The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival short video unit tutor review
On May 19, 1905, the short video unit of the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival announced the full lineup of tutors and judges. They are: director Ding Sheng, screenwriter Ami, animation director Cheng Teng, actor Qi Xi and Migu Video editor-in-chief Liu Qian.
This year's Shanghai International Film Festival short video unit received a total of nearly 1500 entries, after the organizing committee organized the industry experts first selection, two selection, and 5 mentors of the selection, the final selection of 20 excellent works will be selected during this film festival for on-site promotion, the creators of these 20 works will be invited to participate in the short video unit live activities, but also have the opportunity to participate in the Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Jubilee Award Ceremony and Red Carpet Ceremony.
In addition to a series of activities at the main venue of the film festival, the short video unit will also open several exploration classes at the Vancouver Film Academy in Shanghai, inviting tutors and judges to come to the scene to share creative experience and experience for emerging young image creators, and help the film industry to explore and cultivate innovative talents.
Explore the infinite possibilities and deepen the hope of the industry. The short video unit will continue to uphold the principles and goals of delivering fresh blood to the development of the film industry and improving the training system for newcomers, providing a platform for outstanding young image creative talents to display and communicate and learning to climb resources, and encouraging young image creators to fall in love with movies and create dreams for the future.
Let's enjoy the personal style of this year's short video unit tutor review.
Ding Sheng Directed
He is a national first-class director and a representative figure of Chinese police action films, and currently teaches in the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy. He has served as a screenwriter, director and editor, and his main film works are: "Tough Guy", "Big Soldier", "Police Story 2013", "Rescue Mr. Wu", "Railway Flying Tiger", "SWAT Team". Among them, "Rescue Mr. Wu" won the 16th China Film Huabiao Award for Excellent Film and the Best Editing Award at the 31st Golden Rooster Award for Chinese Film.
Ami Screenwriter
He has published a collection of novels, "Beijing Night Wei Yang". The main screenwriting works are "Cowherd Weaver Girl" (shortlisted for the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Directors Bi-Weekly Unit), "Gravity", "Hawthorn Tree Love", "Breakup Contract", "Going to the Sea", "Long Day". Among them, "Long Day" won many awards such as the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2019 Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Films, the 11th Best Screenwriter Award of the Youth Film Handbook and so on.
Cheng Teng Animation director
In 2009, while studying at the School of Animation of the Communication University of China, he produced his first animated short film "Red Scarf Man", and a year later directed the graduation short film "Happy Anniversary", which won the special prize of the 2012 Tokyo Animation Awards. In 2012, he was admitted to the University of Southern California Film School, and in 2014, he directed the animated short film "Higher Sky". After graduating from USC, he joined DreamWorks Animation as a co-director. In 2017, he returned to China and directed the animated film "Jiang Ziya", which was released in 2020 and received more than 1.6 billion yuan at the box office. In 2021, join Sunac Culture Group.
Qi Xi Actor
Graduated from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama. The film's representative works include "The Mystery of the Floating City", "All Things Grow", "A Sentence top 10,000 sentences", "The Earth is Long", "Going to the Sea", "Calm", "Whistleblower" and so on. In 2012, she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer, the Best New Actor Award at the Asian Film Awards, and the Chinese Film Media Award for her starring role in "The Mystery of the Floating City"; in 2018, she won the Best Performance Award at the LYCHEE International Film Festival in Spain for her starring role in "The Sea"; in 2019, she won the Supporting Actress of the Year award in the Youth Film Manual for the role of Shen Jasmine in "Long Time"; and in 2020, she won the 15th Chinese Youth Film Week Annual Emerging Actress for her performance in "Calm".
Liu Qian, Editor-in-Chief of Migu Video
Media person, planner, director. In the past ten years at CCTV, he has become a TV media person from reporter, editor-in-chief to director, and has directed many large-scale media activities such as "Economic Person of the Year", "Spring Warm 2007", "Cover Story" and so on. In 2011, he entered the Internet exploration and practice, successively worked for Youku and PPTV, and planned and directed the Youku Cattle People Conference and Role Model Ceremony of the first generation of UGC. In 2019, he joined Migu Video, fully responsible for content operations, promoted the development of the ultra-high-definition video industry with 5G, and explored the integration of the three networks with content.
Unit overview
Founded in 2019, the short video unit of Shanghai International Film Festival is an innovative measure to improve the new talent cultivation system, and together with Jinjue Short Film, Venture Capital Training Camp, Film Project Venture Capital, Asian Newcomer Award, and Golden Jubilee Award, it is a step-by-step newcomer incubation system. This unit aims to establish a long-term mechanism of "discovering new people and excavating new works" through collection, promotion, tracking, training and other forms of short video works within 4 minutes (including 4 minutes) as the carrier, encouraging young video creative talents to bravely explore and bold creation, and laying the first step for them to climb to long films. At the same time, we will make use of the advantages of the platform, give play to the platform effect, integrate social resources, promote talent reserves, and cultivate and transport cutting-edge talents for the future development of the film industry.