Su Lun, Lu Yang, Tian Yusheng, Bi Gan, Hou Pu.

These are the five directors selected for the second phase of the Young Directors Support Program in the Light and Shadow Era.

Except for the last Wu Yuan, who has no impression at all and suspects that it may be a pearl in the sea, the first four are all directors he has heard of and have their own talents.

It can only be said that under the control of a reasonable and fair selection process system, real talents will not be buried.

Even if Wu Yuan didn't make any arrangements in advance, these people could still stand out and enter the support list.

Wu Yuan continued to look down, and soon saw the content of the movie scripts they were selected.

Lu Yang's is indeed "Embroidered Spring Knife".

He is not a newcomer anymore, in 2010, he won the KNN Award in the New Wave Unit of the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea with his directorial debut "Blind Cinema".

In 2012, the second film "RV Adventure" was shortlisted for the Window of Asia unit of the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

He was working on "Blind Cinema" and had already finished writing the prototype of the story of "Embroidered Spring Knife", and the script was written in 2010.

But when Lu Yang wanted to shoot "Embroidered Spring Knife", some companies persuaded him to change the costume drama into a modern drama, and he was not optimistic about this script.

Because "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a traditional martial arts film, that is, a traditional martial arts film without any special effects and 3D gimmicks, the market is generally not optimistic about movies with this theme.

He relied on his connections and reluctantly persuaded China Film to give an investment, but China Film was only willing to give 15 million, which was half of the 30 million budget in his heart.

Zhongying also let go, and after he found the actor, he would talk to Zhongying, if the actor is strong enough to improve the success rate of this project, then Zhongying is willing to continue to chase after it.

Originally, Lu Yang was embarrassed because of this, and he was looking for a suitable actor everywhere, and the first target was Zhang Zhen, and he was still trying to persuade him to take over this play.

At this time, it happened that the second phase of the Youth Support Program in the Light and Shadow Era was launched.

With the mentality of giving it a try, Lu Yang invested the script in the era of light and shadow again, hoping to get another support fund from the era of light and shadow, maybe it would be enough for him to shoot "Embroidered Spring Knife".

As a result, he passed five levels all the way and killed six generals, and he was really shortlisted for the five-person list.

This time, Wu Yuan is very generous, and he has long told Li Xiaoping that there is no online design, as long as the script is good enough, and the light and shadow era will make up for the investment.

The current era of light and shadow is not the time to be fledgling at the beginning of the year, the cash flow on the company's account is abundant, and in order to support new directors, it is completely affordable.

And whether it will be a loss or not.

As a result, Lu Yang's "Embroidered Spring Knife" won an investment of 15 million in the light and shadow era, plus 15 million in China Film, and scraped together enough shooting funds.

Zhang Zhen heard that the funds had been replenished, so he agreed to take over the movie, and now Lu Yang has taken the crew to the whole country to visit the scenery and choose a place to start shooting.

Tian Yusheng is the same.

After graduating from college, he and his friends set up Templar Studios and entered the screenwriting industry as a screenwriter.

The script of "People in Embarrassment" was written by the Templar Studio, and later the film received 50 million box office, and Tian Yusheng also entered the sight of the film industry.

Don't underestimate the box office result of 50 million.

For a low-budget comedy film, this box office is already high.

"A Thought of Heaven" made by twist only received more than 3 million at the box office after its release, which is the general status quo of domestic small-budget comedy films.

In comparison, "People in Embarrassment" is already successful and can no longer be successful.

It is also because of this that from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Tian Yusheng also participated in the pre-production of the comedy film "Thai Embarrassment".

After the script and filming of "Thai Embarrassment" were almost completed, Tian Yusheng came up with the idea of the script of "Predecessor Raiders", and his original intention was not to direct and act by himself.

In fact, after the script of "Predecessor Raiders" was completed, many companies in the industry were grabbing this project, after all, Tian Yusheng has two successful examples.

His new script must not be worried about the company grabbing it.

But after working as a screenwriter twice, Tian Yusheng's ambition gradually grew, and he felt that he could not only write a screenplay, but also try to be a director.

It's just that he has talked to several companies that have come to contact him, and these companies are willing to fund this "Predecessor Raiders", but they all hope that Tian Yusheng can find an excellent director and protagonist, instead of letting him go on and direct it himself.

After all, Tian Yusheng doesn't have any directorial foundation, and he has no successful experience before, how can everyone invest money to take risks.

It just so happened that at this time, the support plan for young directors in the era of light and shadow appeared, and Tian Yusheng naturally came to the era of light and shadow.

As a result, I didn't expect this script to pass five levels and kill six generals all the way and enter the final five-person list.

The Light and Shadow Era originally had the idea of supporting new directors, and Tian Yusheng was naturally able to successfully get a production fund of 10 million yuan to start his first debut director project.

The rest of Bi Gan, Hou Pu and Su Lun have similar experiences to them, they all have the mentality of giving it a try, or they don't get investment everywhere, so they cast the script in the era of light and shadow.

However, compared with Lu Yang and Tian Yusheng, the scripts of these three are not very sellable scripts.

After graduating from the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama in 2009, Su Lun entered the industry, similar to Wu Yuan's experience in his previous life, starting as an assistant director and rising and falling in Hengdian for three years.

During this period, she did not forget her dream of being an independent director, and wrote a script for a romantic comedy, which was not "Living Together in Time and Space" in Wu Yuan's impression, but a "Summer Youyoule" that he had never heard of at all.

This is a campus love light comedy, the light and shadow era invested 8 million, rushing to encourage and support, after all, there are really too few female directors in the circle, and they should be supported.

As for Bi Gan and Hou Pu, not to mention, these two are both literary film directors, and their scripts are also based on pure literary and artistic awards, and they are completely insulators with the box office.

The light and shadow era didn't expect these two directors to create revenue for the company, and they were selected to rush for the award, because their scripts were the most literary and artistic books among the hundreds of scripts delivered this time, with the highest literary value and the most film art.

Bi Gan's book "Roadside Picnic", when screened within the company, even won high praise from the screenwriting department, feeling that he is the next Jia Section Chief, who can definitely shine in the field of foreign film festivals and become a representative of the new generation of mainland literary and artistic film directors after Jia Zhangke.

Hou Pu's evaluation is slightly lower than that of Bi Gan, but the senior management of the company's screenwriting department and director department also believe that he has a lot of potential, and he will be a frequent visitor to domestic and foreign film festivals after a few years of training.

A large company of this size in the era of light and shadow must grasp both box office awards, and it is also appropriate to invest in a few award coffees in a timely manner, which is why the final three commercial film directors and two literary film directors were selected for the list.

And in order to support these five directors, Light and Shadow Times also took out a support fund of 45 million in one go this time!

Wealthy, angry! (End of chapter)