The 2024 8th China Science Fiction Conference and Science Fiction Film Week will be grandly opened in Shougang Park, which is full of hard-core industrial style, from April 28th to May 3rd, Beijing Science Fiction Film Week will bring a new vision of science fiction films - Beijing Science Fiction Film Night, Science Fiction Short Film Collection, Science Fiction Film Forum, Science Fiction Film Screening, and Science Fiction Film Poster Collection The five main activities will record the beautiful vision of Chinese science fiction filmmakers.
The 2024 8th China Science Fiction Convention Science Fiction Movie Night will be grandly opened on April 28. The event was guided by the Beijing Municipal Film Bureau, co-sponsored by the Shijingshan District People's Government and Shougang Group.
The event aims to promote the high-quality development of the science fiction industry in the mainland, accelerate the development of new quality productivity, provide a platform for mutual communication and integrated development of the entire science fiction industry chain, and make Shijingshan contributions to Beijing's construction of a central city with world influence in the field of science fiction.
As a national science fiction event, the China Science Fiction Convention has been successfully held for seven sessions and has become an important platform for exchanges and cooperation between the scientific and technological circles, cultural circles and industrial circles. It has played an important role in promoting the co-creation of ideas, displaying the latest achievements, promoting the popularization of science, and deepening exchanges and cooperation. The 2024 8th China Science Fiction Convention and Science Fiction Movie Night is located in the iconic No. 1 blast furnace of Shijingshan Shougang Park, giving full play to the advantages and characteristics of Shijingshan District and Shougang Park, and starting a highly imaginative and experiential science fiction journey.
This sci-fi movie night brings together well-known sci-fi filmmakers, sci-fi writers, scientists and sci-fi newcomers at home and abroad to attend this sci-fi event.
Li Xin, deputy secretary of the Shijingshan District Party Committee and head of the district of Shijingshan District, the opening unit, delivered a speech at the conference, mentioning that Shijingshan District adheres to the development of the capital in the new era, further deeply understands the major decisions and deployments of the Central Committee and the Municipal Party Committee on the development of new quality productivity, and accelerates the formation of a new quality productivity development pattern with Shijingshan characteristics and comparative advantages, Shijingshan has gathered more than 200 science fiction enterprises and institutions, ranking first in the city. Especially in terms of science fiction film production, Shijingshan District has built the city's first major technology platform for light field imaging, and upgraded the construction of the MAC Metaverse Performing Arts Production and Broadcasting Technology Center with a total area of more than 7,000 square meters, which can provide more creative space and higher shooting reliability for directors and actors.
The 2024 Science Fiction Movie Night Science Fiction Film Promotion Unit will promote key science fiction film and television projects and science fiction shooting locations. The movies "Circular Block" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes: New World" have appeared one after another and have attracted a lot of attention.
The Jordanian ambassador to China and the diplomats of the Uruguayan embassy in China each talked about their country's advantages as a science fiction filming location, which provided rich inspiration and possibilities for the creation of science fiction films and promoted international exchanges and cooperation.
The 2024 Science Fiction Movie Night Science Fiction Short Film Promotion Unit solicited science fiction short films from global film creators and global science fiction enthusiasts, and after nearly 3 months, a total of 211 works from all over the world were received. This year, the "Firefly Project" introduces the categories of AI Experimental Outstanding Short Films, which encourage creators to cross traditional boundaries and explore the integration and interaction of technology and art in the field of science fiction film and television.
Mr. Wang Hongwei, Vice President of China Film Directors Association and Associate Professor of the Department of Directing of Beijing Film Academy, Mr. Ma Ping, Head of China Film Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Vice President of China Film and Television Photographers Society (CNSC), and Mr. Dong Runnian, a famous screenwriter and director, as the promotion committee, recommended the excellent short film "Slow Heat" for AI experiments, the excellent short film "No Other", "Ultimate Experience", "Singularity", the excellent short film "Sun Pulse", "Civilization to the Years", "Wings of Parallelism", and the excellent live-action short film "Nailed Coincidence", " A total of 13 sci-fi short films, including "A House", "Super Power" and "Firefly Project" excellent short films "Polar Nocturne", "End Delivery" and "Deep Sea Hotel". The science fiction short film promotion unit plays an important role in discovering and supporting cutting-edge science fiction film talents, promoting the improvement of science fiction film creation, and injecting new vitality and impetus into the reform and development of science fiction film and television industry.
The 2024 8th China Science Fiction Convention and Science Fiction Movie Night came to a successful conclusion with the help of the guests, and the Science Fiction Movie Night is showing the world the strong determination and action to promote the development of the science fiction industry, and the future of Chinese science fiction films can be expected!