1905 movie network news On the evening of June 18, the Shanghai International Film Festival series "Banana Curiosity Night" was held. Wang Sicong, chairperson of Shanghai Banana Project Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Wei Xiangdong, executive president of Banana Film, Zeng Maojun, president of Wanda Film, and Bao Dexi, Jiao Xiongping, Shu Huan, Liu Yi, Tian Yusheng, Dong Runnian and other filmmakers attended the event.
Before the awards were handed out that night, Wei Xiangdong first summarized the overall situation of the first "Banana New Screenwriters Dream Realization Project". The company finally selected 6 winning works from 3,170 applications. Wei Xiangdong admitted that by reading all the scripts, the team discovered the problems existing in the creation of young screenwriters at present, including serious genre homogeneity, content distortion, irregular writing format, serious lack of imagination and so on.
Adhering to the principles of rapid development, mature content, and in line with the audience’s aesthetics, the mentors who participated in this program, Jiao Xiongping, Liu Yi, Shu Huan, Zhou Zhiyong, and Yuan Yuan, awarded the first, second, and third prizes to "Me and My Hugh Grant", "Mirror World", "Men Are Still Young When They Die", "I Am a Big Star", "Genius Screenwriters", and "Movies Are Watching You". These contestants will directly receive cash prizes 800,000 to 1.50 million.
Wang Sicong presented awards to the winners
As the founder of the "Banana Project", Wang Sicong also presented awards to the winners that night. Referring to the original intention of the company’s participation in supporting young writers and directors, he said: "As a small company, we don’t have any performance pressure, and we don’t want to compete with big companies. I hope we can not be too troubled by performance, but can really put up a little money to help the film market that lacks infrastructure."
During the 2018 Shanghai Film Festival, Banana Films selected a group of young filmmakers through the "Banana New Director Digging Project". During the year, the company helped them lay the foundation by holding master classes and going to the crew to learn from the real world. Now, these young people will also officially "graduate" and start to complete their own projects.
That night, six projects directed by five new directors were officially announced. "Days of Living with the Villain" directed by Wen Yonge will be shared with NetEaseThe literary platform has reached a strategic cooperation, and his other work "The God of Cooking" belongs toiQIYI"Cloud Teng Project". Last year’s" Land Digging Project "No. 1 Mao Yongsheng will bring his own film" Lily Cherry ". Cui Rui and Qiu Xinda will direct this year’s" New Writers’ Dream Realization Project "award-winning works" Me and My Hugh Grant "and" I’m a Big Star "respectively.
Among them, "Me and My Hugh Grant" also invited Oscar winner Bao Dexi to be the supervisor. At the scene, Bao Dexi also expressed his hope to use his experience to help young people, and he also said with a smile: "I happen to be very familiar with Hugh Grant." In addition, the new screenwriter mentor Yuan Yuan will also bring a literary adaptation of the film "For N" with Yao Bo.
At the end of the event, Wei Xiangdong also announced the next two key investment works of Banana Film. They are Tian Yusheng’s new film released in the summer and Chen Sicheng’s supervised works. The company expects that the two works will be successful in the market as they have previously invested.