The Venice International Film Festival is one of the three major international film festivals in Europe, which has a relatively low market.

From the very beginning, the Berlin International Film Festival has a strong political color, and its competitors such as the Cannes International Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival have focused on commerciality.

In the commercial field, the Cannes International Film Festival is the most mature and excellent, and it is the world's largest film selling platform.

Especially after entering the 21st century, Cannes has carried out rapid commercial reforms, and has gradually become the center of commercial films in Europe, and even commercial films in most countries around the world will be screened in Cannes as much as possible, which has promoted the popularity of the Cannes film market.

On the Venice Film Festival's side, the Toronto International Film Festival in North America, not far from it, has opened a platform for selling films, which has a huge appeal of money and has posed a huge threat to the Venice Film Festival.

This makes Venice also have a feeling of burning eyebrows.

The Venice Film Festival, which was supposed to firmly follow the artistic route and didn't care about the smell of copper, also put down its position this year, although it did not organize an official film sales platform, it did not prevent the participating films from organizing film viewing meetings and peddling parties, and even secretly encouraged this kind of behavior.

At the same time, Venice also pays more attention to the "star effect", hoping to use more brilliant stars to promote the attention of global fans to the Venice Film Festival.

Under such circumstances, the Huaxia Legion led by Wu Yuan naturally received an unprecedented warm welcome after arriving in Venice.

Marco Müller, the president of the Venice Film Festival, personally led the team to welcome the arrival of the Chinese Army.

"Haha, Daniel, welcome to Venice again."

He walked quickly to Wu Yuan's side, and after hugging him, he held his hand tightly, and the rest of the Huaxia Legion was temporarily left to dry.

However, this is enough to be flattered by the crews of "Bullfighting", "Dialysis" and "1428" in the Chinese Legion.

Like Guan Hu, a cutting-edge director, just being able to go to Venice together on the same plane with Wu Yuan and having the opportunity to talk to Wu Yuan is enough to make him excited.

Unexpectedly, after getting off the plane and arriving in Venice, they could meet Marco Müller, the president of the film festival, to greet them personally.

The actor Huang Bo, who followed Guan Hu to participate in Venice, was also shocked.

"Mother, Director Wu's influence abroad is really high." Speaking a mouthful of Qingdao-flavored Mandarin, Huang Bo couldn't help but whisper to Guan Hu.

Although when he was in China, Huang Bo already had a deep understanding of Wu Yuan's influence, and he also knew that he was also a very powerful director internationally.

But it's better to see than to hear!

No matter how much I have heard about it, I have not seen it in person.

Marco Muller didn't come alone, he brought more than a dozen staff members of the organizing committee, and a group of people surrounded Wu Yuan to ask for warmth, which made Huang Bo, who was born in the 70s, amazed.

When can he be booed in the middle by a group of old periphery?

"Mr. President, I didn't expect you to come to greet our Huaxia Legion in person." Wu Yuan said with a smile, he deliberately lowered himself to be a member of the Huaxia Legion, and did not highlight himself, but pulled Marco Muller to the Huaxia Legion and introduced him one by one.

"This is the person in charge of the film purchasing department of our Huaxia China Film Group, Mr. Qiu ......"

"This is Guan Hu, a cutting-edge director in our mainland China, and his film "Bullfighting" was also shortlisted for the Horizon unit this year, and he is a very good young director."

"This is ......"

Wu Yuan wholeheartedly introduced Marco Muller, trying to make everyone in the Huaxia Legion leave an impression in Marco Muller's heart.

This is also what he should do now as a leading figure in Chinese films when he goes abroad on behalf of China.

Try your best to promote the influence and popularity of Chinese film forces abroad!

Marco Mill patiently listened to all Wu Yuan's introductions before he said with a smile: "Haha, Daniel, you don't need to be introduced, as a filmmaker who came to Venice, how could I not know about them?" ”

As the president of the film festival, his wrists are certainly very sleek.

As soon as these words came out, Guan Hu and the others, who had been a little neglected just now, immediately blushed a little on their faces.

It is an honour to be recognized by the President of the Venice Film Festival.

Marco Müller is indeed not talking politely, at least Guan Amber is really concerned.

In terms of cultivating its own "direct line", Venice is also the most backward of the three.

The Berlinale has a "Talent Camp" and the Cannes Film Festival has a "Cornerstone Program", but Venice does not have any training programs for new directors.

So they had to open more windows in their own competition unit to let these young directors participate.

This is how the horizon unit was born.

The directors and works that can be shortlisted for the Horizon unit are all considered by the Venice jury to be excellent and promising directors, so they will be given this exposure opportunity.

In addition, in the selection of finalists for the main competition unit, Venice is also the three most generous, and generally only one place in the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival belongs to the debut film.

However, the Venice Film Festival will have 2-3 of the best debut films shortlisted for the main competition unit, for example, 3 of the 25 films shortlisted for the main competition unit this year are debut films.

Although Guan Hu's "Bullfighting" was not shortlisted for the main competition unit, it is also one of the best works in the shortlisted Horizon unit, and is even expected to win awards in the Horizon unit.

Marco Müller naturally paid attention to him.

After talking to him for a few words, Marco Muller looked around at the people of the Huaxia Legion, and said to Wu Yuan with a smile: "Daniel, the hotel where you are staying is ready, now I will take you there." ”

"The opening ceremony will not start until a few days away, and I hope you can spend a few relaxing days in Venice and treat yourself to a holiday."

"Venice is still very beautiful."

"Thank you, Mr. President." Wu Yuan bowed.

He really plans to play with Liu Yifei while there are still two or three days before the film festival opens.

As a European water city, Venice is indeed a place with very distinctive scenery, the last time I came to Venice was to compete for the Golden Lion Award, Wu Yuan didn't have the heart to play at all, this time he just came to present the awards, of course, he was able to swim well.

"Oh, yes." Just as everyone got in the car and was about to go to the hotel, Marco Muller seemed to remember something, looked at Wu Yuan with a smile, and asked, "I heard that Cannes invited you to be a member of the jury next year?" ”

"Tsk, Cannes is too stingy, isn't it?"

"You're the Golden Lion director of our Venice Film Festival, and they only invited you to be a member of the jury?"

"It's true that you're young, but in the field of film, I think it's enough for you to be the president of the jury for one term."

"How about coming and being the president of the jury in Venice next year?"

Hey, poaching in person!

Wu Yuan's eyes widened and he looked at Marco Muller in disbelief, he didn't expect him to dig into the corner of Cannes so bluntly.

And when it came up, it threw out the conditions for the chairman of the jury.

Not to mention, Wu Yuan is strangely moved.

It is definitely better to have the opportunity to be the chairman than to be just a judge!

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