Billy Auguste is a highly regarded director in the world of cinema. In 2019, his self-written and self-directed film "Lucky Pier" won the Best Film Award at the Temple of Heaven Award at the 9th Beijing International Film Festival. This year, the Danish national treasure film master Billy Auguste returned to the North Film Festival, he will focus on the theme of "From Literature to Image: Danish Director's World Journey", through the network connection, with the on-site guest Wang Yan, to share with the audience his creative experience and creative methods around the world.
Bille August (born 9 November 1948 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish director, screenwriter and producer who graduated from the Danish National Film School.
Billy Auguste
In 1978, he directed his film debut "In My Life" and began his career as a director. In 1987, he directed the feature film Pell the Conqueror, which won the 61st Academy Awards and the 46th Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1992, his romantic film "Betrayal of Good Intentions" participated in the internationally renowned film festival and received praise.
After this, Billy Auguste embarked on his international creative journey. In 1997, his feature film "Ice Mystery" was shortlisted for the Golden Bear Award at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2007, he directed the feature film Goodbye Bafana, which was shortlisted for the Golden Bear award at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.
Stills from the movie Pelle the Conqueror
Director Billy Auguste has a lot to do with Chinese cinema and culture. In 2008, he was a jury member of the "Golden Jubilee Award" at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival. In September 2011, he was officially hired as a cultural consultant in Hangzhou and set up a personal director studio in Hangzhou. In 2015, director Billy Auguste shot the war film "Beacon Fangfei" in China, which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Golden Jubilee Award at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2017, he served as the chairman of the jury of the "Temple of Heaven Award" of the 7th Beijing International Film Festival.
This year, Billy Auguste once again came to the North Film Festival with the film "Oath" and participated in the competition for the main competition unit "Temple of Heaven Award". For decades, director Billy Auguste has continued to make literary adaptations, digging deep into human nature, about growth, class and other topics, and his works have formed a unique style that has attracted the attention of the world film industry.
Stills from the movie "The Oath"
Wang Yan, the guest of honor at this master class, is a professor, doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Foreign Literature of the University of Foreign Studies and Chinese university in Beijing, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University in the United States, and is engaged in teaching and research across China and the United States. He teaches courses in cultural media, film, and Western classics. He is the author of "The Temporality and Modernity of the Novel: A Study of the Temporality of the Narrative of European Growth Education Novels" (Foreign Research Agency), "After Auschwitz : The Image Production of Holocaust Memory" (Triptych Bookstore), "American Past- Hollywood Mirror and Historical Memory" (Triptych Bookstore), "The Depth of Time: From Jerusalem to New York" (Triptych Bookstore), and co-authored "Return to the Future: History and Society on the Screen" (Triptych Bookstore). He has published more than 100 papers in journals such as "Reading", "Tianya", "Book City", "Vientiane", "Foreign Literature Review", "Foreign Literature", "Art Review" and so on.
The theme activities of this year's "Cloud North Film Festival" are composed of the Temple of Heaven Award, the opening ceremony and red carpet ceremony, the Beijing screening, the focus on the future unit, the Beijing Planning and Theme Forum, the film master class, the Beijing market, the film carnival, the closing ceremony and the award ceremony, the Beijing University Student Film Festival and the "Film +" and other activities. This year's "Cloud on the North Film Festival" is set in iQIYI, and fans who want to see the best movies, wonderful live broadcasts, and industry dynamics will come to iQIYI 'Cloud North Film Festival'!
Billy Auguste Master Class
Theme: From Literature to Image: A Journey to the World by Danish Directors
Time: 22:40 on September 27, Beijing Satellite TV
On September 28, 10:00, learning power, CCTV, iQiyi and other platforms were broadcast
Guest: Wang Yan