"Dr. Strangelove" Sha Dan: The Beijing Film Festival should reflect China's subjectivity

Speaking of his future expectations for the film festival, Sha Dan said: First, he hopes that the film festival will select excellent film works and make the film festival a platform to promote film exchanges; second, he hopes that the film festival will help China directors grow rapidly and form a creative force for local films; Third, the Beijing International Film Festival should generate its own values and world view, reflecting the subjectivity of the organizer, China.

Sha Dan, curator of the original title Film Archive: The Beijing Film Festival should reflect China's subjectivity

Sha Dan, nicknamed Dr. Qi Ai, the operator of "Wenhuiyuan Road No. 3" and a well-known film critic. As the curator of China Film Archive, he will continue to participate in the planning and arrangement of the 6th Beijing International Film Festival. From the beginning chasing professional fans who watched the films screened at the Beijing International Film Festival, to later personally participating in the work of the film festival, Sha Dan grew up with the gradual maturity of the film festival and had special feelings for the film festival. As a professional filmmaker who has been promoting and promoting art films for a long time, Sha Dan hopes to better integrate his understanding of films into the planning of the Beijing International Film Festival and gain public recognition.

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planning work of the Sha Dan Film Festival is becoming more and more professional

. Talking about the growth and changes of the Beijing International Film Festival in the past six years, Sha Dan said frankly that the more intuitive feeling is that first, the planning work of the film festival is becoming more and more professional, and second, watching movies is more and more convenient for the public.

In 2013, Sha Dan's Film Archive began to be responsible for arranging films for screening at the 3rd Beijing Film Festival. Sha Dan used his professional skills to devote himself to the planning work related to the film festival. "I think the planning of film festivals is becoming more and more professional now. In addition to the expected restoration of classics and award-winning attention, we also have a better way to divide the levels, starting from national films, and looking at the world. Including things like China Stories, Chinese Power, Window to Asia, and Global Vision. From this large structure, we can classify detailed units, such as Country Film Week. There are also more detailed and professional units such as debut units, science fiction exhibition units, etc."

At the first two film festivals in 2011 and 2012, Sha Dan was still a pure fan. "At that time, I found that buying movie tickets was relatively difficult and information didn't spread so quickly. Now as time goes on, ticket purchasing methods are becoming more and more convenient, and viewers can find the games they want to see more quickly and easily through online ticket sales."

At the film festival, you can see world classic films that have never been released in China

. Talking about the biggest attraction of the 6th Beijing International Film Festival, Sha Dan praised the classic films from various countries that will soon participate in the exhibition. He said that many of these films are world classic films that have never been released in China, and these classic films are only released for a limited number of times during the film festival. "The film festival has a lot of attractions. At this Beijing Film Festival, we can see representative works from various countries in different periods, such as" 2001 Space Odyssey "," Blade Runner ", Master Tarkovsky Review and so on. These works had basically no chance to meet fans on the big screen in Beijing before, but this time I took advantage of the Beijing Film Festival to be screened in Beijing. I am very happy to have the opportunity to let everyone relive the classics of film history."

As a professional filmmaker in his country, he will use the excellent platform of the film festival to consciously promote excellent films from China. "As a staff member, I think that China films should be better highlighted on the platform in Beijing. We have arranged many good classic films, such as" Long Live the Wife "," Struggle "," Can't Love ", etc. These films may not be familiar to you in the past, but this time we will meet you in a new form of restoration or soundtrack. At the same time, we will also introduce some foreign artists to Beijing to promote China's classic films in a new form."

In addition, the film festival is also the best opportunity for young directors to emerge and communicate with film masters. "We hope that at this Beijing Film Festival, China's current young film directors can better participate in the dialogue with world films. As an international platform, the Beijing Film Festival has designed good activities for new directors, especially debut film directors. For example, Director Bi Gan's "Roadside Picnic" and his mentor Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" is presented to everyone as a customized relationship. For example, from music critics to film directors 'Yunzhong, we also brought his first work,"Breathing Normal". Therefore, new works by China's new directors are also a good attraction.

To reflect China's subjectivity at the film festival

When talking about future expectations for the film festival, Sha Dan said: First, he hopes to select excellent film works through the film festival and make the film festival a platform to promote film exchanges; Second, he hopes that the film festival will help China directors grow rapidly and form a creative force for local films; Third, he wants the Beijing International Film Festival to generate its own values and world outlook, reflecting the subjectivity of the organizer, China.

"First of all, I still hope that the film competition can be done better and excellent works that meet the world's appreciation level can be selected. Moreover, after the film festival, these works can enter the China film market in a new form. If such channels can be provided, I believe that more young and emerging directors and masters will enter China, and the Beijing International Film Festival will become a good platform to promote film exchanges.

In addition, I hope that young directors in China can grow up with the Beijing International Film Festival. Various film festivals in the world actually have their own factions. For example, the Busan Film Festival has their young directors, and Cannes also has the Cannes Department. The Beijing International Film Festival currently focuses on screenings and marketing, and exchanges with creative power are relatively small.

Thirdly, we hope to better promote film works in the dimension of China Dialogue. After all, to hold film festivals in China, we need to reflect China's subjectivity, rather than follow suit and directly transplant foreign film models. We can learn from good experiences, but we should embody your own values and world outlook at your doorstep. In this way, we need to achieve very in-depth and first-hand research and exploration of films."

Editor: kong