Background of the event
In the past 10 years, art short films have received widespread attention from the film industry, various short film competitions have flourished, and various film celebrities have also joined the big team of supporting new directors, including Jia Zhangke, Jiao Xiongping, Zhou Chuanji and others. In all kinds of short film competitions, a number of outstanding young directors have been born, and Wen Muye, the director of "I Am Not a Medicine God" in the hot summer of 2018, "made his fortune" at the First Film Festival, and the major art film directors with excellent reputation on the theater line will also find their figures in the short film festival. In such a grand situation, film and television learners have been given more and more opportunities to display their talents.
In the discourse system recognized by most people, the film is ultimately to return to the audience. The image mapped through the physical medium is always recorded in the storage medium, it is always alive, and in the end, it is the frequency of finding resonance in the real world all his life, and what he gets is the audience's sadness and anger, empathy. The meeting between the creator and the audience can be seen as a practice that breaks the dimension, connecting the present and the past time and space of the birth of the work, the audience and the author stand on both sides of the mirror, and those who know my heart are also the ones. This practice can be said to be necessary and rare.
Introduction to the event theme
The essence of man is, in its reality, the sum of all social relations, so man has complex social attributes and plays different social roles. Due to the differences in objective physiological conditions, men and women have developed different social adaptations in the long history of human civilization, so they are often labeled with various labels.
"Female directors", as a relatively small part of the group portrait of directors, often become a category of attention, and love and prejudice coexist in the voices discussed.
The theme of this exhibition and exchange will be "female director and actress", and the term "female director" will be interpreted as "female, self-led, and interpretive life" from an objective standpoint, so that "female director" will be a feature rather than a special case. At that time, three domestic contemporary young female directors will be selected for screening, and the director himself will be invited to the audience to exchange and discuss. This event aims to explore the female directors in different growth backgrounds and different life stages, their perceptions of their own growth process, and the current living conditions of female filmmakers. I hope that through this activity, we can provide more dreamers on the film road, especially young women who are interested in entering the film and television industry, with valuable opportunities for experience exchange, help, and the strength to move forward.
Brief introduction of the works
Where Star Lies
(2019)
Director: Chen Jiewen
Genre: Romance / Language: Mandarin Cantonese / Duration: 21 minutes
Synopsis: Li Xunjia's inn accidentally receives a team of astronomical observation teams that have a halfway car failure, and they should have gone to the stargazing village in the other direction. The astronomical knowledge they exchanged and Li Xun's affection for Teacher Luo, like a treasure-like paradise, broke into Li Xun's ordinary life, and also aroused the small wishes she had been buried deep in her heart.
Chen Jiewen, a native of Guangzhou, a young female director and screenwriter, graduated from the Department of Digital Media Arts of the Communication University of China in 2019 and went to the School of Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Shih Hsin University in Taiwan for exchange studies. Directed and participated in the production of many films: the drama short film "1999" was shortlisted for the 4th 24th National College Creative Media Carnival Graduation Works Online Screening Event, the documentary short film "Recording Life Inside and Outside the Lens, Seeing Taiwan on a Thousand Meters" won the "Best Public Welfare Micro-film Award" at the 4th Cross-Strait College Students Micro Film Culture and Art Festival, the drama short film "Variations" won the first prize in the video category of the 2nd National College Students Network Culture Festival Public Service Advertisement Works Collection Activity, and the 2019 graduation design drama short film "Passing by the Stars" Awarded the outstanding graduation work of the school.
Summer Secret
(2014)
Director: Zeng Gift
Genre: Drama / Language: Yiyang dialect Mandarin / Duration: 25 minutes
Synopsis: Mingyue, a 12-year-old girl who lost her father, ushered in the first menarche of her life after pushing her mother's lover into the water due to suspicion and jealousy in the summer vacation. But it all ended in her light and breezy summer vacation diary assignments, brilliant childhood-like descriptions. The film expresses the loneliness and shame of a little girl growing up, but also portrays the self-division and whitewashing of people in the face of the system.
"Summer Diary of the Bright Moon" has a unique poetry. The use of a large number of metaphorical symbols and subjective acoustic effects has left a great deal of room for interpretation of the language of the film. With the richest and most sensitive touch, the film presents the audience with a period of lonely and shameful growth. Mingyue looks directly into the camera and tears apart the hypocritical lie: we ignore the suffering of others not because we are unaware, but because the ingrained indifference in human nature has long determined that the truth is a heavy burden for everyone.
Exhibition Experience:
The 19th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea was shortlisted for the wide-angle lens unit
The 33rd Munich Academy Film Festival was shortlisted
Wolfgang Award for Best Original Short Film at the 34th Academy Awards in Munich, Germany
The 13th ISFVF Beijing Film Academy International Student Film Festival China Outstanding Film Award Huayi Brothers Special Award
The 3rd Beijing Film Academy Director Awards Jury Gold Award Special Award of the Department of Directing
Zeng Zhi, a native of Yiyang, Hunan, Chinese mainland outstanding young female director and screenwriter, graduated from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy (2011 master's degree). In 2014, he wrote and directed his first short film "Summer Diary of the Bright Moon", which won the Best Original Short Film Award at the 34th Wolfgang Academy Awards in Munich, Germany. In 2016, he directed his first film "Yunshui", which was shortlisted for the "Bright Future" section of the 47th Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands. In 2018, he directed the short drama film "Goodnight Girl: The 366th Sugar". The new work "Shao Si Ming" was selected for the 55th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.
A Pointless Film
（2018）
Director: Kuang Sihui
Genre: Drama Fantasy / Language: Mandarin / 25 minutes
Synopsis: The shadow girl is the only daughter in the family, the marriage of her parents is extinct, and the three people in the family lack interaction. In order to escape the bland family life, she tried to adapt her life into a movie with her eyes, applying the plot of the movies she had seen to her real life. The staff of various departments of the crew shuttles around the home, her parents become actors, and she is the "director" who can shout "cut" and "action" at any time, and the "screenwriter" who can modify the plot at any time. In her "movies", the plot is often extremely absurd, but there are many similarities with reality in essence. However, after all, life is not as good as drama, and the illusion that cannot really cover up reality gradually collapses, and she still falls back to her ordinary reality...
Born in Hunan and raised in Guangzhou, Kuang Sihui is a young pioneer female director, screenwriter and independent photographer, graduated from the Department of Radio, Television and Film Studies, Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in film studies at University College London, UK. He has participated in the production of a number of short films, advertisements and documentaries, and the experimental short film "Boring Film" won the Outstanding Student Work Award as the curtain film of the 23rd Graduation Exhibition of the School of Radio, Television and Film of Shih Hsin University and was shortlisted for screening at the Open Mouth Student Short Film Festival of the University of the Arts London in 2019. Nanzhuang, a short film in which he served as a photographer, won the second place in the 2016 National Taiwan University Micro Film Creation Competition.
Curator
Li Jie Liu Yihan
Active time
August 9, 2019 (Friday) 19:00-21:30
(Check-in starts at 18:30, starts on time at 19:00, please enter early)
Location of the event
Yanjiyou Guangzhou K11 store
(No. 6 Zhujiang East Road, B211, K11 Shopping Art Center, B2 Floor, B211)
Event ticket price
35 yuan / person
It is free for members of the Bookstore
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Interactive benefits and rules
Participate in the Q&A interaction and will have the opportunity to get a short film derivative literary cloth bag
Special reminder
Check-in starts at 18:30 and starts on time at 19:00, so please arrange a time to enter the venue early
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