An important component of the 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival, the launching ceremony of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week was successfully held on the evening of September 17th in Lecture Hall 1 of the Guangzhou Municipal Library. Films from the three places About 400 people from the industry, education circles and university student representatives attended the launching ceremony. The theme of this event is "Light and Shadow Bay Area, Power of Youth". Cui Chaoyang, Executive Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Film Bureau, Hao Yong, Member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Beijing Normal University Wang Shoujun, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Vice President, and Director of the Zhuhai Campus Management Committee, delivered speeches respectively, and Xiao Xiangrong, Dean of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, released event information.
In recent years, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has become an important engine for China’s economic development. Cui Chaoyang, executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and director of the Guangdong Provincial Film Bureau, delivered a speech. He said that Guangdong is the birthplace of Lingnan culture, the birthplace of the modern revolution, and the pioneer of reform and opening up. It has profound cultural resources and rich film soil, and has produced a large number of film celebrities and created a large number of film masterpieces that have influenced the country. In recent years, Guangdong has vigorously promoted exchanges and mutual learning in film culture between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao under the common goal of jointly building a humanistic bay area. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week is an important step in jointly building a humanistic bay area and promoting the high-quality development of the film industry in the Greater Bay Area. As an important activity and in-depth platform, we also look forward to and encourage young students in the Greater Bay Area to actively participate in film production and story creation, making the Vibrant Bay Area more youthful, exciting and vibrant.
Hao Yong, member and vice chairman of the Guangdong Literary and Art Circles Federation, delivered a speech. Today, young filmmakers in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have increasingly become a closely integrated artistic community. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has rich film and television cultural resources and professional talents, a strong movie-watching atmosphere, and broad industry prospects. He emphasized that the Guangdong Provincial Filmmakers Association undertakes and carries out various support activities for young literary and artistic professionals in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. This Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week will further explore and support young film talents in the Bay Area and promote Guangdong The integration, innovation and high-quality development of Hong Kong and Macao films.
As an organic component of the advanced culture of the Bay Area, high-level film culture construction and exchanges are bound to become more frequent. Wang Shoujun, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Beijing Normal University, vice president and director of the Zhuhai Campus Management Committee, delivered a speech. He pointed out that under the development strategy of "one body, two wings" and the school-running principles of "high standards, new mechanisms, and internationalization", Beijing Normal University has created a network centered on Beijing and Zhuhai, with the film and television cultural industry chain as the starting point and radiating The film ecological pattern of cultural resources in the Greater Bay Area, and has been actively exploring a youth platform for film exchanges, further helping the Greater Bay Area to accelerate the construction of a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster.
Subsequently, Xiao Xiangrong, Dean of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, released event information. He said that under the guidance of the strategic goal of "rebuilding a new Guangdong", Guangdong is actively engaged in the content practice of providing high-quality spiritual culture. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week came into being in response to the construction of the "Humanities Bay Area", and The "double first-class" and A+ disciplines of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University - Drama and Film and Television, together with the Guangdong Filmmakers Association, jointly undertake the preparations for this film week, in order to build a "high-quality development of films in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" "Community" to explore innovative paths. And announced the activities of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week", striving to discover young film creative talents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promote the prosperity and construction of campus film culture in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area through this film week The three goals of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Film High-Quality Development Community".
The guest speech session ended. The host announced the official start of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week through a countdown. Several leaders and guests jointly promoted the launch device of this film week and took a group photo on stage to commemorate the event with all the audience. Taking the precious "Youth Group Photo", the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week was officially launched amidst warm applause.
At this launch ceremony, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week specially recommended film "The First Year of Graduation" was directed by Chen Jinhui and starring Li Yufeng. It is a youth-themed film created by a local new generation team in Guangdong. The film was shot in Guangzhou and uses Cantonese dialogue. In the timeline of the story of "the first year of graduation", the focus of the story is on the process of graduates transitioning from students to careers. It tells a story of graduates entering society and leaping into society. The life experience of entering the sea of people records the documentary images of the young generation choosing their own life path alone and digesting the ups and downs of life independently. After the film ended, the audience had a post-screening exchange with the creative team. The audience asked questions from the director's original intention, film innovation and other perspectives. The creative team also based on these questions, based on their own personal experience, combined with the perspective of youth and youth narrative , communicate and share with the audience. Finally, the launching ceremony ended successfully with touching images and warm applause from the audience, kicking off the exciting week-long activities that followed.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week is guided by the Guangdong Provincial Film Bureau, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Creative Hong Kong of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government. Next, hosted by the Guangdong Filmmakers Association and Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus, and hosted by the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, it included the launch ceremony, the Bay Area Film Week screening plan, the film industry innovation and integration high-quality development forum, and youth film support A series of activities such as the plan, the selection of outstanding film critics and the "Youth Ceremony" and Honorary Awarding Ceremony will be held from September 17th to 24th.
The holding and development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Film Week vividly conveyed the enthusiasm and vitality of college students in the Bay Area for film culture. The successful holding of this event not only further enriches the cultural life of the Bay Area, but also injects new impetus into the prosperity of the film industry and the common development of the Bay Area. This film week integrates film culture, youth creativity and Bay Area cooperation to present a wonderful film feast to the audience. Let us look forward to the glory of this film week and ignite a new spark for the film industry in the Bay Area.
