"Beijing Screening" went out of Beijing for the first time, the film carnival launched the night show for the first time, and the "film +" activity drove the new industrial situation across borders... The 11th Beijing International Film Festival will officially kick off tonight. Over the years, the Beijing International Film Festival has not only been a carnival for film fans, but also a platform for dialogue and exchange between Chinese films and international films. This year's film festival takes the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China as the main theme, highlights the characteristics of the "Cloud on the North Film Festival", and adopts the form of online and offline linkage to create a wonderful feast of light and shadow for filmmakers and film fans.
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Enjoy Chinese and foreign masterpieces online and offline
For film fans, the screening unit of this year's Beijing Film Festival will screen nearly 300 Chinese and foreign films with 1,000 performances in 31 theaters in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, so that the audience can enjoy the feast of movies.
In this year's screening list, the shortlisted films of the "Temple of Heaven Award" and all the participating films of "Focusing on the Future" will be open to the public during the screening; the "Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" unit will screen 15 domestic films that record the glorious course of the CPC in the past century; the "Ice and Snow Winter Olympics" unit will screen domestic sports-themed films showing the charm of ice sports; the "Chairman of the Jury" unit will screen Gong Li's representative works from the film career; the "Restoration Classics" unit will screen "The Ace of The Upside Down", "The Fairy Tale of Autumn" and "Mirror" And other immortal masterpieces; the "Tribute to the Filmmaker" section will show well-known works by film history superstars such as Yves Montant's "The Price of Fear" and Simon Siele's "The Devil"; the "Master Review" section provides fans with the opportunity to systematically review the works of international film masters such as Charlie Chaplin and Krzystov Kieslowski. The "Beijing Screening" will also set up an online film festival and jointly launch about 60 domestic and foreign films with iQIYI.
This year's "Beijing Screening" also went out of Beijing for the first time, setting up screening theaters in Tianjin and Zhangjiakou, selecting more than 250 outstanding Chinese and foreign film works and screening them in a number of cooperative theaters.
This year, the "Cloud North Film Festival" has also been fully upgraded. From September 15th to October 8th, fans can watch high-quality films on the themes of the Centenary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, Winter Olympic Images, Universal Classics and other themes in the "Cloud North Film Festival" special area, and exclusive screenings of high-quality new films from various types around the world. At the same time, Beijing Radio and Television Station opened the 11th Beijing International Film Festival TV screening, and film fans had more movie viewing options, and the "living room theater" entered thousands of households.
"Movie Carnival" adds night shows
This year's "Film Carnival" launched the science and film integration experience activity with the theme of "science and technology innovation, chasing dreams and light and shadow". Among them, the biggest highlight is the launch of night activities for the first time, and the night economy article of "night tour, night entertainment, night shopping, and night banquet" is fully launched.
Under the premise of strictly implementing the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, the Film Carnival has added a number of venues such as Yingdu Huahai and Deer World in addition to the original venue, China Film Base, and launched 46 integrated experience activities of science and film, including the immersive experience of Yingdu Flower Sea, film and television animation modeling exhibition, film and television element light show, parent-child theme interactive experience, film and television literary and artistic program performance and other offline activities, bringing citizens and tourists a new light and shadow entertainment experience.
In addition, this year's carnival also interspersed open-air movies, online red live movies, performing arts communes, Cosplay competitions and other in-depth interactive experience content between various venues, and strives to create a new experience of urban life that can be played, heard, watched and enjoyed.
The first "North Film Festival Release" event was set up
In terms of exchanges and sharing in the film industry, this year's Beijing Film Festival will hold a number of theme forums around cutting-edge and focus issues such as the centenary of the founding of the Party, the development of art films, the development of young filmmakers, the creation of animation films, and the development and construction of film capitals, colliding ideas, exchanging views, and sharing the happiness and harvest brought to us by movies.
Five master class activities will invite film masters to teach more film practitioners to solve their problems, share the experience and concept of film creation, and help the "stars of tomorrow" of Chinese films to stand on a higher shoulder and look forward to the future.
At the same time, this year will also add the "North Film Festival Release" activity for the first time, releasing a series of high-profile research results and industry reports on film investment and financing, film marketing, etc., and giving play to the role of the industry vane of the North Film Festival.
The "Movie +" campaign will allow film art to superimpose more new content and new ways of playing, break the boundaries of images, and expand the creative dimension. The organizing committee will hold cross-border integration activities such as the China Film Marketing Conference, the Recording Unit, the Science and Technology Unit, the "Classic Peking Opera Film" Unit, the Virtual Reality (VR) Unit, the Beijing National Film Exhibition, the Online Film Unit, the Youth Science Image Unit, the Game Animation Film Unit, the Business Circle Activities, the E-commerce Live Broadcast Room, the Filmmaker Marathon, the Script Game Carnival, etc., to give play to the unique role of the film festival in driving related industries, serving the general public, promoting the consumer economy, disseminating scientific and technological innovation, and promoting traditional culture.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > more than 200 filmmakers walked the red carpet to the light and shadow festival</h1>
Last night, the red carpet ceremony of the opening ceremony of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival was held on the shore of Yanqi Lake, and more than 200 filmmakers walked on the red carpet to go to the light and shadow festival in the autumn light.
On the morning of the red carpet ceremony, the autumn rain in Beijing did not stop, but just a few hours before the red carpet began, the sky suddenly cleared. Tiangong Zuomei not only ensures the normal progress of the red carpet ceremony, but also allows female celebrities to show off their carefully prepared dresses and styles. This year's North Film Festival also cooperated with Huaimi Line to launch a movie-themed train to the film capital, and many film crews took the train to the red carpet scene.
This year's Red Carpet Ceremony of the North Film Festival is mostly based on the crew as a unit to promote carefully created new films, which has become the most important task for many filmmakers on the red carpet. When Buick, the director of the realist thriller "Door Lock", appeared with the lead actors Bai Baihe, Fan Cheng and Wang Zixuan, he introduced that this is a film about urban women living alone, of which Bai Baihe, who has not had new works for a long time, plays this solitary woman, and Fan Chengcheng and Wang Zixuan play the community security guards and the heroine's girlfriends respectively. Bai Baihe said that last year, because of the epidemic, many activities of the North Film Festival were held online, and this year it finally returned to offline, "just like old friends reminiscing about the past." ”
Many filmmakers have a special status in this year's North Film Festival. For example, actor Peng Yuchang is the national film recommender of the screening unit, he not only has a number of family treasures for ticket grabbing strategies, but also recommends his favorite films to everyone. Yu Hewei, who served as a guest host at the opening ceremony, admitted that this was the first time he was "serial" to host, so he was particularly nervous and wanted to ask Tong Liya, who was experienced in this area, and Tong Liya responded to him in the air: "Walk the words well, be steady, don't wrestle."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > opening film "Chosin Lake" was released nationwide on September 30</h1>
Yesterday afternoon, the opening film "Changjin Lake" of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival held a press conference in Beijing, the film's producer Yu Dong, director Huang Jianxin, directors Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian, starring Wu Jing, Zhang Hanyu, Zhu Yawen and others attended, telling the behind-the-scenes story of the film's shooting.
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As the co-producer of the film, Wang Jiequn, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal PARTY Committee and director of the Beijing Film Bureau, said that as a key work celebrating the centenary of the founding of the party, the major revolutionary historical theme film "Changjin Lake" presented the Battle of Changjin Lake in a panoramic and epic way with magnificent pictures. "This is a heroic tribute from filmmakers to pay tribute to the revolutionary martyrs with images, and it is a gift we dedicate to the party's centennial birthday." In order to prepare this gift, under the impetus of the Central Propaganda Department and the National Film Administration, the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee organized and planned, and Bona Film Group and Bayi Film Studio spent five years polishing the script and two years of preparation and creation, and only then did they have today's results. ”
Wang Jiequn stressed that the Beijing International Film Festival has been committed to encouraging the genre development of Chinese films, releasing and recommending excellent Chinese films with both commercial and artistic qualities. At the same time, the North Film Festival also shoulders the historical responsibility of praising the party, praising the motherland, praising the people, and praising the heroes of the capital, so that excellent works can convey the mission and responsibility of the strong voice of the times.
Yu Dong, chairman of Bona Pictures, said that after the preparation of super-large-scale costume props and military equipment, the tactical design of the campaign of more than 100 kilometers, the participation of more than 70,000 extras and actresses, and the technical support of nearly 100 post-production companies, the 130,000-word script was finally carefully crafted into a huge production that can be recorded in the history of Chinese films.
The movie "Chosin Lake" is scheduled to be released nationwide on September 30.
Source Beijing Evening News
Reporters Yuan Yun'er and Wang Jinyue
Process Editor Wu Yue