With the official establishment of the association, Huo Yaowen, the advocate, became the shopkeeper, and Wen Yingguang had to shoulder the heavy burden and was busy recruiting people to establish various guilds under the association.

The day after the inauguration ceremony, major newspapers in Hong Kong reported on the grand occasion, and Fok Yiuwen, as the leader, once again became the focus of public attention.

It's just that most of the people who really care about this matter are people who are engaged in the film industry, and most of the others just watch the fun.

Time passed slowly, and after more than ten days of preparations, Wen Yingguang invited many filmmakers of the older generation in Hong Kong to serve as members of the board of directors of the Film Association and its subordinate guilds.

The personnel are all in place, the constitution and guild regulations are also being improved, and everything is developing in a good direction, but the funding has become a headache.

It stands to reason that the Film Society and its subordinate guilds serve all those engaged in the film industry in Hong Kong, and the expenditure should be shared equally by everyone in the industry.

But how to divide it evenly and how much to give has become the crux of the problem.

After the deliberation and discussion of the directors of the association, according to the number of people engaged in the film industry in Hong Kong today, a preliminary charter was made, that is, the personnel of the industry must pay a membership fee every year.

The amount is not large, about a person only needs to pay 100 yuan per year.

Among them, Huo Yaowen, the president of the association, and members of various guilds must pay every year.

The funds raised, after distribution, will be given a salary to the permanent members of the association, in addition to paying for the cost of renting the venue of the association.

After the problem of funds was solved, the problem of the venue of the film association was also solved, and after discussion, the headquarters was tentatively located in a commercial building under the name of Hutchison Whampoa, with a small area, only about 500 square meters.

When Wen Yingguang was busy preparing for the Film Association, Huo Yaowen was not idle, he has been having a headache about the film awards recently, and he has not known what kind of name to choose, and he is also thinking about whether to develop this film award into an international award.

The issue of the name of the film award is easy to solve, but the big deal is to hold a meeting to discuss it with the directors at that time.

But even if the issue of award span is raised and communicated with the directors, they may not be able to understand it!

In another time and space, Hong Kong's earliest film awards were the Academy Awards, which were established in 1982 and were later known as one of the three major Chinese film awards. Judging from the quality of the early days, this Academy Award is indeed very good, but with the development of Hong Kong films in the future, the status of the Academy Awards is getting lower and lower.

And the most regrettable thing is that the Hong Kong Film Awards had a chance to become the biggest film award in Asia, but it only focused on Hong Kong's own one-third of an acre, and after the cancellation of the "Asian Best Film Award" in 2012, it was almost completely reduced to an award for Hong Kong films to entertain themselves.

The 80s and 90s were the most glorious period for Hong Kong films, and it was also the peak period for Asian films, and Southeast Asian films, Indian films, Japanese films, and Korean films at the same stage were all scum.

The film markets in these regions and countries are almost firmly dominated by Hong Kong films, and I don't know how many young men and women idolize Fa Ge, Andy, Big Brother Cheng and others.

The title of Oriental Hollywood was also born from this time.

This is one of the reasons why the Hong Kong Film Awards is named "Academy Awards" like the Academy Awards, which shows the founder's vision and ambition for this event from the very beginning, hoping to become the Oscar of the Chinese film industry itself.

It is precisely because of such good congenital conditions that Huo Yaowen is entangled in whether to develop the award into an international award!

Once successful, Hong Kong will be the focus of filmmakers around the world just like Cannes in the future.

But there is one thing worth considering, that is, Hong Kong films at this time are not as brilliant as they will be in the future, and no one will necessarily come to an international award.

Huo Yaowen kept thinking about the pain in his brain, but he didn't think about what to do, so he simply waited for the decoration of the association headquarters in a few days, and then took it out to discuss with everyone.

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A few days later, Cheong Mau Building, the headquarters of the Hong Kong Film Society.

In addition to the headquarters of the association, a whole floor is divided into the Director's Guild, the Actors' Guild, and the Screenwriters Guild.

"I'm sorry to be a step late. Zhang Che wiped the sweat stains on his forehead, pushed open the door of the conference room in embarrassment, and saw that it was full of people, even his own big boss Shao Liushu was waiting for him, Rao is a little embarrassed as a big director.

Wen Yingguang, who presided over the meeting, smiled and said, "Director Zhang, who is out of the way, please take a seat." ”

Zhang Chehan smiled and nodded, and walked to the only empty chair.

Wen Yingguang got up with a smile and said to the filmmakers present: "Okay, since everyone is here, then I will briefly talk about the main content of today's meeting." The first thing I did today was to discuss the film award proposed by President Huo before, and everyone had a document in front of them, so you can take a look at it first. ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone picked up the documents and looked at them slowly, and for a while there was only the sound of flipping through the paper.

After a long while, when everyone was busy reading the regulations of the film awards, Uncle Shao was the first to speak: "Why is the film award called the Phoenix Award." ”

Everyone was slightly stunned at first, and then they all laughed quietly, everyone knew the grievances between Phoenix Station and Wireless Station, and they all held the posture of watching the play at this time, waiting for Huo Yaowen to speak.

"Sixth uncle, the name of the award is negotiable, not necessarily called the Phoenix Award, and when I wrote this plan, it was just for convenience. Huo Yaowen smiled politely, he didn't have to name the award Phoenix Award.

Seeing that everyone said so, Uncle Shao pursed his lips and didn't continue to dwell on the matter of the name, anyway, he made up his mind in his heart, it was impossible to name this award the Phoenix Award.

Now that the topic has been brought out, some people have raised questions.

"Then what is the name of this film award?"

"There is a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan, why don't we call it the Golden Dragon Award?"

"Golden Dragon Award? is a good name, you can consider it. ”

“……”

Everyone talked about it, and some people said to the mud: "Don't be too anxious about the name of the award, it's not too late to plan all kinds of awards first." ”

"President Huo has already written in detail about the issue of award planning, so I don't think there is any need to talk about it. ”

Chu Yuan raised the document in his hand and said: "It is written in great detail from the Human Award, to the Film Award, and the Non-Permanent Award, I think it is best to determine the name of the award first." ”

Huo Yaowen set up this award very maturely, basically referring to the planning of many film awards in later generations, such as Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, in addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award, Professionalism Award, etc.

As soon as everyone heard this, they began to discuss the name of the award.

Some people think it's good to call it the Golden Dragon Award, some people think that it can imitate the American Oscars and call it the Academy Awards, and some people propose to call it the Golden Globe Awards and the World Film Awards、...... Anyway, everyone has their own ideas and opinions.

Uncle Shao wanted to name this name as the Shaw Brothers Film Awards, but he knew that Huo Yaowen would definitely not agree, and to be honest, the Global Film Awards were better than his Shaw Brothers Film Awards.

While everyone was still hotly discussing, Huo Yaowen suddenly opened his mouth and said: "It's better to call it the Bauhinia Film Award." ”

"Bauhinia Film Awards?"

Everyone is puzzled.

Fok Yiuwen explained: "The bauhinia plant was first discovered in Hong Kong in 1880, and in 1965, the bauhinia was designated as the city flower of our Hong Kong, and I think it is the most appropriate for our Hong Kong local film awards to use the bauhinia as the name." ”

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