Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) The 2019 China Science Fiction Conference with the theme of "Science Dreams, Create the Future" was held on November 2nd to 3rd in the Garden Expo Park, Fengtai District, Beijing. From the perspective of encouraging and supporting creation and innovation, this China Science Fiction Conference specially added a science fiction film and television venture capital meeting, and it was handed over to the company micro-image culture that has been committed to the development of science fiction copyright and the production of science fiction film and television. The Venture Capital Association is committed to screening and supporting potential sci-fi film and television projects and excellent sci-fi creation teams, building communication bridges between sci-fi film and television projects, film and television production and investment institutions, and promoting the smooth implementation of outstanding sci-fi film projects. The final review committee of
Venture Capital Conference was unveiled at the scene.
From the time when "Three Body" received China's first Hugo Award in 2015, to the release of "Wandering Earth" in 2019, it achieved a single box office of 4.654 billion yuan. In just four years, China's science fiction industry has entered a period of rapid development. The "2018 China Science Fiction Industry Report" released at the China Science Fiction Conference in 2018 showed that the output value in the first half of 2018 alone was close to 10 billion yuan. This year, this value is still increasing. In this high output value, the biggest contribution is science fiction film and television.
It is reported that from the release to the deadline of this year’s Venture Capital Conference, 290 sci-fi movie projects were collected in just two months, presenting diverse phenomena in creative ideas and sci-fi settings, including superpowers, robots, technological changes, and technology. There are more than 10 types of disasters, parallel time and space, artificial intelligence, biological mutation, time travel, space adventure, alien creatures, and the world of consciousness. These types account for about 76% of the total. The number of technological changes is the largest, accounting for 12%, followed by alien organisms, accounting for 10%. And "genre + science fiction" is the main creative direction recognized and chosen by everyone. There are two types of action and suspense for projects with more than 90 items, each accounting for about 16%. Secondly, love and drama accounted for more than 10%.
judges and attendees are watching the movie project display. In addition to the obvious commercial attributes of
, another feature of this sci-fi film and television venture capital conference is that a mature production team and a newcomer team compete on the same stage, and the quality of the declared projects is high. Among the 290 declared projects, 140 projects have complete scripts, accounting for 48%, and 135 complete script outlines, accounting for 47%. Therefore, the competition for selection is particularly fierce. For the special venture capital of science fiction, many creators have reported great enthusiasm, and they all agree that "the creation of every science fiction film is always a new beginning and a new journey." After fierce competition,
broke out of 10 film projects and entered the final road show. They are: "Animal Watcher", "Blocking", "Awakening Anna", "Memory Vending Machine", "Mystery Picture", "When the Stars Shine", "World Rushing", "My Robot Brother", "Domestication" , "Space Exploration Editorial Department".
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
