Last night, the Shanghai International Film Festival Asian Newcomer Award held an award ceremony.
The jury and the winners took a group photo
Established in 2004, the Asian Newcomer Awards is an annual event that rewards newcomers and new works in the Asian film industry, with clear criteria for participation, and the recipients of each award are the first or second works of individuals.
It is precisely this requirement that has helped more and more Asian filmmakers to take a solid start in their careers.
In the past 16 years, the ASIA NEW Awards have discovered and launched a large number of filmmakers from China and Asian countries and regions, many of whom have grown into the backbone of the film industry. Such as Cao Baoping (2006 Special Jury Award), Wan Ma Tse-dan (2006 Best Director Award), Lin Shuyu (2008 Best Film Award), Zhang Meng (2008 Special Jury Award) and so on.
2006 Wan Ma Tse-dan award photo
It is very emotional that Ning Hao, chairman of the jury of this year's Asia New Awards, is also the director who came out of the Asia New Awards, and in 2005, his "Green Grass" won the Asia New Award for Most Popular Film. His performance can be seen as the inheritance and development brought about by the Asia-New Award.
The jury of this year's Asian Newcomer Awards
Ning Hao, Tan Zhuo, Su Youpeng, Ishii Yuya, Xie Fulong
In 2018, director and screenwriter Wen Muye, who won more than 3 billion box office with "I Am Not a Medicine God", took the stage at the ceremony to share his experience with young filmmakers, especially emphasizing that he will always remember his original intention.
"When I was a student, my teacher Tian Zhuangzhuang once asked me, 'Do you really like the process of making movies, or do you like what movies bring you?' I replied that I loved the process of making movies, and I felt that as long as I loved making movies, I could always go on. ”
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Just last night, this year's Shanghai Film Festival also announced the launch of the "SIFF ASIA" structure, which opened up a "one-stop" through train for young filmmakers from screenings and awards to venture capital co-productions, film salons to the film market. The future of Asian filmmakers has wings here.
"SIFF ASIA" was officially launched
Xu Zheng, who has participated in the ASIA NEW Awards for four consecutive years, said that the emergence of "SIFF ASIA" marks the maturity of the Asian film industry, and believes that the "SIFF AISA", which has taken root and sprouted, will quickly grow into a leafy tree and become the most solid and vital carrier to unite the new forces in Asia.
There are such a group of predecessors who cheer for Asian films, and there are many young filmmakers who make unremitting efforts for film dreams, and I believe that the future of Asian films is worthy of our more expectations.
In fact, in addition to being a platform to support young filmmakers, the annual award-winning works should not be underestimated. The brilliance and creativity of these talented young people is quite amazing.
Next, let's get to know the young filmmakers who won this year's awards and the works they brought. If you have a chance to see it next, don't miss it
1
"Sing Alive"
Awards: Best Film, Best Actress (Zhao Xiaoli)
Country/Region of Production: China
Director / Writer: Ma Nan
Starring: Zhao Xiaoli / Gan Guidan
Genre: Drama / Drama
The Chinese film "Singing Alive" shined at this year's ASIA NEW Awards, winning two awards, Best Picture and Best Actress. The film focuses on traditional Chinese opera Sichuan opera, most of the actors in the film are from the Sichuan opera stage, and the director's only requirement for them is "real nature".
Zhao Li, the owner of the Sichuan Opera Troupe, is faced with the dilemma that the theater will be demolished, and she must find a new roof as soon as possible to save her family of troupes as her relatives from falling apart. The world of Sichuan opera has quietly dived into reality, and the characters on the stage have begun to appear in real life...
The film took seven years to create. Ma Nan, the film's director, said that he left Shanghai at the age of 10 and returned to Shanghai at the age of 20, finding that the changes were so great that he could not even find the feeling of returning home. So finding the feeling of coming home in this movie is the core element, and this movie makes him feel it.
Film director Ma Nan
The most precious thing is that the film allows many people to see the charm and survival status of Sichuan opera. Film producer Deng Jie has been a Sichuan opera actor for five years, and the heroine Zhao Xiaoli is more familiar with the Sichuan opera stage. In this movie, they find themselves.
The heroine of the film, Zhao Xiaoli
It is still the situation faced by local culture in the urban transformation, and what is rare is that the context of the film is real and not exaggerated, with exploratory sincerity. At the same time, the wonderful performances and touching scenes are even more memorable.
2
Fly in The Blue Hour
Blue Hour
Winner: Best Director (Yuko Katonda)
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Director / Writer: Yuko Katsuda
Starring: Xia Fan / Shen Eun Kyung / Watanabe Daichi / Yusuke Nakayama
Genre: Drama / Comedy
A female director of TV commercials with a tiring career and a difficult love, Li Zhinian took a trip back to her hometown to visit her relatives accompanied by a friend driving. Decadent parents, strange brothers are like strangers; warm memories of childhood, only lingering on grandma's withered hands.
In the blue hour of the afterglow, the growth of the auspicious light kata feathers like a dream, re-encounter the dashing self, regain the courage, and face the future looming in the sun.
In the film, Yuko Hakuda uses delicate and precise techniques, unique perspectives, creative structures, and accurate grasp of each character to comprehensively show the influence of the living environment on the heroine's heart, which impressed the judges.
In an interview with reporters, Yuko Kikunda said that this work is her first director's work, the protagonist of the film has the shadow of her own childhood, she believes that this award is thanks to the two leading actors and many staff behind the scenes.
3
"Paradise"
Winner: Best Actor (Yuan Teng)
Country/Region of Production: Taiwan
Director: Liao Shihan
Writers: Chen Dingning / Liang Xiuhong
Starring: Wang Zhixian / Chen Zeyao / Huersen / Yuan Teng
Genre: Drama
Hua Ge, a pork seller who has been using heroin for thirty years, finally successfully rehabilitated from buddhism, and set up a mountain farm to help teenagers detoxify. In order to increase the funds, he cooperated with the court to obtain subsidies, and took in the drug-addicted teenager "Rat Boy", and the whole farm began all kinds of turmoil...
Through the topic of drug rehabilitation, the film actually explores the collapse of a utopia, with various sociological reflections behind it. When the rat boy threw the heroin dug up from the farm in front of Hua Ge, it felt like the belief fell down. The innovation and power of the whole film is remarkable.
Best Actor Yuan Teng
Malaysian actor Yuan Teng won the best actor award of this year's ASIM for his first work. The jury believes that his performance abandons the traditional routine, and his energy can be felt through the picture, and the future can be expected.
Yuan Teng was very excited, he said, "When I was a child, I often played role-playing games, including going on stage to receive awards, but today I was still very nervous, thank you to all the crew members, thank you to the children who gave this role so much nourishment on the farm." ”
4
"Mountain Life"
Mountain Song
Winner: Best Screenplay (Yusef Ragamuda)
Country/Region of Production: Indonesia
Director / Writer: Yusuf Rajamuda
Jimba lives with his mother and grandfather in a very remote, impoverished village. After his father's death, Kimba became reluctant to leave his mother's side. However, the mother feels that her health is gradually deteriorating, and she wants Kimba to slowly get used to life without her.
She often left Kimba alone in a small shed to play and then came back to pick him up. However, one day, Jimba realizes that his mother has been gone for too long...
Yusef Ragamuda
This minimalist work is wonderful, with a few strokes creating a dreamlike space that reaches the heart. A lot of investigation in the early stages gave birth to the best works.
Indonesia recently suffered a tsunami disaster, and Yusuf Rajamuda said that it was written for his hometown, hoping that the film would bless his hometown.
5
"Last Night's Stars"
MA•AMA
Winner: Best Cinematography (Vinymadev Kagara)
Country of Production: India
Director / Writer: Dominique Sanma
Starring: Philip Sanma
Eighty-five-year-old Philip had been longing for thirty years to be reunited with his wife in the afterlife, but he had recently had a dream: in the crowd, no matter how hard he tried, he could not recognize her face. Could it be that after a person dies, his face will change over time? So he desperately wanted to find a way to reunite with his wife after death.
The film is a bit fast-paced and absurd, but it has a very sad core. Photographer Vineumadev Kagara is a fledgling and has shown amazing photographic skills and creativity.
List of best films at previous ASIA New Awards
The Man and the Stray Dog (2004)
If you walk with the dog, Tyrolri and Tamura.
Director: Makoto Shinozawa
Writers: Kei Shichiri (script, original)
Starring: Naoki Tanaka / Ryo / Chirori
Genre: Drama / Family
The frustrated man and the dog see each other and decide to train him to become a dog doctor. A heart-warming story that is extremely critical of the abandonment of dogs after the dog fever.
The Rainmaker (2005)
Dreams of drought
Directed by Ravi L. Bharwani
Starring: Levie Hardigan
Rudy, a novice in the industry who has just passed the bar exam, received a case against a huge insurance company and won in a dangerous situation, but said that he may no longer be a lawyer.
Living in Terror (2006)
Living in Fear
Director: Pei Shuozhuan
Country/Region of Production: Vietnam
主演: Ngoc Phuong Mai / Huu Phuc Tran
During the Vietnam War, soldier Yin married two wives, and after the war he decided to take his wife and children to live on an island, but the island was full of landmines.
Floating Life (2007)
Director: Sheng Zhimin
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Starring: Liao Zhong / Wang Lan / Xu Tao
A troubled family. When retired police officer Lao Li remarried in Zhang Luo, his ex-wife suddenly arrived, bringing a problem teenager's stepson, and everyone in the family had to face a lot of problems...
Nine Winds (2008)
Director: Lin Shuyu
Starring: Feng Xiaoyue / Zhang Jie / Chu Jiaqing / Lin Qitai
Seven teenagers with different personalities and achievements have become Maji because of their common love for baseball, and everyone around them advises them not to be friends, but they are still willing to do some stupid things that teenagers will do together.
6
Very Anchor (2009)
Speeding Scandal
Director: Jiang Jiongzhe
Country/Region of Production: South Korea
Starring: Cha Tae-hyun / Park Bao-young / Wong Hyun Hyun / Song Ha-bo / Hwang Woo-hye
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Music
The 38-year-old radio anchor Hyun-so is at the peak of her career, especially the program listening rate for the single mother Jingshu to find her father is not bad, I did not expect that this Jingshu was actually a mistake made by her own teenagers! What if you disclose your career and ruin it?
7
We See You in Heaven (2010)
Director: Jiang Wenli
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Starring: Zhu Xu / Yao Jun / Zhu Yinuo / Liu Ye / Ma Sichun
At the end of the 70s after the boom, Xiaolan, a girl with a bad birth, came to the countryside and relied on her grandfather for her life. Dreaming of becoming a gymnastics champion, she grew up day by day, but her grandfather has gradually grown old...
8
The Daily Mom (2011)
Kaasan Mom's Life
Director: Kobayashi Sentaro
Starring: Kyoko Koizumi / Masatoshi Nagatoshi / Shinta Furuta
Genre: Comedy
Based on the autobiographical manga of manga artist Keiko Nishi, an alcoholic war photographer husband and a pair of young children forced her to become a stay-at-home mom during the day and had to insist on manga writing every night.
9
Corrosion (2012)
Corrode
Director: Garland Gul
Starring: Lasekhar Dugal / Alekh Sangal
How a mad woman who has fallen into a magic barrier enters contagious SD mode for obsession is a clever metaphor for India's entire religious power, female status, and class society.
10
The Temperature of Love (2013)
Interviewing Him and Her
Director: Rudd
Starring: Lee Min-ki / Kim Min-hee / Roh Mei-ran / Choi Moo Sung
Genre: Drama / Romance
The best looking ex story. Office colleagues Zhang Ying and Li Dongxi, who have been secretly in an underground relationship for three years, torture each other, and their love has almost become hatred!
11
I'm not angry! 》(2014)
I'm not Angry!
Directed by: Reza Dormishian
Country/Region of Production: Iran
Starring: Baran Kosari / Navid Mohammadzadeh
A young Iranian cannot afford to get married. He lost his job, but his husband asked him to buy a house. After asking for help from relatives and friends to no avail, he even thought about selling his kidneys, and after all his efforts failed, he killed his husband.
12
《13》(2015)
Directed by: Hooman Seyedi
Starring: Amir Jafari / Azadeh Samdi
In the context of violence in Iran's home and school, there is the loneliness of a 13-year-old Iranian teenager. Several close-ups of juvenile gazes are powerful. The surreal treatment of diving into a bathtub and then submerging in a pool is also ingenious.
13
The Funeral (2016)
Suck them up.
Director: Larem Reddy
主演: Thammegowda S. / Channegowda / Abhishek H.N./ Pooja S.M.
The 101-year-old has passed away, but his family and children have their own troubles. Three story lines run parallel, and everything is detonated at the funeral.
14
Decibel Life (2017)
Director: Chen Shengji
Country/Region of Production: Malaysia
Starring: Zhang Aijia / Chen Zeyao / Chen Yanwen
Ah Qiang, who grew up in the poor area of the big city, not only lost his sister's life due to a traffic accident, but also derived social problems caused by the pressure from the poor environment.
15
The Unscheduled Path (2018)
Director: Tang Gaopeng
Starring: Wang Xuebing / Zhu Gengyou / Ma Yili / Wang Xufeng
Genre: Drama / Crime
Eryong, who owes a loan shark, embarks on a journey to chase his wife with a child of unknown origin, meets Xiaomei, a melancholy and grumpy female truck driver, and three people with very different personalities temporarily accompany each other for some reason, and they do not know what fate is going to joke with them.
The 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival
Asian Newcomer Award winners
Best Picture
Best Director
Yuko Hakuda
(Flying in The Blue Hour, Japan)
Best Actress
Zhao Xiaoli
(SingIng Alive, China)
Best Actor
Original Teng
(Paradise, Taiwan, Actor's nationality: Malaysia)
Best Screenplay
(Mountain Life, Indonesia)
Best Cinematography
Viny-Madv Kagara
(Last Night Star, India)