A group photo of the judges at the 29th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards Judges Meeting
In the Chinese TV series section that attracts the most attention from the audience, several judges have talked about their impressions of the shortlisted works. In terms of the award criteria, all the judges have attached great importance to it. The artistic appeal of the work.
Yan Jiangang, chairman of the TV series category jury of the 29th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards, said that regardless of the subject matter and type, as long as it is an outstanding work created by an outstanding team, the jury will value it equally. He said he was very pleased that this year’s judges are all senior practitioners and industry experts. “Everyone is highly consistent in their positions and opinions, aesthetics and values, and has reached a basic consensus on judging. For individual awards, everyone may have different perspectives and evaluations, but they can still win.” On the basis of full discussion, a consensus was reached, and the award was ultimately determined by votes. "
actor and Chinese TV drama unit judge Hai Qing believes that this year's shortlisted works are more diversified and have "professional achievements." Han Zhong, art director of
and judge of the Chinese TV drama unit, believes that the shortlisted works this year are all good at visual presentation, showing multi-angle aesthetic display, and the display of oriental aesthetics has reached a new height.
In the exchange in the documentary category, the Q&A focused on the challenges posed to documentaries in the Internet age. Xiao Han, a judge in this year's documentary category and director of "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City," talked about his thoughts on documentary creation in the short video era. "Perhaps today's audiences are not patient enough to watch films that are too long. This is indeed a challenge for us long-form documentary directors. But we should try to adjust our creative methods, embrace this era, and use our works to influence more people. This is our mission.” Wei Keran Channer, chairman of the
documentary jury, believes that authenticity is the brand of documentary. "The world today is filled with countless information all the time, and people get lost in it. Therefore, authenticity is even more precious and important. All of this prompts us to seek truth and filter out falsehoods. This is the creative element of our documentaries, especially independent documentaries. In addition, various media make everything that is happening in the world close to us, maybe happening in our living rooms, so it is even more necessary for us documentarians to digest and tell good stories at a close distance.”
Cartoons. During the communication session, we talked about love. Frédéric Pieche, a leader in the French animation industry and chairman of this year’s animation jury, recalled his work experience. His first animation studio was in Shanghai, and he also worked in Hong Kong, China. In my career, "The world is constantly changing, but people are still trying to understand and appreciate different cultures. We can have different views, but for the common love, we still work together in mutual understanding."
"Chinese Tales" 》Chief director and animation category judge Chen Liaoyu also confessed the hard work of making animation, "A few months and a year are considered a long time to make a movie, but for an animated film, three to five years is normal, and ten years of production is not surprising. In Under this premise, if there is no love, it is physically impossible to persevere." He joked about why "there are many couples in the animation industry." "Maybe only couples can persevere in the long journey of animation and not separate." , animation is one of the forms of artistic expression that can best break down cultural and geographical barriers.
