Young directors are more focused on self-expression

Author: Li Li

Young directors are a new force in Chinese cinema and will become the mainstay of Chinese cinema. Their creative ideas and creative passion are the passionate blood of the future Chinese film market; the problems they encounter are exactly the problems that the Chinese film market urgently needs to solve. The first Hainan Island International Film Festival took this as a starting point and held a "Young Directors Forum", where many young directors such as Yang Yiheng, Bai Xue, Zhou Ziyang, Zhao Ye, Ren Pengyuan, Sukino Xifei, Yang Zi, Xu Lei, Yang Jin and many other young directors gathered together to discuss their creative concepts and creative experiences, and shared their problems in creation, as well as the future creative direction.

"Over Spring" is Bai Xue's first feature film, which was produced in 2018 as the opening film of the Exploration Section of the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival and won the honorary Best Film of fei Mu at the 2nd Pingyao International Film Festival. "I'm not a director with a great desire for artistic expression, I want to be able to do cross-genre, to start making films, I want to find a small story, focus on the individual, the film should focus on people." 」 Bai Xue said that the movie should be made well, be "cool", be "energetic", "this is my instinct." ”

In 2018, Xu Lei wrote and directed his first feature film, Children in Heaven, which won the Best Debut Award at the 42nd Montreal International Film Festival. In his eyes, making a movie is also a simple and neat thing, "In fact, I just saw a three-hundred-word report at the time, thought this subject was very interesting, and then decided to shoot." Zhou Ziyang also mentioned his own experience when filming "Old Beast", "I am very happy to meet Tu Men teachers, before the shooting we did a lot of pre-communication work, often drink together, he often told me that through this movie to make a good buddy, although he is 60 years old, I am 83 years old, it is a forgetful year. ”

The works of young Malaysian director Yang Yiheng are mostly known for their beautiful poetry. In 2017, he won the Best Director Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his second feature film, Archillo. Speaking about his personal style, Yang Yiheng mentioned the Malaysian countryside in his memory, "A lot of things are rooted in the depths of your memory, I like to discover and tell the different people around me, and how they are defined by the surrounding environment. ”

Speaking of their initial filming experience, several young directors have said that they will not be swayed by awards and online reviews. Zhou Ziyang laughed and said that his Douban network name is "Kill Film Critics": "What I care about is whether what I want to express is completely expressed, and I don't care how much the rating is." Immediately after, Yang Yiheng also said: "My father is a film critic, and I dare not say anything about them, but I think the creators still need to have their own persistence." ”

On April 15, 2018, Ren Pengyuan's "Behind the Scenes Player", as the opening film of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival, met the audience for the first time, the film was supervised and starred by Xu Zheng, and the cumulative box office exceeded 350 million, breaking through the ceiling of the domestic original suspense film box office. "At that time, our positioning was very clear, and we wanted to take it to the market to sell money." Ren Pengyuan revealed that the initial editing of "Behind the Scenes" has 190 minutes, "this time is about to catch up with Ceylon, which is definitely not good for the market." ”

Yang Zi, the director of "Shouting Mountain", added: "I am a new director in the same door as Ren Pengyuan, but I prefer personal expression, and it is estimated that almost all the money he earned was lost by me." However, with its unique artistic expression and perspective on life, the film has also been shortlisted for more than a dozen international film festivals at home and abroad, such as the Golden Horse Award, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Montreal International Film Festival, and the Dubai International Film Festival, and was selected as the closing film of the Busan International Film Festival in 2015.

Yang Jin was nominated for the Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Children's Film for her self-written and directed third feature film, "Some People Praise Intelligence, Others Don't.". In November 2017, Yang Jin's "Film Police Baoyin" was completed, and on November 29, 2018, the film was recommended as one of the nine key domestic films celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. Yang Jin revealed that "Film Police Baoyin" is a customized british model movie, "It is said that this story originally had five scripts, there were about the love between a policeman and two women, and there was a fierce gunfight, but he was a film policeman, no gun... In the end, our story won because it focused on the real life of a film policeman. ”

Sugino, a young female director from Japan, revealed that the cost gap in the Japanese film market is still very large, "In fact, this has always been a problem for me, some movies have a very low cost, such as my previous "Manga Meat and Me", and now I also hope to be able to take over some high-cost movies with big stars, which should also be a challenge. Sugino's latest self-written and self-directed film "Snow Girl" was nominated for the best film in the main competition section of the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival. (Li Li)