center. There are five major sections: review, information release, forum, collection and screening.
This year's documentary unit will open on the afternoon of April 16 at the Communication University of China, with the theme of "New Era, New Mission", which is committed to exploring the development of documentary films and the reform and development of the documentary industry. China is moving towards a new journey, and with the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the content creation and industrial development of documentaries will usher in unlimited and broad space. Be a recorder of the new era, grasp the soul of the times, pay attention to the needs of the times, focus on the changes of the times, and lead the wind of the times.
In recent years, documentary films have achieved remarkable results, and many documentary films such as "We Were Born in China", "Earth: A Magical Day" and "Twenty-Two" have achieved good box office, attracting the attention of people inside and outside the industry. The recently released large-scale documentary "Great, My Country" recorded China's great achievements in the past five years with brilliant, atmospheric and magnificent shooting techniques, and the box office and reputation continued to rise. With the improvement of humanities and the development of the economy, people's thinking and curiosity about the present, the times, and culture have gradually increased, and gradually become a thick soil, which is conducive to the role of documentaries and documentary content. This year's documentary unit will invite the creators and producer representatives of documentary films that have attracted attention in recent years to discuss topics such as the prospects of the current documentary film market. During the event, there will also be a documentary screening and interactive exchange session for the main creators, and the documentary "The Heart of the Flying Tiger" produced by the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries will be premiered in the documentary unit.
In order to strengthen exchanges, mutual learning and cultural integration among countries along the "Belt and Road". On the morning of the 17th, the documentary unit will hold the "Belt and Road" theme day and the 2nd anniversary of the establishment of the "Belt and Road" Media Communication Alliance. At this event, the documentary channel of Beijing Television Station and the Wuzhou Communication Center will jointly launch the domestic exclusive program "Silk Road Time", which lasts for 50 minutes, echoing the "Silk Road Time" launched by the Wuzhou Communication Center abroad, mainly showing the history and culture of the countries along the Silk Road. On the same day, important activities such as forums, signing ceremonies, cooperation project releases, roundtables and authoritative releases of the Annual Report on the Development of Chinese Documentary Films (2018) (Chinese and English Editions) were also set up.
This year's documentary unit will also integrate documentary resources in the industry and conduct a series of project launch ceremonies. These include: the historical and humanistic documentary film "Love in the Long March" produced by Beijing Television Station, and the large-scale tourism documentary program "Hey! ASEAN, "Beauty Valley", etc.; documentary channels will also work with the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee, the Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association, and the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau to jointly release "Recording Ice and Snow • Sharing the Olympic Games" - the release of films on Winter Olympic venues, the planning of the "Olympic Decade" and other projects; the international version of "The Great Wall" issued by China International Television Corporation; the new column "Record Time" jointly created by Liangyou (Beijing) Culture Media Co., Ltd. and Wuzhou Communication Center, and premiered on The Beijing Documentary Channel. At the same time, the second season of the documentary "Out of the Mountain" and "Field of Hope" will also be released.
In order to increase the in-depth integration and exchange of industry, education and research, the Documentary Channel of Beijing Television Station and the Department of Journalism and Communication of Communication University of China will sign a strategic cooperation at the event site, including: the signing ceremony of the large-scale series "Post-90s" jointly produced by the Imaging Action Training Camp of the Department of Journalism and Communication of the Communication University of China.
In addition, the main event of this year's documentary unit was set up on the university campus for the first time, aiming to provide a more professional and convenient learning and exchange platform for young people who pay attention to documentaries in universities and colleges, and inspire young people how to tell Chinese stories well in the new era.
Venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the festival
It is designated as Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center
Zhao Jiansuo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group
The venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival is set to be Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center. Beijing Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center is invested and constructed by Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group, which is an important and professional exhibition venue in the "Yanqi Lake International Conference Capital" project built by Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group. The design of the venue is inspired by the Temple of Heaven Prayer Hall, adhering to the concept of "Han and Tang Sublimation, Heaven and Earth Flying", with a total construction area of 79,000 square meters, it is a comprehensive convention and exhibition venue integrating conference, exhibition, catering, hotel and comprehensive supporting service facilities. In April 2015, the Convention and Exhibition Center successfully received the first event, the 5th Beijing International Film Festival, and subsequently, it successfully received more than 400 conferences and exhibitions, including the G20 Energy Ministers' Conference and the Science and Technology Innovation Ministers' Conference, the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, the Huabiao Award, the Global Social Entrepreneur Ecology Forum, the BMW and Mercedes-Benz New Car Launch Conference, and the Jingdong Annual Conference, covering nearly 100 industries and fields, and receiving more than 400,000 conferences and catering.
In the service preparation of this film festival, Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group, which has successfully cooperated with the organizing committee for many times, said that it will strive to be more important, more proactive and more meticulous.
Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group regards the Beijing International Film Festival as an important task to complete. Adhering to such requirements, Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group has set up a top-down special leading group very early and formed more than 10 sets of driving protection programs, covering all aspects of service guarantee.
All engineering equipment in the venue has been debugged for multiple rounds, and the infrastructure such as strong current, weak current, air conditioning, elevator, network, communication and so on has been maintained in the best condition; special facilities such as lifting platforms and special channels have been put into use, which has greatly improved the construction efficiency; Beijing Enterprises Real Estate Group and relevant departments have carried out fire protection facilities and electrical system testing, food and drug supervision, and carried out more than 10 emergency drills; thousands of types of food raw materials with a total weight of more than one ton have been prepared, which will provide hundreds of stars and guests participating in the film festival. Thousands of media, spectators, and staff members provided dozens of catering services such as cocktail parties, buffets, and working meals, and received more than 10,000 people.
In the red carpet link, thousands of floor lights and star red carpets in the Starlight Plaza of the Convention and Exhibition Center shine together to create the most ceremonial red carpet show; in the star cocktail party link, the convention and exhibition center customizes the theme of "green mountains and green water colorful photocopying", and carries out new ideas for environmental layout, food production, and catering utensils; in the "film and television culture" atmosphere, the convention and exhibition center will cooperate with the creative series of film and television theme activities to continue to promote the development of the exhibition industry and cultural industry; for media friends, the convention center specially set up energy gas stations. Refreshments, drinks and some basic facilities were prepared to create more convenient working conditions.