Li Shengyao determined the schedule of "Border Killer", and he, Zhang Ziyi, and Duan Yihong began to run around the country in March, just to promote "Border Killer".

But to be honest, none of the three of them are highly topical people, and they are not comparable to those like Zhu Bingbing.

The movie also has no traffic stars, although they work hard to promote.

However, Li Shengyao still felt that it was not enough, and he felt that this movie needed to be more exciting to promote.

He thought about it and finally came up with a point, which was to put the film at the Las Palmas International Film Festival in late March, and become a competition film for the exhibition.

The Las Palmas International Film Festival is an A-category film festival, which is naturally inferior to the three major ones in Europe.

However, the festival is located in Spanish Duck, and the overall influence in Europe should be able to shoot fifth or sixth.

This film festival is quite friendly to Chinese films.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, Section Chief Jia's "World" in 2005, Bi Gan's "Roadside Picnic" in 2016, and Wang Bing's "Bitter Money" in 2017, and Tian Tian's "The North is Boundless" in 2018 all won awards.

In 2015, Huang Xuan won the Best Actor Award for "Tuina".

In general, the Las Palmas International Film Festival likes some of the more distinctive and innovative films.

Lee Shengyao took "Border Killer" to the exhibition, even if he couldn't win the award, he could hype it up.

For example, hype film critics are good-looking, hype many countries want to buy, or how popular the Spanish duck is.

These are all points that can be hyped up.

Li Shengyao thought of it, and then contacted Radio and Television to apply for the Las Palmas International Film Festival.

"Border Killer" has already passed the review, got the dragon standard, and participated in the European International Film Festival, which is conducive to promoting the influence of Chinese films, and radio and television naturally welcome it, and they quickly passed Li Shengyao's application.

Director Li then contacted the organizers of the Las Palmas International Film Festival and expressed his intention to participate in the exhibition, and the other party obviously knew about Li Shengyao's influence in the mainland and was very enthusiastic, and Li Shengyao then arranged for employees to go to Las Palmas.

The festival will open on March 15 and last for eight days, ending on March 23.

Li Shengyao greeted Zhang Ziyi and Duan Yihong in advance, and they will fly to Las Palmas on March 22 to attend the awards ceremony of this international film festival on the 23rd.

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After confirming that "Border Killer" will participate in the Las Palmas International Film Festival, Lee Shengyao continued his previous publicity plan.

On March 15, the Las Palmas International Film Festival opened, and on March 16, "Border Killer" was screened at the festival.

A total of two screenings, it is said that the effect is very good, the audience, as well as many critics, said that the battle scenes of this movie are very cool, and after watching it, it makes people remember it for a long time.

At the same time, some international studios wanted to buy "Border Killer", but Lee refused to do so.

Generally, the films participating in the film festival are directly sold for copyright.

For example, the film dealer who sold it to France may be 200,000 US dollars.

Sold to a filmmaker who is interested in profit, it may be 180,000 US dollars.

For literary films, this can indeed make money.

But Lee Shengyao's film doesn't need to make such a hammer deal, he will contact Warner, and the follow-up "Border Killing" will be released in European countries, which he thinks is more profitable.

More and more studios want to buy the rights to "Border Killer", and Lee Shengyao is even more sure that the film is excellent, and he should be more confident.

He then contacted Toby, discussed with Toby, and finally decided to release "Border Killer" in Europe and the United States in mid-April.

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Las Palmas is the ninth-largest city in Spain, which may sound like fine, but it's not quite as big as Madrid and Barcelona, which have a population of just over 300,000.

Fortunately, the Las Palmas International Film Festival has a good reputation, and many fans from other European countries come to watch the film during the festival in late March.

Lee Shengyao and the others flew to Madrid on March 22 and flew from Madrid to Las Palmas.

Li Shengyao, Zhang Ziyi, and Duan Yihong usually exercise, and all three of them can be regarded as people with better health, but after continuous long-distance flights, the three of them are also tired and panicked.

On the evening of March 23, the three of them changed into evening dresses, put on makeup, and let the accompanying photographer take some photos, and the three of them hung their heads and rested.

It's really too tired, when Zhang Ziyi didn't wear makeup, she even had dark circles in her eyes.

She hasn't been resting very well recently, Zhang Ziyi is breaking up with her beautiful boyfriend, and it will be officially announced soon.

Li Shengyao has always slept well, but recently he has been thinking about things a lot, and his sleep quality has dropped by several levels, and now he feels tired.

Not long after, the limousine of the film festival came, and the three of them got into the limousine together.

This is an extended version of the car, with Li Shengyao and Duan Yihong sitting in the second row, and Zhang Ziyi sitting in the last row.

Li Shengyao thought about talking about something, otherwise it would be too boring.

"Ziyi, have you ever been to Las Palmas?"

"No, this film festival is the first time I've come here."

Duan Yihong thought for a while, and then said: "I watched the promotion of this film festival in the hotel, and I felt that this film festival was well organized, and its influence in Europe was not as good as the three major ones, but it was also passable, but we didn't seem to care much about it in China." ”

It is true that the domestic film industry does not care much about the Las Palmas Film Festival.

It's not that there is any prejudice against Las Palmas, in fact, the bigwigs in the domestic film industry, in addition to attaching more importance to the three majors, don't care much about other film festivals.

Li Shengyao smiled: "I will pay more attention to it in the future." ”

If this film festival is willing to give awards, or if it can attract many film companies, then the domestic film industry will naturally actively participate.

is like the Las Palmas International Film Festival, from 2015 to 2018, for four consecutive years, there were Chinese films or actors who won awards, and everyone was naturally keen to participate.

If it weren't for the 2019 Mid/Magnesium break, I believe there would be more Chinese films to participate in Las Palmas.

The three of them chatted like this, and after chatting for a while, the three of them couldn't help but laugh.

When he was about to arrive on the red carpet, Duan Yihong took several deep breaths in a row to adjust his state.

Zhang Ziyi put away his smile and looked energetic.

The three then walked the red carpet together.

Almost no audience knew the three of them, but entertainment media reporters from various countries knew Li Shengyao and Zhang Ziyi to some extent.

Someone shouted "Li" and "Zhang" in awkward Mandarin, and asked Li Shengyao and Zhang Ziyi to cooperate with them to take pictures.

After two minutes on the red carpet, the three of them quickly entered the venue, their seats arranged in the second row.

Li Shengyao sat inside, Zhang Ziyi sat in the middle, and Duan Yihong sat on the outermost.

There is a row of Asian faces sitting next to Li Shengyao, who should be filmmakers from Southeast Asia or the island peninsula, all of whom are fresh faces, and Li Shengyao doesn't know any of them.

However, Li Dadao clearly has some influence in Asia.

"Director Li, hello, I'm the director of Malaixiya, and my name is Zhou Yuanqing."

A young director took the lead in extending his hand to Lee Shengyao to introduce himself.

Later, many people shook hands with Lee Shengyao, some of them knew Director Li because of their previous idol dramas, and some of them because of Lee Shengyao's outstanding achievements in Hollywood.

The title of Asia's most successful commercial film director is not only reported by the mainland media.

The media of other Asian countries will bring him when they discuss commercial films, so these people recognize Lee Shengyao.

Lee Shengyao smiled and communicated with this group of Southeast Asian filmmakers.

"Director Li, I watched "Border Killer", I think it's great, this movie will redefine the gunfight scene and affect a lot of people."

This is Lee Shengyao's favorite comment.

After chatting with this group of little fans for a while, Li Dadao forgot about his physical fatigue for a while.

However, when the awards party officially started, no one chatted, Li Shengyao couldn't help but laugh, Zhang Ziyi and Duan Yihong were in better shape, these two are actors, and the two of them are even better at acting.

Only Li Dadao kept playing and rubbing his eyes.

He was really tired and sleepy, and he shed some tears inexplicably.

Fortunately, he is not a big star, and the live camera hardly brings to him.

One award after another was awarded, and at this moment, Li Shengyao heard a very familiar name.

"Jury Best Film – Border Killer."

What is the Grand Jury Prize, it is the second best film of this festival.

For example, the best film in Cannes is the Palme d'Or, and the second best film is the Grand Jury Prize.

The same is true for Berlin, Venice and even the Shanghai Film Festival, where in addition to the top prize, there is a jury prize.

Li Shengyao was stunned, he was stunned for a moment, Zhang Ziyi patted his arm, he came back to his senses, and then got up and strode to the stage.

In his previous life, "Border Killer" was nominated for both Cannes and the Oscars, but in the end it did not win, and the awards were all small film awards in North America and the United Kingdom, which were not as good as the Las Palmas International Film Festival.

And Li Shengyao adapted the script, especially in the end, there was no anti-routine, and the adaptation was more commercial.

He thought that it would be difficult for such a film to win an award, but he didn't expect the judges of the Las Palmas Film Festival to give such face.

Although it didn't win Best Picture, the Grand Jury Prize is still worth bragging.

This time this movie can be blown up in China.

Li Shengyao thought about something, and then took the stage, received the trophy, and seriously thanked the judges of the film festival, as well as the actors and workers behind the scenes.

After a few moments, he returned to his seat.

Not only Duan Yihong, Zhang Ziyi, but also the little fans in Southeast Asia on the other side all looked at Li Dadao with admiration.

"Director Li, this movie is really great, it's completely different from your previous films, I'm very much looking forward to your future movies, I believe you will become a new Asian film master."

Li Shengyao smiled in response, then took out his mobile phone and sent a few selfies to the trophy.

Then send a message to the assistant in China, "Let the water army blow up, and let the audience across the country know that "Border Killer" has won the award and will be released on March 26. ”

(End of chapter)