Taking the opportunity of hosting the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Xiamen has fully implemented the film and television industry cultivation action. The picture shows overseas businessmen participating in the film technology and virtual experience exhibition in Xiamen.
reporter Shi Chenjing
On November 17, Xiamen folklore and culture expert Guo Kuncong held a lecture on local film history at the Shapowei Living Inheritance Exhibition Hall; two days ago, the young film curator Yan Zhijian was at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival Vientiane City, the main venue of the screening, assisted in volunteer training; in Haicang, the founder of the rural cinema, Chen Yuan, received a number of visitors who came to watch and learn...
, the three local filmmakers and film lovers are busy, but A segment of their long-term commitment to promote the development of the local film industry. According to reports, the reason why the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival chose to settle in Xiamen includes local measures to promote the vigorous development of the film and television industry, the rapid growth of the local film market, and the strong consumer demand for film and television culture. Obviously, the eagerness and active participation of the three generations of old, middle and young people in Xiamen is also an indispensable factor.
Origins: 36 years ago, he became attached to the film festival.
Guo Kuncong is the vice president of the Xiamen Popular Literature Research Association. He is 82 years old and likes watching movies when he was young. At that time, due to the relatively undeveloped information, major theaters or local film companies would publish and print movie manuals and come with movie tickets to facilitate the audience to understand the movie in advance. According to reports, in addition to the main creators and summary of the story, the movie manuals also printed theme songs, film reviews, shooting highlights, and even included discussion outlines.
Because he loves movies, Guo Kuncong has consciously collected movie manuals since he was 10 years old. "Every time I watch a movie, I keep the manual." He said that it has been accumulated to the present. According to incomplete statistics, there are 1,776 copies, which can be read as early as 1947. This collection experience made him very familiar with the development of film, especially the history of Xiamen local film.
"Actually, the Golden Rooster Award has been associated with Xiamen 36 years ago." Guo Kuncong said that Chen Jianyu, the deputy head of the first Golden Rooster Award Selection Committee, is from Quanzhou, and he suggested that the third Golden Rooster Award be selected in Xiamen. In 1983, 23 Chinese film artists from the third selection committee gathered in Gulangyu. Back then, Guo Kuncong also followed and reported the selection process as a cultural reporter of Xiamen People's Broadcasting Station.
Xiamen and the film's fate is even earlier. According to reports, in 1928, the film "Burning Red Lotus Temple" was shot in Xiamen; in 1978, most of the location of the first color feature film "Baptism of Blood and Fire" was also selected in Xiamen. According to incomplete statistics, in recent years, 50 or 60 crews and over 100 film and television series have been filmed and produced in Xiamen every year, including "Crazy Racing", "Take My Brother Quickly" and "The Richest Man in Xihong City" "The Scorching Sun" and other influential film and television works.
Guo Kuncong said that in the memory of Xiamen City, there are several theaters gathered in a few streets, and the atmosphere is strong. Once he likes a new movie, he often follows the movie projectionist to watch it. It is common to watch it three or five times.
51-year-old Chen turned out to be a rural film projectionist in Haicang District. "We have to use bicycles to carry nearly 50 kilograms of equipment and film, shuttled to the various villages in the jurisdiction to show movies." He said, this is not "easy life", but the villagers' enthusiasm for watching movies made the projectionists feel that with Light and shadow "illuminate" everyone's amateur cultural life with a sense of accomplishment.
Since the 1990s, Chen has been engaged in film projection for 23 years. "The movies on the theme of the War of Resistance against Japan, the War of Resistance against U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea are especially popular with everyone." He said that some movie lovers watched the same movie many times, and even remembered the transition of each shot and the expressions of actors.
Status: Three generations of filmmakers work together to develop
. For Guo Kuncong, the movie manual is a window to understand the world, and the politics, economy, culture, history, customs, etc. reflected in it are very beneficial. More importantly, you can understand the development history of domestic and foreign films from silent films to masked films and digital films, as well as the pioneering period, prosperity period, stagnation period, and recovery period experienced by Chinese films. His collections and learning results have also been used to participate in various exhibitions such as the "Fixed Old Time" exhibition of old film objects, benefiting visitors.
Like Guo Kuncong, Chen also likes to collect movie posters, in addition to collectingHidden many old movie objects. In March of this year, he paid out of his own pocket to rent an abandoned old warehouse in Lianhua Village, Dongfu Street for nearly 200,000 yuan a year, and spent nearly one million yuan to transform it into a rural cinema-the "Dongfu Grand Theater". In this 300-square-meter rural theater, there are more than 30 domestic and foreign projectors from the 1940s to the 1990s, more than 200 posters, and more than 1,500 rolls of motion picture films. "There are both 16mm black and white films from the 1980s and color films from around 2000." Chen Yuan said.
Currently, this rural cinema not only shows you old movie objects for free, but also shows old movies every Saturday and Sunday. "Each month the electricity bill alone exceeds 2,000 yuan." Chen Yuan said that insisting on public welfare is not entirely because of feelings, but also because he has felt a change. This change of
can be described as twists and turns: In the era of relative lack of spiritual life, the film screenings in the countryside are very popular, and it is often necessary to queue up in advance to seize a good position; with the improvement of living standards and the popularity of modern cinemas, audiences of outdoor film movies have also quickly changed from The crest fell to the trough; and now, not only many old audiences love "nostalgia", but also attract more and more young people to watch and even learn the screening of old films. Chen Yuan said that he hoped that rural cinemas would ignite the love of Xiamen youth groups for movies.
Yan Zhijian is a member of the Xiamen youth group. Although he is not very old, he is well-known in the circle as a film curator. Yan Zhijian, who loves movies, met many people from the other side of the industry during his studies at the Department of Film at Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, and discovered that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have similar languages, customs, and cultures, but they have different ways of thinking and shooting and production. "If there is a platform for communication, we can benefit each other." He said that the amphibious youth imaging season was launched in 2016. Since then, the name of the Amphibious Youth Video Season has been changed to Xiamen Art Film Exchange Week, and the Xiamen Century Film Forum was held, inviting Xiamen-born producers, directors, screenwriters, and actors to communicate with the audience.
"Nowadays, audiences are not just satisfied with watching movies in theaters." Yan Zhijian said that the director and creator of the film walked from the screen to the stage to interact with the audience, which obviously helped to increase the added value of the work. In this regard, Xiamen has done a good job.
Outlook: The blueprint for promoting production through festivals has been drawn.
Due to a long-term commitment to curation, Yan Zhijian was arranged by the organizing committee of this year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival as the director of the international film festival and the film festivals in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. "I am both a participant and a bystander." Yan Zhijian told reporters that the film festival is a huge project, held in Xiamen for the first time. He will accumulate experience in his work and try to find shortcomings in order to make Xiamen art film The Exchange Week and others will play an important role in the subsequent film festivals.
At the Xiamen Cultural Tourism Exhibition Industry Development Conference that just ended, the local area proposed to implement the film and television industry cultivation action, taking the opportunity of hosting the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, insisting on "promoting production through festivals", focusing on the film industry, including fashion and creativity A series of industrial forms, including design, create a complex cultural industry chain, build a "universal cinema", and create a "produced in Xiamen".
Previously, although Xiamen had the "soil and environment" for the development of the film and television industry, such as a pleasant seaside city environment, 10 months of filming time per year, and diverse shooting locations, Xiamen had been criticized as "a location for filming rather than a film and television base". "Migratory Bird Shooting" etc. Industry insiders believe that the local supporting services related to the film and television cultural industry have not formed a scale or a complete industrial ecology, directly related to the level of filming costs of the crew, and ultimately affecting the choice of filming locations.
"The blueprint drawn in Xiamen is very targeted." Yan Zhijian said that recently the local city and district levels have introduced and implemented a series of policies related to the development of the film and television industry and financial and taxation, emphasizing the adoption of "promoting production by economy". The establishment of a film and television finance and professional service platform, attracting enterprises from the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to settle in, has achieved good results. He took the Southeast Tiandi Film and Television Cultural and Creative Industrial Park in Huli District as an example. The park has attracted many companies that provide professional film and television equipment and film and television supporting services. In fact, in Siming, Jimei, Free Trade Zone, etc., studios, artist incubation bases, and even providing one-stop landing services for crews to shoot in Xiamen, etc. have sprung up. What
most pleased several local filmmakers is that the local area will actively promote the establishment of a film school in cooperation with Xiamen University.Encourage Xiamen's colleges and universities and educational training institutions to develop multi-form, multi-level and multi-type film and television talent training. "Developing the film industry is an urgent plan. Among them, film talent is the key to the formation of the industry chain." Yan Zhijian said.
Chen also agreed with this view. He said that in the future, relying on the platform of rural cinemas, starting from research and other aspects, he will contribute to the cultivation of talents in Xiamen's film and television industry.
