'Communication knows no boundaries. Movies reflect real life and will also affect our lives. This makes watching movies meaningful,’’ says festival founder Song Wen.
Led by jury president Joan Chen and filled across its many sections by local A-listers including Yao Chen, Jackson Yee and Zhang Songwen, the jury was wise to the mood — and to the youth — with both those films picking up big awards on the festival’s closing night.there was the Best Animated/Experimental Short Film.
Festival founder and head Song Wen walked away happy that the event “continues to discover and cultivate more powerful storytellers, and to help young filmmakers turn these stories into reality.” The festival’s inspired First Frame program and competition focuses on the work of female directors or stories about women and its main award went to the quasi-documentary. It sees a married woman talking about her various affairs and how she sees her role as wife, mother and woman in contemporary China, and the director Alan said she wanted to leave her audience questioned what was real in the movie and what was invented. Mission accomplished.
There was also a high dose of red-carpet glamour with the appearance of director Wuershan and the stars of his current domestic box office leader, a fantasy epic the studio claims took about 10,000 people about 10 years to make and one the Chinese film industry as a whole hopes will shape the future of the country’s blockbusters in terms visual style and quality — and box office returns.
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