The 26th Shanghai International Film Festival will be held from June 14th to 23rd.
The 29th Shanghai TV Festival will be held from June 24th to 28th.
"Two Festivals" press conference site © Wang Kai
Yesterday, "Two Festivals" held a press conference in Beijing, announcing the list of the main competition unit of the Golden Goblet Award and the jury list of the Asian Newcomer Unit of this film festival, as well as the Magnolia Award of the TV Festival The full list of judges, posters for this film festival and TV festival were released, and the overall preparations were introduced.
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City of Movies, Traveling with Movies
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The theme of the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival is "City of Movies". The poster for this film festival was unveiled at the
press conference. The
picture shows the silhouettes of people walking in the city. The representative Shanghai cinema blends into the night sky of Shanghai, just like an upcoming movie, implying that in Shanghai, the birthplace of Chinese movies, we can encounter better times and a more beautiful life. .
Ticket sales for this film festival will begin at 12 noon on June 7 on the Taopiaopiao platform.
The global film call for this year’s film festival has collected more than 3,700 films from 105 countries and regions to register for competition or exhibition. Among the 2,224 films registered for competition, 1,375 were world premieres, 390 were international premieres, and the first The number of screenings continues to grow.
screenings will be held in 47 theaters in 16 districts in Shanghai.
This year's film festival will plan a "walking with movies" city walking route, recommending movie fans to go to the movies to enjoy the beauty of the city.
Offline screenings of previous film festivals©Wang Kai
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France and the China-France Cultural Tourism Year. This year’s film festival will plan a French film week and select outstanding French works from major international film festivals in the past year. , showing the audience the diverse perspectives and social aspects of contemporary French films.
The "Belt and Road" Film Week will focus on Latin American culture this year, and the screenings will continue to be oriented to the Yangtze River Delta.
Offline screenings of previous “Belt and Road” Film Week ©Wang Kai
This year’s Asian Newcomer Unit will focus on “Inheritance·Prospect” and set up a series of activities such as screenings, forums, and awards. The short video unit of
, which celebrates its fifth anniversary, was renamed the "Mini Film Unit" this year. The unit has currently collected more than 1,300 entries from more than 70 countries and regions.
The future cinema unit of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, which is cooperating with Shanghai Putuo District, will rely on AR, VR, MR and other imaging technologies to plan the screening of XR works, bringing a more diverse immersive interactive experience to the public.
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Diverse audiovisuals, Shanghai blooms
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The poster screen of the 29th Shanghai TV Festival vaguely shows Shanghai's cultural landmark Oriental Pearl TV Tower - one of the era's witnesses of the development of China's radio and television industry. The
picture captures the changes in the spherical lighting landscape on the Oriental Pearl TV Tower through real shots, showing the current development trend of diversified television media and diversified program content.
The Magnolia Award selection call for this TV Festival received nearly a thousand entries from 57 countries and regions on five continents around the world. In the
TV series category, about 190 Chinese dramas were registered, and overseas dramas increased from nearly 110 in the previous year to nearly 170, achieving a 53.7% increase; the number of registered works in the documentary and cartoon categories also increased significantly, and in In these two sections where Chinese and foreign works compete together, the proportion of overseas works is increasing year by year; in the documentary category, foreign works registered this year accounted for 60%, well-known overseas TV organizations such as BBC, Sony, HBO Warner Discovery Channel, Disney National Geographic , all selected high-quality programs to participate in the selection.
Previous TV Festival Events©Wang Kai
This year’s offline screenings for the benefit of the people have carefully planned family series, sports competitions, Chinese comics, overseas popular dramas and other units, and will be open to the public free of charge in about 20 art venues distributed in 16 districts across the city , through the weaving of audio-visual content and urban space, giving "watching TV" in the multi-screen era more exciting fashion elements and social experience.
will be screened offline to benefit the people © Wang Kai
The Magnolia Forum will also start thinking about new quality technologies. The content of the theme forum will involve "the intelligent integration of ultra-high-definition video and all media" and "focusing on new media productivity" aigc use and governance" and "a new blueprint for animation development driven by technology and art" and other more subdivided creative fields. The
TV market event will target the future trends in the field of radio and television and the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as AIGC. Focusing on the theme of "high quality, full media, big audio and video", it will hold new quality radio and television production and broadcasting technology, district and county integrated media communication, and AI technology empowerment. Technical seminars on high-tech audio-visual production and other aspects.
Previous TV Marketing Activities©Wang Kai
The "Magnolia Blooms" award ceremony will be moved to the Lingang Performing Arts Center.
At that time, the brightest stars in the TV industry at home and abroad over the past year will gather in this "young city, the city of young people". While drawing an end to this TV festival, it will also inject heat into the new city with an industry feast. In order to achieve the same frequency resonance of cultural vitality and urban development.
New Performing Arts Studio
Author: Wu Xiang
Picture: Photo provided by the organizer
Editor: Xiaokai
© Xinmin Evening News Department of Culture