On October 14th, Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy Day was held in the "hall" of Pingyao Film Palace. "I am not here today as the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival, but as a member of Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy (hereinafter referred to as Wenying). Member.” As the current director of Wen Ying, director Jia Zhangke first reported himself in his speech. The education section of the Pingyao International Film Festival adopts the form of "School Day", with days as a unit to show and exchange high-quality short film exercises taken by college students. At the 3rd Pingyao Film Festival, the National Academy of Film and Television, Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama, Communication University of China, and Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy were invited to attend.
on-site group photo
The theme of this Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy Day is "From student works to youth images", which coincides with its school mission. Alexander Kubak Klisch, a senior lecturer in the photography course of the College’s Film Production Department, said in the forum promotion that the college’s teaching model is based on “results-oriented” and the entire college’s structure is “more like a professional film production company”. It seems that this challenging school-running model is based on, "Our students must acquire the corresponding filmmaking skills in their professional fields within one year."
divided the theme in the roundtable forum "Creation without borders-international In "Student Film Shooting from the Perspective", nine young directors who graduated from the college's film production major brought their short film exercises, Lin Xingchen's "Wandering", Zheng Changzhen's "Way Out", Chang Xin's "It's Tomorrow", Fu Yichao's "Peach", Zhao Tianyun's "Summer Escape Plan", Wang Jiajie's "Stick", Shen Kai's "Following Things", Liu Zheng's "Swallowing Voice", and French graduate Jocelyn Harpet's "Blue Mirror" "Screened successively.
"Wandering" tells a story of a scavenger and a little girl comforting each other and holding a group to keep warm. Director Lin Xingchen said that this story is related to personal experience, "Being needed sometimes changes a person." And "The Way Out" was shortlisted. Beijing University Student Film Festival, and won the second prize of Huichuang Youth Film Festival. The film uses a pair of children's perspectives to show the separation and chaos under the tide of layoffs in an industrial city in southwest China in the 1990s. In the view of director Zheng Changzhen, the times are like a fast-moving train. "Some people step on others to find a way out for themselves and board the train. However, more people find no way out and become victims of the times."
"Wandering" stills
"Way Out" stills
Fang Jiaqi, who graduated from the FP07 class of the Department of Film Production, was selected by the academy as the young judge of the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival. She will join other young film creators from being selected to the festival The "Youth Jury Honor" was selected from the works of the unit "Hidden Dragon Unit". As a guest of the roundtable forum, Fang Jiaqi's other identity is a producer. The three short films "Wandering", "The Way Out" and "It's Tomorrow" screened this time are all her works. During the on-site questioning session, she introduced, “Testing the theories learned in class in specific film projects is the real acquisition.” After the
short film exchange session, Jia Zhangke recalled in her speech that at the beginning of the invention of film, "Film education is the system of mentorship on the set, which is the mode where the master leads the apprentices on the set. Probably after World War II, the film education major was available in universities in the 1950s and 1960s. After that, the film education program was introduced. The two models of'classroom' have been going in parallel, and many Hong Kong filmmakers are masters trained on the set. The emergence of the Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy is actually a fusion of these two educational models." Executive Dean Jiang Weimin told The Paper. Reporter, Sino-foreign cooperation, non-academic qualifications, and higher education (in addition to the one-year degree, there are also "2+2" Sino-foreign cooperation undergraduate programs and "1+1" Sino-foreign cooperation master programs) are the three major characteristics of the Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy. "Our goal is to use a year's time to transform students or film lovers into professional filmmakers. Those who have completed university general education or have some relevant industry work experience are more suitable to come to Wenying."
