Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) From September 19th to 22nd, the Green Onion Project of the China Film Directors Association helps Chinese films accumulate young creative power and launches the 2024 Green Onion Project "Before Becoming a Director - The Reality and Fiction

Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) From September 19th to 22nd, the Green Onion Project of the China Film Directors Association helps Chinese films accumulate youth creative power and launches the 2024 Green Onion Project "Before Becoming a Director - The Reality and Fiction of Films" film The master class and film festival series focus on the relationship between film and technology in reality and fiction, discover more creative visions for the future, and help Chinese films and young creators.

024 Group photo at the “Reality and Fiction in Films” themed forum on the first day of the Green Onion Project Film Festival.

html On September 19, the Green Onion Project Film Master Class officially announced the lineup of this year’s master class. The four green masters this year are respectively the president of the China Film Directors Association, director, screenwriter, and producer Jia Zhangke , director, screenwriter, and producer Hirokazu Kore-eda, director, actor, screenwriter, and producer Zhang Sylvia , and film scholar , Dai Jinhua, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Department of Peking University. At the same time, Hirokazu Kore-eda is also the second green international master after the famous actress Tilda Swinton . Afterwards, the 2024 Green Onion Project "Before Becoming a Director" special project will invite several film masters to conduct film master classes one after another to answer questions for more young creators.

html On September 20, the green onion project "Before Becoming a Director - Reality and Fiction in Film" theme film exhibition opened at the China Film Archive Art Cinema (Xiaoxi Tiandian). This film festival specially invited director, producer, and founder of the Green Onion Project Li Shaohong , film producer, planner, and chairman of the Green Onion Project Wang Hongwei, and film producer, curator, and director of the Film Art Research Center of Shanghai University Marco Muller , Kore-eda Hirokazu, Sylvia Chang, Dai Jinhua, producers Zheng Jing, Liu Lei, Liu Xiaozhao, green director representatives Li Gen, Long Lingyun, Gao Peng, Geng Zihan, actors Xie Chengze, Niu Chao, Qiu Tian, ​​ Zhou Meijun, Huang Ziqi and many others Industry figures active on the front lines of the film industry participated in this event.

Hirokazu Kore-eda shares his creative experience on the forum.

Senior filmmakers such as Li Shaohong, Wang Hongwei, Marco Müller, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Sylvia Chang and Dai Jinhua participated in the "Reality and Fiction in Films" theme forum on the first day of the 2024 Green Onion Film Festival. Li Shaohong expressed the current concerns of many young creators on the topic of "reality and fiction in movies". Wang Hongwei pointed out that the two concepts of documentaries and feature films need to be taken seriously, and realism and realistic themes must also be distinguished. Marco Muller shared the changing trends in reality, recording and imagination among current creators. Hirokazu Kore-eda used his own works as examples to share the psychological changes from documentaries to feature films. Sylvia Chang shared some unexpected real moments and unique experiences during filming. Dai Jinhua redefined "reality and fiction in movies" from the perspective of literary criticism. The six creators brought their thoughts and discoveries based on film creation to young directors and movie fans, encouraging young people to use lenses to record life and times, and to use fiction and other techniques to explore a deeper spiritual power of realism.

The opening film on the first day of the film festival is from the "Master Revisiting Unit" " keeps moving ". It is directed and written by the green master Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has won the Best Director and other awards at the 3rd Asian Film Awards. This Green Onion Project Film Festival will next bring four films directed by Green Onion in the "Green Onion Focus Unit", namely " If One Day I Will Leave You " directed by Li Gen of the 3rd Green Onion Project, director of the 4th Green Onion Project Long Lingyun's "Where to Grow", the fourth Green Onion Project director guest " old gun " and the fifth Green Onion Project director Geng Zihan's "Little White Boat". Young directors use a new perspective to explore creative paths for more young people.

editor, Tian Sini

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