October 30 The movie "Wandering Earth", which set a box office miracle, and the public welfare film "Everything Like You" won multiple awards at the Chinese Film Golden Leaf Awards, opening up the full rise of Chinese films in the new era. The
2019 (11th) New Zealand Chinese Film Festival and Chinese Film Golden Leaf Award Ceremony was held on October 30th at the Roxy Cinema in Wellington, New Zealand. The first large-scale sci-fi movie in China, "Wandering Earth", which set a box office miracle once it was released, won the Best Picture Award. In recent years, the rare domestic high-profile public welfare film "Everything Like You" won the Outstanding New Director Award by four young directors Director Huang Huang Zhaohan and Fu Shaojie flew to New Zealand to attend the awards ceremony. At the same time, Qin Yi, who just won the title of “People’s Artist” of the country, and Yu Lan, who was titled “The Most Beautiful Struggle”, the two old artists relied on their work in "Everything Like You" The wonderful performance in China won the jury award. It can be said to be quite rewarding.
In fact, it is not difficult to see that in this film festival, "Wandering Earth" and "Everything Like You" are China's first large-scale science fiction films, creating a new era of Chinese science fiction films, and the other is the first aging of China with high scores and high reputation. National conditions education films, one is a commercial film and the other is a non-profit film. The two have different attributes, different expressions and different meanings, but they can definitely represent China's most advanced content creation ability and the development of Chinese films in the new era. As the status of domestic films in the international film industry continues to rise, more and more Chinese films are opening the door to film art from the East for audiences all over the world. At this film festival, a group of Chinese films dominate the crowd and stand out, representing the rise of Chinese film's influence worldwide. Proud.
It is reported that He Zhiyun, Chairman of the China New Zealand Film Festival, New Zealand MPs Greg O’Connor, Brett Hudson, Director Guo Zongguang of the Wellington Chinese Cultural Center, and Director Sha Yi on behalf of the Chinese Film Delegation attended and delivered speeches. The award ceremony was hosted by Qi Huifang, President of China-New Zealand Film Festival. Wang Genhua, Political Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand, H.E.Vuyiswa Tulelo, High Commissioner of South Africa in New Zealand, Meng Foon, Race Relations Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, Dale Stephens of the New Zealand Trade Development Agency, and Michael Stephens of the Film Festival Jury were present as the award-giving guests.
