Christian is a famous Italian director and president of the jury of the Horizon section of this year's Venice Film Festival.

Horizons is one of the Festival's two official competition sections, which focus on encouraging experimentation and innovation in cinema to capture the future trends and trends of international cinema.

The horizon unit belongs to the screening unit, and the participating films do not participate in the competition for the Golden Lion Award, and the participating micro-films belong to this competition unit.

He watched this five-minute movie "Leave Me" several times, and he was full of praise for the film's storyline, narrative techniques and shooting skills.

He estimates that if he participates in this short film, there is a chance that he will win the best short film award.

But it's a pity that there is a big Canon camera LOGO close-up in the movie!

Suddenly turned this exquisitely conceived literary film into a micro-film advertisement for Canon! This is contrary to the purpose of the Venice Film Festival "in the service of serious art".

I didn't even pass the first trial!

The fact that such a good film could not be exhibited is simply a big loss for the Venice Film Festival.

But the principle of things cannot be violated, even if he appreciates it, he can't open this back door, so he can only reluctantly cut his love and retreat.

Can you ask the author to revise it?

At the same time as the official email receipt, Christian also sent a personal email himself.

After three days in Paris, Yu Dongqing and the three of them are ready to fly to Venice tomorrow.

"How do you take so many things? We're going to Italy. Yu Dongqing was very helpless when he saw the big bags of things in the hotel room.

"Dad, there is a courier, I told my aunt about it. My stuff was sent directly back to my grandmother's house, and hers was sent back to school. ”

I.

Yu Dongqing was speechless for a moment.

At noon the next day, the three of them took a plane directly to Venice, Italy, and the plane landed at Marcoc Polo International Airport.

"Intimate brightness, you're finally here." Elena gave Mingmei a warm hug.

"Tongtong."

"Brother-in-law."

Elena hugged them next to each other before taking them out of the lounge and on the bus to the city.

On the way home, the two girls chatted non-stop.

"Mingmei, you guys had a good time, right?"

"We had a lot of fun, we had a lot of fun in London and Paris, and by the way, we went to the town of Casborough, which is a very interesting seaside town."

"Yes, my brother-in-law also wrote a song "Casbro Bazaar", which is very good."

"How do you know?"

Susan also said about it on her Twitter, highly praised the song, and is ready to cover it, and her brother-in-law's original song has already appeared on Spotify's new song chart.

"Really?"

Mingguang played with this day, and didn't pay attention to it.

Yu Dongqing didn't care even more, and sat in the back with Yu Tongtong to watch the scenery outside.

Coke Polo International Airport is also only eight kilometers from the city of Venice, and soon into the city, Yu Dongqing and the others followed Elena to change to the water bus.

Standing on a boat and admiring the view of the Venetian complex is an indescribable pleasure. The buildings on both sides of the waterway are very fine Gothic and Renaissance architecture.

Elena's home is located in a street near Piazza San Marco, a whole building with three floors, Elena told Mingmei that her parents went to Milan to visit her grandmother and grandfather, and she was the only one in the family, so you don't need to stay in a hotel, just stay at my house.

"It's so lonely to be alone at home, it's best to have a companion!" Elena said excitedly.

The room has been cleaned up, it is still Yu Dongqing's room, Mingmei and Yu Tongtong live next door, the two packed their luggage, and Elena beckoned them out.

"I'm taking you to our local specialty, cuttlefish noodles! And shrimp polenta and Blaneli cookies! ”

Hearing that there were so many delicious foods, Yu Tongtong's saliva was about to flow out, and she immediately shouted to hurry out.

In a small restaurant on the side of St. Mark's Square, four people sat at a table by the window, eating a meal while enjoying the scenery outside.

At this time, Bright Mobile prompted two emails.

"It's the email of the Venice Film Festival jury!" Mingmei was shocked, and hurriedly opened one of them.

Immediately disappointed.

The content is brief.

It is said that the films of the Venice Film Festival are "in the service of serious art", and do not accept overly commercial films, let alone participate in the competition for awards in the form of advertising micro-films.

But at the same time, Mingmei also received a personal email from Christian, the chairman of the jury.

In the letter, Christian made no secret of his affirmation of the artistic value of this micro-film, and also admired the author's talent, and strongly recommended that the author revise or re-make a micro-film for submission.

This?

"What's wrong, Mingmei?" Elena asked.

Mingmei showed everyone two emails.

This result was somewhat unexpected.

"Or, brother-in-law, let's take off the logo and use the original version according to Christian's suggestion." Mingmei suggested.

The problem, she reckons, is the Canon logo.

Yu Dongqing shook his head.

"Now that we have signed a contract with Canon, we have to act according to the contract."

"Then let's just make another one!" It was Elena who spoke.

"Elena, I'm here in Italy for tourism, not for filmmaking!" Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

"It's not wrong to travel and make movies, I heard Mingmei say that it only took three days for you to shoot the "Leave Me" and even shoot and post-production."

"That's it, brother-in-law, it's a rare opportunity, Christian is an internationally famous director, people appreciate you very much, keep up the good work, and win another award!" Mingmei said.

You have so much faith in me?

But it's also.

We can't win the Golden Lion, but we can win a Best Short Film Award, right?

Yu Dongqing was a little moved.

But

"Bright, Elena, even if you want to make a micro-movie, now you have no equipment and no actors, how can you shoot it? I'm not going to use the camera again this time. ”

"You'll leave this to me!" Elena immediately took over the topic: "One of the three major film festivals in the world is held in Venice, can you imagine the development of our Venice film industry!" Elena looked proud: "As long as you are willing to shoot, I will help you find the equipment, venue, and even actors!" ”

Scold?

All right.

In that time and space, there was also a short film.

In a small restaurant on the side of Marco Square, Yu Dongqing told the two girls the script of a micro-movie.

Adrian is a talented pianist who has been studying piano for 15 years. At the coveted Bernstein Piano Competition, he failed and his life fell to the bottom.

After a period of adjustment, Adrian regained his strength and became a blind piano tuner.

In fact, he only wears contact lenses, which will make others think that he has a more sensitive sense of hearing, and thus get more sympathy and consumption, and even peek into the lives and privacy of others, and he immerses himself in this detachment of being in the middle of the city.

One day, he came to work in a family, but he didn't know that a murder had just happened here.

This is the famous micro-movie "Tuner" in that time and space!

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