Two showcases for Chinese directors to present film projects to world investors will be important platforms at this week\'s Shanghai International Film Festival.
The China Film Pitch and Catch (CFPC) and Co-production Film Pitch and Catch (Co-FPC) were established in 2007 as core platforms of 赌博appMART to promote Chinese talent.
This year they have attracted Gerard Krawczyk, director of France’s top-grossing movie Taxi, director Nonzee Nimibutr of Jan Dara, and Prison Break director Brett Ratner. By bringing projects to 赌博app, they demonstrate the rapid development of the Pitch and Catch platform.
Cutting-edge Chinese directors involved this year offer a perfect combination of innovation and experience, such as Stubborn Radish director Tian Meng and Deadly Will director Hou Liang. Leste Chen, who recently completed Love on Credit, one of last year\'s co-production projects, will supervise director Wen Shuhui and share his marketing experience.
Isabel Glasgow, former supervisor of several Sixth Generation Chinese directors, will assist young Hong Kong China director Kit Hui. Award-winners Zhang Jiabei, Ma Liwen, and Ruby Yang will also attend the Co-FPC.
Director Zhang Yibai will chair the CFPC jury panel which includes Bennett Walsh, producer of The Kite Runner, and famous Asian producer Huang Jiali. They will select the Most Creative Project from 8 finalists.
In order to help new directors, the 赌博app has invited Billy August, John Woo, Feng Xiaogang, and Hugh Hudson to be art directors in new films. Together with luxury watch maker Jaeger-LeCoultre, the film festival will establish a support fund for outstanding Chinese directors.
The CFPC and CO-FPC are 赌博app\'s prime financing and development platforms to promote rising Chinese filmmakers and new films. This year the rapidly growing 赌博app has attracted partners like HAF, APN, MIFF and Paris Project which will bring tangible collaboration prospects and access to large markets.
Through 赌博app\'s market support and focus on new talent, many projects have been completed with venture capital finance and some have already won awards, including the Tokyo Film Festival winners The Piano in a Factory directed by Zhang Meng and The Robbers directed by Yang Shupeng.
The CFPC and Co-FPC will be held from June 12 to 15. The Most Creative Project and Most Promising Project to Invest will be unveiled on June 15.
INTRODUCTION
The Way
Director: Frank Ruy, Wang Zao
Setting adrift within this watery violence is a young man, Strong and a young woman, Lucy, desperately clinging to a life raft and a large dufflebag full of money. Lucy begs Strong to let go of the money so that he can stay afloat. As a typical angst-filled youth, Strong finds that it is impossible to understand his place without knowing his parents and childhood. But he finds the possibility of meeting his father. Strong is faced with a daunting question: how far would him go to save father he never knew?
The Tangs VS. The Aliens
Director:Hou Liang
The Aliens invade Chang\'an City in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, Concubine YANG, the descendant of Lu Ban, and the Emperor Xuanzong fight the aliens and eventually win. Li Bai is a good looking and cool guy. His poetry talent is known to all. But he is also skilled at martial arts, and longs to be a great general leading the troops. He loves Concubine YANG, but could not be with her. The coming of the aliens provides him with a stage for his kung fu, and also helps him gain his love.
Mantis Island
Director:Tim Tian
In the days leading up to 2012, the world\'s most eminent scientists, businessmen, and politicians start to go missing one by one. Hacker Blade, an introverted genius with an EQ measuring about 2, gets through each day by peeping and keeping his feelings for neighbour, the beautiful but gold-digging Keling, to himself. He also gets by on hacking into computer networks and netting millions of dollars in the process. A series of accidents and mishaps leads him to hacking into the Underground Palace computer networks and finding the lost elites of the world.
The Kidnap
Director:Jay Lai
Madam Dan will be released from jail and start her racing business again. She is a sexy mafia boss and also the best trainer in her pigeon racing association. Her cruel style and sexy appearance make her the hottest and most dangerous person. One day, Madam Dan gets blackmailed. Her champion pigeon is kidnapped. But what really surprises her is that a 13 years old boy calls her "mother". She never knows how to interact with her only son and has to be re-educated.
Journey Through Light
Director:May Wen
I planned with my best friend to travel together in my younger days, but she got ill and passed away suddenly. For the first time, I travelled alone to Okinawa where my grandfather died of illness, and to visit the scenery my grandfather had seen for the last time. This film is my first feature film. It is a film inspired by real stories in my life, a self-healing road-trip film about love, family and self-discovery.
Cry Me A Pond
Director : Qi Rui
Early summer in 2008 in a small village in southern China, with wheat fields and a tranquil pond, four 12-year-old girls hold a unique memorial ceremony for their rite of passage. Yang XiaoYu, 12-year-old, lives a quiet life in the village with her mute grandmother. One day in May, Yang Xiaoyu and several girls of the same age received the bad boy\'s "love letter". The rumours flew in the Primary School; the girls heard vulgar words from the bad boy. Gradually, more and more people believed the lies. Yang Xiaoyu was sad that her grandmother also believed it.
Amy\'s Fantastic Journey
Director:Wang Linlin
Amy is a talented fashion design institute graduate, full of creative ideas and dreams. After graduation, she fails job interviews one after another, and feels really frustrated. On her 22nd birthday, Amy runs into a direct sales company\'s party and gets arrested by the police. Coming back home, she has a breakdown, blaming everything on everyone but herself. A pair of crystal shoes magically appear in front of Amy, at the moment of despair. She cautiously tries them on — the whole world suddenly changes to a new one, in a blink of an eye!
A Borrowed Life
Director: Kit Hui
For forty years, Wu Jun has been living an ordinary life in Liaoning Province. But Wu is unexpectedly told that he is not Chinese, but a Japanese war orphan adopted by Chinese parents, his real father might not be the Beijing opera star whom he grew up with, but instead a Japanese soldier. Confused and ashamed, Wu is forced to revisit the brutality of war and its profound consequences. This personal and national identity struggle sets him on a journey of soul searching.