Swing the stick to break the dilemma, boy! (Movie hotspot)
Reporter Zheng Na
One is a sloppy teenager from the Xihaigu area of Ningxia and lack of parental roles; the other is a pair of orphans from the deep mountains of Laiyuan, Hebei-at the end of 2020, a group of poor left-behind children from all over the country, because of the documentary film "Great!
"Juvenile" enters the field of vision of a broad audience and tells people a story about cruelty and kindness, predicament and forge ahead with the real experience of swinging a bat on the charity youth baseball team to change the fate.
As the winner of two awards, "Best Documentary" and "Audience Choice Honor" at the 14th FIRST Youth Film Festival in 2020, "Great!
"Youth" attracted many attentions before it was released in theaters across the country.
From November 27th to December 10th, the film premiered 219 times in 82 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing, with an average attendance of 85 people, breaking the "Hundred Cities Premiere" shown by the documentary film distribution company Elephant. Record of the number of people.
On December 10, the official Weibo of the Chinese Olympic Committee supported the film, saying that the teenagers in the film started learning baseball from scratch, and the various experiences on the road to growth are moving. They are committed to the dream of a different life, which is worthwhile. Applause everyone!
At the very special end of 2020, "Great!
The reason why "Youth" has received wide acclaim is precisely because it is full of hardworking fighting spirit and warm goodwill in the background of challenging the cruel reality and not bowing to fate.
The two protagonists in the film are sloppy and Xiaoshuang. Although they come from a fragmented and impoverished family, one has a stubborn character and the other is timid and timid, they found a home and grew up slowly in the process of learning baseball.
Their home is the "Strong Baseball Angels"-founded in 2015 by Sun Lingfeng, former member of the National Baseball Team, Zhang Jinxin, former director of the Youth Committee of the China Baseball Association, Guo Zhongjian, founder of the Tsinghua University Baseball Team, and some caring people. The first public welfare junior baseball team.
In 5 years, the team has assisted more than 80 children in need.
"We found the great angel team because they are trying to solve the problem." "Great!
"Youth" director Xu Huijing said in an interview with reporters that before making this film, he had been seeking a new perspective in documentary: In addition to presenting problems, he also tried to solve problems. "No matter what era we live in, we will face some problems. This is Life itself is the background for the growth of adolescents. We face the social problems themselves, but we are more concerned about when problems come, how we choose and how to find the possibility of solving them."
Xu Huijing began filming "Awesome!" in October 2017.
"Juvenile" was filmed for one and a half years, with more than 700 hours of material, and another year and a half for editing.
During this period, the strong angels team grew up to become one of the most powerful junior baseball teams in China. The children have undergone significant changes, both on and off the screen.
"Sting Tou" has now grown into a knight-like teenager, polite and humble. At the premiere of the film, some audience members asked him how he felt when he saw the film?
He is now the main player in the team, he replied: "I feel that I have changed and I can control what I shouldn't do."
"Baseball gives these children a new solution to their lives. They show their skills and talents through baseball, so they gain the value and skills for survival, and at the same time express their perception of the world." iQiyi General Manager of Canran Studio, "Great!
Qi Kang, the chief producer of "Youth", believes that this movie has shown everyone that using sports to help children out of poverty and change their destiny is a solution worth trying.
And following the "Great!
After "Juvenile", Xu Huijing has a long-term shooting plan to follow the baseball base, hoping that the children's stories will be seen and heard by more people.
"Both the baseball base and the government are helping children in their own way. As creators, you may not have the ability to influence their lives, but I hope that in the form of a medium, more people can help them from the heart and let them pass Baseball changes fate."