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Today is the penultimate day of the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival. Just now, the section chief announced at a press conference at 7:30 in the evening: “This year may be the last Pingyao International Film Festival held by our team. Film exhibition. We did not spend a penny from the government, it was all social capital. We have already built this brand.”

And added: “I remember that director Zhang Yimou encouraged the Pingyao International Film Festival to go on at the opening ceremony last year and to hold an influential film festival. The film exhibition is to be held from generation to generation. It is not a person. , This mechanism shouldn’t be done if you leave alone, so I think we leave early, cultivate new teams early, let new teams take over, let Pingyao International Film Festival get rid of the shadow of Jia Zhangke, and let it gain independence. Vitality is very urgently needed, so we choose to leave when it is strong.”

This news is shocking. Almost no one knew that the section chief would announce it on the record; most of the media also withdrew from Pingyao one after another without receiving any news.

Some people say that they don’t understand the logic of the section chief’s remarks: This film festival did not take the government a penny and it is all social capital. What does it have to do with “choosing to leave when it is strong”?

This is how I interpreted:

First of all, the section chief is not short of money. What he has is a way to find money. This session has proved that it can also survive with 100% social capital;

Secondly, in the past four years, the Pingyao Film Festival brand has gradually taken shape and has also been recognized by the industry at home and abroad.

So, to leave, probablyThe rate is for some reason other than him.

What it is, seems to be less important. There is no need to repeat the difficulty of making movies in China.

Anyway, thank the section chief and his team for their dedication over the past four years.

If you have ever been to the Pingyao Film Festival led by the section chief team, you will feel how this film festival respects movies in every detail.

Even if this year’s epidemic is affected, everything seems to be rushed, but everyone I meet in the movie palace and every audience I meet in the cinema has a smile and satisfaction on their faces.

I just didn’t expect that this time, it was actually a farewell party.

The following is the full text of the official Jia Zhangke press conference.

The full text of Jia Zhangke’s answer to media questions

Question: From the first year to Pingyao, the biggest feeling this year is that the media field is a bit close to saturation. For example, this year’s “Wild Horse” actually opened a second media temporarily. The field has only met the requirements of the media. I want to ask Director Jia whether he has any new plans for the future media field.

Jia Zhangke: Okay, thank you! Let me talk about the media field first. I remember that at the end of the third session, we realized that the number of viewers in Pingyao, the number of media has increased geometrically, and we hoped to expand three halls this year to allow screening space. Further expand to meet the needs of the audience of the film festival.

However, because of the epidemic this year, the six screens of the venue have not changed, but the number of applicants has changed. During the epidemic this year, we registered more than 500 media in the backstage, which is why we also have a very contradictory point. , I originally wanted to be more strict about the review, because it’s not that everyone is not welcome, there is no place to live, and tickets are not available, but then I still feel that I try to satisfy everyone. It is related to the Pingyao Film Palace’s subsequent need to expand the screening space.

We also realized this, including our largest amphitheatre with 1,500 seats.Like Diao Yinan’s master class, 1,500 seats are still not available, and some viewers must also get to the lobby to listen to the live broadcast and listen to the live broadcast through the Internet.

There is no way. There will always be some regrets in this regard. I hope that the venues will be enriched after the epidemic in the future, and then the necessary approval procedures will be carried out. The past procedures still exist, but this year due to the epidemic prevention, there are many new regulations. There are many new steps. We screened on October 10th. The Pingyao International Film Festival completed the entire process on September 30th. So there are many nervous and rushed places, including the steps and measures we need to do to prevent the epidemic.

Everyone has never experienced an epidemic, and they don’t know how the film festival will prevent epidemics. We have made many plans. Later, we called Wuma into the city.

Question: There are many media, including many theater practitioners, who are anxiously waiting for information about the resumption of work, and then we also saw on Weibo, what kind of special significance does this have . The second question is that this year, because Pingyao’s ticket issuance is relatively late, many people may have some minor problems when rushing for tickets. Would you like to ask if you would consider going with some larger ticket flats next year, such as Taoticket,? Cooperate with them to issue tickets, so as to ensure a smoother ticket-grabbing process. Thank you, Director Jia.

Jia Zhangke: This may be a contradiction at the moment. It may be that everyone, as the audience, does not understand the organization of the film festival behind it. We also have some difficulties. The difficulty lies in the fact that if we want to show the most Fresh films, then we need to wait patiently and wait for the completion of these film procedures. In the end, we have to wait for the film party’s reply. Whether people will come, whether they are willing or not, almost every time we reach a critical point, the final film festival must It’s closed, we have to schedule a show before we decide.

In this case, the Pingyao International Film Festival will bring a 100% domestic premiere rate, nearly 90% of this year’s Asian premieres, and nearly 50% of the world premieres, ensuring the freshness of the Pingyao International Film Festival. But its weakness is that there is no time to go to the ticket counter, because if it takes a long time to get on the cat’s eye and buy tickets, the cycle of negotiation and discussion between our film selection cycle and the film party will be shortened. Maybe if we follow the current steps, If this is the case, we may have to order the program at the end of August, and all the new movies in September will come in.

In this way, we can easily exchange the freshness of the film. Nowadays, some people see and feel that the movie phenomenon that is being noticed is introduced to the audience.

Special significance, In fact, this year’s significance is very special to our team, and it has nothing to do with the epidemic. This year’s significanceRighteousness, because this is our fourth edition, we have come all the way, and this year may be the last Pingyao International Film Festival held by our team. We did not spend a penny from the government, it was all social capital. We have already built this brand.

Question: Shanxi Film Academy is a film academy that focuses on practicing realistic style, and how much time and energy will you allocate to this film academy.

Jia Zhangke: Shanxi Film Academy is still in preparation. Of course, we have not started teaching. It must be a film school that focuses on creation, because film schools are generally divided into two types, one is research type Yes, it is more cultural research. One is the creative type. As a director, I founded the film academy. I am definitely interested in such an academy that is more creative. We now also hope to organize a domestic first-class creative team, director, screenwriter, Producers, photographers, recording directors, art directors, let’s build such a creative and practical academy. This is the second positioning.

The third position is that we hope to inspire students’ initiative. We may not necessarily have majors in the first and second grades of university, because most of the students have just graduated from high school. He is only interested in movies, which is the job category in the movie He likes it really hasn’t taken shape. We hope that students can build up a comprehensive film experience, film outlook, and film knowledge in the first and second grades. By the third and fourth grades, we will make another choice through the studio method. At that time, we may feel interested. Screenwriters will learn screenwriting, and those who are interested in directing will learn directors instead of assigning majors from the first day in school. We hope to learn these new advanced film teaching methods for teaching.

One more thing, our main teaching base is currently located in Jiajiazhuang, Fenyang, Shanxi. It is a very beautiful village. Our entire teaching will be academy-style teaching, about 800-1200 students, a very small one. The college hopes that everyone can enter the professional world there and grow into qualified film workers soon.

The local figure probably hasn’t come out yet, but it exceeded 30% last year.

The fellows stood at the door, not knowing what was going on inside, or whether they should come in. Up to now, they can buy tickets on the Internet very familiarly, and learn about what movies are available this year through the media in advance.

I feel that all-round support from Pingyao, especially the people of Pingyao, has been supported in all aspects of transportation, epidemic prevention, public security, fire protection, and all the support needed for a large-scale event. Especially this year, everyone has overcome difficulties together. Because of the need for epidemic prevention.

I hope here tooThere are younger generations of curators and film festival organizers who can take over and take over the Pingyao International Film Festival to make the fifth and sixth editions better. Our team will always support this film festival in spirit.

Question: Hello, Director Jia, I’m a Shanxi media. I participated in your travel conference this year and participated in our film exhibition. I think we’re doing very well. Goodbye is indeed a bit reluctant, so as Shanxi media is paying special attention to your next work, will Luliang Literature Season also be on the agenda? Thank you!

Jia Zhangke: It’s also because this year is a special year. We should hold the literary season in April. This year, because of the epidemic, the curatorial team has basically been prepared. Finished, because we will have a Luliang Literature Award every year, and there is a Ma Feng Literature Award. The nominations have already been made. We will use a good method as soon as possible to make the second Luliang Literature Festival speak out. It is still in preparation. stage.

Question: Director Jia, I would like to ask another question. In fact, we were all surprised by what you said just now, and said that the fifth session may not be the same group of people doing this The film festival is now, then I want to ask, what is your participation in the future? What kind of capacity will you participate in the Pingyao International Film Festival.

Jia Zhangke: I hope I will be an audience in the future. I will book tickets in advance and pay attention to what films have been selected for the Pingyao International Film Festival. If I can come and participate as much as possible, I I want to watch a movie very much. I have almost never watched a movie at the four-year film festival. I want to return to an audience.

Question: Hello, Director Jia Zhangke, I would like to ask, in the last two or three years, we have seen you do a lot of things, including film exhibitions, including the literary season, including after The college, I want to ask, you have done so many things, what are you for, this is the first question. The second question is that you will not participate in the Fifth Pingyao International Film Festival. Is this something planned? Was it a plan when the film exhibition was first held?

Jia Zhangke: Yes, I remember that director Zhang Yimou encouraged the Pingyao International Film Festival at the opening ceremony last year to hold an influential film festival. The film exhibition is to be held from generation to generation. It is not a person. This mechanism should not be held without one person. So I think we leave early, cultivate a new team, and let the new Took over and let Pingyao International Film Festival get rid of the shadow of Jia Zhangke and let itIt is very urgent to obtain independent vitality, so we choose to leave when it is strong.

Question: Director Jia Zhangke, hello, I have two questions for you. What do you think about this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival people’s doubts about the quality of the film? There is also a second question. You said that the work of a generation of directors is a reflection of that era, and then put aside the labels on you, have you ever thought about creating movies that focus on the status quo of contemporary forms?

Jia Zhangke: I am also a contemporary person, but a contemporary middle-aged person. I am very interested in contemporary times, but I am not necessarily interested in contemporary youth, of course I am also interested, because my past films also have a lot of young people, such as “Ren Xiaoyao” in 2002, these are related to young people. Regarding, I think that paying attention to young people must always be a very important proposition in movies. I understand why you ask this question, because my past two films, “Old People in Mountains and Rivers” to “Children of the Rivers and Lakes”, are basically from youth It has been photographed until middle-aged and elderly people. It has a relatively long time span, especially when he talks about people’s birth, old age, sickness and death. For a relatively long time period, short-term youth writing has not been photographed for four or five years. I believe there is so much contemporary life. The colorful and active stories of contemporary young people will definitely still attract me. I will definitely have film creations in this area, and there will definitely be them, because young people have the most sensitive part of the information in society. Young people can see the liveliest and most sensitive situations in society. I don’t think it will not shoot young people.

On the other hand, the most important thing for a film festival is to uphold an open and inclusive attitude, because in fact, everyone should know that the most important thing for a film festival is to discover new film phenomena, these new film phenomena Maybe they are very popular. Just like our highly rated movies that are hard to find, there are also some movies that need our attention and attention. They may be extremely controversial, or we have a great sense of strangeness to them. Or we can’t judge it, but it’s a new situation, that is, the International Film Festival is an observation station that provides observations of new movie situations, so we will select different movies to let people know the full picture of contemporary movies and the latest Happening.

Question: In the conversation with the master two days ago, Mr. Ren, who stood behind the director, mentioned that he wanted to tell the story of China to the world, so that the world could hear the story of China. , Said that Chinese films have to work hard in this regard. I would like to ask you to take your personal experience as an example, including your four-year experience in setting up a film exhibition to talk about how to express the Chinese soul through an international perspective. Then I would like to know about this year’s film festival because it’s not easy, because of the background of the epidemic, it can be successfully held.Come, I believe that many difficulties must be overcome behind the scenes. I would like to ask you to say a few words.

Jia Zhangke: In fact, the difficulties of this year’s film exhibition are not difficult, but to face new situations, because everyone is unprecedented, and it did not exist before. For the issue of epidemic prevention, the interconnection information of previous movies is very smooth. This year, many things are new topics. Our feature is the international film exhibition. Every year our Crouching Tiger director invites them to communicate face-to-face with Chinese audiences. The epidemic and international travel are gone. We have thought about many ways to introduce these films after they are selected. For example, the connection method. Another problem with the connection method is that there is a problem with the time difference. The screening time here may be possible. When people are sleeping, how to solve it? Finally, we came up with a video recording in advance, let the director greet the audience through the video.

So how do you record it? Faced with a new subject, let him take a mobile phone to record like this, or find a curator to talk to him? In the end, we found film critics, film producers, and curators in various regions, and found our friends, mobilized friends to interview these directors, and formed the narration and introduction of these international films.

So the work is huge. In the past, the director might have come. We have a translation team, that is, live simultaneous interpretation is enough. Now we need to translate the subtitles in advance, and how to show these videos in the cinema. In the end, we all made DCP, which is to broadcast the videos as DCP. . To overcome all kinds of new challenges, you can solve these things one by one. It is not difficult to solve them one by one, but you have to think about this path and how to do it in the end. I think this is a big challenge this year.

The progress of Shanxi film is obvious to all, and we are of course very proud. I think I have also participated in the process of contributing to the development of the Pingyao International Film Festival, because we have hoped to help Shanxi film in several aspects from the beginning, because it is Shanxi after all A local film exhibition is a film exhibition established with the help of the people of Shanxi. We have the responsibility to promote the development of Shanxi film. First of all, we are from education. We have always had a unit called Pingyao Corner for the first three sessions. We invite people from the province Like Shanxi University, Shanxi School of Media, Shanxi Taiyuan Normal University, these are the schools with a film major. Every year we have a fixed number of places to invite students to participate in activities, participate in Pingyao corner exchanges, bring their short films, and then communicate with peers. , Other colleges and universities, including famous domestic colleges, Beijing Film Academy, and Central Academy of Drama, let our classmates in Shanxi and children in developed areas of film education and film industry have such an opportunity to interact closely, and make them feel I am also part of the larger film environment, which is a move.

The second measure, let’s be honest, every unit is trying our best to find the voice of Shanxi people, except that we have a unit called Starting from Shanxi, which is directly related to Shanxi movies, we encourage local movies Based on this principle, as long as the quality of the film surprises me, I will be selected in each unit, so that filmmakers in Shanxi can fully participate in the Pingyao International Film Festival.

From this year’s point of view, the film in this unit from Shanxi has received a particularly good response, including works like director Liu Ze. I read a lot of comments. Teacher Xie Fei went to watch it that day. After watching it, he was very surprised. He likes this film very much and feels that Shanxi is really a place for directors, so we are also very happy from this point of view, because this film participated in our industry as a cultivation stage last year, and it can be regarded as the industry training of Pingyao International Film Festival. Produced in Shanxi.

I think that if the new Pingyao International Film Festival team has a spirit that can be passed on, I hope they can continue to support local films, because after all, it is a film exhibition in Shanxi, so you can’t forget this land.

We didn’t think too much about the field of vision when we were shooting. I think it’s a problem of feelings. When feelings are sincere, when others can enter your world, that world is open, and the world that is not sincere is closed.

Okay, thank you everyone!