The "Technology Unit" of the Beijing Film Festival opens online, and 34 international popular science films are free to watch

Beijing News Express (Reporter Zhang Lu) The "Technology Unit" of the 10th Beijing International Film Festival and the special effects film exhibition at the China Science and Technology Museum opened today (August 23). The reporter was informed that from August 23 to September 13, the "Film Screening Section" will screen 28 wonderful films from 7 countries, as well as 6 water drop award-winning science fiction short films. All screened films will be screened free of charge to audiences on the official website of China Digital Science Museum.

"Light up the stars in your heart" fan salon event was held today. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photo

The "Science and Technology Unit" of the Beijing International Film Festival is hosted by the China Science and Technology Museum and will focus on the role of science and technology films in improving the scientific quality of the public. Under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, this year's activities are characterized by sharing on the cloud and popularizing science to benefit the people. As the first event of the "Science and Technology Unit" section of popular science activities, the "Light Up the Stars in Your Heart" fan salon event kicked off the film festival today.

From August 23 to September 13, the "movie screening section" that fans are most concerned about will show 28 wonderful films from 7 countries, as well as 6 water drop award-winning science fiction short films including "Klein Bottle". Among them, 10 films such as "The Secret of the Pacific" and "The Fantasy Adventure of Grizzly and Squirrel" met for the first time with Chinese audiences, and there were 2 films that premiered globally. All screened films will be screened free of charge to the audience on the official website of the China Digital Science and Technology Museum (the official website of the festival: https://www.cdstm.cn/subjects/dyj2020/).

At the same time, this "Science and Technology Unit" teamed up with the Beijing Planetarium and the Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, Tianjin, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and other places to jointly create 14 online science popularization activities, inviting scientific experts to be guests and in-depth interpretation of the science behind popular science films , And more live events to interact with the audience in real time.

"Technology Unit" will also hold special effects film industry annual conferences, special effects cinema new technology development forums, new film promotion conferences and other industry conferences in the form of online conferences to build a platform for industry communication. The

reporter learned that the star cinema of the China Science and Technology Museum, the Dome Cinema, has been opened to the public on August 22, and will show exciting dome movies such as "Hello Earth" and "Next Station in Space". The giant screen cinema, the new 4D cinema and the dynamic cinema will also open in September.

Beijing News reporter Zhang Lu Coordinating reporter Pu Feng

editor Bai Shuang proofreading Liu Baoqing