Andy Lau has chosen the next ＂Ning Hao＂ in Golden Rooster Venture Capital!

Special feature of 1905 film network Fifteen years ago, Andy Lau launched the "Asian Rising Star Director Program", which helped Ning Hao, the new director of that year, complete it. The movie was a box office hit and Ning Hao quickly became famous.

Fifteen years later, Ning Hao launched the "Bad Monkey 72 Change Plan", which fostered a number of potential new directors such as Muye Wen and Luyang.

A new project "Little Bastard" produced by Ning Hao was selected for the 33rd China Golden Rooster Awards Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference. At the scene of the ultimate roadshow, director Difei Zhou was under the stage facing the chief judge Andy Lau.

This scene, quite a China film generation to help inherit the meaning.

Andy Lau, Huang Jianxin and Xú Zhēng are the main judges of the Venture Capital Conference.

The venture capital unit of Shanghai International Film Festival has gone through fourteen years, the project venture capital of Beijing International Film Festival has gone through nine years, and the Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference has just entered its second year.

What this authoritative and young film venture capital has shown this year, and what are the characteristics of the shortlisted projects will be the driving force to guide the future development direction of China films.

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This year’s Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference received a total of 1021 projects that met the registration requirements. According to reports, among the types of registered projects, drama accounts for the largest proportion, followed by comedy, suspense, love and science fiction.

At the final road show on November 26th, 30 projects were shortlisted and 16 were put on stage.

Exhibition of some finalists in venture capital conference

The director and producer of each project will introduce the project to the jury under the stage within 10 minutes. They will face the jury composed of Huang Jianxin, Andy Lau and Xú Zhēng, 22 domestic first-class producers, and the jury composed of investors’ alliance.

Directors, actors, producers and investors are all in place, and each project has to face questions, comments and suggestions from different angles such as stories, types, themes, expressions, actors, budgets and distribution.

After the roadshow, they will also get an appointment with their partners on the 27th and 28th for one-on-one negotiation.

Qiao Sixue, director of Umbilical Cord, has not participated in this kind of venture capital for the FIRST time. She walked through the FIRST Youth Film Festival and Beijing International Film Festival with this project. The reason why she came to the Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference again, she pointed out a very important point:

"The huge jury has never been experienced before. There are judges from different professions in the industry in the whole jury, which makes the selection of venture capital projects more three-dimensional. It is very important to hear the opinions of these predecessors. Their questions and suggestions are more on the point, which reminds us of our preparation and shooting. "

Qiao Sixue appeared at Venture Capital with Umbilical Cord.

Many of the 30 projects shortlisted for the ultimate roadshow, like "Umbilical Cord", have experienced several film festivals and ventures before.

Umbilical Cord won the "Special Award" in this year’s venture capital in Beijing International Film Festival. Entering the Mountain, Oh, another dish, Fog in the South, Winter Ranch, A thief died are also shortlisted and won awards. Good wishes on earth and I looked up and found two identical clouds also won awards in the venture capital of Pingyao Film Festival not long ago.

Umbilical Cord was recommended by the Jury of Golden Rooster Venture Capital in 2020.

The purpose of their coming to Jinji Venture Capital is not only to listen to the opinions of more professionals in the industry, but also to have different venture capital goals, including finding financing, production and distribution, producer, actor, international publicity agency, film excerpts and increasing exposure and popularity.

Judging from the evaluation opinions on the road show site, some projects need to make major subversive changes in the script story, and some projects are mature enough to wait for the opportunity to start shooting.

Xú Zhēng comments on venture capital projects.

In any case, participating in venture capital may not make a film immediately, but not participating means losing a chance to make it.

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"Ning Hao took me to see Andy Lau before. It is the second time he has heard this story."

Andy Lau comments on venture capital projects.

After the roadshow, Difei Zhou, the director of Little Bastard, told us that the project had been prepared for four years and decided to participate in venture capital because it had been carried out to "the level of meeting people".

The jury of producers participated in the initial evaluation, re-evaluation and final evaluation to protect the newcomers. Difei Zhou said frankly: "In the re-evaluation stage, the judges attacked us violently and raised many sharp questions. Today, everyone’s opinions are blocked in their mouths."

Difei Zhou appeared in venture capital with "Little Bastard"

Little Bastard is a typical warm comedy, which tells the story of an actress who went to France to attend the funeral after her husband died in a car accident, and unexpectedly found that her husband and lover had a mixed-race boy. In order to find the grandfather of the illegitimate child, the two started a journey of growing up across Europe with laughter and tears.

Produced by Bad Monkey Film, supervised by Ning Hao, and produced by Italian national treasure actress Maria Guxinata, Little Bastard has good resource strength and is a project favored by many employers.

Huang Jianxin asked why he came to venture capital.

Difei Zhou said with a smile: "Money can’t be earned by one family". He still hopes to find more like-minded partners and push his works to a broader market in the future.

Huang Jianxin comments on venture capital projects.

Like Little Bastard, there are 30 finalists and many well-known filmmakers as producers.

The Umbilical Cord directed by Qiao Sixue was produced by Bad Rabbit Film in Yao Chen, with Yao Chen as the producer, Lu Chuan as the producer of Our Secret directed by Du Huijun, Yim Ho as the producer of Yan Yizhi’s I Looked Up and Found Two Same Clouds, and Weng Ziguang as the producer of Zhang Lu’s Just Coming Here.

Of course, the name of the producer cannot be equivalent to the quality of the film itself. The most important thing is to compete for film creation and content is king.

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There is another interesting phenomenon worth observing at the scene of the ultimate roadshow. female directors’s projects are generally affirmed by the judges under the stage.

"Don’t worry, I support it." Andy Lau admitted that he liked Umbilical Cord, a film about mother and child’s affection for ethnic minorities, which was well received at the venture capital roadshow in Beijing International Film Festival. At that time, Yongmei, the judge, bluntly wanted to play one of the roles.

The original name of "Umbilical Cord" is Roaming in the Blue Grassland. Director Qiao Sixue told us that the Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference is the last stop for this film to participate in venture capital. The film will be launched in April next year, and then it will enter the preparatory stage.

Wang Lina, the film director, brought her second feature film, Village Music, which was also produced by Bad Rabbit Film. This project had previously won the Venture Capital Award of the Silk Road International Film Festival.

Wang Lina brought a long shot sample, which she described as a musical video poem. Huang Jianxin expressed his confidence in this film: "This is the director’s spiritual story, and it is clearly defined as an art film. I think this play is ok."

Wang Lina brought "Village Music" to venture capital.

Producer judge Liang Jing reviewed Song Liying’s "Good Wish on Earth" when he was in Pingyao Venture Capital. This project will tell the love and entanglement between a mother and daughter in four seasons and three places. Liang Jing said that it would be a good movie to cry. Xú Zhēng thinks this theme is very good, which is contemporary, literary and artistic. We should dig deeper into the details of the script. You can make a better temperament.

Producer Fu Jia brought the new director Liu Siyi’s project "Love History of Three Nobles". The story is about three strange curses, three romantic and absurd loves, and tells a man’s fairy tale journey of pursuing true love.

The film was shot in Xiamen. This work can be likened to a rare fairy tale fantasy film in China. Andy Lau’s evaluation is complete in all aspects. I hope the film will reverberate and stimulate the current market after completion.

The Love History of Sangui won the "type optimization" winning project at the venture capital conference.

These female directors projects are different from other male directors in the perspective of themes and the way of telling stories, with delicate and sensitive emotional expressions, and some are mysterious and romantic.

At the promotion ceremony on the evening of 27th, directors Wang Lina, Song Liying and Liu Siyi all won the most potential director award, while Umbilical Cord and Good Will on Earth were recommended by the jury, and Village Music won the top prize.

"Village Music" won the biggest prize, and the winning project of the jury.

Andy Lau and Xú Zhēng both shouted at the awards ceremony: "China male director is going to refuel!" Huang Jianxin sighed: "I’m impressed! I can only pay tribute to female directors on behalf of the male director! "

Female creators have become a rising force in venture capital projects and film creation. They are more respected by the industry, have more freedom of expression and have more and more opportunities.

"For all young creators, it is still important to do a good story. Whether it is male or female, gender is not the main reason." After watching all the road shows, Wang Yunzhi, the producer of Bad Monkey Film, believes that everything still needs to return to whether the work itself is enough to attract the audience.

The main visual theme of the poster of this year’s Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference is "Gravitation", which means that the Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference will attract the attention of countless creators and investors, and let every filmmaker’s dream blossom through the attraction rules of "creation" and "investment".

Poster of this Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference

The slogan of Golden Rooster Venture Capital is "Discover the future of the film", which is the ultimate goal of every creator who comes to Golden Rooster Venture Capital.