The film "Our Forty Years" produced by Zhengzhou Newspaper Group Zhengzhou Evening News Co., Ltd. and Henan Dream Come True Film and Television Production Co., Ltd. will be released nationwide on August 16, 2019. The film will be released by Li Yixiang and Bao Zhenjiang. , Li Zhenwei, and Huo Meng directed, closely linked to major time points, from the perspective of ordinary people to show the great changes in Henan during the 40 years of reform and opening up. The film has been shortlisted for the first Montgomery International Film Festival and the 7th Vancouver Chinese Film Festival.
shows the life and emotions of Henan people
In the 40 years of reform and opening up, the significant improvement in material life has a great impact on people's lives. "Our Forty Years" looks for a cross-section of life and uses artistic film methods to refract the emotions of the characters in this land of China to show "change" and "unchanged". The film adopts a three-stage structure, which separates the three places, Luoyang and Zhengzhou, focusing on friendship, family affection and love respectively, and uses unique audiovisual language to show the life and emotion of Henan people. The
films are all participated by Henan-born directors, screenwriters and actors, and show the cultural symbols and landmark buildings of Henan in a way that Henan people tell Henan stories well. The first story "Baolong" was mainly shot in Kaifeng, telling the changes of the protagonists from their childhood to the present forty years. In order to better express the theme, the film went to New York Times Square to shoot; the second story "Los Angeles" "Father and Son" is mainly set in Luoyang, telling the story of a pair of father and son who are separated from each other. The contradictions and conflicts that broke out when the son went home to pay homage to his mother's third anniversary; the third story "Zhengzhou Love Story" was set in Zhengzhou, and it was about The story of Zhang Ming, a Henan native who works in Guangdong, had to stay in Zhengzhou due to the transit of typhoon "Mangosteen". Through the warmth between people and an unexpected love, it shows the inclusive mentality of Henan people.
The three-stage structure adopted in "Our Forty Years" is the first of its kind in Henan local film creation. Its structure is similar to the 70-year tribute film "Me and My Motherland" after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The latter has seven stages. The former is three-stage. Each director uses his many years of artistic accumulation to express his love for life, so that each story always has its own warmth and unique highlights.
shortlisted for major international film festivals
On August 11, the 5-day 7th Vancouver Chinese Film Festival has kicked off in Vancouver, Canada, and the first Montgomery International Film Festival will also be held in Alaba, USA from August 18th to 25th. Montgomery, MA. Regardless of the result of "Our Forty Years" participating in the film festival, this is an important milestone for Henan Film.
It is reported that in addition to being shortlisted in two major foreign film festivals, the film has also been invited to the 15th China-US Film Festival and China-US TV Festival. The film festival will announce the finalists information in early October and will be available on November 4-30. Held in Hollywood, USA. The film festival is directed by the State Film Administration of China, supported by the State Administration of Radio and Television of China, the Producers Association of the United States, the Western American Screenwriters Association, and the Chinese Embassy in the United States. It is the only one to receive a congratulatory letter from the two presidents of the United States Bush and Obama , And also the first Sino-US film cultural exchange event included in the annual report of the US Congress. In 2014 and 2016, the China-US Film Festival was twice included in the list of the results of high-level consultations on American cultural exchanges.
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