China News Service, Beijing, August 27. On the evening of August 26, the launching ceremony of the Beijing International Film Festival and the 27th University Student Film Festival opened. It is understood that this year’s major film festival is all held online, and a series of online activities such as international academic forums, international young scholars forums, and film master classes will be launched. In terms of thematic online film festivals, a total of 34 outstanding domestic film festivals will be selected. For the film, three themed film festivals were added.
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Mr. Huang Huilin, founder of the University Student Film Festival, senior professor of Beijing Normal University, and dean of the Institute of International Communication of Chinese Culture, said that the original intention of the establishment of the festival was to cultivate a group of people who can play a positive role in the development of Chinese film through film education in universities. Young talents can promote the advancement of Chinese movies, and at the same time, young college students can gain spiritual cultivation and taste enhancement by paying attention to Chinese movies, and be nourished by aesthetic education.
The famous performing artist Tao Yuling reviewed her career path at the launching ceremony and shared with the audience the unforgettable experience of filming "The Story of Liubao". She believes that the Great Film Festival is the earliest film festival opened every year in China, and it is also a young film festival with youthful vitality and academic taste. Driven by various innovative activities, the Great Film Festival has moved to the world, attracting more world filmmakers to participate in the Great Film Festival.
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The film director Wan Ma Caidan and the actor Yan Bingyan talked about their deep relationship with the Great Film Festival. Wanma Caidan said that the big film festival is a vigorous big film festival, which inspires him to continue to create and innovate. In Yan Bingyan's view, the vision, depth of thinking, cognitive perception and aesthetic taste of contemporary young people are constantly improving, enough to understand deeper content, which also puts forward higher requirements for film and television creation. Yan Bingyan hopes that young filmmakers can maintain their pure love for art, and let their ideas and quality works be shared forever.
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In the special film recommendation part of the launching ceremony, the creators Song Jia, Wang Yanhui, Li Xiaofeng, Don He and the creators of "The First Parting" Wang Lina, Qin Xiaoyu, Li Yong and others shared their creations before and after the scenes with online audiences. story.
According to reports, with the theme of "New Era, New Mainstream, and New Image", this year's major film festival highlights the four characteristics of "younger", "specialization", "academicization" and "internationalization", all of which are held online. Launched a new series of online activities, namely themed online film festival, international academic forum, international young scholars forum, film master class, cross-border dialogue salon and student short video contest.
In terms of themed online film festivals, 34 outstanding domestic films were selected and three themed film festivals were added. One is the addition of recommended film theme exhibition activities. From the 34 outstanding domestic films, 10 recommended domestic films will be selected for screening, and post-screening main creative exchanges will be held to summarize and showcase the outstanding achievements of Chinese films in the past year. The second is to add a youth-themed film festival, focusing on the growth and transformation of young lives in youth-themed films, and paying attention to the creative style and unique thinking of young directors. The third is to add documentary and cartoon themed film exhibitions to dig deeper into the unique themes and narrative methods of domestic documentaries and cartoons.
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In terms of academic activities, four major themed academic activities will be held this year. The first is to co-sponsor the "Cooperation and Innovation: A New Pattern of International Film and Television Education" and the theme forum of "Perseverance and Development: The New Journey of Chinese Film in the New Era" with the Beijing International Film Festival; International Young Scholars Forum as the theme; the third is to set up an online film master class, inviting Frederick Wiseman, Xie Fei, Shie Yuhe, Majid Majidi, Claire Dennis, Wanma Caidan, etc. Famous foreign directors gathered together in the cloud; fourth, held online cross-border dialogue salons on topics such as "movie and drama" and "movie and literature".
In addition, this year's film festival has set up a student original short video contest of "Mission is on Your Shoulders, Struggle with Me" to encourage young students to create short video works of the main theme, showing and recording the new style of young people in the new era of bravely carrying heavy burdens and continuing struggle. (Finish)