Recently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organizer of the Oscars, announced the five winners of the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Award. Sun Qinyuan, a 28-year-old Nanjing girl, won the award for her work " boy, girl, fig" became one of them. The Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter contacted her mother Han Li.
Han Li told reporters that her daughter discussed the original inspiration for the award-winning work "Boy, Girl, Fig" with her when she was in college, "A boy has a strange disease, and those who love him cannot see his existence. Later, Sun Qinyuan rewrote this idea into a script. After more than 20 revisions, he won this highly valuable award. "When my daughter went to submit a Nicole King play, her classmates laughed at her for wasting her efforts, but she is a determined person. Previously, her American classmates entered the top 300 in the Nicole King play selection. This was all It has become a source of pride during school. I never expected that my daughter would be one of the five final winners.”
It is reported that the Nicholl Golden Screenplay Award is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and aims to encourage talented new screenwriters to create long-term creations. Each year, five winners of this award will be selected. Each will receive a bonus of US$35,000 and participate in the awards ceremony later held in Los Angeles, gaining a large number of exposure opportunities in the industry. Since its establishment in 1986, a total of approximately 500 awards have been awarded. $10,000 prize. Laura Kosann, the screenwriter of the English remake of "Hello, Li Huanying", has won this award.
Han Li recalled that her daughter has loved reading and creating since she was a child. “When she was in elementary school, juvenile detective novels were popular. Not only did she like to read them, she also wrote three similar works, and all the illustrations in the books were drawn by herself. "The notebooks she used when she was in school contained some short stories she created, and now these have been collected by Han Li. Sun Qinyuan's primary school Chinese teacher said of her, "She is very eccentric and independent. If you don't read the articles she writes, you will never know the ending. She can always write stories that exceed people's expectations." At Nanjing Foreign Language School During the time when he was in high school, Sun Qinyuan also wrote hundreds of thousands of words of online novels in his spare time.
While studying in college in the United States, Sun Qinyuan tried painting, filming short plays, and writing scripts, and achieved some success. Han Li introduced that her daughter won the Best Female Short Film Director at the New York Film Festival for a short play, and the script she wrote was also a finalist at the Austin Film Festival. After
won the award, many companies approached Sun Qinyuan, and now she has chosen the right one to officially sign a contract. Talking about the future, Han Li said, "My daughter may still want to be a director, but there may be fewer opportunities in this area. After all, she has just graduated from graduate school and may still develop into a screenwriter."
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News Reporter Jiang Tiansheng
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