In 2021, "sports and education integration" has become the focus of education, and the society is full of expectations for excellent campus theme film and television works. The "China Youth Strong Sports Film and Television New Era Project" project - the campus football theme movie "Football Youth" is currently a highlight that has attracted wide attention in the field of youth sports film and television.
It is understood that "Football Youth" is adapted from real events, the film tells the story of a mountain primary school student and teachers to pursue the dream of football together through three ball games, in the children's three months of metamorphosis and growth, but also shows the difficult transformation of parents of mountain students in the concept of football from opposition to support. The last ball of the film is kicked vigorously, and the children are no longer playing a game, but kicking out the spirit of their future life.
This campus football-themed film, jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Gansu Provincial CPC Committee, the Propaganda Department of the LANZHOU Municipal CPC Committee, and the Lanzhou Football Association, and jointly produced by the Lanzhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, Lanzhou Haofa Film and Television, and Beijing Huayu Qianqiu Film and Television, is based on campus education, focuses on remote mountainous areas, and takes the development of campus football as the carrier to carry forward the concept of "integration of sports and education". "Football Youth" has won many honors in the process of film preparation, filming and release: the script of "Football Youth" was included in the "Collection of Excellent Works of Excellent Works for the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China" published by China Film Publishing House, and the "Football Youth" film became a sports film and television cooperation project of the Sports culture development center of the State General Administration of Sport, and was funded by the National Film Administration in 2020, and received special financial support for the development of the cultural industry in 2020 by the General Office of the Central Propaganda Department.
On April 9th, at the national screening ceremony of "Football and Youth" held at the China Soong Ching Ling Youth Science and Technology And Cultural Exchange Center, Hao Fenglin, first-class inspector of the Department of Physical Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, Zhang Haifeng, former director of the Publicity Department of the State General Administration of Sports and chairman of the China Bodybuilding Association, Cao Kang, first-level inspector of the Publicity Department of the State General Administration of Sports and vice chairman of the China Sports Journalists Association, Ji Weidong, deputy director of the Sports Culture Development Center of the State General Administration of Sports, and Sun Haoran, director of the Office of the Sports Culture Development Center of the State General Administration of Sports, Director of the Campus Football Expert Committee of the Ministry of Education, famous football coach Jin Zhiyang and a number of world champions attended. Dozens of world champions and Olympic champions recorded promotional slogans for the film, calling on the community to pay attention to remote mountainous areas, pay attention to campus sports, and support "Football Junior" to enter the campus.
Director Zhang Chuqiao was a former director of the special program group of the News Department of CCTV Sports Channel, and in 2015, he filmed the feature film "Youth Football Says • Spark Journey". Zhonglianchuan Primary School in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, which is about to be revoked and merged, is located on a high slope of loess soil that is perennially dry and rainy, and the children are guarding a potholed soil playground to play football, a ball down covered with mud, and it takes half an hour to pick up the football rolled into the ravine if they are not careful. Yet even under such difficult conditions, this group of children who are about to drop out of school are still full of love for football and eager to win. After this feature film was broadcast on CCTV, it caused a great sensation, and Zhang Chuqiao took the feature film to the podium of various conferences. Zhonglianchuan Primary School, which has received social attention, has finally undergone earth-shaking changes with the help of loving forces from all walks of life. The school built a teaching building, the children had a real green field, and the school football feature school was finally successful. This true story was brought to the screen, which is now "Football Boy". "I hope that every frame of the mountain sports education picture in 'Football And Youth' will be seen by the world." Zhang Chuqiao, director of the production, said, "This six-year campus public welfare film is a little contribution of our production team to the cause of education, and we will continue to participate in the public welfare cause of campus sports in the future." ”
Wang Xiaoping, then chairman of the Lanzhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, was touched by Zhang Chuqiao's dedication to children in mountainous areas, and agreed to Xie Peng's application for the filming of this film, which was then chairman of the Lanzhou Football Association, from revising the script more than a dozen times to shooting back and forth, paying a lot of painstaking efforts for this film. Wang Xiaoping said, "I just want to do something for us dolls on the high slopes of the loess, the essence of this movie is a group of children who are about to drop out of school, the pure eyes when playing football and the desire to win, I am also a fan, I also love to play football, I know too well what this means for our whole country's physical education." ”
Chief producer Han Jian said: "When I received this film, I felt that there might not be a box office like a commercial film, but we had to shoot it, and we had to make it well to overcome all difficulties. We will take this film to the international exhibition and let the world see the sportsmanship of Chinese dolls. We also plan to shoot more films on educational themes to contribute to the cause of school film for chinese teenagers. ”
"In the film 'Football Youth', the little football carries the joy and dreams of children in mountainous areas, and also embodies the epitome of the spirit of China's grassroots educators 'blue wisps of the road and the opening of the mountains and forests', which is an important highlight of this movie." Peng Yuan, director of the People's Sports Department of the People's Daily and director of the "China Youth Strong Sports Film and Television New Era Project", stressed, "This film is not only a story of youth football, but also a tribute to China's grassroots educators and a tribute to China's campus football cause." The lack of educational and sports resources is a reality for many remote mountain schools in China. However, China's grassroots educators have tried to use various resources to ensure that every student can receive an education of 'integration of sports and education' and help children in mountainous areas grow up physically and mentally, which is also a touching chapter in the history of the development of Chinese school football. ”
At present, the production team of the movie "Football Boy" has taken this film into the national football training base, and also into the auditoriums and classrooms of primary and secondary school campuses in many parts of the country. Hundreds of public welfare screening activities have gained thousands of sincere after-effects. Under the impetus of the national youth sports film and television creation public service platform "China Youth Strong Sports Film and Television New Era Project" jointly guided by many relevant departments of the central government and the state, "Football Youth" will also enter more campuses, enter the hearts of more children, and plant the seeds of courage to chase dreams.