Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 148 Film Festival Screening

Over the next two days, the crews of the Chinese films that had been shortlisted were basically gathered.

Although the Venice Film Festival receives many films every year, the number of shortlisted films is limited.

There are 20 feature films in the main competition unit and 20 in the Horizon unit.

The remaining films are all in non-competitive units.

The Horizon unit is different from the main competition unit and is mainly aimed at emerging directors, experimental films and short films.

Chen Linfeng's animated short film can only be submitted to this unit. Among the people coming from China this time, two directors are also shortlisted for this unit.

Among the shortlisted films in the main competition unit, two are related to China.

One is "The Song of Everlasting Regret" by Hong Kong director Guan Jinpeng.

The other one, strictly speaking, is a Canadian film, Brokeback Mountain directed by Li An.

After the Chinese army arrived, the Chinese Film Association, which led the team, opened a private room in the hotel to gather everyone together to communicate with each other.

Chen Linfeng is very low-key and he doesn't know many people in the film industry.

Moreover, he only made a short film and participated in the film festival as a novice.

From the industry's perspective, the gap between short films and feature films is huge, and they cannot be considered formal movies at all.

Chen Linfeng was not very interested in communicating with the people present. In the end, he only chatted with Zhou Xun for a while and then left.

After Chen Linfeng left, Chen Kexin suddenly snorted.

"This kid actually left without even saying hello to us. He doesn't act like a junior at all."

The person he was talking to was naturally Li An.

Li An was surrounded by people and seemed not to hear these words.

He has many sources of information in Hollywood and would not simply regard Chen Linfeng as a novice director.

The achievements of "Wall-E" this year are well known, needless to say. He also knew that Chen Linfeng had reached a deal with Fox.

This writer Xiao Chen has already established himself in Hollywood and can get a share of the box office revenue, making him a figure who can already sit at the table and eat.

Li An was not willing to offend anyone easily. There were also actors from the mainland on the scene, and they might hear about the situation here.

Besides, what's the point of saying such things behind someone's back, so he ignored it.

The scene was a little awkward for a moment.

Guan Jinpeng laughed and smoothly turned the topic to the subsequent film festival.

Opening ceremony of the film festival.

The highlight of the opening ceremony is, of course, the red carpet.

However, the embarrassing thing about Chen Linfeng is that he has some fame internationally, but it is mainly concentrated in the field of writing.

This is the home of the movie, and most of the people who come here are movie fans, so not many people know him.

When he walked the red carpet, the atmosphere among the crowd was not very enthusiastic.

Fortunately, the media had a wide range of sources and knew who he was, so they were polite and invited him to take a photo.

Chen Linfeng did not stay for long and walked across the red carpet at a normal speed.

Then the Sixth Princess Tu Jingwei asked him for an interview.

"Hello, Chen Linfeng. How do you feel about your first short film being shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival?"

This obviously does not regard "Shen Shui Fu" as a serious short film. After all, the film does not have much plot and is mainly about dance.

"I feel pretty good. The organizers probably thought I was young and needed encouragement, so they gave me this opportunity."

“Are you confident you can win the award?”

"It's hard to say. After all, this isn't an exam with fixed answers. It all depends on what the judges think."

"Indeed, if you take the exam, you can easily get the top score, right?"

"Haha, I didn't say that."

Tu Jingwei wanted to ask a few more questions. Their film channel had never had the chance to interview this person before because of the industry gap.

However, her assistant kept reminding her that Li An was coming over, so she could only ignore this hot spot in front of her and take care of that side first.

After the opening, various films will be screened. Chen Linfeng’s short film is scheduled to be screened in a few days.

He, Shi Xiaolong, Liu Qianqian and Shu Chang went to watch movies of different shows together.

This is also an opportunity for the film's creators to communicate closely with the audience.

After a movie is finished, Chen Linfeng will often communicate with the director and other main creators about the intentions of certain plots or shots in the movie as a way of learning and communication.

However, after watching for only half a day, the three people couldn't stand it anymore.

The Venice Film Festival is more welcoming to cutting-edge films, and many of the films shown here are simply inaccessible to ordinary audiences, or they cannot understand them.

Although the three of them are also practitioners in the industry, actors are relatively closer to the audience.

Shi Xiaolong watched several movies like this in a row. It was so confusing that he had no idea what the movie was about.

Even Liu Qianqian, who is usually more literary, couldn't accept it and almost fell asleep in the cinema.

Shu Chang just treated it as a study of the actors' acting skills. After all, most of the actors in these movies are very talented.

Chen Linfeng himself is a directing major, and he doesn't like watching these movies either. But at least he has a learning attitude, mainly studying the director's intentions and shots in the movie, and doesn't pay much attention to the plot, so he can still watch it.

In the afternoon, they decided to split up, each taking some promotional posters, and then go find the showtimes they were interested in to watch the movies, distributing the posters as they went.

The people at Shenmei Factory were much more focused than them, and they went straight to distribute the posters.

Sister Mei used her money to buy some billboards and contacted the media to publish news about the release of "Wingless Bird" in newspapers and magazines.

The next few days were spent watching films and communicating with each other until it was his short film's turn to be released.

During this period, Chen Linfeng and his friends also went to see movies directed by other Chinese directors out of support.

The other few films were okay, but for Brokeback Mountain by Li An, he knew the content in advance.

While the movie was showing, Chen Linfeng played the role of a man with his eyes open, but nothing entered his mind.

After the movie ended, the other three people had strange expressions. But when they saw Chen Linfeng, who was still calm, they were deeply impressed and thought he was worthy of being a director.

These days, they have a greater sense of awe towards directors.

The pre-promotion of "Wingless Bird" was done well. As a well-known writer, Chen Linfeng also attracted some fans who knew his name to come and watch the movie.

Now that his short films have started showing, people keep coming.

The effect is unexpectedly good.

Almost every round of audience members had faces full of emotion after coming out of the screening room.

This work is completely different from other films. The good thing about it is that almost everyone can see the excellence of the film, and the most important thing is that it can touch people's hearts.

Word of mouth began to spread gradually, and more and more movie fans heard that there was an animated short film at this year's film festival that was particularly well made.

The chairman of the jury, Dante Ferretti, arrived at the scene with Li An.

As the chairman of the jury, he also heard about the short film.

After entering the screening room, some seats were already occupied. These were people who had watched the movie last time and were planning to watch it again.

Freddy and Li An sat down side by side. Soon, most people were seated and a new round of screening began.

The film opens with the producer's logo, a mythical Qilin roaring to the sky, followed by a dragon appearing. After circling for a few weeks, it merges with the Qilin, and then the company's name appears, Dragon and Qilin Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd.

Next is the logo of Shenmei Factory.

The main film begins.

What appears on the screen is a wingless bird, a bird that cannot fly.

It was on the edge of a cliff, with the rope tied tightly to a tree.

Then he slid down the cliff along the rope, where a horizontal tree had been placed below.

The wingless bird used a hammer to fix the tree to the cliff, making it look like a tree growing naturally on the cliff.

I do not know how long it has been.

After finishing the hard work, the wingless bird climbed back to the top of the cliff. It looked down and saw that many trees were already fixed densely on the cliff below.

The Wingless Bird cheered by clapping his feet and then put on his flying cap.

It poked its head out to look a few more times before making up its mind.

With a running start, the wingless bird runs forward and then rushes off the cliff.

The bird in the picture is headfirst, diving straight down.

"Oh, so that's how it is." Seeing this, Li An understood instantly.

He immediately guessed what the director would do next.

Sure enough, the originally vertical cliff was now visually placed horizontally.

The wingless bird's diving movement has now turned into horizontal movement, especially the trees that were originally horizontal, which have now become vertical, right under the bird, like a naturally grown forest.

The birds seemed to be flying in the sky, and the trees below were swept past quickly.

"Oh, God." Freddy on the side exclaimed in shock.

Accompanied by background music, the camera gradually zooms in and the bird shows a satisfied expression, which is the relief of a long-cherished wish being fulfilled.

But with the background of music, it makes people feel very sad.

The surrounding scenery became hazy, and the wingless bird seemed to have grown wings on its body, which gradually flapped.

Obviously, this is an imaginary picture.

The camera turns again, showing the bird's own vision, as it watches the trees below quickly disappear from sight.

A tear fell from the corner of his eye.

How I wish I could really fly.

The audience couldn't help but think, how much they wish it could really fly.

The camera did not move again, and the wingless bird flew deep into the clouds.

The screen turns black.

There seemed to be a sound of something falling to the ground, but the sound was too low to be heard clearly.

Subtitles began to scroll on the screen, displaying the production staff information of the short film.

　If you are interested, you can watch the original film, it is quite good
　　
　
(End of this chapter)