Returning to China, Lin Yueya got off the plane in the capital and ended this trip.

Zhou Fangyuan also got off the plane here, but he still had to transfer to a car and go back to Beitong to attend the company's annual meeting.

The 05 annual meeting of Yuanfang Group is very large, and many stars have been invited to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, among which the top stars who can be counted are more than a dozen at once, and there are friendship stars, who don't charge a penny, just a familiar face or something.

Walking out of the bus, Zhou Fangyuan changed the scene in front of him in a daze...... There are too many, there are too many cars, there are cars everywhere, and the huge parking lot in front of the bus station is already full of races, which is not immediately seen in the past.

"It's all because we have a big guy here recently!"

The assistant's clothes and the appearance of honor, Zhou Fangyuan looked straight away.

"Let's talk about it, what a big man, good guy, this is half of Beitong City. ”

"Of course it's a big shot," the assistant contact is all red, "It's Uncle Long!Boss, Uncle Long wants to make a movie tourism festival here with us, now the venue of Nanguan Old Leather Shoes Factory has all been approved to Uncle Long's team, they are now building the stage, according to the plan, the activities will start the night after tomorrow, it seems that the actors are still selected on the spot, if they are selected, then they can make a movie with Long Data, boss, aren't you excited at all?"

The assistant's face was red with excitement, looking at Zhou Fangyuan, although he was not expressionless, but he was far less excited than the assistant.

Uncle Long, of course, is a big man, at this time in 05, vaguely, he has begun to claim to be the external image of Huaxia, what is amazing is that he has such ambitions, and no one in the circle opposes it. The upper echelons may also think that he has always had a good image, and he has worked hard in Hollywood for many years, but he still has a heart for China, so he can be regarded as acquiescing to his approach, and even giving him a little convenience in some things.

This is terrible all of a sudden, the original Brother Long suddenly became Uncle Long, and he also became the spokesperson of the dragon's heirs, do you say he is famous or not?

As for the film festival he held in Beitong Lane this time, it is actually not a film festival, although Uncle Long is famous, it has not yet reached the level of holding a film festival.

The film festival was born on August 6, 1932, and is an activity to promote film art and improve the standard of film art. It is also to reward valuable and creative films, promote exchanges and cooperation among film workers, and provide convenient and balanced development for the development of film trade. Usually there are various awards, and those who have achieved it should be rewarded. Film festivals are very popular with people, and the influence of large film festivals even covers the world, the most famous are the three major international film festivals in Europe, namely the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival.

Among them, the Venice Film Festival is the world's first international film festival and is known as the "father of international film festivals". It was founded on August 6, 1932 in Venice, Italy. The main purpose is to improve the level of film art. After the second edition was held in 1934, it was held every year from the end of August to the beginning of September for two weeks. In 1943~1945, it was suspended due to World War II. It was resumed in 1946 after the end of the war. From 1932 to 1942, the awards were divided into Best Feature Film, Documentary, Short Film, Italian Film, Foreign Film, and Best Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress, Cinematography, Music, etc. In addition, there are special awards, general awards, "Mussolini Cup", "Biennale Cup", etc. In 1946-1948, the Mussolini Cup was canceled. In 1949, the "St. Mark's Golden Lion", "St. Mark's Silver Lion", "St. Mark's Bronze Lion" and so on were added.

Only a few countries participated in the first edition of the festival, and more than two dozen films participated. The Italian government funded the construction of the Palais du Cinémathèque specifically for the festival, so it gradually expanded. At the beginning of the Second World War, the Italian government embarked on the road of excellence, which made its award activities more colorful, so that German and Italian films frequently won awards, causing strong dissatisfaction in the film circles of Britain, the United States, France and other countries. Filmmakers from anti-*** countries have refused to participate. The festival had to be suspended. It was not restored until 1946. The Venice International Film Festival, like other major international film festivals, has its own purpose: to reward outstanding films from all over the world that are valuable, creative and suitable for international distribution, to promote exchanges and cooperation among filmmakers from all over the world, and to facilitate the development of the film trade. At the same time, according to the different situations, each session also put forward a different slogan.

The Berlin International Film Festival, formerly known as the West Berlin International Film Festival, is one of the leading international film festivals in Europe. In the early fifties, the first edition was held in West Berlin from the end of June to the beginning of July 1951 with the support and help of the Federal German government and the film industry.

The main awards are the "Golden Bear Award" and the "Silver Bear Award". The "Golden Bear Award" is awarded to the best feature film, documentary, science and education film, and art film, and the "Silver Bear Award" is awarded to the best director, actor or actress, screenwriter, music, photography, art, youth work or feature film with special achievements. In addition, there are international critics' awards, special jury awards, etc. In the 80s, 30~40 countries and regions participated every year, and 200~300 films were screened. The film festival is held once a year. Since 1978, in order to compete with the Cannes International Film Festival in France, it has been brought forward to the end of February and early March for two weeks.

The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in 1951 at the initiative of the United States or, more broadly, the three Western allies. In the decade since, the festival has established itself as an important part of Berlin's cultural life. Ingmar Bergmann, Satyajit Rey, Michelangelo Bonarroti Antonioni, Roman Polanski and French New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol have all achieved great international success at the Berlinale with their films.

From the mid-sixties began a period of apparent stagnation.

In 1971, the International Forum for New Cinema was created in addition to the traditional film competition. In 1974, the first Soviet film appeared at the festival, and a year later, East German films were added. The political climate changed, and treaties were signed in West and East Germany. Since then, the Berlinale has repositioned itself as a mirror of international film production, allowing the festival to play a more important cultural and political role in the convergence and mediation between East and West. Today, the Berlin International Film Festival has become the most important international film festival along with film festivals such as Cannes and Venice. Its significance lies not only in attracting a large audience but also in attracting many filmmakers. Nearly 3,000 journalists from newspapers, magazines, the Internet, radio and television stations from more than 60 countries flock to the festival, and more than 350,000 guests are attracted each year for public film screenings alone.

The Berlinale also "discovered" a large number of film directors, whose status is now written in the history of cinema. Winners of the Berlin International Film Festival include Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Bonarroti Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, Sidney Lumet, Claude Chabrol, Roman Polanski, Satyajit Rey, Carlos Sola, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Robert Altman, John Cassavetz and many others.

The Cannes International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival was founded in the summer of 1939, and during this period due to the financial factors of World War II and the "May Revolution" in 1968, it was held intermittently for several years, and after 1969, the festival activities became more and more stable, and the "Director's Fortnight" was added, and after 1971, the market became more and more popular.

In just two weeks, the festival is divided into six categories: "Official Competition", "Directors' Fortnight", "Un Certain Eye", "Critics' Week", "The New Look of French Cinema" and "Side Market Exhibition". There are two groups of jury members judging feature films and short films respectively, and the "official competition" part is made up of people from the film culture circles from various countries, and the candidates are all prestigious directors, actors, screenwriters, film critics, composers, etc., and one of them is the chairman, however, the chairman often affects the objectivity of the award jury, so this is often criticized. In addition, in the non-competition part, the main focus is to promote new talents, and to give outstanding non-commercial films the opportunity to be released publicly, and the "Director's Fortnight" and "One Gaze" have almost discovered many potential or successful directors.

The first award is the Grand Prize, which is regarded as the best film, symbolizing the highest honor of the director, and the second award is often awarded to one or three excellent works, and there are some individual awards with many names, such as: "Best Director Award", "Best Acting Award", "International Young Critics Award" and so on. Twenty-four films from around the world are usually selected from around the world and are not included in the competition as opening or closing films.

To sum up, the so-called film festival, basically, at least the local government is qualified to hold it, and it is best for the national government to come forward to hold it, gather a large number of outstanding industry people, and everyone brainstorm and make suggestions together, so that it is possible to make such a film festival. But it's okay to get the film festival out, and it's hard to say whether it can really be a big success. Although Uncle Long is a very, very successful artist, and now he has even gradually left the circle of artists and entered a higher level, it is still impossible to hold any film festival on his own.

What he is holding is just an action movie week, which is equivalent to a small film festival. The influence is very small, and it is only aimed at domestic action movies, and if nothing else, this movie week, in the previous life, could not really be held until almost 15 years. Now it has advanced by ten years, because there is a distant group behind it. This assistant doesn't know, because the work he is responsible for is more inclined to life assistants, which is different from confidential secretaries, many things in the group, this little assistant doesn't know, and he doesn't know that the driving force behind all this is actually Zhou Fangyuan.

But that's a good thing.

For Uncle Long, to expand his own influence, how could he refuse. No matter what use this influence may be for him, what he can't refuse ten years from now, even more so ten years ago.

After receiving the news, the Beitong Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government also strongly supported it. The reason is also very simple, Beitong City wants to take the road of transformation, the old energy city can not go the way before, now it is a tourist city, a cultural city, although the film week is not as good as the film festival, but this is a good start. Uncle Long's influence is big enough, and he has the support of the Yuanfang Group, and this year's annual meeting of the Yuanfang Group will invite a large number of stars to help, once these activities can be fixed, it will be of great benefit to the cultural development of Beitong and the transformation of the entire city. It can't cost a few dollars in the city, and what Uncle Long needs is just a small piece of land. It's not a piece of land, he is doing this film week, he himself doesn't have that much ambition now, and he doesn't want to get a museum or anything, so he wants to borrow a place to hold this film week well.

The Beitong Municipal Government pushed the boat down the river and directly lent the city exhibition hall to Uncle Long, and at the same time drew a small area from it, saying that it was to get a film week exhibition hall, and all kinds of meaningful props generated during the film week activities could be placed here for visitors to visit.

Probably the most expensive is the Yuanfang Group, invite Uncle Long, invite all kinds of celebrities to come, open up all kinds of relationships in the city, various approval procedures, site planning and decoration, celebrities' accommodation, decoration and maintenance of the place...... With such a whole, tens of millions of dollars will be thrown out. Fortunately, the group also took advantage of Uncle Long's fame to pull a lot of titles, otherwise it is estimated that it would have to take care of 20 million flowers.

But it's worth it, Zhou Fangyuan's purpose of giving back to his hometown and giving back to the place has been achieved first. Secondly, having a good relationship with Uncle Long and a large number of industry insiders can make Yuanfang Media more firmly established. Moreover, this is an idle move, which seems to cost a lot of money, but in fact, it is not as exaggerated as imagined. And once it is done, if it can really be made into a film festival in the future, it can be sold for a lot of money just for the ticket money and live broadcast rights. Of course, there will definitely be forces from all sides to share the interests at that time, but it doesn't matter, as the host of the distant group, his share will not be missing.

And that's just the economic benefits, the cultural level, the political level, and the benefits.

Anyway, this thing, Uncle Long only started tossing this movie week after the age of six, and he didn't say anything ambitious or unambitious, just said that he really wanted to contribute to the development of action movies, to be honest, it was a little late. In the past 15 years, it will still be able to move, play beautifully, be accepted by the audience, and have audience popularity...... There are really few left.

The older generation retreated, and Uncle Long himself couldn't fight for a long time.

The situation of the Universe Dan is similar, one movie a year supports two deaths, which also means that literary drama gradually surpasses martial arts.

Wu Jing, Zhang Jin and others can still insist on persevering, but in a few years? Without follow-up forces, action movies will sooner or later face a situation of lack of success. So instead of waiting to sigh at that time, it is better to try to make some changes now, the first one is this movie week, once it is done, I believe it will have a certain degree of impact on the industry.