The Paper's reporter Chen Chen
With the various honors of the main competition unit of the Golden Jubilee, the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival is also coming to an end. On the last weekend, fans seized the time and still actively traveled between the various theaters in the city to enjoy the city's annual light and shadow carnival.
China's only international A-category film festival with a large volume and diverse tentacles continues to maintain its hard-won indomitable progress this year. Although there are still some regrets due to the epidemic and other reasons, it is still a wonderful gathering in this season when most film festivals around the world have not yet been able to resume normal operations.
The Brightness of the Film Festival: A Tribute to a Great Era with Works
Red is the main color of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival. From the poster of the train that symbolizes the light and shadow crossing the film track topped with a lot of praise, the spirit that the film can carry and transmit has run through the entire film festival this year.
Poster for this year's film festival
Like a golden key, it opens the door of time. The film list composed of red classics is the film's tribute and confession to the centenary of the founding of the party. Being able to happily see good movies from all over the world and share the spiritual and cultural feast of the whole people also echoes the imagination and yearning of the revolutionary ancestors for a new and prosperous world a hundred years ago.
In addition to looking back and commemorating, this year's Shanghai Film Festival also recorded the declaration of Chinese films to carry forward the past and open up the future.
The Shanghai Film Festival, which has always been a star-studded festival, is still starlike this year, but the difference is that the spotlight is more focused on the works here, and the filmmakers from all over the world who gather for the film are here to praise the times with works created with heart.
"1921" crew
As the opening film, the blockbuster film "1921", which pays tribute to the centenary of the founding of the Party, steadily lays the foundation for this year's film festival. "Revolutionary", "Wangdao", "Chosin Lake", "Sniper", "Rock Solid", "Ayutthaya Tower"... One after another, the highly anticipated main theme of the new era was unveiled at the Shanghai Film Festival, and together they presented a deep confession of affection for the film and the country.
Golden Jubilee Forum
This year's Golden Jubilee Forum section also runs through the discussion about the era of honoring the era with movies. At the opening forum, industry leaders from China Film, Shanghai Film, Guangguang, Tencent, Wanda and other industry leaders focused on the topic of how to use movies to convey mainstream values; the marketization exploration forum of the main theme film focused on the main creators of films including "1921", "Revolutionary", "Infinite Depth" and other films, starting from creation and production, specifically analyzing how to make this important type of film closer to contemporary audiences; even if it is a fantasy science fiction film forum, Experts and creators are also concerned that the current development of comprehensive national strength and cutting-edge technology can bring new space and new heights to Chinese films.
Walking into the Shanghai Exhibition Center, the home of the film market, the audience can see the huge poster of the movie "1921" at a glance, and the "Red Light and Shadow • Tribute to a Hundred Years" film poster exhibition held during this period, 13 key films that will meet the audience are displayed in the form of poster exhibitions, attracting guests participating in various film festival activities to stop.
The temperature of the film festival: This is the film festival that is most intimate with the audience
Every year at the Shanghai International Film Festival, there are always many warm moments.
Because the epidemic has adopted a comprehensive online ticketing method, the staff of the theater has also waited in the cinema early to grab tickets for the old audience who are accustomed to offline ticket purchase and will not use smart phones. Lao Fang, a fan who has suffered two consecutive strokes, came to Daguang on the day of ticketing according to the custom and handed over this year's movie viewing schedule to the staff of Daguang with cash. As for his ticket-snatching requirements, the only thing he emphasized was the Best Film Re-screening on June 20. At that point in time, there was no lottery, and there was no word-of-mouth spread after the premiere, which was equivalent to the operation of "opening the blind box", which was the trust of film fans for the quality of the Shanghai Film Festival.
Huang Jianxin, Chairman of this year's Jury
At the post-screening meeting of "Back to Back, Face to Face", the audience sang a birthday song for Huang Jianxin, the chairman of this year's jury, under the leadership of the host, and the fluorescence of countless mobile phone screens lit up a sea of stars. "It's the first time I've celebrated my birthday with everyone in a movie theater." In the full of flowers, Huang Jianxin's eyes were filled with tears, and he bowed deeply to the audience.
After the screening of "The Outsider" of Cao Yang Cinema, the end credits of the film were "Commemorating Haruma Miura", and a girl cried loudly in the audience, and the cry was the resonance of the audience's heartbreak for the actor who died young. On June 13, Yihai screened "RailwayMan", and there were sobs in the audience, and the sadness of the resonance of the whole audience may be the magic of the movie.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, heavy rain poured down. The Majestic Theater screened this year's hit film "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield", and at the end of the film, Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic melody rolled with the subtitles, and the huge Thousand People Hall almost did not leave the audience. The subtitler on the subtitle machine typed out "The road is slippery on a rainy day, everyone be careful on the way home." Dragon Boat Festival", the audience applauded again. This is a tacit understanding between the film festival fans and the subtitle group for many years.
In addition to the spontaneous participation of citizens, there are also urban beauticians dressed in sanitation workers' uniforms who participate in the open-air movies screened by Huimin, who can also enjoy the charm of light and shadow and the temperature of the city under the cool breeze of summer nights after a day's work.
Screening for the benefit of the people
It's the connection between the film and the audience, the year-round film festival, in one movie after another, making people love it more and more.
"Shanghai has the best audience, and it is because of these audiences that our team thinks every year about how to bring more good movies to the fans." Fu Wenxia, director of the Shanghai International Film and Television Festival Center, said.
Luo Fei, the French director of "Six: Chinese Survivors on the Titanic," a judge in this year's documentary section, who was a media person who visited film festivals around the world, talked about his impressions of the festival, saying that it was the film festival with the closest relationship with the audience.
The Dimension of the Film Festival: From the Yangtze River Delta to the "Belt and Road"
The Shanghai International Film Festival is still multidimensional and far-reaching. This year's film festival, as always, united forces from all sides to strongly enhance the level of industrial development, a series of new policies, new projects, new plans, new works have been introduced on the platform of the film festival, but also for the film industry to further recovery of confidence.
The works that once came out of venture capital returned to the Shanghai Film Festival in various forms, and a new group of young creators started from here with fiery passion and idealism; the creation challenge of the 48-hour short video on the shore of Dishui Lake improvised, and the light and shadow games were played until they were high; online and offline master classes from workshops to high-end dialogues, so that enthusiasts to practitioners were full of dry goods.
Venture Capital has supported a batch of new people
The Thai film master Apichatpong, who was invited last year and did not agree to the online lecture, was finally impressed by the sincerity and professionalism of the film festival this year. In a cloud conversation with Jia Zhangke, he said, "In venture capital, development plans, and new film screenings, you will see a completely different film imagination and a new film world. It's inspiring for those of us who have been working in film for nearly three decades. Through such film festivals, we can see the world of young people, part of which we can understand, but there is one that we cannot observe. I think that's why movies go on and on. ”
Apichatpong talks to Jacques
This year's Shanghai International Film Festival has a wider radiation surface. As far as Shanghai is concerned, it goes out of the city and radiates five new cities, radiating from the central urban area to Jiading, Qingpu, Songjiang, Fengxian and Nanhui. An aunt who faithfully follows the Screening of Huimin, who makes an appointment with the Cultural Cloud every year, wears a red dress and a pearl necklace, chases light and shadow with a full sense of ceremony, runs from the city to Songjiang, and then to Fengxian, and "punches" the new screening venues one by one.
Jing'an, Pudong, and Songjiang have released their own new film policies, each with its own advantages and unprecedented strengths. In these policies, it can be seen that Shanghai's determination to vigorously develop the film industry has not been weakened by the ebb and flow of capital enthusiasm, Pudong has focused on giving full play to zhangjiang's high-tech advantages, songjiang layout for many years to build a "science and technology film capital" results gradually appear, Shanghai is in its own way to find a way for the iterative upgrading of Chinese films.
Out of Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta region also enjoyed the "film festival dividend" for the first time. For the first time, the Belt and Road Film Week held screenings outside Shanghai, covering five cities: Hangzhou, Ningbo, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hefei, bringing wonderful and diverse customs and customs along the "Belt and Road" to the Yangtze River Delta.
In the film market, the "Yangtze River Delta Theme Film Museum" is extremely popular, which is a permanent pavilion created by the Shanghai International Film Festival in response to the national strategy of higher quality development of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, and the achievements of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta in the film and television industry every year will be displayed here. The launch of the "Yangtze River Delta Film and Television Shooting Guide" (2021 edition) is full of practicality, and almost everyone involved in the war actively reads it.
The Yangtze River Delta Film and Television Shooting Guide (2021 edition) was launched
During the film festival, Shanghai Film and Television Production Service Agency promoted the "Shanghai Experience" of film and television production services to the whole country, and jointly built a standardized, standardized and international film and television production service system. The achievements and experience of Shanghai film and television production service agencies in launching the "Shanghai Service" brand are going to the whole country through the platform of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Belt and Road Film Week
In recent years, the "Belt and Road" film alliance has been expanding, and the "allies" have been unable to arrive, and they have also enthusiastically submitted their own national excellent films.
Director Wan Ma Tse-dan sincerely lamented at the "Belt and Road" film night, "Film festivals are not only a place full of multiculturalism and tolerance, but also an important platform for promoting cultural exchanges." ”
The resilience of the film festival: the achievements of epidemic prevention have created a benchmark in the industry
If you ask the staff of the film festival, probably everyone will sigh that it is not easy to run such a film festival.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still raging around the world, and the film and television industry is one of the industries most severely affected by the epidemic. Nevertheless, this year's Shanghai Film Festival has provided fans with a feast that lives up to expectations. A convincing achievement is that this year, a total of 4443 films from 113 countries and regions were registered, and the number of works increased by 750 compared with 2020 and 479 from 2019, the highest in the past. This achievement shows the attractiveness of this film festival, which is still holding a high standard, to filmmakers around the world.
If you are a loyal fan of the film festival, you will probably know that in the past, the festival was connected in Berlin and Cannes at a time node, so there are many ready-made "achievements" for the exploration and invitation of the film to be screened. After the epidemic has greatly affected global film festivals, the selection of films in the festival has actually lost a lot of references, "but in turn, this also tests the curatorial ability of the curatorial team, to explore and find more themes, and to plan new sections to supplement." ”
Jumping out of the circle of films and industries, such a large-scale film festival can face difficulties and eventually succeed in holding it, thanks to the results achieved in China's epidemic prevention and control, or in other words, its holding itself is also a kind of "achievement".
The speed of grabbing tickets on the whole line, measuring body temperature when entering the theater, showing the health code link and wearing a mask throughout the movie, as well as the spare mask and hand sanitizer placed at the entrance of the movie hall, have become special marks engraved in the minds of each film festival audience.
The Majestic Theater, which participated in the film festival
It is understood that all the theaters participating in the film festival this year have been required to be vaccinated by all staff two months ago, and all the staff involved in the film festival are vaccinated, which is also a part of the overall epidemic prevention plan written early.
Guests from all over the country to participate in the film festival are required to issue nucleic acid test reports, and the film festival organizing committee also intimately provides nucleic acid testing services for participating media and guests in different locations in the city.
Under the epidemic prevention requirement of 75% attendance, the number of rehearsals of the Shanghai Film Festival insists on being separated by 40 minutes, sacrificing the number of rehearsals, reducing the revenue of the theater, ensuring the ventilation between each show, and leaving time for the theater staff to do the killing work.
With the experience of 2020, the Shanghai Film Festival has long been firm in the confidence to resume all offline activities this year. "In the face of the same requirements of epidemic prevention and control, we are making two-handed preparations, if the friends of the international film festival still cannot come to Shanghai, we are also ready to connect, we have the on-site business of the cloud market, and such an online and offline dialogue as the master class." Fu Wenxia introduced.
China's world-renowned epidemic prevention achievements, which fall on the small matter of movies, can also achieve a small world that is praised.
The Berlin Film Festival in February, which finally held an online industry event in March, only to screen some of the shortlisted films online in June; the Cannes Film Festival was postponed from May to July; the Moscow Film Festival was held but not large, and there is no further news from other film festivals in the second half of the year. "After we pay attention to the different news of different exhibitions, we feel that our holding and the resumption of all our activities should still adhere to being able to communicate with the international industry and provide a broader platform for everyone." Although we certainly can't achieve face-to-face communication, we try our best to do what we can. Fu Wenxia said.
Recalling the first day of the opening of the festival, Chairman Huang Jianxin said at the meeting of the judges: "At the height of the epidemic last year, the Shanghai International Film Festival was the first film festival in the world to resume, and that move filled our hearts with respect, because it was a worthwhile and culturally valuable thing to do in the face of difficulties. ”
The jury of this year's film festival, the former head of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Muller, personally participated in this year's Shanghai Film Festival, and said that the holding of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival has made a very benchmarking demonstration for international film festivals around the world.
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