The Beijing College Student Film Festival sounds like an informal pheasant award, but it is still quite famous in China.
And it not only has the main venue in Beijing, but also has several branch venues in other cities, with many universities across the country participating.
Nowadays, college students have also become a group of moviegoers that cannot be ignored in the film market.
All procedures are similar to those of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, and the entire film festival lasts for half a month.
Of course, the red carpet is indispensable. After waiting in the waiting area for half an hour, the crew stepped onto the stage in the predetermined order.
The crew of "Frequency of Life and Death" appeared in the middle, neither forward nor backward, not a good position nor a bad position.
"It's our turn."
After saying hello, Li Qian stepped onto the stage with Deng Chao, Yuan Quan, Wang Qianyuan, Tong Liya, and Lei Jiayin.
After all, it is a regular film festival, and everyone who can come is here, and it doesn’t matter if they show their faces.
With a smile on his face, he walked slowly and slowly towards the stage in front of him.
There were two rows of media and one row of spectators, and there was a constant clicking sound. The fans kept cheering, but you couldn't hear what they were shouting.
From time to time he stopped to wave to the fans and put up some POSS to the media.
Following the host's introduction, Li Qian and others walked onto the stage, asked the media to take some photos, signed their names, and then stepped off the stage to find their seats.
The red carpet is still going on, it may take a while.
The location arranged by the organizer for the crew of "Frequency of Life and Death" is also acceptable and quite satisfactory.
Next door is the crew of "Left and Right", the famous sixth-generation director Wang Xiaoshuai.
This movie has just been released, as for the box office...
For sixth-generation directors, there is no need to worry about box office.
But it won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival before.
On the right is the crew of "Park", directed by a talented woman from Peking University.
I said hello to the two directors. Among the actors in the two crews, Zhang Jiayi, Yu Nan, and Wang Xuebin were all relatively familiar.
But I wasn’t familiar with them, so I said hello, and it turns out that the three crews are still competitors.
"Frequency of Life and Death" received three nominations for Best Picture, Best First Feature, and Best Visual Effects, but there was no individual award.
"Left and Right" also received nominations for Best Director and Best Picture.
"Park" won best picture and best debut film.
But it’s not a deliberate arrangement. No matter where you go, there will be competitors around you.
Excluding those creative awards and art awards, there are too few other awards, including no supporting actor award or professional award.
With so many awards, it’s hard not to overlap.
"Li Qian, how many awards do you think we can win?"
Tong Liya, who was participating in the film festival for the first time, was a little surprised at first. After looking around, she became a little bored and started thinking about what she could gain.
"How many more are there?"
Li Qian was speechless, "You are buying pork. You can buy as many kilograms as you want."
You can't just take it if you want, it depends on what others give you.
Next to him, Deng Chao came over in a low voice and said, "Best debut film should be fine. There is no nomination for best director. I guess the most popular director is also directed by Li."
"The awards haven't been awarded yet, so don't guess here. It's not yours to guess."
Li Qian shook his head and interrupted their guessing.
However, Li Qian's thoughts were similar to Deng Chao's. Even though this was a college student film festival, in fact, like all film festivals, there was an inside story.
The judges of the College Student Film Festival are mainly students from various universities in Beijing. Before the awards are judged, they will gather at the Art College of the Normal University for a week-long concentrated life.
These student judges basically cover various disciplines such as agriculture, forestry, medicine, and chemistry, and most of them have master's degrees, and a few have Ph.D.s. They can be said to be highly educated and have multiple perspectives.
Even though they are all college students, the selection will be based on the "tacky" perspective of most viewers.
In fact, on the contrary, every time during the selection, what they talked about was not the movie itself, but some things about human nature that they saw in the movie.
It is said that last year they spent a full hour discussing the feminism of the movie "The Box", but there was still no result. The discussion process did not talk about the movie itself at all.
Moreover, the judges and teachers of the University Student Film Festival make some balance every year. In their words, it is to take care of the emotions of the older generation of artists.
Generally speaking, the Jury Prize, the Organizing Committee Prize, as well as various types of creative awards, and the Art Exploration Award have nothing to do with commercial films. Sometimes there is one for Best Film and Best Director to take care of the older generation of artists.
The best actor, actress, most popular actor and actress are usually the same as dividing the cake.
However, if you encounter movies and actors that are too popular, you can make exceptions.
...
The entire red carpet lasted for an hour and a half, and then the awards ceremony began.
However, there was a performance at the beginning, as well as speeches by the organizers and leaders.
Several TV and movie actor and director awards have been awarded, as well as some creative awards.
At 7:57 p.m., the anti-Japanese film "Revolution to the End" won the Art Exploration Award.
The next award is related to Li Qian, the best debut film award.
Ma Liwen and Zhang Yibai took the stage to present awards.
A total of five films were nominated: "Frequency of Life and Death", "Park", "Blessed Ears", "Night Raid", and "Reverse Meteor".
Highlights from five movies began to play on the big screen in turn.
The beginning is the scene in "Frequency of Life and Death" where father and son Zhang Hanyu and Deng Chao, 20 years apart, are talking face to face via radio.
"The film that won the Best Debut Award at the 15th Beijing University Student Film Festival is!"
The awards ceremony had just begun, so the two of them didn't waste time. After a while, they immediately shouted out the title of the film.
""Frequency of Life and Death"!"
When the awards were announced, another exciting clip was immediately played on the big screen behind them.
"Pah, pah, pah, pah!!!!"
Amidst bursts of warm applause, the lights were also aimed at Li Qian's seat.
Li Qian stood up and thanked several crew members nearby. The crew of "Park" next to him also received a nomination for his debut film. However, facing "Frequency of Life and Death", which had a box office of over 100 million, he was convinced and gave his best wishes.
I walked onto the stage, shook hands with the two guests, and received the trophy and certificate for the best debut film from the two emcees.
After taking the microphone, Li Qian looked excited when facing so many colleagues in the audience and cameras from all angles.
"Thank you to the organizing committee and thank you to the college students."
"As a newcomer to the big screen, I did not expect that the first award in my life would come so quickly. Thank you for your encouragement as a new director. I will take this encouragement and support to work more seriously and with all my heart.
Into film creation..."
Li Qian's face was full of excitement on stage, and many viewers and filmmakers in the audience were also deeply affected.
Although everyone heard that Li Qian is quite arrogant, he is still a young man after all. He was very excited and very humble after winning the first award in his career.
However, Huang Zhonglei and Ma Xiaogang, who knew Li Qian a little better, saw through his poor acting skills at a glance.
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After giving a bunch of speeches and chatting with the two guests, Li Qian once again walked off the stage to waves of applause.
"Congratulations to Director Li!"
Everyone sent their blessings one after another.
"Thank you everyone, thank you."
Thank you all and sit in your seats.
"Director Li, your acting skills are great. You must have spent a lot of time memorizing the script!" Deng Chao flattered him.
"Do you still need to carry this?"
Li Qian was speechless, "What kind of script are you memorizing for a scene like this? I just talked for less than a minute. It doesn't matter if I talk for another three to five minutes."
"Awesome!" Everyone expressed admiration.
The atmosphere has arrived, the plot has arrived, and the foreshadowing is in place. Just say what you need to say, and use a hammer speech script.
When sleeping with a girlfriend for the first time, you still have to think through the process, memorize it step by step, do what you want first, then do what you want, and finally follow the imagined procedure in actual practice?
Very unprofessional.
Shaking his head and continuing to look at the stage, Sa Dingding sang a song called "All Things Are Born".
He came out of the Youth Song Competition, but his ability is not impressive.
The song is quite nice, but Li Qian can't say one, two, three, four, five or six.
Then Huang Bo took the stage to get the Comedy Creation Award, and "Reverse Meteor" directed by Wei Zheng won the award.
After the creation awards were handed out one by one, it was time to cheer for the Olympics.
Then came the highlight. Ma Xiaogang won the Best Director Award without any doubt.
After winning the award, Ma Xiaogang became more modest. He said that he was too popular when he walked on the red carpet at first. He also joked that it was because he was the only one who came, and neither Chen Kexin nor Zhou Xingchi came, so of course everyone could only shout at him.
People, when they are happy, their temper becomes better and they become self-effacing.
If he doesn't give a reward, Ma Xiaogang will have to scold others later.
Next to him, He Ping asked with a smile, "We have a very popular director here today. His first movie grossed over 100 million, but it's amazing, and he's not as popular as you."
He Ping is also in Ma Xiaogang's group. Does this mean he wants to show that Ma Xiaogang is awesome?
You, a great director, don't feel ashamed to show off to a new director.
Many people shook their heads secretly, Ma Xiaogang's temper was still like this.
Ma Xiaogang suddenly realized, "By the way, I almost forgot that we also have a very popular director on site."
Amidst the applause, Ma Xiaogang stepped on the stage with brisk steps and was in a happy mood to accept the congratulations without even looking in Li Qian's direction.
Li Qian still had a smile on his face and clapped his hands rhythmically with the crowd.
Even when the high-definition camera zoomed in so close that it almost hit your face, you couldn't see anything unusual.
People around him glanced at Li Qian from time to time. I still have to remember the incident when Ma Xiaogang was educating the younger generation during the Lunar New Year holiday, but he was scolded back.
However, looking at Li Qian's calm look now, I can't help but wonder if those things Li Qian said against Ma Xiaogang were fabricated by the media.
Looking at the awards just now, the young man who was obviously very humble is now so well-mannered and applauding seriously, it doesn't even look like he is perfunctory.
When Ma Xiaogang spoke on the stage just now, he sounded very humble, but with his eyes closed, you could feel the pretentiousness in his tone.
A small interlude can be regarded as adding some topics for conversation to the College Student Film Festival.
Immediately afterwards, Miaopu, who was nominated for Best Actress in all three films, successfully won the Best Actress crown.
The three nominations are also without any suspense.
Not to mention the best actor, Zhang Hanyu won the best actor trophy with "Assembly".
Originally, there was no problem for Zhang Hanyu to get a best actor nomination in "Frequency of Life and Death", but the nominations were not enough, and all the best actors were given, so it would be okay for him to have less nominations.
The film "The Messenger of Shambhala", based on real events that touched ten people in China, won the Grand Jury Prize.
"Five Bullets" and "Jiangbei Good Man" won the organizing committee's grand prize.
The Best Picture went to "Assembly", but this time Ma Xiaogang didn't show off, and Huang Zhonglei went on stage to receive the award.
Yu Nan and Hou Yong won the Most Popular Actress and Most Popular Actor respectively.
Finally, there is only one award left for the most popular director.
Ning Hao and Mei Ting took the stage to present awards.
Ning Hao also wore a bright red long-sleeved sweater with the word "华国" written on both sides of the chest.
"Sister Mei Ting, why don't you announce the last award?"
Ning Hao also showed humility and gave Mei Ting the opportunity.
However, Mei Ting said with a smile, "Director Ning won the Best Director Award at the University Student Film Festival last year. Of course, it is only appropriate that you present the Last Welcome Director Award."
Let's give in, let's go, we still read out the result together.
"The most popular director at the 15th Beijing University Student Film Festival is..."
""Frequency of Life and Death", Li Qian!"
"Congratulations to Director Li Qian. The first film in his directorial career won the Most Popular Director Award at the College Student Film Festival!"
“Snap, snap, snap, snap!!!!”
applause!
light!
Li Qian stood up with a smile and thanked the filmmakers around him.
He straightened his collar and strode onto the stage.
“It’s not bad to win two awards!”
The actors in the audience were applauding, and Deng Chao was still lamenting that the box office of his two movies combined was 300 million, and he didn't even have any money.
Next to her, Tong Liya said, "I feel something is wrong."
Deng Chao asked, "What's wrong?"
Yuan Quan, Wang Qianyuan, and Lei Jiayin also put their ears towards me.
"When He Ping and Ma Xiaogang talked about Li Qian just now, he didn't react at all. It was so strange and not like his character."
Huh?
That's right too.
Although Li Qian is more sensible than his peers, he is not low-key at all. How come he didn’t react at all when he was teased in public!
Transitioned?
With doubts, everyone's eyes were fixed on Li Qian on the stage.
"Congratulations."
"Congratulations to Director Li."
"Thanks."
He shook hands with Ning Hao and Mei Ting, thanked him, and took the trophy and certificate from the emcee.
"Thank you to the organizing committee and the college students for awarding me the Most Popular Director Award."
Li Qian glanced at the front and center of the audience and saw the crew of "Assembly".
He smiled and said, "Director He Ping just said that director Ma Xiaogang is the most popular director at this year's University Student Film Festival."
As he said that, Li Qian raised the trophy in his hand, "But it seems that I am the most popular director."
Li Qian always felt that the name his father gave him was very good.