1905 Film Network News Recently, the 30 shortlisted film plans of the 2018 FIRST Venture Capital Conference were finally settled, and they were decided from 742 application proposals. In the middle of the long script review meeting, it is the result of repeated deliberations on the uniqueness of the film plan, vitality, style type, degree of completion, production feasibility, directing ability, market possibility, and so on. It can be said that the comprehensive performance of the film plan, the vigorous vitality, and the diversity are all worth looking forward to. Of the 30 film projects shortlisted for the proposal stage, 80% were debuts and 70% had complete scripts.
The 30 film projects will be presented to the FIRST proposal review in mid-June, and a venture capital workshop will conduct a one-on-one diagnosis of film program representatives. At present, the first film festival industry guest registration channel is still open, waiting for more industry guests to talk with young film creators in July, establish a close and appropriate cooperative relationship, and jointly build the industrial production environment and market access path of the youth film system.
Convergent texts bring aesthetic fatigue, and vitality is also vigorously released
The most frequent high-frequency words at the 2018 FIRST script review meeting are, "too much like which movie" and "too much like the style of a director." Every year, in a large number of samples of venture capital film projects, some projects with particularly obvious convergence and imitation can be found, and the judges also ridiculed many like the "heart labyrinth imitation competition". Perhaps this is a phenomenon derived when the artistic evaluation standards and industry trust of a film festival platform are relatively established, and when some films receive explosive attention. Attributed to the pursuit of profit is a natural desire, attributed to the lack of creativity and authorship, but it is a pain point. Fortunately, after combing through the venture capital platform, we found such vitality, waiting to be presented on the screen.
Xin Chengjiang's "Mars Barbecue", a text with a sense of science fiction, but breaks the situation of science fiction genre films, more like a film with fantasy colors, coupled with a natural sense of humor and absurdity with regional characteristics, the text is quite interesting. I have seen a large number of crime suspense, youth growth, the swarming of realistic themes, and the rare sci-fi sense of film text, which is surprising. Another science fiction theme, Li Tang's "Lost Contact in Time and Space" cleverly uses the structure of science fiction elements to explore the Relationship between Chinese father and son; "Dawn No More" is the only film plan that involves ethnic minority themes, and the living conditions of the Evenk people in Daxinganling are tinged with magic realism.
"Outing" and "The Long Rest" are texts with same-sex elements, but the author does not wrap up the perspective of emotional curiosity, but uses this relationship to construct the journey of juvenile growth, self-identity and entanglement of various social emotional relationships. "Top a Chair", a different kind of road movie, with the spiritual core of "the old man and the sea" in the absurd. Another film project with the temperament of a road movie, "Innocence and Truth", the process of an old man and four left-behind children crossing the urban and rural areas has also unveiled the scars of the separation of urban and rural areas; the same children's film, "Popcorn", is a Chinese-style children's "growing fairy tale".
Wang Xiaofeng's "Old Zheng Flew to heaven" involves rare sports themes, using a fantasy color to transcend the theme and create a character with great vitality. This year, FIRST Creative invested in the film selection plan, there are many texts with such rich genre elements, Liu Shuyu's "Night Watch" constructs a mysterious, complex, changeable and poetic film world on the basis of realistic themes and spaces, and adds suspense elements to the story.
The awareness of women's themes has broken through, and the style of characters and images is charming
It can be said that compared with last year, in the 30 proposed film plans of this year's FIRST Venture Capital Conference, the themes, genres and styles are more abundant and diverse, and they are no longer a strong and compelling situation of the crime genre. However, the text of women's perspective and theme is surprising, Gao Zi's "Summer Forest" captures the most sensitive and delicate parts of the female world, breaks away from the decadent feminist thinking, and achieves a real breakthrough in the creator's consciousness.
The same feminist film project "Elite Game" has a rare commercial genre film structure, focusing on how the international student group faces the challenges of foreign cultures and social systems, and the theme itself is rare in the current creative vision, coupled with the integration of the creator's own biographical color, it is more vivid, and the female image created subverts the tradition.
Yan Junjie's "Mei Lan" weaves and reconstructs reality, dreams and the second text, completing a life experience of women's growth, and the author reflects the integration of multiple image techniques such as animation, video, record, and plot in the text, close to the imagery of the text, and quite experimental. Tang Yuqiang's "YingZi", about the pursuit of love and sex by "left-behind women", is accompanied by the tearing of traditional moral concepts and rural conservative concepts.
When the curtain of social reality falls, how does individual life accommodate circulation
All along, whether it is a youth film that has appeared in the public eye or has embarked on major film festivals in the world, most of them have realist colors, with reflection and pain on social reality, or heavy colors, or hidden anxiety. There are also many attempts in this year's FIRST Venture Capital Film Program to link reality and author consciousness with images, but throughout the judging process, it is obvious that the fullness and vividness of the character modeling of the story can be felt? Is the author's portrayal of human nature mined deeply? When the curtain falls on the times and social reality, the situation of individuals cares? These considerations always precede whether the text has a deep core that cares about reality.
"The Cannon Fight of Marseille" in the context of urban migration, population mobility, modern and traditional interlacing, the core care for people; "Can" in many texts of similar mining environment, mostly concerned about the situation of the mining area; Yin Hang's "North Country Boys" based on personal experience of the character modeling vividly, coupled with the integration of comedy elements, exudes a charming temperament; Bai Huibo's "Huhe", a type of youth growth with criminal elements, the projection of social reality on the characters, fierce and strong.
Youth growth films like "Huhe" and "Northland Boys", in the shortlist of the FIRST Film Festival, still occupy a large proportion, adapted from the true story of "To see the sea" to give people the temperament of dark youth films, on the basis of realistic texture, exude poetry, express profoundly, and have strong emotions;
The poetic fantasy "City Roaming" by two high school students; the growth epic "Goodbye, Boy"; the "King's Blood" has the unbearable pain and pressure of life, and there is also the beauty of the bloom; the Malaysian director Ye Ruiliang, who has a strong producer and producer, "A Moment", writes about the relationship between youth and family, the ups and downs around him; the father-son relationship in "Ride" is stripped away in the daily flow.
The commercial film market can be expected, and the artistic expression style is strong
Among the 30 film projects shortlisted this time, most of the texts with obvious commercial temperament are crime types, strong narratives, and obviously have relatively predictable market performance.
Kang Bo's "Reindeer" excavates the reality texture behind the layout of deception and lies through a human trafficking crime case, the redemption and return of human dignity, and the completion of the script is high; Guo Yapeng's "Crime Night Run", in which sin and hidden evil are linked layer by layer, there is the author's concern for human nature; "The Crime of the Heart", a murder story in which no one dies unfolds layer by layer.
Objectively speaking, the requirements for genre writing are relatively high, especially for the initial creative stage of young directors, compared with the creation of genre films, they are more inclined to express a stronger style of personal expression and the pursuit of unique image styles. Zhang Yuedong's "Flying Pigeons" is both literary and philosophical, shaping the moving poetry of the bottom life; The shaping of the magical reality of Li Yiwen's "Perfect Ending" has surprises, a sense of absurdity, and a sense of humanity and desert in the Internet age, which runs through the whole process; Chen Yanqi's "Day Trip" radiates from a family, showing the cross-section of the current social anxiety, perhaps with the author's pursuit of exquisite and cold visual design, the image will present a strong sense of art.
The 12th FIRST Venture Capital Conference will be held between July 24 and 27, 2018, and the annual shortlist will be awaited in mid-June. At present, the first film festival industry guest registration is in progress, will last until June 25, you can log on to the FIRST Youth Film Festival official website to understand specifically, and complete the online registration, together with the venture capital judges Yao Chen, Liu Zhenyun, Ye Rufen, Zhang Yang to witness how these film texts create different styles of images.