Produced by Huzhou Tengtai Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongke Investment Alliance Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhonghai Juding Culture Media Co., Ltd., Film and Television Industry Alliance (Beijing) Holdings Co., Ltd., Beijing Boom Culture Media Co., Ltd. and other companies jointly produced and distributed the film "Children on the Clouds", which experienced a special period of twists and turns, and finally ushered in the day of final release. On May 27, on the eve of Children's Day, we will meet with a national audience.
"Children on the Clouds" is a family story about family, children and love directed and written by Liu Fengming (formerly known as Liu Cunming), produced by Zhang Huijun, former president of the Beijing Film Academy, starring Sun Jian, Wang Zizi and Sun Wei, and co-starring Zhou Changfeng, Sun Hemo, Xu Jiaman, Xian Di, Li Dongge, Tan Tianming, Han Haoxiang and so on. With the lowest production cost, this film completed the most sincere work in Hengdian, Zhejiang Province, with the chief producer Sai Yufeng, the producers Ma Chao, Wang Haiyi, Peng Runqiang, and the production director Ding Bocheng, together with the entire team of the film crew.
The story tells that Lu Feiyu, a 15-year-old teenager living in a small town in southern China, because of abnormal pituitary gland function, makes him look different from a normal child, and his father Lu Jian'an left him when he was 10 years old to live with his mother Jiang Guiqin, who has been selling pork at a vegetable market for many years. When Lu Jian'an left, he gave Lu Feiyu a hundred yuan of counterfeit money, which was meant to make Lu Feiyu forget his irresponsible father, but Lu Feiyu regarded it as a treasure. Mother Jiang Guiqin took good care of her son and poured almost all her love into him. Later, with his mother's sudden illness and his father, who was hit by a car and disabled after the family rupture, Lu Feiyu became a bond between the two families, and eventually Lu Feiyu took his helpless father and his half-sister back to him and his mother.
Director Liu Fengming, formerly known as Liu Cunming, has more than 20 years of screenwriting experience, and has screenwritten the film and TV drama versions of "Quit Smoking and Not Quit Drinking", as well as the TV drama version of "Ancient and Modern Wars qin figurines" adapted from his novel "Qin Figurines" and many other film and TELEVISION drama works with Li Bihua as the chief planner. His plays have been highly recognized by film masters such as Zhang Yimou, Wu Tianming, and Guan Jinpeng, including Li Bihua. At the end of 1999, Liu Fengming wrote and directed the love movie "Fierce Love" because of saving the scene, and since then he has embarked on the road of self-editing and self-directing. After that, he successively directed and wrote film works such as "It Has Always Been a Sunny Day", "The Stick of Light", and "Youth Dance Years". Among them, the film "Always Sunny Day", starring child stars Hu Xianxu and Chen Yaxi, who were only 9 years old at the time, is a work of the same type as "Children on the Clouds", which is a film that pays attention to the growth of children and teenagers, and the film was well received at the 22nd Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival and the 3rd Beijing International Film Festival.
"Children on the Clouds" is a casual work of director Liu Fengming, in early 2019, under the recommendation of production director Ding Bocheng, he met a 12-year-old young actor Feng Jian and his father who were filming "The Words of the Great Song Palace" in Hengdian at the time, and the stubbornness and humor of the young actor Feng Jian attracted Liu Fengming's attention and decided to tailor a movie for him. At that time, Feng Jian had already participated in many works, such as the CCTV drama "Years and Years of Persimmon Red", "Dazzling You" and other film and television dramas have had excellent performances, and his performance has also been highly praised by Li Shaohong, director of "Great Song Palace Words". In the movie "Children on the Clouds", Feng Jian's performance did not disappoint, he did not have much of the line in the movie, many times rely on the psychological rhythm to perform the pituitary abnormality, semi-autistic teenager Lu Feiyu's role vividly interpreted, won a good review.
In the movie, Lu Feiyu's parents, Jiang Guiqin and Lu Jian'an's actors Wang Zizi and Sun Wei are excellent young actors. Wang Zizi graduated from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and later became a graduate student at the Beijing Film Academy, and after graduation, he participated in many outstanding film and television drama works, such as "The Red Lady", "The Long Day", "The Old Beast", etc., and the last two films won "milestone" awards at the Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Horse Film Festival.
As an actor with strength and experience, Wang Zizi can be said to have contributed to the post-film level and immersive wonderful performance in the movie, in which she quarreled with her husband Lu Jian'an in order to give her son who was manic because her father did not want to recognize it, and she had to cry for dozens of minutes after each shooting to ease her emotions and continue to shoot the next one. Until the entire film was made, I returned to Beijing for a long time without getting out of the characters and emotions of the film.
Sun Wei, the actor of Lu Feiyu's father Lu Jian'an, has portrayed many excellent film and television drama roles in the film for more than ten years, among which he won the honor of best actor in Chinese at the St. Petersburg International Film Festival for his film "Entering the Ninth". It was also when he told this news to his good friend Director Liu Fengming that he was pulled into the "Children on the Clouds" crew. At that time, Sun Wei was filming "Tianlong Babu" in Yunnan, when his hair was disheveled, his beard was pulled, and he still appeared in front of the director in a state of severe cold, the director's eyes lit up, which was extremely consistent with the image of the gambling-addicted, decadent, and loveless father in the play, in the next creative shooting, Sun Wei relied on his own feelings about the characters and psychological shaping ability, almost using "zero performance" to accurately complete the control of the role.
Speaking of other roles in the play, Zhou Changfeng, the actor of the idiot, and sun Hemo, a four-year-old young actor, have wonderful performances. Actor Zhou Changfeng has rich experience in stage performances, is also an excellent musician, and has participated in many variety shows of CCTV and Beijing Television, and is loved by the audience. This time to play the role of a fool in the movie, although it is a symbolic character, but it is quite a test of acting skills, he has to grasp the size of the performance in both crazy and normal states, both tragic and comedic, but also exuding profundity. Zhou Changfeng's performance is impressive.
Although the four-and-a-half-year-old actor Sun Hemu was electrocuted for the first time, this time playing the role of Lu Feiyu's half-sister Shanshan in the movie, her cuteness, aura and remarkable expressiveness were unanimously recognized by the director and the film's creator. Because of her outstanding performance, she was favored by Taiwanese photographer Li Pingbin, and then participated in films starring Tu Songyan and Dai Lele, and her future can be expected.
The movie "Children on the Clouds" is a sincere work, there is no deliberate sensationalism in the whole article, and all the emotions are inadvertently natural. The story unfolds with a counterfeit coin left by the father to the son, who with his persistence and stubbornness, uses his own perspective and behavior to make the false guardian into reality, patch up the broken seams into perfection, and cover the indifference out of the temperature. "Children on the Clouds" is similar to the Lebanese film "What a Home", which is a movie suitable for the whole family.
According to director Liu Fengming, the inspiration for the film comes from Gibran's poem "To the Children We Will Eventually Stay Away", parents are bows, children are arrows, as long as you give your children a piece of the sky, children will eventually fly against the wind to the bullseye that belongs to their ideals. This is a small and medium-budget film that takes only 33 days to complete the whole cycle from generating the inspiration for the story to completing the script creation, preparation, and shooting. Although the cost is small, but the sincerity is enough, I hope that on May 27, the majority of audience friends and parents friends can bring their children into the theater to personally feel and evaluate. I believe that after everyone has seen it, they will leave behind different feelings and feelings about their families and lives.
"Although life is unfair to each of us, we still believe that there are stars in the dark, and the headwinds must also brighten the night", the film conveys to the audience a kind of upward belief - no matter how difficult the growth process is, we must become optimistic and brave.
At present, the movie "Children on the Clouds" has been shortlisted for the 11th Macao International Film Festival in 2019, and will successively participate in and appear in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, Shanghai, Beijing and other well-known and influential film festivals at home and abroad.