Chapter 398 Another Awards Season

Among the three major international film festivals in Europe, the Venice International Film Festival is relatively unpopular. ‘6’ ‘9’ ‘s’ ‘h’ ‘u’ ‘x’ ‘.’ ‘c’ ‘o’ ‘m’

The strong political color of the Berlin International Film Festival has been clearly distinguished from its competitors such as the Cannes International Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival, which focus on commerciality from the very beginning. They specialize in political films and do not care about commercial achievements at all.

In the commercial field, the Cannes International Film Festival is the most mature and the best, and is the world's largest platform for selling films.

Especially after entering the 21st century, Cannes has rapidly carried out commercial reforms and gradually became the center of European commercial films. Even commercial films from most countries in the world will be screened in Cannes as much as possible, which has further promoted the popularity of the Cannes film sales market.

On the Venice Film Festival side, the North American Toronto International Film Festival, which is not far away from it, has opened a platform for selling films. It has a huge appeal for money and has posed a huge threat to the Venice Film Festival.

This makes Venice feel like it is on fire.

The Venice Film Festival, which was originally determined to follow the artistic route and did not care about money, also lowered its profile this year. Although it did not organize an official film sales platform, it did not prevent the participating films from organizing film screenings and sales meetings, and even secretly encouraged such behavior.

At the same time, Venice also paid more attention to the "star effect", hoping to use more brilliant stars to promote the attention of global movie fans to the Venice Film Festival.

Under this circumstance, the Chinese Legion led by Wu Yuan naturally received an unprecedented warm welcome after arriving in Venice.

Marco Mueller, the chairman of the Venice Film Festival, personally led the team to welcome the arrival of the Chinese Legion.

"Haha, Daniel, welcome to Venice again."

He walked quickly to Wu Yuan's side, hugged him, and then held his hand tightly. The other people in the Chinese Legion were temporarily left aside.

However, this was enough to flatter the crews of "Bullfighting", "Dialysis" and "1428" in the Chinese Legion.

For a new director like Guan Hu, just being able to travel to Venice with Wu Yuan on the same plane and having the opportunity to talk to Wu Yuan was enough to make him excited.

Unexpectedly, after getting off the plane and transferring to Venice, they could see Marco Mueller, the president of the film festival, personally welcoming them.

Huang Bo, the leading actor who came to Venice with Guan Hu, was also shocked.

"Damn, Director Wu's influence abroad is really high." Speaking in Mandarin with a Qingdao accent, Huang Bo couldn't help but whisper to Guan Hu.

Although Huang Bo had a deep understanding of Wu Yuan's influence when he was in China, and knew that he was also a very powerful director internationally.

But seeing is believing!

No matter how much you hear, you can't have a deeper understanding than seeing it in person.

Marco Mueller didn't come alone. He brought more than a dozen staff members of the organizing committee. A group of people surrounded Wu Yuan and asked about his well-being. This scene made Huang Bo, who was born in the 1970s, amazed.

When will he be surrounded by a group of foreigners and asked about his well-being?

"Mr. Chairman, I didn't expect you to come to greet our Huaxia Corps in person." Wu Yuan said with a smile. He deliberately put himself in the ranks of a member of the Huaxia Corps and did not highlight himself. Instead, he pulled Marco Mueller to the Huaxia Corps and introduced him one by one.

"This is Mr. Qiu, the head of the film purchasing department of our Huaxia China Film Group..."

"This is Guan Hu, a new director in mainland China. This year, his film "Bullfighting" was also shortlisted for the Horizon Unit. He is an excellent young director."

"This is..."

Wu Yuan introduced Marco Mueller wholeheartedly, trying to make everyone in the Huaxia Corps leave an impression in Marco Mueller's mind.

This is also what he should do as a leader of the Chinese film industry when he represents China abroad.

Try to promote the influence and popularity of the Chinese film industry abroad!

Marco Mueller patiently listened to all of Wu Yuan's introductions, and then smiled and said, "Haha, Daniel, you don't need to introduce them. As a filmmaker who came to Venice, how could I not know them?"

As the president of the film festival, he was of course very smooth.

As soon as these words came out, Guan Hu and others, who seemed a little neglected just now, immediately blushed.

It is a great honor to be recognized by the president of the Venice Film Festival.

Marco Mueller was not just being polite, at least Guan Hu really paid attention to it.

In terms of cultivating its own "direct line", Venice is also the most backward among the three major festivals.

The Berlin Film Festival has a "genius training camp" and the Cannes Film Festival has a "film foundation plan", but Venice does not have any training plan for new directors.

So they can only open more windows in their competition units to allow these young directors to participate.

The Horizon Unit was born for this reason.

The directors and works that can be shortlisted for the Horizons unit are all considered by the Venice jury to be excellent and promising directors, so they will be given this exposure opportunity.

In addition, Venice is also the most generous among the three major shortlisted films in the main competition unit. Generally, the main competition units of the Berlin Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival often only have one place for a debut film.

But the Venice Film Festival will have 2-3 of the best debut films shortlisted for the main competition unit. For example, among the 25 films shortlisted for the main competition unit this year, 3 are debut films.

Although Guan Hu's "Bullfighting" failed to be shortlisted for the main competition unit, it is also one of the best works shortlisted for the Horizon unit, and it is even expected to win an award in the Horizon unit.

Marco Mueller naturally paid attention to him.

After talking to him for a few words, Marco Mueller looked around at the people of the Huaxia Legion and said to Wu Yuan with a smile: "Daniel, the hotel you are staying in is ready, I will take you there now."

"There are still a few days before the opening ceremony. I hope you can spend a relaxing and happy few days in Venice, just take it as a vacation for yourself."

"Venice is still very beautiful."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman." Wu Yuan nodded.

He did plan to go with Liu Yifei to have some fun in Venice while there were still two or three days before the film festival opened.

As a European water city, Venice is indeed a place with unique scenery. The last time I came to Venice was to compete for the Golden Lion Award. Wu Yuan had no intention of playing. This time he was just here to present the award, so of course he could relax.

"Oh, by the way." Just as everyone got on the car and was about to go to the hotel, Marco Mueller seemed to remember something, looked at Wu Yuan with a smile, and asked: "I heard that Cannes invited you to be a member of the jury next year?"

"Tsk, Cannes is too stingy, right?"

"You are the Golden Lion director of our Venice Film Festival, and they only invited you to be a member of the jury?"

"Although you are indeed very young, in the field of film, I think it is enough for you to serve as the chairman of the jury for one term."

"How about it, do you want to be the chairman of the jury in Venice next year?"

Wow, poaching in person!

Wu Yuan widened his eyes and looked at Marco Mueller in disbelief. He didn't expect him to be so straightforward to poach people from Cannes.

And he threw out the conditions for the chairman of the jury right away.

You know what, Wu Yuan was quite excited.

Having the opportunity to be the chairman would definitely be better than just being a judge!