On November 28, the launch ceremony of the first Asian Art Film Festival was successfully held at the Hengqin Culture and Art Center. More than 400 guests from the domestic and foreign film and television industries attended this event. The first Asian Art Film Festival Awards Ceremony is scheduled to be held in Macau in late April 2025. The award named after the "Golden Haiyan Award" will begin collecting films from around the world from now on.
The launch ceremony has a unique format, including a celebrity red carpet ceremony and an exhibition of 100 New China classic movie posters; a Macanese band playing intangible indigenous Portuguese music and a romantic cocktail party.
The reporter learned from the organizer that the purpose of the Asian Art Film Festival is to discover and promote films with distinctive artistic styles and unique artistic explorations in the Asia-Pacific region and even the world, which will promote the exchange and integration of multiculturalism and promote the film and television industry. play an active role in the development and cultivation of outstanding film talents.
The chairman of the jury of the first Asian Art Film Festival is Mr. Marco Muller, an internationally renowned film master. The judges on the jury include American Academy Award judge and 88th Academy Award winner David White; famous photographer and China's only Oscar judge Zhao Fei; fifth-generation director and Venice International Film Festival Gold Award winner Liu Miaomiao; famous director , Golden Rooster Award winner, Wang Rui, director of the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy; famous director, photographer, Golden Rooster Award and Golden Horse Award winner Zheng Hua, in addition to Li Lichi, Lin Daqing, Zheng Hao and other well-known film figures serve as consultants and planner.
It is understood that the film festival organizing committee has carefully designed 9 special award units based on the characteristics of art films to encourage originality, exploration and diversity in style and subject matter. For example, the [Pioneer Wave Unit] aims to reward artistic films that pursue the ultimate in stylization; [Country Chronicles Unit] aims to find roots in the countryside and discover the beauty of hometown; [Women’s Light Unit] emphasizes female narratives, female perspectives, and female stories; [Bay Area The Sound of Waves unit] tells the story of the Greater Bay Area and the historical changes of the Greater Bay Area; [Time The current generation unit] focuses on the main theme films of the spirit of the times and heroism; the drama film unit is a film work that combines Eastern and Western stages and light and shadow art; the fantasy animation unit selects science fiction films with unconstrained and whimsical ideas, Cartoons; [Discovery and Pursuit Unit] is specially set up for documentaries.
It is worth mentioning that the Asian Art Film Festival Organizing Committee has specially set up the [Third Eye - Artist Jury Award Unit], which is a team composed of directors, actors, screenwriters, photographers, artists, producers people, musicians The "Artist Jury" is composed of outstanding people from all aspects of society, including artists, dancers, hosts, sports stars, media reporters, entrepreneurs, etc., aiming to penetrate the jury's voice monopolized by film authorities and express their own independent art Judging results, let the popular film get the honor it deserves.
In addition, the Asian Art Film Festival Organizing Committee announced the "Macao Cultural Communication Ambassador" at the launch ceremony, with Macao's outstanding young actor Liang Hongli as the "Macao Cultural Communication Ambassador". Li Jiaming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, issued a letter of appointment to him.
Yang Jianhua, chairman of the Asian Art Film Festival Organizing Committee, said in an interview with reporters that the criteria for award-winning films at the Asian Art Film Festival are not only about the market, not just about the box office, but reject the temptation of the world and compromise with it, which is different from the previous homogeneity. commercial film festival.
It is reported that the Asian Art Film Festival is hosted by the Asian Art Film Association and the Macau International Art Film Association, operated by Jin Haiyan (Macau) Film and Television Co., Ltd., and supported by the People's Livelihood Affairs Bureau of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau Deep Cooperation Zone.
On November 28, the launch ceremony of the first Asian Art Film Festival was successfully held at the Hengqin Culture and Art Center. More than 400 guests from the domestic and foreign film and television industries attended this event. The first Asian Art Film Festival Awards Ceremony is scheduled to be held in Macau in late April 2025. The award named after the "Golden Haiyan Award" will begin collecting films from around the world from now on.
The launch ceremony has a unique format, including a celebrity red carpet ceremony and an exhibition of 100 New China classic movie posters; a Macanese band playing intangible indigenous Portuguese music and a romantic cocktail party.
The reporter learned from the organizer that the purpose of the Asian Art Film Festival is to discover and promote films with distinctive artistic styles and unique artistic explorations in the Asia-Pacific region and even the world, which will promote the exchange and integration of multiculturalism and promote the film and television industry. play an active role in the development and cultivation of outstanding film talents.
The chairman of the jury of the first Asian Art Film Festival is Mr. Marco Muller, an internationally renowned film master. The judges on the jury include American Academy Award judge and 88th Academy Award winner David White; famous photographer and China's only Oscar judge Zhao Fei; fifth-generation director and Venice International Film Festival Gold Award winner Liu Miaomiao; famous director , Golden Rooster Award winner, Wang Rui, director of the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy; famous director, photographer, Golden Rooster Award and Golden Horse Award winner Zheng Hua, in addition to Li Lichi, Lin Daqing, Zheng Hao and other well-known film figures serve as consultants and planner.
It is understood that the film festival organizing committee has carefully designed 9 special award units based on the characteristics of art films to encourage originality, exploration and diversity in style and subject matter. For example, the [Pioneer Wave Unit] aims to reward artistic films that pursue the ultimate in stylization; [Country Chronicles Unit] aims to find roots in the countryside and discover the beauty of hometown; [Women’s Light Unit] emphasizes female narratives, female perspectives, and female stories; [Bay Area The Sound of Waves unit] tells the story of the Greater Bay Area and the historical changes of the Greater Bay Area; [Time The current generation unit] focuses on the main theme films of the spirit of the times and heroism; the drama film unit is a film work that combines Eastern and Western stages and light and shadow art; the fantasy animation unit selects science fiction films with unconstrained and whimsical ideas, Cartoons; [Discovery and Pursuit Unit] is specially set up for documentaries.
It is worth mentioning that the Asian Art Film Festival Organizing Committee has specially set up the [Third Eye - Artist Jury Award Unit], which is a team composed of directors, actors, screenwriters, photographers, artists, producers people, musicians The "Artist Jury" is composed of outstanding people from all aspects of society, including artists, dancers, hosts, sports stars, media reporters, entrepreneurs, etc., aiming to penetrate the jury's voice monopolized by film authorities and express their own independent art Judging results, let the popular film get the honor it deserves.
In addition, the Asian Art Film Festival Organizing Committee announced the "Macao Cultural Communication Ambassador" at the launch ceremony, with Macao's outstanding young actor Liang Hongli as the "Macao Cultural Communication Ambassador". Li Jiaming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, issued a letter of appointment to him.
Yang Jianhua, chairman of the Asian Art Film Festival Organizing Committee, said in an interview with reporters that the criteria for award-winning films at the Asian Art Film Festival are not only about the market, not just about the box office, but reject the temptation of the world and compromise with it, which is different from the previous homogeneity. commercial film festival.
It is reported that the Asian Art Film Festival is hosted by the Asian Art Film Association and the Macau International Art Film Association, operated by Jin Haiyan (Macau) Film and Television Co., Ltd., and supported by the People's Livelihood Affairs Bureau of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau Deep Cooperation Zone.
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Written and written by Nandu reporter Zhu Pengjing