Officially starting on December 1st, 2017, the Project Pitches of the 8th Beijing International Film Festival has unveiled the shortlist of 40 excellent films after the 1st-round selection of nearly 4 months, and the shortlisted films shall go into the review process.
These 40 projects on the shortlist have stood brilliantly out of 722 applicants. They are: Moon, Fight Bug, Chill Pill, the Distant Scripture Flag, Summer Boy, NIGHTMARE, Blank, The night in Istanbul, Shanghai Love Story, Apps Killing Affair, A Crow Flies To the South, Fearless, BE COLD BE WARM, Human Being, Five Bones, Parallel Girl, DREAMING FOR HOME, Taroko, Russet River, Win David Beckham, Princess and China Dragon son, In the haze, The butterfly assassin, The City of Cats, Happy ending, Wilder, Down by the River, The Wind Will Say, Girls From Nowhere, Weeping Shangri-La, Ivy, Ocean Love, Blank boy, HUNTING DOG, zuihoudeguizishou, Hugh Grant and Me, The Owl, Yesterday Once More, Lover of Stockholm Syndrome, The Freezing Cold Love (in random order).
Caption: 1st-round Selection Results confirmed by the jury
Holding on to the appraisal mechanism of openness and justification, the Project Pitches of BJIFF aim to ceaselessly excavate and support excellent Chinese genre films with market potentials, and strive to forge a professional project pitches platform with international visions, so as to transfer fresh blood to China’s film industry. For this year’s Project Pitches, the 1st-round selection judges have comprehensively taken such factors as creativity, genre and screenplay into consideration, so as to encourage the creative original screenplays, especially those few promising genre films in the market. In view of the 40 projects on the shortlist, they are more pluralistic in genre and more abundant in subjects. At the same time, the judges are stricter in terms of screenplay professionalism and completeness, in a bid to dig out excellent film projects boasting investment value and market possibilities.
The 1st-round selection jury for Project Pitches in this year consists of six professionals in the film industry. They are respectively: Chen Shuang, Executive Director and Vice President of C2M Media Group, Dou Lili, General Manager of Online Film Development Center at iQIYI , Han Ken, Vice President of Beijing Hairun Movies and TV Co., Hu Lizhou, Senior Producer of Wanda Pictures, Jiang Yalin, Director of New Clues Film Co. Ltd., and Ren Jiangzhou, CEO and Youth Producer of Sea Level Movies (in random order)
Caption: Lineup of Preliminary Appraisal Jury
It has taken the jury nearly four months to review and evaluate 722 applicants, and 40 excellent projects are selected for the final review after heated discussions in multiple meetings. Talking of the 1st-round selection work, the judges indicate that though the appraisal work was complicated and hard, they hold hearty love for this job, and they are deeply moved by young filmmakers’ passion for creation. They hope that young filmmakers maintain their creation passion and vitality, continue to expand their imagination space while exploring daily life, and ceaselessly create more touching stories.
The shortlisted 40 film projects will go into the final review and interview process, undergo a new round of assessment and compete for the top 20 rankings. And the top 10 projects will be trained by senior and professional tutors and presented at the final road show of the 8th BJIFF Project Pitches on April 18. They will compete for four major awards of project pitches and international promotion awards.
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