Before becoming a director, after entering the field of vision, he holds a beam of "green onion"!

What is "shallots"? Green, but it is valuable! On this lush summer, the "Scallion Plan" walked into the vision of film practitioners and enthusiasts with a new green.

The "Scallion Plan", CFDG China Youth Film Director Support Plan, is directed by the National Film Bureau and sponsored by the Chinese Film Directors Association, aims to tap the potential young director talents, and for its excellent film projects from script, production, investment and financing, and financing financing , Xuanfa and other links to carry out public welfare film activities supported by the entire industry chain.

The "Scallion Plan" was officially launched since 2015 and was initiated by Director Li Shaohong, President of the Chinese Film Director Association. Director Feng Xiaogang, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yimou, Xie Fei, Ning Hao, Guan Hu, and Huang Jianxin served as the previous chairman. Wang Hongwei served as the chairman.

After seven years of development, the "Scallion Plan" has grown from green seedlings to big trees. Not long ago, the "Scallion Plan" held the first film festival in the Chinese Film Arisp for seven years. Presented the image power of five new directors, and shared their germination roads that "before becoming the director."

During the Film Festival, Director Li Shaohong was the busiest. While communicating the platform for the works of the previous top five players, he called for the voices for the venture capital of the new top ten players. At the same time The field must arrive.

In an exclusive interview with Guanghua Rui, Director Li Shaohong was slightly tired, but obviously had no intention of discounting in expressions and thinking. In the same period, Ye Qian, the director of the film "Sweet Potato", was also produced by Li Shaohong.

What has been experienced in the "Scallion Plan" for seven years? What are the distinctiveness of other support plans? What are the same feelings of seniors and juniors? Before becoming a director, Ye Qian claimed to be the movie "Xiaobai", so after entering the public's field of vision, what is the most important thing? Holding a beam of "green onions", the light and shadow met in the crowd.

Guanghua Rui Review ｜ Interview guest

Li Shaohong's President of the Chinese Film Director Association and the initiator of the "Scallion Program"

Director Ye Qian's "Sweet Potato" and "Scallion Plan" Five Five Director

Guanghua Rui Comment:

Why do you think "green onions"?

Li Shaohong:

The "Scallion Plan" is the collective wishes of the Chinese Film Director Association. Coincidentally, the National Film Bureau also hoped to help young directors through the channel of the director association and coincided with our thoughts at the time.

In 2014, the China Film Director Association submitted a plan for the incubation of young directors to the National Film Bureau. 1 million, help them complete their first theater long film.

It was such a conspiracy.

Li Shaohong

In 2015, the "Scallion Project" began the first session. At that time, the Chinese film happened to be a vigorous development of a market economy. The Internet also got up. The demand for film directors in the industry and the market was very large, and the desire for new directors was also very strong.

I was very impressed that Wang Changtian, president of Light Media at that time, calculated a account, and the Chinese film industry was about 200 directors. Therefore, the directors of the association felt that they had a long way to go, and with a strong sense of mission to promote the "Scallion Plan" and worked hard to support the young director.

There are 35 top five directors selected in the "Scallion Plan" in 7 years. In fact, this number is not much, but it is a supplement to the Chinese film industry. I hope they will gradually grow into the pillar of the industry and the market.

Why is it called "green onion"? The shallots are lush and lush, which represents the young and booming weather. The name is very good, very vivid, and particularly easy to remember, so it is called "shallots". Our badge is a onion, on the T -shirt, the canvas bag, and the laptop are also green onions and green onions.

Guanghua Rui Comment:

The "Scallion Plan" has been released in the cinema. It is really difficult to really land the results. What is the most important thing?

Li Shaohong:

I also told the directors of the association that the road we chose was the most difficult among all support and venture capital. To truly help young directors to realize and shoot their ideas, this "shoot" is incredible. It is not like the script venture capital, as long as the play is commented.

"Taking" is a process of the entire industry chain. First of all, you have to have a script that reaches the level of shooting, the appropriate actor, and a complete creative team to start "shooting"; at the same time, you also need to make commercial venture capital and publicity to ensure that the film will eventually land.

So the word "shot" is not simple, which is indeed a problem.

The "Scallion Plan" must be responsible for the birth of a young director's film debut. In 2015, there is no such support plan, and so far, there is no such comprehensive incubation.

The director of the Film Association made a plan that I think is the most difficult and truly do a real thing for young directors.

The director association sincerely feels this mission, so he insisted on doing this at the time. It is really not easy in the past 7 years. We clenched our teeth every year. As long as the directors of the association are not filming, they will be found for everyone -where is the problem with the script, how to shoot the short film is better ... teaching their own experience. In the end, when you really want to shoot, a association director must be escorted as a producer to ensure that the young director can discuss when you encounter problems, help them solve the problem, and ensure that the film becomes a truly valuable and high -quality film debut work. Essence

Guanghua Rui Comment:

As the personal calendar of the "Scallion Project", how does Director Ye Qian feel?

Ye Qian:

I am so close to Teacher Shao Hong teacher for the first time. Speaking of the original intention of the "Scallion Plan", I remember that Teacher Wang Hongwei, vice chairman of the Chinese Film Directors Association mentioned that what they and Mr. Shao Hong were doing, may not be a good thing, not harvesting or harvesting The behavior of the movie is cultivation and sowing.

Ye Qian

Fortunately, Teacher Shaohong became my first film "Sweet Potato Paimi". At that time, I was a little white. Teacher Shao Hong used experience and methods to lead you. To some extent, there was even an anticipation of "pulling seedlings".

It was not until I was filming the second movie, and I went to complete the whole process myself, and I strongly felt how difficult it was from 0 to 1.

Li Shaohong:

Ye Qian is indeed "pushing seedlings". He has already finished the second movie now, so amazing.

When filming "Sweet Potato", he was stubborn and never listened to you. I think he is embarrassed many times and does not realize the importance of many things. But we won't replace him, he has to experience himself to perceive.

When he filmed the second film and had to work hard from beginning to end, he understood what we said and did, why it was important. He has fully understood now, I think this is a very good thing.

"Sweet Potato" poster

Ye Qian:

"Sweet Potato" is not a perfect work, but it should be a sincere work. If this movie has a good part, it is really Shao Hong and the "Scallion Plan" to escort me.

Today, I also want to ask Teacher Shaohong a question. In the 7 years of the "Scallion" plan, I was almost sad, and I have been close. Have you ever thought about giving up?

Li Shaohong:

I must have thought. The most difficult is the first few sessions. The Director Association opened the "Scallion Plan" with an ideal, but there was no rules to follow. There are a lot of exploration in the middle, and it needs to be adjusted constantly.

Because we are almost doing a whole industry chain, each link can only have the last film. You have to be in line with the market. To really go into the cinema, you have to train some new directors ... This risk index is really very large.

That's how people do it. When you are understood by everyone, you are not hard. When you are not understood, you will feel very confident, frustrated, and do you want to stick to it?

In fact, the same is true for filming, and it is difficult to make a movie every time. But when you see the audience's reflection, everyone likes it, this praise makes you happy than any award.

Now seeing this industry, there are people who feel that even if they can't make movies one day, there is still a responsibility to help newcomers realize their ideals and impart their experience to later people, and they will be very pleased.

"Sweet Potato Pour Rice" after screening, exchange scene

Guanghua Rui Comment:

What are the thresholds for selected as "Scallion Plan"?

Li Shaohong:

Director Huang Jianxin is the chairman of the seventh session of the "Scallion Program". I particularly agree with the words he said: the biggest difference between us and others is that we are creating. Therefore, we value movie text creation very much during the start -up period.

However, it was discovered that the newcomers must not only meet the laws of text creation, but also in line with the entire industrial law. He finally interspersed with the market.

Ye Qian is the best example. He is the only little white in the seventh session, and we have adjusted the entire enrollment direction and standard because he adjusted the entire admissions direction and standards.

He is a breaking director, an independent brand designer, and has never learned the director, but he has a very valuable original idea and the pursuit of the director's ideal.

Stills of "Sweet Potato"

At the beginning, we felt that the director's skills were not important with blood, and his dream was the most important. However, we ignore another important factor. The director must make a film not only a script, but also the ability to shoot and some technical capabilities, such as on -site scheduling, image thinking ability.

We later made it clear that we were not cultivating junior students, but a senior class.

There are thresholds and standards to complete a long film line. It is not a family job or a sketch. Whether you are a movie major or cross -border, you need a certain director of director.

Guanghua Rui Comment:

What are the most important and valuable for young directors?

Li Shaohong:

I think originality is the most important.

Ye Qian has not learned movies. He has no concept of the movie, but he has a very clear original idea. This creativity supports his films different, as well as his values ​​and film value.

He did not rely on the director's skills, but relying on the original to the top five. So we were determined to support him at the time and let him shoot the "Sweet Potato". His originality is very strong, there are something, if it is too technical, it may destroy his original sense. So he didn't listen to me, and I convinced me. I said yes, shoot according to your thoughts.

Stills of "Sweet Potato"

One of our most unshakable things is to replace him. Because we are all creative people, they do not want someone to replace us to make choices, and what we want to create originals can fully reflect it, even if it is very immature, even if it is not perfect, it is the original ecology.

This also reminds me of the first time I filmed.

The first time I made "Bloody Morning". At that time, there was no WeChat, and our factory sent a big telegram to our crew, saying that I had a show to re -shoot. I was stupid at the time, why? I said that because there is no close scene, I am particularly impressed. Do I think there is no close scene? What I want to shoot is a very objective perspective. Why should I go to the people of people and then return? I deliberately choose not to be close.

It was the first day of the start of "Bloody Morning". It was particularly rare to make heavy snow. The scene we snatched, and I did not want to be close to the scene. The people in the village were shouted in the early morning. According to the reason, I want to give them a close -up. They are really not easy. It was snowing early in the morning and wearing an old cotton jacket to give a close -up scene. But I don't think you want to give close scenes, I don't want to be close.

Later, the factory sent a working group to check our work, thinking whether the director would make a movie? If you can't shoot, change the director. I was almost replaced, and I knew it later.

The head of Ma Bingyu came to the scene and was moved by our creative spirit. At that time, the crew was particularly difficult and went to the village for 20 minutes to carry the machine every day. Take a mobile track of more than ten meters, set up a high platform nearly 10 meters, and set up a high platform on it. My husband is a photographer, a one -meter eight, on that, the wind blows the rock. Director of the factory of Ma came down at the time, saying that you are crazy! After I go back, I have to add money to us, and I am so excited that I don't know he came to withdraw from me. In the end, "Bloody Morning" was successful and became my masterpiece.

So I think everyone is not understood for the first time. At first to be a director, the spirit of people invest is very important. So I think that respecting the creation of young directors is the most important.

Ye Qian:

I am particularly grateful to Teacher Shaohong tolerate our edges and corners, giving us great encouragement and support. Maybe the artistic creation I understand has my own preference. I think creation is trial and error, not just right or wrong according to a certain standard answer.

My own job is a fashion designer, and it belongs to the director with the director. Like a chief commander, you must lead the entire team to work together to work together in the direction you guidance. I think the essence of the director and the designer is very similar at this point.

Guanghua Rui Comment:

What kind of film is "Sweet Potato"?

Ye Qian:

The four words "sweet potato" many viewers sound very strange, but they are very familiar to the people of southern Fujian. It is a staple food for three meals a day, which means sweet potato porridge. Because the climate in Fujian is relatively hot, sweet potato porridge is very relieved, and at the same time, it can supplement a lot of water.

Sweet potato is a crops from Fujian ships. It has a very strong vitality, so that Fujian calls its culture "sweet potato culture", and calls the Southern language or Fujian tone that it speaks.

I regard "Sweet Potato" as the title of my first movie. In fact, I also hope that I can mean the truth in many lives. In fact, it is as simple as a bowl of sweet potato rice. When you are simple enough, the world can become very simple.

I hope to convey a romantic, truth or aesthetics in the daily life.

Stills of "Sweet Potato"

The film tells the story of the old sisters of the two flower armor in the background of Fujian Minnan culture. With the unique humanistic environment, try to explore the inner world of women in old age. In the context of an aging society in China, I hope that this film will have some fable -like creative effects.

I was very excited as the subject of the elderly as the protagonist. Because I like a word very much, "What we avoided not talking like ourselves". In such a point of view, I will feel that how to treat the elderly group and understand their spiritual world, it is also what young people will try to understand us in the future.

If no one does this, the two generations will always be a group of splitting. The spiritual needs, emotional needs, and the inner world of the elderly will be split into an island. So I think this matter is what I want to do from the perspective of creation.

Including my second film protagonist is still an old lady, I think their spiritual world needs to be understood by more contemporary young people.

When I was studying at the Film Academy, I remembered that Mr. Mei Feng also said that Chinese filmmakers or authors should find their own expression.

"Scallion Program" display works

For example, every young director in the "Scallion Plan" is displayed in the way he finds the right way. Everyone has many uncompromising and many self -persistence.

Under the supervision and protection of the "Scallion Plan" parents, everyone's personality traits have been maximized. I think this is the most precious gift brought by the "Scallion Plan" to the young director. So before becoming a director, I hope that everyone should not be in a hurry to conclude that the concept of contemporary film and contemporary film will become more free and diverse in the future.

Creative systems such as shallots are a solid system that can empower young directors. Thank you very much for the scallion plan to let a niche, imperfect movie such as "Sweet Potato Put the Rice" appear in front of everyone in a sincere way.

Li Shaohong:

Movies are a creation of nothing, so when you build it, you need to build an invisible picture in your heart; when you want to turn it into a tangible Believe people. The "Scallion Plan" is actually a process of helping everyone to complete a firm belief.

If you want to use the film director as his life -long career, the "Scallion Plan" is the best choice for everyone.

Before becoming a director, I look forward to seeing you "shallots"!

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