Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 43 The Most Beautiful Medal

Gu Bei finally came to the front of the team.

After high-fiving the last white girl, he entered the inner field.

After he sat down, the first audience member came in from outside and everyone found a seat and sat down.

"how do you feel?"

Liu Yifei came over and asked softly.

"Once you've done your first play, you'll know what it feels like."

"Hum~"

Liu Yifei wrinkled her nose.

She has already acted in several dramas.

However, Gu Bei's behavior just now still made her quite relieved.

Fans are a group of lovely creatures. She could have treated them like this at first, but unfortunately...

"Snapped!"

The lights dimmed.

The movie starts.

The ten short films together have a total duration of nearly two hours.

These award-winning films vary in style, including animated shorts, documentary shorts, and even feature films have a variety of personalized styles.

After two hours, it felt like watching a season of Love, Death & Robots.

As the tuner finished playing, the lights in the theater came on again.

"Which short film is your favorite?"

"I still like the tuner the most. I really felt the same way when he was dumped by his ex-girlfriend. He acted out my feelings at that time."

"I actually like 'Everything Will Be Okay'. This kind of stick figure style animated film is very interesting."

"I like The Piano Tuner too. Even after watching it again, I still feel emotionally moved by this short film. It's really cool!"

Even though the movie was over, hardly anyone left.

The short film crews in the first row stood up and came to the front of the screen.

"Clap clap clap!"

Waves of applause began to ring out one after another.

This is also the tradition of the film festival. Almost all the movies here cannot get good box office results, and many of them cannot even be released in theaters.

Film festival audiences will boo a bad movie until you never want to make a movie again.

But for every carefully shot movie, they will also give the greatest applause and the greatest encouragement to the creators.

"Antonio!"

Amidst the applause, Gu Bei looked at Antonio standing beside him.

He raised the medal in his hand and said firmly, "You're right, this is the most beautiful medal!"

Such a simple medal,

What makes it more important is the respect from others, the envy of colleagues and the attention of the organizing committee.

But the biggest gains are the feelings and memories engraved in the medals, which are given by the audience in the audience who are willing to support the film festival!

……

Sohu Entertainment Editorial Department.

"Editor-in-Chief, I just saw a report on the Boston Globe's website. It seems another Chinese person won the Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival."

"Then add it to the special report. As usual, remove the watermark and add our Souhu watermark, and then it will be an exclusive report."

"Roger that!"

The editor of Souhu immediately started to take action.

He translated the report "Short film sound engineer and award-winning short film shocked Sundance, receiving more than ten minutes of applause."

In particular, the photos above have been carefully processed. They are the photos taken exclusively by their Sohu reporters in the United States.

"Sundance Film Festival? Never heard of it!"

In mainland China today, the three major European film festivals and the Oscars still have some fame, but as for other film festivals, they are now completely unknown.

……

Park City.

Gu Bei and Liu Yifei were sitting in the restaurant.

The Sundance Film Festival is over, but the film deals are not.

The streets of Park City are less crowded with fancy spectators and more populated by elite industry insiders.

Antonio has been sent by Gu Bei to deliver the CD to Spielberg, and of course Antonio himself is happy to do it.

"The current situation is this: one North American TV station, three European TV stations, and one... African TV station. Five in total, a total of $20,000."

This is what Gu Bei gained from the film market these days.

If a short film wants to sell at a high price, it can either sell the adaptation rights or sell it to advertisers.

Only these two types of customers will pay a high price to buy. In addition, for example, Gu Bei is only selling the broadcasting rights for five years, so a company can only sell it for a few thousand dollars, and that's because of the short film jury award.

Strictly speaking, the tuner still hasn't made back his investment.

But what is copyright?
Copyright operation requires a steady and long-term approach.
Sell ​​a little at Sundance, and a little at the next film festival.

Sometimes I sell more, sometimes I sell less.

It's like opening a blind box.

Finally, after a long time, I calculated and found that I had made quite a lot of money.

This is also the reason why, in the end, the most important resource for all Hollywood production companies is still the film library.

This is a stable cash flow, with cash coming in almost every month!
"Several production companies wanted to buy it outright to enrich their film library. The highest offer was $100,000, but I turned it down. We can still earn a profit at this price if we operate slowly."

Gu Bei didn't plan to make a one-time deal.

The price of one hundred thousand dollars,

As long as he becomes famous, he can easily make money by just selling it around.

Moreover, now we can only sell TV stations, but in the future there will be so many streaming platforms, and we can collect money every few years, and we can raise the price every time. The price increase will definitely be much higher than the external environment.

"Yeah, well done!"

Liu Yifei nodded with satisfaction.

When she gave out the ten thousand dollars, all she was thinking about was the mission reward, and she had no intention of seeing the money back.

Now that I have money back,

But compared to that little bit of money, it is much more interesting to watch Gu Bei report to him respectfully!

"Investor, are you satisfied?"

"We have to keep working hard!"

Liu Yifei patted Gu Bei's shoulder.

It’s really put on a show!
Gu Bei smiled.

Just then, a white man with a middle bald head walked into the restaurant.

He saw the two people sitting there, his eyes lit up, and he walked over.

Gu Bei stood up to greet him and introduced the two to each other.

After sitting down again,

He looked again at the ordinary man in front of him.

Joe Crick, a producer.

Judging from his current resume, he is an independent producer who moves between major production companies. He has no shortage of projects, but he doesn't have any very famous projects.

In recent times, many production companies and producers have come to Gu Bei to express their willingness to support him.

But Gu Bei put Qiao in a very prominent position because he saw Qiao's name in four movies in the entertainment treasure house.

The name of the series of these four movies is: "The Hunger Games"!
A producer who can handle four A-level productions seems to be much more capable than those other future unknown producers.

The only question now is whether Qiao can agree to Gu Bei's request.

(End of this chapter)