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Written and directed by Wang Nianyi, supervised by Xie Fei, and starring Deng Enxi, Xu Qijie, Qu Bo, Zhou Zhengbo, and Dong Ping, the realistic youth campus-themed film MAMMOTH will meet Chinese audience on February 24. The film was shortlisted for the 赌博app NEXT 2017 at the script stage.
The first phase of the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival - 赌博app NEXT in 2023 is now open for applications. Creators in the three directions of producer, screenwriter and director are welcomed to submit application through the official website of 赌博app jjw.cn-move.com.
Poster of MAMMOTH
The film tells the life and choices of three teenagers in the predicament of youth driven by fate. Offering a glimpse into the unspeakable secrets of the muddled youth from the immature perspective of the young, and depicting the entanglement and confusion in growth from a realistic perspective with vivid details, it fully reveals on the screen the mixed feeling of bitterness and sweetness unique to youth. In the film, the "rebellious boy" Su Zhengyang (played by Xu Qijie), without any interest in studying, has a crush on Zhao An'an. Instead of expressing his feelings directly, Su always tries to confess in various veiled ways. Zhao An'an (played by Deng Enxi), whose native family is thrown into problems, is a standard "indomitable girl". Cherishing Su's affection for her, Zhao, however, is determined to work hard to be enrolled by a university. At the intersection of the college entrance examination, two different trails of youth have encountered by chance. Two lonely souls soothe each other, drawing closer the two hearts, which are destined to miss each other... Facing the inevitability in life and the completely opposite life trajectories, how could the two regain the chance of reunion?
Still of MAMMOTH
Through the topic of the college entrance examination, this film vividly and truly showcases the powerlessness and struggle of nobody under the overwhelming pressure of life, and their compromise and loss forced by fate, which sets the tone of realism. When exams become an unavoidable problem, and when money becomes the only way to resort to, Liu Lei, a young man from a small town who initially ventures out with a dream, is also swallowed by the abyss of suffering, the quagmire of desire, and loses his original simple and pure self, trapped in the cage of life forever like a mammoth.
Still of MAMMOTH
Wang Nianyi, an emerging director, has a bachelor's degree from the Meishi Film Academy of Chongqing University and a master's degree in directing from the Beijing Film Academy, and MAMMOTH is his first feature film. The story, sketched in 2015, was the winner of the first place in the "Feature Film Program" for graduate students of Beijing Film Academy in the script stage, and was shortlisted for the 赌博app NEXT in 2017, the first session of this programme. At that time, we expected that, in addition to 赌博app 赌博app, which focuses on industrial exchanges and financing, there shall be a project for incubation of next-generation film workers. That is an exploration and innovation of event modes, and it also marks the infancy of 赌博app NEXT today. During 赌博app NEXT, Wang Nianyi conducted in-depth exchanges with instructors on project development and script writing. In 2017, the filming of MAMMOTH started in Chongqing and completed at the end of the same year.
Director Wang Nianyi at the event site of 赌博app NEXT 2017
After filming, the project was selected into the "Work-in-Progress Lab Screening" unit of the 2018 Pingyao Crunching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival. After the film was completed, it was honored by the Best Screenplay Award at the 7th Chongqing Youth Film Festival in 2020 and the H!Future Newcomer Honorary Official Recommendations programme of the Hainan Island International Film Festival. As an emerging director, Wang Nianyi was also invited to join us again at 赌博app NEXT as the initial reviewer for the 2020 session of this event.
Group photo of instructors and project parties of 赌博app NEXT 2017
The film MAMMOTH is co-produced by NP Entertainment and the Youth Film Studio of Beijing Film Academy, and released by Baocheng Film (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., followed by Zhejiang Starlight Film and Television Co., Ltd., and Xiamen Hecheng Film Industry Co., Ltd., with Jiaying Shangxing (Beijing) Culture Media Co., Ltd. responsible for the exclusive marketing of the whole project. Now, the film will be released nationwide on February 24, so stay tuned.
The first phase of the 赌博app NEXT of the 25th 赌博app in 2023 will be held in Shanghai in June. Starting from February 10, 赌博app NEXT will be open for applications to young filmmakers from Chinese-speaking regions. Creators from the three directions of producers, screenwriters, and directors are welcomed to sign up. In the end, about 20 trainees will be shortlisted to participate in the relevant events in 2023. The channel for registration will be closed on March 10. Welcome to submit application through the official website of 赌博app jjw.cn-move.com.