opened a hotel, right next to the office building of the film festival organizing committee, Chu Shun really entered a busy stage.

"Director Chu has shortlisted more films this year than in previous years, so the jury wants you to decide. Li Qian brought a list.

Generally, there are more than 40 films shortlisted for the Magic City Film Festival every year, which is less than the three major European film festivals, after all, the quality must be strict, and it cannot be said that the quantity and quality are casual.

"There are so many good films this year, so the judges nominated 60 films, and after picking and choosing, there are 52 left, and it is really difficult to choose. Assistant Li Qian conveyed the words of the other members of the judging team.

"It's a good movie, so we're going to show it all. ”

Originally, Chu Shun was asked to cut more than a dozen nominated films, and this kind of "offending people" was designated by the chairman.

Who would have thought that Chu Shun would directly screen all of them, Li Qian had also been the secretary of the conference for two or three years, and she was also stunned by this way of treatment.

Quickly coming back to her senses, Li Qian explained: "Our film festival only has nine days, and if all 52 films are screened, then it will be too late. ”

"It's too late. Chu Shun nodded and said, "I'll call Chairman Guo to discuss and ask him to add two more days." ”

Guo Yu is the chairman of the organizing committee of the Magic City Film Festival and one of the founders of the domestic TV drama association.

The organizing committee organizes the entire film festival, as well as soliciting sponsorship, publicity and other matters, and the jury is also invited and created by the organizing committee.

The chairman of the organizing committee generally serves for about four or five years, and most of the time he is not a famous director, but a person with strong organizational skills, such as Marco Müller, who helped Chinese films very much, and served as the chairman of the organizing committee of the Locarno Film Festival for ten years.

Li Qian felt that Chairman Chu would definitely hit a wall, you must know that the preparatory work for a film festival is very long, and the recruitment of volunteers mentioned before is a small part, and the sudden extension of two days will face a massive number of scheduling.

She remembered very well that there was a previous session that had to be delayed by three hours due to some adjustments to a unit, which was rejected by the chairman.

Of course, as a part-time worker, Li Qian couldn't be stupid enough to pour cold water at the beginning, so when Chu Shun touched the nail at Chairman Guo, everything was understood.

Chu Shun dialed the phone number of the rain, and did not directly explain the purpose of greetings too much, from the nine-day period to the eleventh day, the reason is also very simple, good movies should appear at the film festival, and it cannot be said that they will not be shortlisted because of the lack of time.

"Director Chu: I need the organizing committee to vote on this matter at a meeting to decide. Guo Yu replied.

"Okay, since the theme of this film festival is [all things film, different differences], then the good ones should be shortlisted, this is my opinion. Chu Shun repeated his point at the end.

About two days later, Guo Yu called Li Qian to the office.

"Inform Director Chu that the screening time will be extended by two days. "Rain Road.

"???" Li Qian was very sluggish, she looked at the unfamiliar situation.

"Is there any problem?" Guo Yu saw that Li Qian was a little sluggish, and couldn't help asking.

Seriously speaking, Guo Yu and Li Qian are still a little related, so they are not exactly superiors and subordinates.

Li Qian said: "It's just that the Magic City International Film Festival, for the first time, has been revised from nine days of exhibition time to eleven days, which is a bit surprising." ”

"For the first time. Guo Yu nodded, he knew that the main reason was that this year's directors had a strong desire to create, and secondly, Chu Shun's opinion as the chairman of the jury could not be ignored.

To tell the truth, the golden age of a movie can only be achieved by all directors who explode into creation, just like 1994 on the earth, which is simply a frequent hit.

Li Qian withdrew from the office and couldn't help but wonder: "Although Chairman Chu is the youngest chairman of the jury of the film festival, younger than Duan Neighbor, his reputation is really high, and even Chairman Guo ......"

Through Chu Shun's adjustment, the film festival announced 52 shortlisted films in May, and it can be seen from the list that there are significantly more Italian films and European national films shortlisted this year than last year.

To be precise, there are more European films registered for the festival this year.

The announcement of the movie shortlist does not mean that there is nothing to do, on the contrary, there are more things.

"This movie is really interesting. "Chu Shun, as the chairman of the jury, has a particularly important job to decide on the opening film for the Magic City Film Festival.

Although theoretically, the opening film was decided by the jury as a whole, after the chairman's decision, no one else would have any different opinion on the opening film.

Chu Shun thinks a good movie is Jin Yaohua's new film "A Meal", the protagonist is a migrant worker at a construction site, and the heroine is still Rui Ying.

Rui Ying's temperament is indeed suitable for acting in literary films, unlike the pure Guilun magnesium on the earth, Rui Ying's appearance is naturally beautiful.

Unexpectedly, Jin Yaohua did not continue to stumble at the Sundance Film Festival, but instead voted for the Magic Capital Film Festival. "Chu Shun really likes this movie for a lot of reasons, because he knows the director and the female number one, and the quality is really good.

The story told in "A Meal" is very simple, a person who works the construction site, his parents are old and unable to support, his wife is seriously ill, and his daughter is still in school.

Even if you don't have the habit of eating breakfast, two meals must be full, otherwise you don't have the strength at all, and the male protagonist only eats one meal in order to save money, and at the same time the female protagonist only eats one meal in order to lose weight, the two stories have almost no intersection, only occasional touch on the plot, for example, once on the bus was a car, but there was no eye to eye throughout the whole process, and the plot was not linked to the end.

When watching it, Chu Shun always wanted to know when they could meet, but in the end, they still didn't, but they had a very wonderful feeling.

Chu Shun watched 52 films in half a month and chose the opening movie "A Meal".

Finally, it is the most intense part of the jury's discussion, and the awards will be selected before June 14th.

The mobile film festival short film competition, the movie channel media award, and the Asian newcomer award are not the three units, but it is good that they are not the main competition units.

I forgot to add, does the Movie Channel Media Awards feel familiar, Chu Shun has also won it before, but it is not the same, although it is all sponsored by Liugong.

With the same name, one presented the award in his own office building, and the other at the film festival.

Not only that, but the jury of the Cinema Channel Media Awards is not the same, just like the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival and the film cornerstone and short film competitions are not the same jury concept.

Please put the willfulness on the public screen.

It is worth mentioning that the leader of the jury group of the Film Channel Media Award Unit is also Chu Shun, who is the most authoritative chairman of the jury of the 28th film festival.

Just kidding, even Chu Shun won the Golden Lily Award, and he was the man chosen by the six princesses early in the morning!

Best Actress and Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Artistic Achievement, there is nothing to dispute about these awards.

Because among the 52 movies, there are those with particularly top-notch acting skills, and there are also those with relatively well-written scripts.

The three controversial ones are the Golden Goblet Award, the Jury Award, and the Best Director Award.

"Jin Yaohua's "A Meal", I think the form is too big, the theme of the expression is obscure, at most to the jury award, the Golden Goblet Award I think should be awarded to Kobayashi Tsunekishi's "Moonless Misery". ”

Tsuneyoshi Kobayashi is the director he met with Chu Shun at the Cannes Film Festival, and also won Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.

I don't know if it's lazy or something else, the script of "The Moon of No Misery" was not written by Kobayashi Tsuneyoshi himself, and Chu Shun thought that the filming didn't feel serious, maybe Kobayashi Tsuneyoshi himself also had emotions, so he didn't participate in the three major European film festivals and came to participate in the Magic Capital Film Festival.

To be honest, it's good to win an artistic achievement award, anyway, Chu Shun thinks so.

"Don't completely ignore You Yu just because he is a Cambodian director, "Zhushan Rose" is also a very good work, the best director should be given to You Yu, the connotation of "One Meal" is too shallow. ”

Among the fifty-two works, Chu Shun's favorites are "A Meal" and "Zhushan Rose", which is adapted from Nee Taim's name.

To put it bluntly, Cambodian literature itself is like that, which has been seriously poisoned by Buddhist culture, and Nee Thiem is a rare great writer.

"Art is not reasonable, I have to understand something after reading it, I think "One Meal" is very good, and the blank space until the end of the order is very comfortable. ”

Noisy and shouting, they all want to convince others, although it is decided by voting, but the position of the work is very important, for example, "The Moon of No Misery" wants Kobayashi Tsunekichi to win the best director, and some want to award the Golden Goblet Award.

"There is no way to have a result in a quarrel. Chu Shun said: "Solve the jury award first, and you will start the first round of anonymous voting, and the works are not limited to the three works of "A Meal", "The Moon Without Misery", and "Everest Rose". ”

In the end, "Everest Rose" and "A Meal" were tied, each with 17 votes.

Chu Shun said: "Then the second round of anonymous voting, in the rose and a meal selection, you can abstain from voting." ”

The voting was very fast, including Chu Shun, 51 votes, including 22 Everest roses, 20 for a meal, and the remaining judges abstained from voting.

In the end, the Best Director and the Golden Goblet Award remained, generally speaking, it is impossible for these three final awards to overlap, and even "Cinema Paradiso" did not win two at the same time.

In the end, Tsuneyoshi Kobayashi still won the best director with fame, and "A Meal" won the Golden Goblet Award with 31 votes.

"I think that our international film festival, since it has the word international, should consider foreign works more, and we can't always send the highest awards to our own country's films. "There was a judge with black-rimmed glasses who kept saying that he didn't like Jin Yaohua's "A Meal", so when the voting results came out, he said such a thing in public.

"You wait. Chu Shun got up, and the others swallowed back when they saw the chairman get up and retort.

Chu Shun took his mobile phone, collected some information, and then said: "I flipped forward, and the previous winners of the Golden Goblet Award include Iran, Sweden, Outer Mongolia, Russia, etc., and no Chinese director has won the Golden Goblet Award in the past five years." ”

"So what does it mean to always give the highest award to a film from your own country?" Chu Shun didn't wait for this person to answer: "Thirty-four of the fifty judges besides me are foreign filmmakers, and I don't have the right to make public the votes of each judge, but it is clear that more than half of the votes for "A Meal" won the award, why not award it?"

"In the end, are you teaching me that even if Chinese movies are better than foreign films, do you have to make way for the sake of the word [international]?" Chu Shun questioned three times, leaving the black-rimmed glasses judges speechless, first, he didn't dare to talk to Chu Shun face to face, and second, he was also stunned by the three consecutive questions.

"Li Qian. Chu Shun snorted Li Qian.

Li Qian, who was doing the recording work next to her, immediately responded and waited for Chu Shun's instructions.

"Translate my words into English. Chu Shun looked around at everyone present, and he said: "Good is good, I hope that the judges here don't just like to scold and deny because they are their own children, shouldn't the children be praised for doing well?"

"Impartiality, don't make judgments that affect the film itself in order to avoid suspicion. Chu Shun finished speaking.

The scene was silent, and after a few seconds, several foreign judges began to applaud, and then the Chinese judges also clauded a few times.

After several days of voting, it was finally over, and to be honest, Chu Shun was about to vomit, the most important thing was because there were islanders and Europeans among the judges, so most of the time they communicated in English.

"The small goal of becoming the chairman of the jury of the three major film festivals, we will think about it again. Chu Shun felt that he was too hasty.