Chapter 768 Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival was founded by Robert Redford.

This guy's representative works include "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Sting", "Out of Africa", etc. He is a well-known Hollywood boss. He founded this film festival to encourage independent production and present diversity. Many newcomers have come out from here and become world-famous directors.

In fact, after the formation of the eight major Hollywood monopolies, independent films were once killed. Later, it was found that without these independent filmmakers, it was easy to lose creativity and make products stereotyped by relying on the assembly line production of large companies.

Later, the strategy was changed and began to accept and support independent companies.

Even in the future when superheroes are flying all over the sky and routines are the most serious, Hollywood still has some independent works that stand out, but they are too unpopular and not very popular in China, let alone released.

For example, there was a movie "Something Substance" last year, you can watch it.

The Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah, and this year is the second session.

In the past, Liu Zhigu led the team when going abroad, but now Chen Qi can also be the team leader. He took Ling Mei, Xiao Mo and Xiao Yang and flew to San Francisco first. In Hong Kong, there are the directors of "Sweetheart", Mou Dundi and Jiang Zhiqiang.

In the United States, there are Uma Thurman and Bob Shea.

The three parties went through many twists and turns and gathered in Park City.

It is called a city, but it is actually a small town, located on a snowy plateau. Tourists who come to ski and people attending the film festival seem to fill the town overnight.

A car creaked into the Park City area along the road under the snow-capped mountains. It was afternoon,

but the sky was gray as evening. The outlines and lights of the building complex appeared in front, as if there were finally people in this desolate place.

"Are you okay?"

"It's okay, I'm just a little dizzy."

The long journey made Ling Mei feel uncomfortable. She waved her hand and said, "When I was shooting "Wilderness", it was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival. I went alone to participate. That was a toss."

"How many years was that?"

"It was in 1981."

Chen Qi pouted. He could go to Venice 5 years ago. What else can he say?

Ling Mei seemed to sense his inner thoughts and said, "I know myself now. I don't have much talent for making movies. I just want to learn management and build a film and television city. You are the one who brought up this matter. You can't just ignore it."

"Yes, I'll try my best to help."

As they spoke, the car stopped in front of a three-story building. The sign said it was a small hotel. Bob Shea and Jiang Zhiqiang had been waiting for a long time and came up to hug him: "Chen! It's too troublesome for you to go abroad! Fortunately, I booked a hotel in advance, otherwise there would be no place to stay."

"Is it all booked?"

"Of course, only people from our team will stay!"

Mo Dundi, Uma Thurman and her mother also came out.

After more than half a year, Uma Thurman seemed to have grown a little taller. Wearing a thick down jacket and big boots, her legs were long and strong, still like a pony.

She was also very happy and said with a smile: "Haha! I want to thank you, I didn't expect to be able to participate in the film festival!"

"How do you feel here?"

"Great, I just went skiing during the day!"

"I know a little about skiing, I'll try it tomorrow!

Everyone entered the hotel. Chen Qi's room was on the third floor. It was simply decorated, clean and tidy, and had heating. He was tidying up, and there was a knock on the door outside. He opened it and saw that it was the proprietress who brought a cup of hot cocoa.

"Oh, thank you!"

"You're welcome. Are you from China too?"

"Yes!"

"Wow, it's not easy to see Chinese people here. They said they came from Hong Kong--"

The proprietress pointed to Jiang Zhiqiang and said: "I know Hong Kong, Kung Fu! Are you shooting a Kung Fu movie?"

"Almost! The 16-year-old girl just now, she killed three men by herself!"

The proprietress was surprised and said: "Then we really have to go and see how she killed three men. I wish your movie a good result! ”

After she left, Chen Qi took a few sips of hot cocoa. The cocoa was thick like phlegm stuck in his throat, bitter and sweet, but it was okay to drink in the cold weather. He finished half a cup and went out to knock on the door next door.

"Big sister, are you ready? Let's talk about something."

"Okay!

Ling Mei opened the door. The two of them called each other differently now. One called her Big Sister and the other called her Little Chen.

They called Jiang Zhiqiang and ran to Bob Shay's room. Bob Shay introduced: "Sweetheart" is scheduled for the 19th. The organizers have given good screening conditions. You should be optimistic about this film."

"How many media can there be?"

"There are 20. After all, Sundance was just founded and its influence has not yet spread."

"It's a bit too few! The story of Sweetheart is simple and there is no technique. The selling point is the large scale and the feat of "patricide". This thing needs the cooperation of the media to hype it up. How much money did you bring?"

Hmm?

Ling Mei was stunned by this sudden turn, and Bob Shay said calmly: "Two hundred thousand dollars! I think it's enough."

"Where's the article?"

"It's finished!"

Jiang Zhiqiang took out a manuscript, and Chen Qi took a quick look. It was a review of "Sweetheart". It praised the revolutionary breakthrough of the film, which finally let minors kill adults, instead of weak ethical and moral discussions. "Okay, we must drive the discussion. Is the audience ready?"

"I found more than a hundred people. They are all extras I knew when I was shooting B-level movies before. They are unfamiliar, but have certain acting skills. Others can't recognize them." Bob Shay said.

"Okay! That's about it."

At that moment, several people conspired and scattered.

Ling Mei was silent just now, but now she grabbed Chen Qi and asked: "Xiao Chen, what's going on? Are you cheating?"

"Yes!

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"Listen--·

She didn't expect the other party to admit it directly, and said: "Can this be faked?"

"Of course! Everyone has their own way of cheating. Do you think the Golden Rooster Award is not fake? Which award is given to whom and who is not given to whom, double yolk eggs, triple yolk eggs, which ranks first and which ranks last·-Aren't they all manipulated by humans?

It's the same in the United States. It's called public relations here.

To put it bluntly, it's spending money."

"But that's 200,000 US dollars?"

"You have to do this I think, although "Sweetheart" has selling points, it is too simple and still a little short of winning awards.

We need a boost. 200,000 seems a lot. If we really win an award, whether it is selling copyrights or agency distribution, the income will be far more than 200,000. "

Chen Qi emphasized: "Sister, our first task is to earn foreign exchange! As long as I can earn foreign exchange for the country, I will bear the infamy alone."

"Forget it! No matter how loyal you are, your frivolous attitude has ruined it."

Ling Mei is getting to know him more and more, but it is still difficult to accept for a while. American film festivals can also do public relations? Can they buy off the media and recruit fake audiences? This is not what I imagined!

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