Towards the future Jia Zhangke introduced the highlights of the Fifth Pingyao International Film Festival

Jia Zhangke introduced the highlights of the 5th Pingyao International Film Festival

1905 Film Network News On October 10, Jia Zhangke, the founder of the Pingyao International Film Festival, introduced the highlights of this film festival to the media at the Pingyao Film Palace on the eve of the opening of the Fifth Film Festival. With the theme of "Gathering", this year's film exhibition hopes that everyone will gather in Pingyao to share each other's thoughts on film and share film experience and imagination from different regions. Jia Zhangke said that the film exhibition will "start to the future", explore the possibilities of future films, and support young filmmakers; it will also start from "Shanxi again", connect Shanxi universities, dialogue with Shanxi filmmakers, serve Shanxi audiences, and pay tribute to the people of Shanxi.

The 5th Pingyao International Film Festival will bring together rich Shanxi elements. Jia Zhangke stressed that "every Shanxi person is the master of the film exhibition", and this year's film exhibition will continue to "take root" in Shanxi, continue to deepen cooperation with Shanxi universities and filmmakers, and continuously strengthen the connection with Shanxi audiences. During the National Day, Shanxi Province suffered a historically rare flood disaster, Jia Zhangke especially revealed that the special event of the opening of the film exhibition will set up a special link to pay tribute to the people of Shanxi and "let the world see Shanxi".

In terms of organizational structure, Shanxi Film Academy of Communication and Communication has become the joint organizer of this film exhibition, promoting the flow of academic resources with the film exhibition. At the academic planning level, the academic section of the film exhibition will invite Shanxi filmmakers such as Ning Hao, Han Jie, Yuan Yuan, and directors who studied in Shanxi such as Bi Gan and Li Ruijun to have a dialogue and share film experience with the theme of "living, learning and creating in Shanxi".

Jia Zhangke has repeatedly welcomed Shanxi fathers and fellow villagers to participate in the film exhibition, because the film exhibition is "prepared for our citizens, first of all for our Shanxi citizens." This year's film festival "Fan Carnival" will screen two popular movies of "Chosin Lake" and "My Father and Me" to share a movie feast with the general public.

In addition to "starting from Shanxi again", the Fifth Pingyao International Film Festival will also "start to the future", and the overall idea of curating is "what will the future of films look like", and explore the future of film from multiple angles. At the academic planning level, contemporary artist Mr. Xu Bing and his team work "Artificial Intelligence Unlimited Film" will be exhibited in Pingyao for the first time in the world. In addition, the Pingyao International Film Festival added the "Pingyao Venture Capital Drama Program" to the industry sector for the first time this year, selecting Chinese drama drama projects with the potential of satellite TV or online streaming media platforms, and taking the lead in paying attention to the creative integration between the two fields of film and drama, which is the first time in the Chinese mainland film festival exhibition. In addition, directors Li Shaohong, Jiang Wei, producer Huang Xing and other guests will attend the "From Movies to Super Episodes" academic event to discuss the topic of episodes.

In addition, this year's film festival highlights the attention paid to young filmmakers. The theme of the opening event is "New Youth, New Film, New Era", and the education section "Pingyao Corner" has been upgraded, in addition to inviting students from 6 domestic film and television colleges and universities in Beijing Film Academy, Shanghai University Shanghai Film Academy, Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy, Shanxi Media College Shanxi Film Academy, Communication University of China, Central Academy of Drama to enter the "Invitation Group", but also set up a new "Open Group" to recruit short films from all over the country to provide a platform for young filmmakers to display and communicate.

At the same time, the Pingyao Film Festival also invited a number of senior filmmakers from the industry to the scene and launched academic activities such as "Xu Ke on Hitchcock" and "Xie Fei and His Classmates". In addition, this year's film exhibition specially planned the "How to Tell the Story of the Rule of Law" forum jointly sponsored by the Film and Television Center of the Supreme People's Court, the Film and Television Center of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and other relevant departments, to build a bridge between these departments and film creators, and jointly discuss how to launch films and television works with rule of law themes with solid plays, full image, high degree of completion and strong expression; plan academic activities such as "Habitat and Video", and invite guests from different fields such as architecture, literature, art, and film. Discuss the relationship between human settlements and images together, and pay attention to the more complex cultural and ecological issues behind them.