【Creation talk】Be a better "he" in the first ten years, and be a better self in the second ten years
Wen 丨 Wen Xiang
Wen Xiang imitated Zhou Yunfa's ten-year "trick" career, and finally fulfilled his dream of working with his idol in 2010 by participating in the role stand-in of Mr. Chow Yun-fat's film "Let the Bullets Fly" directed by Jiang Wen. Wen Xiang went to Guangzhou at the age of 17 to work hard, from an unknown peasant worker - a hotel waiter to a resounding entertainment star, Wen Xiang has worked hard for ten years to be a better "him"! An ordinary movie dreamer, a messenger who transmits love and dreams, and writes the inspirational legend of Pingjiang youth. We also strive to pass on the spirit of idols. In the next ten years, Wen Xiang wants to be a better version of himself.
In 2014, Wen Xiang returned to his hometown to start a business, and founded Hunan Yanquan Culture Media Co., Ltd. in Changsha, the company is committed to creating a boutique brand of "Wen Xiang Public Welfare Film" and developing a series of fine film and television projects with public welfare themes. Use the lens to pay attention to social issues, reflect social pain points, and "ignite" the attention and actions of the whole society on social pain points, so that the film is no longer just a work of art, but also a film that transcends the film itself.
The first public welfare film "Zhengzheng World" produced by Yanquan Media, which began to be filmed in 2015 and released in 2018, is a film focusing on left-behind children in rural areas, through the social responsibility and responsibility of Hunan filmmakers, it has issued an appeal to more people to pay attention to the current situation and plight of left-behind children, and the film has touched thousands of viewers and netizens once it was released. The film was successfully selected as the 2018 Fine Film of the National Film Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the National Recommended Film of the Office of the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on the Care and Protection of Left-behind Children and Children in Distress of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and won the "Five One Project" Award of the 14th Hunan Spiritual Civilization Construction, the "Five One Project" Award of the 13th Spiritual Civilization Construction of Changsha, and the Most Popular Film Award of College Students at the 16th Guangzhou College Student Film Festival. On May 23, 2023, the film won the 18th China Huabiao Awards Outstanding Children's Film Nomination Award.
The second public welfare film "Hardcore Dad" produced by Yanquan Media, which began to be filmed in 2019 and will be released nationwide at the Chongyang Festival in 2023, is a public welfare film that objectively reflects the contemporary aging social phenomenon, aiming to call on the society to pay attention to the problem of aging in the mainland and provide new ideas for the elderly. The National Office on Aging has included the film as a recommended film for education on the national conditions of population aging. The film is guided by the Office of the National Working Committee on Aging, the China Association for the Ageing, the Propaganda Department of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the academic support of the Chinese Society of Social Security, the Career Development Center of the Red Cross Society of China, and Hunan Yanquan Culture Media Co., Ltd. jointly produced, the China Foundation for the Development of the Cause of the Ageing, the Propaganda Department of the Kaifu District Committee of the CPC Changsha City, the film has also been jointly produced by the Hunan Provincial Party Committee of the Zhigong Party, the Office of the Hunan Provincial Working Committee on Aging, the Hunan Provincial Foundation for the Development of the Cause of the Ageing, Strong support from Hunan Film Industry Association and other units.
The third public welfare film "Zhengzheng World 2" that Yanquan Media is preparing in 2023 is a film focusing on the theme of adolescent family education and mental health, calling on parents to pay attention to the impact of family education on adolescents, and rallying social forces to pay attention to the mental health problems of adolescents. The film has been successfully filed and a shooting permit has been obtained.
About the artist
Wen Xiang, born in November 1978 in Xiaoshan Village, Pingjiang, Hunan Province, Chinese mainland actor and producer, is currently a member of the Central Cultural Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, the deputy director of the Publicity Work Committee of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, the vice chairman of the Changsha Film and Television Artists Association, the deputy director of the Culture and Education Committee of the China Foundation for the Development of the Ageing, the director of the China Family Education Society, the director of the Zhengzheng Public Welfare Fund of the Hunan Women and Children Development Foundation, the vice president of the Changsha Kaifu District Cultural and Creative Association, the ambassador of China Film Public Welfare Publicity, Yueyang City Good Youth Image Spokesperson, Chairman of Hunan Yanquan Culture Media Co., Ltd.