Chapter 729: The Long Three Days (4)

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"The seventh item is the venue. Any professional and large-scale film festival will concentrate the event venues. It is roughly divided into four areas: opening and closing ceremony venues, film screenings, trading markets and theme forums. Like Cannes, with the Palais du Lumière Cinema as the center, all the activities take place within a range of 1,000 meters. There are also Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Sundance and the Shanghai Film Festival, where the venues are all concentrated in one area, not for the tall, but for the convenient. ”

Chu Qing slowed down and said: "We must not happen, the opening and closing ceremonies are in Chang * Ping, the movie is shown in Chaoyang, and the trading market is in Da * Xing, which will really make people laugh." ”

Lu Wei nodded when he heard this, and said: "It is very pertinent to build yì, but the urban planning of the capital is relatively special, and it is difficult for us to find such a piece of land, unless it is newly built." Okay, I know that question...... I think it's almost over, let's rest first, and continue in the afternoon. ”

The big leader spoke, and everyone dismissed the meeting for the time being.

Chu Qing also had to take a breath, and talked all morning, not to say how much he wasted, mainly because he was tired. The Deputy Secretary-General Hou appeared again and dragged him to the cafeteria. This woman is not much older than him, her purpose is unknown, and she is extremely enthusiastic anyway.

He didn't have the heart to socialize, he just pondered the next topic. In these three days, the first day is to pave the way, the second day to build the frame, and the third day to fill in the details, today is the top priority.

In the afternoon, the meeting resumed.

Lu Wei did not disappear this time, sitting firmly in the main seat, Chu Qing strode forward and said: "In the morning, we discussed some basic content, and now we have entered the core link, that is, the main unit setting of the film festival. Here, I will continue with the opening words, why not build yì to register Class A? Why not build a contest for awards? ”

"There used to be 12 A-category film festivals in the world, and last year there were 13 new film festivals in Warsaw. This qualification is uniformly certified by the International Association of Film Producers. But the problem is that they not only have to review the conditions, but also coordinate the opinions of other film festivals. In view of the weather factors in the capital, we pinched the head to the tail for seven months, just someone said, Cannes in May, the film in June, Venice in September, and the National Day in October. At the moment, it seems that April, July and August are suitable, but don't forget, Cannes is the world's most traded film festival, and if we are behind it, and then blocked by Shangying, it will be the turn of Beiying to be left. So, we have to do it before Cannes, in April.

"However, the fact that three A-category film festivals are held in three consecutive months is not conducive to the dispersion of resources, and the opponent will not agree. If you do it, it can be grinding for years. ”

"First, second, to register for class A, the first thing to do is to compete and award, like the Golden Palm, Golden Bear, Golden Lion, Golden Jue, everyone is familiar with it, and it sounds very foreign. But the problem is, I don't think we have the environment and the conditions for awards. ”

"Tsk!"

As soon as these words came out, the audience didn't like to hear them, and the representative of the Film Association fired first: "Xiao Chu, you can't talk nonsense, our golden rooster and hundred flowers are very good!" ”

"That is, there are many excellent experts and filmmakers in China, don't let others be ambitious and destroy your prestige."

"You often run abroad, you may know a little incorrectly, just like when you go abroad, what is the name of a phrase that you often say?"

"The moon is round abroad!"

"Ah, yes, yes!"

"Listen to me ......"

Chu Qing adjusted his breathing, tried his best to be calm, thought clearly, and said: "The competition film festivals led by the three major European exhibitions have been operating for at least ten years, and they are the promoters and beneficiaries of the prosperous period of art films in the last century. And today, everyone is facing an embarrassment, there are too few good movies.

The three major exhibitions every year seem to be beautiful, but in fact, in order to make a good film participate in the competition, I don't know how much effort has been put into fighting for favors and conditions. That's really just one word, grab!

But the most important thing is your own attitude towards the movie. I just want to ask, why did masters like Kusturica, Jarmusch, Godard, Oliveira, and Woody Allen come to Beijing? Why did you bring the work to the Beijing Film Festival? They have only one goal, Cannes!

Why? Because the attitude of Cannes is: cinema, sacred!

I once talked to a British director and he said: I'd rather fail in a place where cinema is respected than succeed anywhere else.

I'm not saying that the works of the masters are necessarily good films, but if you cut them out, how many art films are left to watch every year? How much more can we grab? Stars and commerce are the foundation of the film festival, masters and art are the ladder of the film festival, without the ladder, we can't climb to the sky. ”

"If you don't have a good work to participate in, you set up a competition unit to evaluate the Golden Great Wall Award and the Golden Summer Palace Award, which will only reduce your credibility and authority."

"Besides, I don't know if I can talk about ......" he looked at Lu Wei.

Lu Wei guessed something, and said with a subtle smile: "You've already talked about this Cheng Dù, just continue." ”

"Good!"

He picked up the cup and took a sip of water, the coldness slid down his throat to his abdomen, as if calming down some of the heat and throbbing, and said:

"If we are to be awarded, we are absolutely not open and inclusive. Most of the awards are for art films, but many of the most outstanding works may not be in line with our consciousness. Gloomy or violent things like "Pulp Fiction," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily," "The Piano Lesson," and "The Elephant," and "Irrevocable," "A Clockwork Orange," and "The Passion of the Christ," are hugely controversial, provocative, and even ......."

He paused, his mood was unusually calm, and said: "Even the works "Alive", "The Devil is Coming", and "Farewell My Concubine" have not had a clear official evaluation so far. ”

"Phew!"

Someone is scared to death, can this be mentioned? Director Li looked even more stunned, and was about to open his mouth to stop it, but Lu Wei gave him a look and motioned for him to say.

"IMHO, if the competition is awarded, what is the scope and criteria of our selection?"

"I was chatting with Kim Dong-ho, the chairman of the Busan International Film Festival, a while ago, and he said that South Korea was going to make a movie called "The Melting Pot", about sexual* violence in a school for the deaf and dumb with disabilities. If this film is submitted for competition, will we be able to accept it? ”

"The 102-year-old Oliveira finished 'The Adventures of Angelica', and the 80-year-old Godard finished 'Socialism', what did we use to convince these two masters to compete?"

"Even if they come and win the award, will the movie be released in China?"

"As we all know, we have a quota of 20 imported films every year, and 99% of them are Hollywood commercial blockbusters, and Han Dong ......"

The atmosphere of the audience was as cold as death, and four questions in a row went straight to the core. Except for Lu Wei and a few others, most of them were a little panicked, or rather, afraid.

Because they all have a feeling: Ya is really desperate!

And Han Sanye was frowning and listening, he didn't expect to lie down, he raised his eyes suddenly, only to see the guy staring at him, and said, "May I ask, if "Elephant" wins the highest award at the Beijing Film Festival, will you introduce it?" ”

"Uh......"

His mind changed sharply and said, "I haven't seen this movie yet, so it's not good to evaluate." ”

"Heh......"

Chu Qing smiled and continued: "There is no attention and influence, those who have come once do not want to come again, and those who have not come will also weigh it, only those little filmmakers who participate in exhibitions everywhere and find channels everywhere will come to compete, so what are we doing with awards?" ”

"The Shanghai Film Festival has been held for 13 years, and it has not broken through this difficulty so far. Every year, the Golden Goblet Award is either awarded to others or to unknown foreign films, without a master's work, and has not cultivated a cutting-edge filmmaker with international influence. I'm still the same sentence, don't copy it as it is. ”

“……”

Quiet, quiet, quiet.

Everyone really listened to what he said, not only listened to it, but also considered it word by word. It's just that some have turned into disgust, some have become thinking, some have become ridicule, and some simply don't care.

After a long time, Director Li suddenly smiled and said, "Xiao Chu, we know that your intentions are good, but you should pay attention to the way you express yourself!" Just tell me what you think, what if you don't set up a competition unit? ”

"This goes back to the positioning I talked about this morning."

Chu Qing held the manuscript in his left hand and the podium in his right hand, three fingers were cold and two fingers were hot, and said: "To hold a film festival, we must give full play to our own advantages, so what are our advantages?" In the entire film industry chain, I think we have only one advantage......"

"Smack!"

The curtain behind flashed, and two large artistic characters in black on a white background: market! (~^~)