On October 30, the suspenseful reasoning micro-film "The Man Without a Shadow", produced by Youku and directed by young director Yan Yizhi, was launched on Youku. The film is the most "heavy taste" in the sixth season of youku's young director support program, bringing together murder, prostitutes, abuse, rotten worms, revenge, etc., and the degree of taste challenges the audience's psychological limits.
"The Man Without Shadows" tells the story of Tong Shu who desperately imitates Zhang Bairen in order to track down the suspect who killed his wife, until the moment of revenge, he finds that he is so similar to himself! From the moment his wife died, Ren became Tong, and from the moment Tong began to track down, he also became Ren, in the most real world, the story of encountering the confused self. Immersed in black tones, murder, prostitutes, abuse and rot fill the film, challenging the audience's psychology to the greatest extent.
Although the film was not filmed for a long time, this suspenseful mystery drama that gathers many heavy flavor elements still makes the crew creepy. The cinematographer of the film said: "After leaving, I felt that many people were missing a piece of their bodies, and they suspected that they had fallen into the movie. Director Yan Yizhi said that this "heavy taste" story has been brewing for ten years: "'The Man Without Shadows' is a rare opportunity to shoot what I have always expected to shoot. I've been thinking about this story for ten years. It is worth mentioning that Tang Feifei, who is well known for participating in the second season of "The Voice of China" and is known as the "mint goddess" in the heart of otaku, also has a very wonderful performance in the play. For the audience who often pay attention to Youku's production, the actor tong shu must be no stranger, he is Mo Zong, who loves his daughter in "Hip Hop Quartet"; is the white eyebrow dancing with "Qiha Shengong" in "Peerless Master"; or the cold killer in "Brushing The Car", and the film emperor actor Zhang Yi is no less popular, and in real life he is Youku production employee Cao Renwei. In "The Man Without a Shadow", he played the despair, cruelty and madness to the fullest, and his acting skills were comparable to those of professional actors.
In addition, the thrilling suspense film "Blind Diamond", directed by young director He Wenchao and starring film emperor Zhang Yi and film queen Liang Jing, has taken the lead in launching. With its superb shooting skills and compact story plot, "Blind Diamond" has repeatedly won the favor of major film festivals in the industry, and has been shortlisted for the "Best Short Film Award in Asia" at the Busan International Film Festival, and almost all the nominations for the main competition in the second China International Micro Film Festival, including 7 nominations for drama micro film, best film, best actor, best actress, best screenplay, best cinematography, and best editing, and finally the "Jury Award" and "Best Screenplay Award" were collected. The romantic soft science fiction film "Love Program" directed by Zhao Xiaoou and the one-shot film "Smoking Gun" directed by Rao Xiaozhi will also be launched on Youku on Thursday.
Since 2010, Youku has reached its fifth year since the launch of the "Young Directors Support Program". The first season of the "11 degrees of youth" series represented by "Old Boy" opened up the first year of micro-movies; the second season of "Happiness 59 Cm" first tasted the cross-border directing of stars, setting off a boom of "national micro-movies"; the third season of "Youth Gratitude Season" spoke for love, and the annual tear-jerking drama "Father" touched thousands of netizens; the fourth season of young directors successfully "counterattacked", triggering the collective focus of the industry; the fifth season continued to lead the way with dreams as horses on the road of "chasing dreams". In the past five years, Youku has produced the "Young Directors Support Program" to support 58 directors to shoot 20 online dramas and nearly 80 micro-films, with a total playback volume of 3 billion. The "Young Directors Support Plan" has also become the main position of blood transfusion in the traditional film and television industry, and a large number of "net generation" directors such as Xiao Yang, Wu Bai and Lu Zhengyu have continuously counterattacked the traditional film and television industry through years of tempering, and have become the leading figures of the "net life generation" young directors.
This year, the sixth season of the "Young Directors Support Program" has been fully upgraded to launch the "Youku Young Directors Film Fund", and in the next 3 years, Youku Productions will invest 150 million yuan to develop 10 film projects, and a large number of "online generation directors" will enter the film market across the board to create a new industry ecology. In the Busan International Film Festival, Youku Productions Hand in Hand Film Festival launched the "Youku Master Micro Film Mn9 Pilot Program", which is also the merger and upgrading of Youku's two ace brands "Master Micro Film" and "Young Director Support Plan", in the next 3 years, in addition to inviting four asian top master directors to direct micro films every year, four young directors will be selected, and the four master directors will be selected as judges to select the most potential works for big screen movies. The four masters are expected to personally participate in the production of the film as film producers, guide young directors to sail away, and export fresh blood to the current prosperous film market.