Cover News Reporter Zhou Qin Shanghai Report
html On June 16, the second Golden Goblet Award judges meeting of the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival was held. The judges of the Golden Goblet Award Asian Newcomer Unit, Documentary Unit, Cartoon Unit, and Short Film Unit appeared. This year coincides with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Asian New Talent Unit. More and more newcomers have emerged from this platform, which has also injected new vitality into the development of the film industry. html For more than 0 years, the Asian Newcomer Unit has been committed to supporting the new forces of Asian films and stimulating the diverse vitality of Asian films. Recently, the well-received masterpieces " Diary of a Young Man ", "Going Away by Boat" and " Under the Sun " have been released. It was a finalist in the Asian Newcomer section of last year's Shanghai International Film Festival.
Golden Goblet Award Asian Newcomer Unit judges appear
Cao Baoping, chairman of the Asian Newcomer Unit jury this year, is also an "old friend" of the Asian Newcomer Unit. 18 years ago, Cao Baoping's "Glorious Fury" was shortlisted for the "Asian Newcomer" unit, and finally Won the special jury award. Now, Cao Baoping has also taken on the responsibility of supporting new directors and helping talented newcomers realize their dreams. "Newcomers have many more opportunities than we did at that time, because we now have many platforms, various film festivals, and many venture capital projects. We have many new shooting methods and methods."
Directed by Guan Hu, " A Man and a Woman " starring Ni Ni was shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Golden Goblet Award. Ni Ni also served as a judge for the Asian Newcomer unit. Ni Ni, who came to "study" said, "After each screening of the participating films, the judges have a brief discussion. Everyone judges whether the work is excellent from the perspective of the director, screenwriter, producer or actor, and the performance." Excellent or not, this is a particularly rare opportunity for me."
Ni Ni
Producer Shen Yang has witnessed the growth of the "Yaxin" unit. As the producer of films such as " Daytime Fireworks ", " Girl Nezha ", " Roadside Picnic " and other films, Shen Yang has led a group of new directors from Asia to the world stage. In Shen Yang’s view, the vitality of the film industry must come from newcomers and their creations: “The creation of films is a long process of transforming individual experiences into images. The first works created by newcomers often start from individual emotional experiences and life experiences. Starting from experience, this is a driving force. "But personal experience often has limitations. Creation itself must not only face your own experience, but also pay attention to others. "Pay attention to strange characters you are not familiar with, get along with these characters, and Falling in love with them is a particularly important prerequisite for creation. The simpler the emotion, the more touching it is. "
At the beginning of this year, Vincent's video tool sora made a shocking debut. Some filmmakers used sora to create short films with different themes. The quality is amazing. People are amazed that the film industry is once again shocked by the potential of AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content). Tutorials such as "Generate AI animated movies in 5 minutes" and "Learn AI animation in one go" can be found everywhere on the Internet. In this regard, the chairman of the animation unit jury and French animation director Benjamin Rene poured "cold water". He believed that AI should be used as a tool, and that robots should not completely replace human work. “I have yet to see an animated film entirely produced by AI. The production of animation still requires human participation. I personally don’t want to see a film entirely produced by AI, because I don’t think there is anything in it. Soul, no real emotions."
Cartoon unit judge appeared
Hungarian animation director and screenwriter Reka Bucci also agreed with Benjamin's view, "AI can be used as a tool, but it is not the main body of artistic creation. ”
(picture according to Shanghai International Film Festival Organizing Committee)
