Thousands of years ago, Wang Wei used "nine days to open the palace, and all the countries dressed in crowns and bowed to the crown", and sketched out the all-encompassing prosperity of Xi'an in ancient times in just a few strokes. On October 8, the Fifth Silk Road International Film Festival will open in the ancient capital of Xi'an, where filmmakers from home and abroad gather to share this film event.
As an important partner of this year's Silk Road Film Festival, "Watching Movies" hosted activities such as "Qinglan Project Master Class", "Master Tea Ceremony" and "Science Fiction Forum".
As a high-quality activity brand that has watched the film media for many years, the "Qinglan Project" has successfully landed in major film festivals at home and abroad such as the Cannes International Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, the Silk Road International Film Festival, and many Chinese and foreign film masters such as Regis Wagnes, Jacques Behan, Du Kefeng, Kore-eda, Jia Zhangke and many other Chinese and foreign film masters are all guests of the "Master Class".
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, we also invited the new Palme d'Or award-winning director Kore-eda to participate in the "New Power of Chinese Cinema: Blue And Blue Project Master Class" like a prophet.
After the masterclass talk, director Hirokazu Kore-eda tweeted, "It would be nice if there were such an event in Japan." ”
In an interview with the Japanese media after the award ceremony, he said: "Neighboring China is gathering a group of young filmmakers in Cannes, communicating with the masters, holding various activities, seeing this scene, I feel that the Japanese film industry has not made any contribution." ”
The director is Hirokazu Kore-eda who tweeted after the event and spoke in an interview with the media after winning the Palme d'Or
On October 12, the Silk Road International Film Festival, "Watching Movies", invited three heavyweight lecturers, as well as ten outstanding Chinese and foreign young directors, to launch three "Blue Plan Master Class" courses in the ancient capital of Xi'an.
As the organizer of the "Master Class", "Watching Movies" has specially prepared this super heavy benefit for all members.
Let's start with three lecturers:
The first lecturer was from the United States, and was one of the few commercial film directors in Hollywood who combined producers, directors, screenwriters, and actors, Rob Cohen.
Director Rob Cohen often makes cameo appearances in his films
He directed Fast & Furious in 2001, pioneering Hollywood's most valuable film series. Other masterpieces include "Extreme Agent", "Top Secret Flight", "Mummy 3", etc.
Where are your screams, buddy!
The second lecturer is from Baodao Taiwan, she is one of the main promoters of well-known directors Hou Xiaoxian, Yang Dechang, Li An, Wang Xiaoshuai, Cai Mingliang and others to the world, once served as the chairman of the Golden Horse Awards, set production, supervision, education, writing in one, in the world has the "New Taiwan Film Godmother", she is the famous filmmaker - Jiao Xiongping.
Jiao Xiongping has also been involved in the screenwriting of [Ruan Lingyu] and [Seventeen-year-old Bicycle].
The third lecturer is Chinese mainland famous screenwriter and director - Reed, his representative works are "Overlord Bieji", "Alive", "Tuya's Marriage"... Each of the works is famous.
[Overlord Bieji] and [Alive] are both Douban movie Top35 films, and the former is more widely regarded as Chen Kaige's best director work so far
Students who dream of being screenwriters, don't miss this opportunity to learn from Teacher Reed!
In addition to the three heavyweight lecturers, your classmates are also very promising.
Anyone who says one is trembling, like Miss Sugino From Japan, not only has outstanding appearance, but also is enviable, and the director's second feature film [Want to Move] won the Newcomer Director Award at the Busan International Film Festival. Her latest self-written and self-directed film, Snow Girl, was also nominated for Best Picture in the main competition section of the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Sugino Yoshihito starred in Kim Ki-deok's [Time]
Xu Xinxian from Macau, China, won the grand jury prize of the "2012 Macao International Film and Video Festival" in 2012 with the documentary "The Kid in the Cabinet", and was shortlisted or invited to screen at various film festivals in Asia and Europe. And her first narrative feature film [Bone Sister] was also favored by many film awards.
Xu Xinxian won the Special Jury Prize at the "Second New Power of Chinese Cinema" hosted by Film Media this year
Her first feature film [Yunshui] was shortlisted for the Golden Tiger Award at the 47th Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands and the Best Cinematography at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival Asian Newcomer Award.
The short film "Mingyue's Summer Diary", which was donated to the director, scored 7.8 on Douban and was shortlisted for the wide-angle lens unit of the Busan Film Festival
Chan's first commercial feature film from Hong Kong, China[5 Steps] was nominated eight times at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Director Chen Zhifa's previous 5-episode TV series "Short Marriage" received a high score of 8.6 in Douban, and [point five steps] 6.5 points
Lu Qingyi, who won the Best Documentary Award at the FIRST Youth Film Festival for [Four Springs].
Director Lu Qingyi's [Four Springs] Douban scored 8.9
Jiang Jiachen, who was shortlisted for best screenplay at the Asian Newcomer Award at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival, was shortlisted for the "Dog Hunting Notice".
Jiang Jiachen is also the director and screenwriter of [Dog Hunting Notice]."
In addition, there are young filmmakers from all over the world such as Iran and Italy.
Everything is waiting for you, but please read the following precautions carefully before getting on the bus:
Registration time: 2018.09.25-2018.10.06
Guests: Rob Cohen, Jiao Xiongping, Reed, Sugino Xifei, Xu Xinxian, Chen Zhifa, Lu Qingyi, Oman Kahansalian, Aria Anna del Grosso, Zeng Zhi, Jiang Jiachen, etc
Activity coordinates: Xi'an (the specific address staff will be informed by SMS or email)
Event time: October 12 all day
Check-in time: 9:00
How to register:
1. Fill in the real name, ID card or passport and other valid certificate number, mobile phone number, mailbox, gender, city, occupation, self-introduction and the reason why you want to be selected, and send it to the mailbox in the form of an email: [email protected].
2. Seats are limited, selected members can listen to three master lectures at the same time, limited to 20 seats, and the final list of selected members shall be subject to receiving SMS notification or email reply from the staff.
3. Selected members must go to the staff on time and sign in with valid documents such as ID cards or passports to collect tickets; if they cannot attend the appointment for any reason, please be sure to notify the staff to cancel the course before October 9.
4. Please fill in the required information carefully, if you do not fill in, you will not be considered directly.
p.s. If you are unable to attend on time, please contact the staff by October 9.