Founded by alumnus Elizabeth Yale, the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival is open to all high school students (grades 9-12) living in California and welcomes any type of video with more than one entry.

Therefore, of the 92 submissions in the first class of this year, only about 4o% of the school's student works were submitted, and the other 6o% came from Santa Monica High School, Beverly Hills High School, Roosevelt High School and other schools. Each of these films averaged less than five minutes long, and the best of them were selected to make up the two-and-a-half-hour evening exhibition, and the rest were shown on a loop the following weekend.

Of course, Elizabeth Yale is very happy to see that the film festival is so attractive, and there are really many excellent works in the pile of works, especially Ye Wei from our school!

His two submissions, as well as "Winter Girls," written by him and submitted by Lev Bobile, are also good and will definitely defend Harvard-Westlake's home honor.

But the closer she got to the festival, the more she had a problem: "Dance of Angels" won too many other films! It's like a high school film festival mixed in with a Sundance Film Festival Best Short Film, and yes, it should be at Sundance, not Harvard-Westlake.

Normally, all seven awards of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Most Creative by a professional jury will definitely be swept by it, and it will definitely be the most popular voted by the audience, and there will be nothing else left.

Sure enough, when the jury was formed, they all meant it.

The jury consisted of four, 54-year-old Jon Avernay, producer of "Good Boys Are Crazy", producer and director of "Fried Green Tomatoes", as well as several well-known films, an Emmy nomination, 5o Martha de Laurentiis, producer of "Soldier on the Edge", "Hannibal", etc., and Donna Ross, producer of films such as "Girls' Dream of Thirty".

They are all top names in the industry, but the biggest one is Kevin Costner, 49, whose masterpiece is undoubtedly "Dances with Wolves", which won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a nomination for Best Actor.

As a high school student film festival, it is difficult to find a second one in the United States to invite them to judge, and Harvard-Westlake is worthy of its own fame.

They have already heard of "Dance of Angels", and when they look at it again, it is the same attitude, there is no comparison at all, "Dance of Angels" is a work on another level, and to be fair, it will win all the awards. Whoever doesn't do that will be a stupid joke.

But a work swept the audience, this is really not her original intention, she hopes to encourage more teenagers who love movies, and the awards can be "averaged".

It's just that treating "Dance of Angels" unfairly is not what she wants, which will ruin the reputation of the film festival even more, think about it, if there is something like Ye Wei angrily withdrawing from the exhibition and denouncing shady scenes in the media, it will be all messed up.

How can Ye Wei and "Dance of Angels" get the honor they deserve, and let other students participate?

Moreover, Ye Wei is only in the 9th grade, what if he participates again in the next three years? Let him sweep for four consecutive years?

As the days passed, just a week before the festival, Elizabeth Yale finally came up with a great idea!

She communicated with the school as soon as possible: "We have added a special award called the 'Ye Wei Award', which is awarded to particularly outstanding exhibited works that are close to or have reached a professional level, such as "Dance of Angels", which is not awarded every year, only when this happens. After a film wins the 'Ye Wei Award', it will automatically withdraw from the competition for other jury awards, but it has already won the highest honor of the film festival. ”

This method is very good, the question is only whether Ye Wei is willing or not, because the award is named after him, and his consent needs to be obtained, otherwise it can only be called "the most professional award" and the like.

The old headmaster, Hednat, happily told her: "Ye Wei, this student seems to be very naughty, but he is actually very sensible, no problem." A boastful tone of a protégé.

So, Yale then called Ye Wei and told him about the situation, admitting that the level of "Angel Dance" was too high, and he had to do it for the sake of a good exhibition at the film festival.

"Wow, this is cool, setting up a special award in my name, like I'm a big shot, cool!" Ye Wei's voice was very happy, and he asked again: "Can my "Good People Have Good News" compete for those judges' awards?"

"Yes, it's also an excellent work, and it should be rewarding. Yale didn't reveal exactly what the judges thought, and Ye Wei's agreement really relieved her.

"That's even better, that is, my friends may have some disappointments, they are looking forward to my sweep, but I will let them understand how surprising the 'Ye Wei Award' is. ”

"Weige, thank you for your understanding of us, and one more thing, we invite you to give you a 5-1o minute speech, just after awarding you the 'Ye Wei Award', I hope you can share your feelings of chasing your dreams and encourage filmmakers of the same age. ”

"Ok, I'm honored, I've always done okay with that. ”

"I've also heard that you have top-notch presentation skills, and Jake Gyllenhaal is under pressure, he's a guest speaker. ”

"Haha, I know, I've been looking forward to meeting him, I love his "Death Hallucination" to death, and he is also preparing to play "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee, I have to ask him to get Ang Lee's number, I'm a little troublesome about acting, haha!"

At the end of the call, Yale agreed with the old president, she didn't see the "devil's spirit", she saw a good student who added the light of Harvard-Westlake!

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The day before the film festival, which was also after the completion of "The Wedding is Coming", Ye Weicai had just said goodbye to the set and went to the beach to play, and Ye Wei told everyone about this "surprise".

"What!?Isn't that why you can't say, 'You're here for fourth!?'" Lev and Bard exclaimed uncontrollably, "It's so unfair!", "Brother Wei is a student at this school, how can they do this!", "Shady! Despicable shady!"

Gia screamed a few times, gloating, "Harvard-Westlake is losing its glory." ”

"yes, if you don't let Wei Na, do you want to give it to those foreign students?" Connie was furious.

As soon as this was said, the wolverines were even more angry, like the old enemy Beverly Hills High School, they were menacing!

The school's rich children, celebrity children, are no less than H, because the style of study is relatively relaxed, and there is a "Leap Beverly" TV series as a signboard, so although the academic level is not as good as H, it is often more ostentatious and dazzling.

And there are really a lot of students who devote themselves to entrepreneurship, especially in the entertainment and film industry, although no one can make such a big move as Ye Wei, but he can't be called an ordinary high school student, and there is a guy who can earn more than 100,000 US dollars every year by organizing a dance party, and invited more than a dozen classmates and friends to work for him.

The H Film Festival is an opportunity for them to compete for face, think about the expressions of those foreign students who are there to dominate the whole party!

"Calm down! All my works can participate in the competition for the most popular award, and I also have "Good People Have Good Rewards", and how cool the 'Ye Wei Award' is, others only win one or two awards at most, but I am the award! It's not that you can get it if you want to, you have to be on another level. ”

Ye Wei gestured with both hands, his left hand was low and his right hand was high, indicating that he was at the level of his right hand.

Lily is the calmest wolverine besides him, but she also frowned: "Of course the 'Ye Wei Award' is very cool, but the Best Director Award, with you, if someone else takes it, I won't applaud." ”

"Me too!", "Whoever takes it, shush him to death!", "I promise he won't get out of the football theater!"

"I knew that I also participated in "Truant Girl", and I had a chance, but I needed to be a student in a certain high school. ”

"You don't have a chance. Ye Wei looked at Ji Ya and said confidently: "You don't need to use an ax to break eggs, the lens use, light and shadow colors of "Good People Have Good Rewards" are not professional, but it is already an excellent level among high school students, and it also has great ideas, performances, editing and soundtracks, with it, I am not afraid of any high school student, unless there is a Spielberg in it." ”

He's not bragging, he's never lacked film talent, it's just that he used to play anything casually for three minutes, otherwise, 16-year-old Spielberg wouldn't be afraid to come.

Everyone thinks that "Good People Have Good Rewards" is indeed very good, and they are used to comparing it with "Dance of Angels", but they have forgotten the average level of high school students' works, it is definitely competitive!

"Don't forget, other people will hear this sentence: Are you here to fight for the fourth?" Ye Wei laughed.

"Haha, Brother Wei, our time is coming!"

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In the mood of everyone's great anticipation, Friday the 16th arrived as scheduled, and the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival is coming!

During the day, everyone continues to go to school, and the film festival will open at 19:3o, because tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis, and the rugby theater is not big, with only 34o seats, tickets will definitely be snatched up, except for Ye Wei and Lev, the two participating producers who automatically get tickets, whether it is Lily or Budd, they will grab tickets.

In order to be safe, Bud, Chen Nuo, and Colwin rushed to the high school campus with prepared food as soon as school was out in the afternoon, bringing Master Gia with them on the way, and they had to enter three or four hours early.

Because Ye Wei is a special person, he needs to cooperate with the organizer's rehearsal work, and he has already arrived at noon, and met Elizabeth Yale, consultants Sheley Gork and Ted Volker, the old principal Hednatt and others, and the Gyllenhaal sisters and brothers have not yet arrived!

On the other hand, shortly after school, Lily returned home to take a shower, change her clothes and put on makeup. Originally, it was said that the mother would come back and go with her, but the mother couldn't come back because of something temporarily, but she called the family nanny Madeleine to drive her there. However, not only did Madeleine come slowly, but there was also a bit of a traffic jam in the past, and when she arrived at the high school campus, it was 18:47.

The parking lot was full of cars, and Madeleine had to drive to the nearby parking lot, and it was clear why.

"Oh my God!" As soon as Lily got off the bus, she walked quickly into the campus and ran in the direction of the lively rugby theater.

As she ran, she took her phone and looked at the latest text message from Trist: "Where are you? It looks like it's full, I can't see any vacancies!"

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