Chapter 595 Xin Yukun and FIRST Youth Film Festival

In a commercial rental house in the suburbs of the Fifth Ring Road, Beijing.

Xin Yukun sat in front of the computer, looking at an uncut advertisement with a frown on his face.

Although he stared at the screen intently, he was obviously distracted and absent-minded.

Xin Yukun, a new director who can barely be considered as a director, has a rather bumpy personal experience.

He had a dream of becoming a director since he was a child. When he was still a sophomore in high school, he chose to drop out of school and applied for the Xi'an Film Training Institute under the Xiying Group at his own expense, but soon after he dropped out of school and applied for the Beijing Film Academy.

However, in 2003, when Xin Yukun applied for the first time to the Beijing Film Academy, he was not admitted to the Department of Literature and the Department of Directing.

Later, he did business for a year, and heard that the Film Academy was going to recruit an auditing class. Xin Yukun went to apply again, but missed the Beijing Film Academy again.

After that, Xin Yukun started from scratch in Xi'an, from recording and raising the pole to the tea service of the field service, and at the same time read various theoretical books to enrich himself.

In 2005, Xin Yukun began to create column dramas for local TV stations in Xi'an. By 2008, he had made dozens of column dramas.

It was also in 2008 that he finally applied for the advanced course of the photography department of the Film Academy and studied for a year.

After graduating from the advanced course, he stayed in Beijing and became a Beijing drifter, making a living by shooting promotional videos and advertisements.

Xin Yukun, who is two years younger than Wu Yuan, has a much more bumpy life experience than Wu Yuan.

For Wu Yuan, it was easy to get into the directing department of the Film Academy, but for Xin Yukun, it was a regret that he could never do it.

That is why Xin Yukun still admires Wu Yuan, a director who is only two years older than him but graduated from the Film Academy and is world-renowned.

When the Light and Shadow Times launched the first youth director support plan, he didn't catch up, so forget it.

This time, the Light and Shadow Times launched the second youth director support plan, and Xin Yukun naturally didn't want to miss it.

The low-budget suspense "Funeral Coffin" adapted from a true story was immediately submitted by Xin Yukun to the submission mailbox announced by Light and Shadow Times. Attachments also included a lot of commercials and promotional videos he shot himself, showing his directorial talent.

However, Xin Yukun, who was full of expectations, finally got a result of being rejected.

During this period, Xin Yukun was a little dazed after work, and kept doubting himself in his mind, whether he was really not suitable for the director's line?

He tried hard, applying for the directing department of the Film Academy year after year, but he never passed.

After finally entering the Film Academy, he could only attend the advanced training class of the photography department.

After drifting in Beijing for almost three years, he could only hang around in the lowest level of advertising and promotional films in the director's line, and often couldn't get a play, which was considered to be eating one meal and not the next.

Xin Yukun originally regarded the "Funeral Coffin" project as his last time to do it.

At that time, in order to write this script well, he turned down all his work. Every day, except cooking at home and making lunch boxes for his wife to send her to work, he wrote the script at home at other times.

When his wife's colleagues saw him, they all laughed and said "Ang Lee is here".

Xin Yukun had made up his mind. If the "Funeral Casket" project could not be successful, he felt that he might not be destined to be a director. He accepted his fate and stopped.

But when the script was not selected for the Light and Shadow Times Young Director Support Program, he was reluctant to give up. He felt that although it had hit a wall at Light and Shadow Times, it did not mean that it had really failed. Maybe other film companies would be interested in it.

In the final analysis, he was still very passionate about the directing industry and was reluctant to give up the dream he had been working hard for since he was a child.

"Dinglingling..."

The phone on the computer desk suddenly rang, interrupting Xin Yukun's self-reflection.

Looking at the unfamiliar incoming number on the phone, he picked it up casually.

Thinking it was a sales call, Xin Yukun was about to curse a few words to vent his suppressed emotions, but the crisp figure on the other end of the phone made him tremble all over.

"Excuse me, is this Director Xin Yukun? I'm from Light and Shadow Times..."

Two minutes later, Xin Yukun hung up the phone in a daze, with a blank look on his face.

After being stunned for 20 to 30 seconds, he finally reacted, grabbed the mouse and keyboard, searched for the official website of Light and Shadow Times and clicked in.

Sure enough, the cover push on the simple-style Light and Shadow Times official website has been replaced with the latest information.

[Xin Yukun is surprisingly shortlisted in the second phase of Light and Shadow Times's youth director support plan! ]

Like crazy, Xin Yukun stared for a long time, crying and laughing, shaking his hands, and called his wife who was still at work.

"Wife, I'm shortlisted!"

"..."

"Hello?"

"FIRST Youth Film Festival?"

"I know this."

"Invite me to be the chairman?"

"This?"

On the other side of the ocean, just as Xin Yukun and his wife were celebrating ecstasy, Wu Yuan also received an unexpected call.

The domestic FIRST Youth Film Festival invited him to serve as the festival chairman of the FIRST Youth Film Festival next year.

FIRST Youth Film Festival (FIRST International Film Festival) is a domestic film festival service platform that focuses on discovering and promoting young filmmakers and their works.

Compared to the solemn and grand film festivals and award ceremonies of major TV stations, this youth film festival is more of a platform to promote the works of young domestic directors.

It is an opportunity to support and encourage newcomers, and most importantly, to provide exposure and attention to new directors.

If there is time, Wu Yuan actually doesn't mind being the chairman in name only, and doing his part to support and develop this kind of film exhibition for new domestic directors, and providing some fame.

But this will take until next year, and it is really impossible to determine whether he will be free in July next year.

Wu Yuan had to verbally agree first, and he dared not guarantee whether he could arrange the schedule at that time.

However, the chairman of the film festival does not need to review the films or make assessments, but more of a platform for the film exhibition, that is, to provide support for his own fame and connections. There is no work. At that time, he only needs to show up and stand at the beginning of the youth exhibition.

However, after receiving this call, Wu Yuan started to think again.

The era of light and shadow is developing so well now, it seems that it should also hold its own film festival or film exhibition!

He still remembered that in a few years, Chief Jia would organize a Pingyao International Film Festival, and Marco Mueller was even brought in to serve as the artistic director.

Film exhibitions and film festivals, whether in China or abroad, are all high-end.

A company or an individual who can establish and develop a good film exhibition or film festival can leave a name in the history of the entire country's film industry.

Not to mention that it can reach the level of the three major European and domestic golds, but as long as it can reach the level of the Pingyao International Film Festival, Wu Yuan can also say that he has "students all over the world" in China in the future.

Because as long as the new directors who participated in his film exhibition can be regarded as supported by him, they have to owe him a favor.

In the post-Chinese film era where box office performance is the highest, Jia Zhangke can still have a very high reputation and status, and he has not fallen behind like Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Zhang Yuan, Lu Xuechang and others of his time.

Pingyao International Film Festival has made great efforts! (End of this chapter)