A Chinese film that tells the story of "the hero around each of us" was recently screened at the special market screening of the "Focus on China" event of the 76th Venice Film Festival. In the historic White Cinema Palace on the historic Venice Lido Island, the film's creative team shared their original intention of creating the film with the audience, and watched the film called "My Hero" with everyone, and finally "My Hero" ("Life Punch") won the two weighty awards of "Focus Film" and "Focus Actress" awarded by the Venice Organizing Committee. Officials also highly praised: "Chinese heroic spirit, so perfect!"" Fan Haolun's "My Hero" defines what a hero is from the perspective of a small person, promotes the Chinese heroic spirit and cooperation in film between Italy, China and Europe, as well as with other countries in the world, and works very hard to let other countries understand and understand China, and promote film cultural exchanges between countries."
While the 76th Venice Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, from August 28 to September 7, was underway, official sources confirmed that "My Hero", the only Chinese-language film shortlisted for this year's Venice Film Festival to "Focus on China", "Life Punch", won the "Focus Actress" award, and "My Hero" Venice Film Festival Focus Film Award.
"My Hero" is highly recognized, and it is also the encouragement and recognition of film creativity by the 76th Venice Organizing Committee, especially the cooperation and exchange of films between countries. Focusing on the first time that the China Awards fell on Chinese filmmaker Fan Haolun, it is intended to commend his contribution to promoting the cultural exchange of Chinese and foreign films. "Fan Haolun's "My Hero" has been actively committed to promoting the chinese heroic spirit and cooperation between Italy, China and Europe, as well as with other countries in the world, and has worked very hard to let other countries understand and understand China, and promote film cultural exchanges between countries."
"This is a film based on a true story, and I hope that through the film, I can express to the audience an ordinary and ordinary but still great heroic complex, that is, to inspire each of us to bravely face the challenges of life," Fan Haolun, the film's screenwriter and director, said in an interview with the media after winning the award. "My Hero" ("Life Punch") tells the story of an ordinary family, in order to save his sick daughter, the father used amazing perseverance to lose more than 60 pounds in just 3 months to meet the health standards of transplanted organs, and donated his kidneys to his daughter; After recovering from her health as a boxer, she re-entered hard training and eventually woke up her father, who was unconscious after surgery, with a victorious trophy. "The characters in the film are a big challenge to me, but the spirit and will of the protagonists in the story also inspire me, allowing me to overcome the difficulties of shooting to complete the creation," said the film's heroine Jing Ke. ”
Following the recently concluded 7th Vancouver Chinese Film Festival, the Chinese film "My Hero", which won five awards, "Most Popular Actress Jing Ke", "Best Actor Lian Jin", "Best Supporting Actress Bai Luna", "Best Sound Effects Award" and "Best Action Design", it was once again shortlisted for the "Focus on China" Chinese film at this Venice Film Festival, both in terms of storyline and film influence , all enough to prove its uniqueness, it is not an exaggeration to call it the most influential Chinese classic film of 2019. Now "My Hero" has won two awards from the organizing committee, which also highlights the influence of his films.
The "Focus on China" event is a series of Chinese-themed activities jointly organized by the Italian General Directorate of Culture and Film, the Italian National Film Audiovisual and Multimedia Industry Association, the Venice Film Festival Organizing Committee and Xinhua Net, and has been held for four consecutive years since it was first held in 2016. The event aims to promote cultural exchanges between China and Italy along the Belt and Road, and to build a platform for cooperation and communication between China and Italy and even between China and Europe around film and television culture and related themes. In order to make the Chinese-style hero story more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially the actress Jing Ke, who attended the red carpet ceremony in the "plate inch" style, she did not hesitate to cut off her hair in order to play the role in the play, and dyed her hair color golden, which showed her determination and courage to dedicate herself to art, which once again made her the focus of international attention.