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Five new directors, in their early thirties, participated in the forum titled “New Directors, New Power” at today’s film festival. In this forum hosted by Ben Ji, they shared with audience how they started their career, their latest films, their insights about the Chinese filmmaking market and audience, and their suggestions to those who are aspired to become a filmmaker here.
“Chinese filmmakers used to be categorized by the years they graduated from film schools, like the fourth, fifth and sixth generation directors,” Ji started the forum to introduce the difference between these new directors and their predecessors.
“The new ones are different. We don’t hear about the seventh generation Chinese film director anymore. Like all the five panelists today, most of them didn’t graduate from a professional film academy.”
The five panelists include Da Peng, who started as an Internet variety show host, and later started directing and acting an Internet serial drama. His directorial film debut will be in the theater in mid-July.
Han Yan was the only one among the five who majored in film directing, and his most recent film, adapted from a popular comic series, will be on air in August.
Li Ruijun, whose work had been shown in international film festivals abroad, has just finished his fourth feature film.
Li Xiaofeng, one of the earliest film critics on the Internet, finished his directorial debut, which earned him two nominations at the Golden Horse Film Festival last year. It will be shown in early July.
Wu Ziyun, a popular online novelist who has been working on the post-production of his first film.
“None of films has anything to do with what’s popular in the market now, but it’s alright because everyone else is doing that,” said Li Ruijun.
“We can’t just have one type of film. Film is a cultural product and it has to have varieties. But audiences tend to love only a few genres, and are easy to ignore the types of films I have made. But we still need to make these films for the few audience who want to have varieties.”
All the five panelists are male, and audience also asked about whether women are also minorities in scriptwriting community. The directors denied so.
“All the scriptwriters I’ve known are women, except myself, and my assistant director is also a woman. They are meticulous, quick and accurate in wording,” said Wu Ziyun.