CCTV News (Reporter Liu Chang): On September 21, the first jury media meeting of the Beijing Film Festival was held at the Huairou Yanqi Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center in Beijing. Gong Li, chairman of the jury, and judges Chen Kun, Ur Shan, Zhang Songwen and Chen Zhengdao attended the media meeting. Due to the epidemic, the judges, Director Rennie Haring and Director Nadine Labaki ,D'Đīké met online.
In the process of awarding the film festival, the judges' criteria for selection have always been a hot topic for everyone. Gong Li, who has served as a jury member of the International Film Festival for many times and the chairman of the jury of the Beijing International Film Festival, said that she will watch the film rationally, but each judge can also have a very free and self-attitude to say what they think. "When you see a good movie come out, when your rationality becomes emotional, you rate it, and maybe that's the way a good movie comes out."
And judge Zhang Songwen admitted that there are 15 films in the shortlist that he does not like. "No one can be 100% pure reason." However, for these films that he did not like at first glance, he also had a special "selfish heart". He laughed that ordinary audiences watching movies at home may not like to watch five minutes and then turn it off, he as a judge will go to see it twice or three times, "people must have a reason for being shortlisted, I can't read it must have my superficial places", but in the end I still have to choose my favorite movie, "What are the criteria I don't know, I only know that watching movies and watching art exhibitions and listening to music should be consistent, it should have a personal orientation in it."
Judge Chen Kun said that he had also "learned from his friends Zhou Xun and Shu Qi, who had experience as a judge at the Beijing Film Festival," and the two friends also "taught" him the experience of "enjoying the film festival and enjoying the film". For the film review, he believes that good performances are particularly personal and subjective, and he also hopes that in the next review process, on the one hand, he can enhance his subjective reflection on whether he is subjective, and on the other hand, he can also consolidate his insistence on the performances he likes.
After the meeting, the judges entered the discussion of the awards. "I think there will be three outcomes, one is that we will quarrel, the second is a peace, and the third may be difficult to achieve unity in the end, but there is no quarrel, and I don't know which one." Judge Zhang Songwen said with a smile.
Source: CCTV