the honors of the 8th pingyao international film festival were announced, and filmmakers knocked on the door of the "film fortress"
2024-10-01
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on the evening of september 28, the honors of the 8th pingyao international film festival were announced. in the international film "crouching tiger" section, the swiss film "sparrow in the chimney" won the best film; in the chinese section "hidden dragon" fei mu won the best film award for "karst", and "the promising young woman" won the jury honors and the best film award. best actor, tang yongkang, the director of "stars and moon" won the best director, and jiang zhuojun, the heroine of "little people", won the best actress award. "under the phoenix mountain·ci" won the youth jury honor and the movie fan choice honor.
"knocking on the fortress' door" poster
before the honor was released, screenwriter and actor wang yitong, who had made a splash in pingyao with "universe exploration editorial department", brought his directorial debut short film "knocking on the door of the fortress" to the world premiere. in the film, wang yitong tells the embarrassment and scars of himself and his friends such as kong dashan, li xueqin, wen shipei, and jiang qiming in the form of a pseudo-documentary. wang yitong invented a fortress strong enough to resist zombies, implying a world of innocence and sincerity in everyone's heart. later, xu lei, the director of "a bright future", also called back the film's imagery when he took the stage to accept the award, and said, "in pingyao, this movie palace is like the filmmakers' own fortress. with their love for movies, everyone communicate on an equal footing, and as long as you don’t forget why you made the movie in the first place, you won’t be afraid of any zombies knocking on your door.”
"the promising young woman" received the most laughs at this film festival and had a double success that night. in addition to winning the jury honors, non-professional actor xu chaoying immediately won the best actor. he is the father of director xu lei. the image of a typical chinese father created in the film also conquered the jury and the pingyao audience.
xu chaoying
the young pingyao film festival also showed its unique personality and vitality at the awards ceremony. in addition to expressing their heartfelt gratitude, young filmmakers also expressed their love and attitude in a more free way.
jiang zhuojun, an actor born in 1995 who played a distressed girl in "little people", his acceptance speech was particularly light and cute, "when i finished filming in 2019, people kept saying that i did a good job and that i might be good at it." although i kept saying "how is it possible" when i won the award, i really thought about it in private. every year i think about it, it is different every year." jiang zhuojun shouted to director zhou quan in the audience: "director, i didn’t embarrass you, this award not only proves my acting skills, but also your vision!”
jiang zhuojun
director yang suiyi almost "flyed" to the stage when he heard that his film won the award for the film "karst" that won this year's feimu honors for best film. after receiving the trophy from the presenter dapeng, he was so excited that he jumped and hung on dapeng.
director yang suiyi was so excited that he jumped and hung on dapeng.
yang suiyi is the youngest shortlisted film director in pingyao this year. in his speech, he said that he is currently a student who has not yet graduated, and he was flattered to receive such recognition.
"karst" is the first feature film directed by yang suiyi. the jury commented that the film "richly presents the image of a region and a woman in a rich, simple and delicate way". "i named the movie "karst" because i wanted to find an intertextual echo between the landform and the people living in it." karst is the name of the landform, and its beautiful appearance is actually the result of damage and corrosion, which also became the director's source of creative inspiration.
yang suiyi
yang suiyi also talked about the gains and thoughts from the screening at the pingyao festival: "the feedback and evaluations i received during this period made me reflect on whether there needs to be some changes in what i insist on, and whether i need to be more catered to some markets or certain the so-called 'film rules', but i feel that those are not my memories of my hometown. all i can do is present it faithfully, rather than trying to please anyone." the recognition of this award made me a little shaken. young creators have gained more confidence, "first of all, i respect myself, and secondly, i respect the characters and characters. the audience is not the first priority."
director zhu xin, who is also born in 1995, used a pseudo-documentary method to present a look back at the song dynasty poem "jiangchengzi" thousands of years ago in "under the phoenix mountain·ci", and thus began a journey of exploring himself and his hometown. a journey across time and space. in the film, zhu xin reveals a very contemporary confused state of youth, and the communication with the audience in pingyao also becomes part of the "searching" in the film. "when i saw many viewers born in the 90s and 00s in the cinema, at that moment i felt that things that might have been meaningless during the two-plus years of filming began to make sense. those eyes were very meaningful to me. it’s important, and those looks are important to me.”
wish you a new year
tang yongkang, who won the best director, even returned early before the awards ceremony because he was worried about not being able to buy tickets during the national day golden week. this is probably a kind of freedom and relaxation that belongs to pingyao.
a total of 52 feature films and 39 short films were screened at this pingyao international film festival. in addition to the hidden dragon unit, short film, venture capital and other units also show younger creative vitality. the selection of films in the chinese film section also has many subtle echoes and intertexts with this year's theme "this handle of soil". wu jueren, the film selector of the chinese unit, said at the opening that this year is the most difficult year to make a choice. "among the chinese-language films we selected this year, the most important thing is not that they have anything in common, but that the creators of each film have a very firm and different view of film. in this view of film, we believe that derive a different future.”
attached: list of honors of the 8th pingyao international film festival
the paper reporter chen chen
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