In 2004, the Shanghai International Film Festival added an Asian newcomer section in addition to the Golden Goblet Award selection. Since then, new filmmakers from Asia have had a new stage to shine and show off their talents. Over the past 20 years, this platform has continued t

In 2004, the Shanghai International Film Festival added an Asian newcomer section in addition to the Golden Goblet Award selection. Since then, new filmmakers from Asia have had a new stage to shine and show off their talents. Over the past 20 years, this platform has continued to search for new forces in Asian films and has witnessed many emerging filmmakers grow into the backbone of Asian films. Filmmakers such as Ning Hao, Wanma Caidan, Xin Haicheng, Cao Baoping, Song Taijia, and Li Xiaofeng all gained their earliest audiences here.

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The teachers and children of "Yaxin" have all returned to their parents' homes

From the opening video, images of young faces "full of collagen" appeared, leading the guests to walk through Asia again. The 20-year journey of the new newcomer unit. In the past 20 years, newcomers from various Asian countries have gained the attention of their peers in Asia and the world for the first time in Shanghai. They came here with their debut films, received praise and affirmation, strengthened their creative direction, and then continued to grow and become a leader in the film creation trend in their country and even Asia. This is irreplaceable when looking back at the Asia-Singapore stage today. significance. At the roundtable forum "Asian Newcomers·Growing Together" in the first half of

, the director and screenwriter from Iran, the winner of the Best Film and Best Director in the Asian Newcomer Section in 2014, Reza Dormishyan, was shortlisted for the 2015 Li Xiaofeng, who was nominated for the best screenwriter in the Asian Newcomer Unit, Liu Juan, who won the Special Jury Award for the Asian Newcomer Unit in 2013, and Shen Yang, the founder of the Asian Newcomer Unit, jointly reviewed their journey as "newcomers".

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Iranian Director Reza Dormishyan: I still remember spending a particularly wonderful night in Asia and New Zealand ten years ago. He proudly introduced to the guests that his movie "I'm Not Angry!" "Won three awards in the Asia-News category that year, and he invested the prize money from Asia-News in the production of his next film. And Yasin even "brought me the next new movie!" Dormithiyan said that it was precisely because Yasin won the award that he got the opportunity to shoot another movie.

Dormysyan still remembers that when the film premiered in Shanghai, the enthusiastic interaction of the Shanghai audience gave him a particularly novel feeling. "After the screening of my film, the host asked the audience if they had any questions, and all the audience raised their hands. I have participated in many film festivals and have never seen such a scene. I think this is also Shanghai Film Unique characteristics of the festival audience. "

Reza Dormishyan

Director Li Xiaofeng was shortlisted for Asia News in 2015 with " Girl Nezha". This film was a project that started as a venture capital investment at the Shanghai International Film Festival. , experienced the baptism of Yaxin; after that, Li Xiaofeng's " Sing Lang Jing " was shortlisted for the Golden Lord Competition, and became a newcomer supported by Siff Young. Li Xiaofeng has experienced all aspects of the Shanghai International Film Festival.

He still remembers the sense of accomplishment when he received 100,000 yuan from Shanghai International Film Festival Venture Capital in 2013. "This 100,000 yuan seems to be very little, but it is very crucial. It allows you to take root in the industry, and you use the first A sum of money is money given to you by the film festival, which has a different meaning. "

Li Xiaofeng

Liu Juan, who has just completed her feature film, also recalled filming her first movie " Before First Love" at the age of 28. "It was a youth film, but youth films were not a particularly preferred genre in the Chinese market at that time." Liu Juan came to Asia Sinica with some doubts. She remembered "we had three awards that time." They were all women. That experience made me determined about one thing - in the process of film creation, if the work is good enough, it will be treated more fairly. This starting point is particularly good."

Liu Juan recently logged into Weibo, which she had not seen for a long time, and found that some viewers left her messages after watching "First Love" and asked about subsequent creations. "For a young film director, its driving force is a lasting process, this is very important. "

Liu Juan

The team of "Returning to My Motherland" includes not only the players who have broken out of their shells on this stage, but also the Bole who discovered them. Shen Yang, the producer who founded

and witnessed the growth of Yaxin, Returning to this occasion, she said she was so excited that she was "incoherent". At the scene, she told everyone about her "entrepreneurial" past 20 years ago.

In 2013, Shen Yang entered the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the entire organizing committee team only had 7 people. Sharing all the content of the entire film festival. In order to learn from the experience of overseas colleagues, she had the opportunity to visit the Busan Film Festival, which was very popular at the time. Unexpectedly, she was "bigly stimulated" when she came back.

At that time, South Korea's economy and urban construction were not at its best. Busan is prosperous, and Busan is a small place with extremely inconvenient transportation, but there, the steaming momentum of the industry, the arrogance of holding a banner claiming to be "the harbor of Asian movies", and the camaraderie of Korean filmmakers have made Shen Yang was a little unconvinced.

"As soon as we came back, we thought that as a category A film festival, we have the responsibility to create a new brand. Whether it was the confidence of the city that held the film festival at that time or the scale of the entire Chinese film industry, it gave those who held the film festival a sense of confidence and responsibility. You must establish such a right to speak. "

Shen Yang is very pleased to see that the newcomers who have come out of here are now growing up: "Newcomers must be the vitality of an industry. No matter whether it is an update of aesthetic trends or an iterative update of the industry, it will It's because newcomers have to express themselves bravely and break the previous rules. The new world must be driven by the bravery of new people. "

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Japanese director Shunji Iwai, chairman of the Asian Newcomer Unit in 2011, also "went home". He said, "I participated in the selection of the Asian Newcomer Award in 2011, and the Newcomer Award Section that I see now is still full of vitality. ", very happy. Shen Yang remembered that when he was asked to be the chairman of the jury, he agreed immediately without any hesitation.

Iwai Shunji

Huang Jianxin, chairman of the 2021 Golden Goblet Award Main Competition Jury, as a good friend of Yaxin, also Let’s talk together. He remembered that 20 years ago, when Shen Yang first started to create Yaxin, he warned that this matter would be difficult. “The resources of a film festival have just been established and have not been established for a long time. How to combine them with the resources of the enterprise? How to promote it requires a lot of thought. "

Huang Jianxin appreciated this "great thing" and said, "The Shanghai Film Festival has persisted in doing it. " He revealed that he had a chat with director Tian Zhuangzhuang a few days ago, "What topic did they talk about? Film is a matter of one generation, not an individual matter. In a certain historical period, it will definitely transform into a state where another generation is the subject. "Thus, Huang Jianxin highly affirmed the significance of the Asia New Award, "It promotes a generation to form a force as a whole. ”

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The new wave of Asian films is on the road

The second part of the roundtable forum of the Asian Film Salon that day focused on another more macro topic. Big names from the film industry discussed the role of outstanding young creators in Asia. Cultivation, to the prospect of more film cooperation space between Asian countries in the future.

Director Huang Jianxin said that Asian newcomers mean the present and future of film, “We need to know the past, but this is the responsibility of people of different generations. different tasks. "

ai has almost become an indispensable topic in this film festival whenever there is a confrontation of opinions. As a future-oriented unit, it will naturally not be avoided. Huang Jianxin believes that, "With AI and open software systems, Anyone can become a director. From a pan-cultural perspective, we may face the emergence of hundreds of thousands, millions or ten million directors, which is different from the narrow profession we used to talk about.With so many "pan-directors" emerging, how can movies become good? This is what Yaxin needs to explore. "

Iwai Shunji also said that when he last came to Asia to serve as a judge, the film industry was still an industry with a relatively higher professional threshold, but now more and more new opportunities and means have been put in front of young people. "In Asia, Creative filmmakers are constantly improving the quality of movies. Over the past few decades, I have had the feeling that as long as you have passion and talent, you can create good works. At the same time, new technologies such as AI are constantly evolving. For example, the current real-time translation function can make international cooperation smoother. " He said that when he cooperated with the Chinese side " Hello, Zhihua " a few years ago, he communicated with the team at the shooting site, "I did not feel any obstacles. The knowledge and common sense of film production, I feel that it is very different from the Chinese side." There is no gap in the team, and our cooperation was very smooth until the end. "

Japanese producer Genki Kawamura, who participated in " Chinatown Detective 3", said that he hopes to find an "Asian concept" in the future. "It can be connected with the Asian concept. Everyone has a common thought or a fundamental Something that I think exists. He gave examples of films such as " your name. " in which he participated, "Many audiences in China have watched this movie. From these movies, we can think of the common themes of Asian movies. If we can think about this, If so, then there will be more possibilities for cooperation between us.

He also said that if he can work with a Chinese creative team to create movies in the future, "I think we can not classify it as a Chinese production or a Japanese production, but treat it as an Asian movie." "

Kawamura Genki

Jiang Zhiqiang, the gold medal producer of Hong Kong, China, said that in the 1980s and 1990s, many Hong Kong movies were not shot in Hong Kong, but in Southeast Asia, and later in the 1990s they came to the mainland. Jiang Zhiqiang hopes that "many places in Asia Producers can come to China to cooperate", "because this matter will help the whole of Asia." He said, "Films from every place must go out and cooperate with different people from other places. This has happened before and should be done in the future. More. "

Jiang Zhiqiang

Li Jie, president of Alibaba Pictures, will introduce the jointly released " Weekly Elimination of Three Evils " this year as an excellent model of cooperation in Asia. "The Hong Kong director, the filming was completed in Taiwan, while in the mainland The box office is much higher than that in Hong Kong and Taiwan. "

Li Jie revealed that in Alibaba Pictures' new strategy, he proposed the vision of transforming the company from a Chinese film company to an Asian film company in the future. In order to achieve this goal, Alibaba Pictures plans to Ensure that at least 30% of film productions originate from Asia or are created by Asian directors.

"Perhaps, we can also launch an Asian film talent alliance with the best local film companies in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Instead of casting movies together, you can discover Asian international movies shot in Asia. Several companies jointly distribute them in Asia, which may become a very good model. "Li Jie said.

Li Jie

On the forum, various possibilities and imaginations were put forward, and some people also made conclusions from the experience of past international cooperation. Huang Jianxin said, "Asians are 4.6 billion, accounting for 62% of the world's population. %. "Based on this population figure alone, Asian audiences deserve to be more actively pursued by filmmakers. Li Jie hopes that through Asia Sinica's platform, "in the next 20 years, Asian films will become the best in the world's films. Huang Jianxin sighed, "Let us sit here today, discuss together, and re-understand movies together. This is the meaning of the Asia New Awards." "