The seven-day 2023 hishorts! Xiamen Short Film Week will come to an end on January 1, 2024. This is the fifth year that hishorts! Xiamen Short Film Week has been held. As a national youth short film festival screening brand, hishorts! has attracted many creators from domestic and foreign films, documentaries, animations, music, literature, art and other industries to participate. , paving a path of sustainable development for young filmmakers.
It is reported that 2023hishorts! Xiamen Short Film Week has set up plot, documentary, animation, experimental, commercial, and music units. A total of 7,691 films from 108 countries and regions were collected, with over 56% of the films being submitted internationally. After review, 207 short films were finally shortlisted for the review stage. During the event, 40 short film screenings and 20 creative dialogues and exchanges were held, including six major sections: main competition, screening, forum, market, growth, and social networking, presenting a colorful audio-visual feast to Xiamen audiences. Audience participation in Xiamen reached a new high this year. Many young people came immediately after get off work to watch movies and participate in forums. There were even scenes where it was difficult to find a movie hall and had to sit on the floor.
With the arrival of the China Film Golden Rooster Award, Xiamen has gradually become a new center for Chinese film cultural exchange and creative practice. Sun Chonglei, chairman of the Youth and New Literary Groups Working Committee of the China Film Association, believes that hishorts!, with its youthful, international, and Chinese beauty characteristics, will form a positive complement to the Golden Rooster Award and further expand the video art atmosphere and cultural industry effects of Xiamen. It has become an ideal home for film creation and exchange among new literary and artistic groups.
This year's hishorts! "Short Film Promotion Ambassador" Yu Haoming said that there are many emerging directors and passionate young creators emerging in the current market, who are eager to express their hearts and show their personal talents through images. "hishorts! becomes the starting point for these emerging directors to realize their dreams and provides them with a stage to showcase their talents."
html In 2005, chief curator Wang Xiaoman was a witness to the growth of young filmmakers. She told reporters that every year's works are full of surprises, and this year's submissions are more Chinese-style, with many short films in dialects (such as Yunnan, Shanxi, Uighur, Mongolian, Hokkien, etc.), as well as many Asian short films. Such as "Meaning the Land" (Malaysia), "Stellar Universe" (Macau, China), "Lemongrass Girl" (Taiwan, China), etc. "These submitted films reflect the thinking of young video creators on the changing China and the relationship between China and the world." In addition, 312 previous contestants continue to participate this year, and many stars have also joined the creative team, such as Yu Haoming, Huang Lu, Zhu Jingxi, etc., the short film creation shows strong vitality.(Xiamen Daily reporter Xu Shuxin)
