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 Sfilmmaker Filmmaker interviews      Q&A "Wake Up With You"       (陪你醒来）      GUEST： He Shaowei      Film: Wake Up With You      Country: China       Interviewer: Sfilmmaker Question 1: ‘Wake Up With You’ uses dance and choreography to tell it’s story about infidelity and mental illness. What made you approach this subject in such a unique way?   Answer: I am also a choreograph er. I also takes dance to represent the world and express my emotion. From 2015, I attempted to combine film with choreography . I made some short films to face the problems of the modern society and the internal emotions of the people in the modern age. I find the unique and great aesthetic effect  from the combination. So, I want to add more organic and reasonable dance elements in more films in the future. I hope I can bring out more novelties with such a unique way of expression and it can w...

  Question 1.  “Chinese New Year’s Eve” is a film about the eponymous festival, which is also known as Spring Festival in China. Chinese New Year has often been described as the East Asian equivalent of Christmas. What’s the significance of Chinese New Year to Chinese people? Answer : Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people over thousands of years. This tradition has lasted for 2000 years. On the Chinese New Year, all families will have reunion parties and all debts will be cleared. Then, it really means the new beginng. Everyone wishes that everything will go well in the New Year and everything will be different. Of course, it is a good wish. However, it is just a wish. Life is never like what we wish. All unsolved questiones in the previous year will still  emerge in the new year. With the coming of the Internet era, people’s life is more and more fragmented. The Chinese New Year which had been celebrated for a month in the past is now shorten...

  Question 1: Your film “Flowering Season” is about a school boy who, in a moment of crisis, considers committing suicide. Is this film based on any real events or social trends?   Answer: Before writing the screenplay, we had an investigation. We interviewed the archetype character of the story. We took the story of him as the plot and then combined the stories of other interviewees with his.   Question 2:  What kinds of pressures and challenges do modern young people in China face? Are their lives more difficult than those of their parents when they were at school?   Answer: I think, the young generation in China is facing a series of social problems caused by the fast pace of social life, the missing cultural tradition, the temptation of violence and pornography on social media as well as overemphasis of elites on the media. Many of these factors have become the source of stress for young people. The rushing life has changed our lifestyle and transformed the ...

  Profile of Kang Jiaxiang: Kang Jiaxiang  is   a Mongolian  Chinese d irector . In 2007 , his film   “ The Funeral of Grandpa Xia ”   was s elected in the Short Film section of the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival . In  2012 , his film   “ White Sheets ”  was   s elected for the Chinesisches Film Festival in Frankfurt . In 2020 , his feature film   Mother Chrysanthemuml   was s elected for the Vancouver Chinese Film Festival .   In  2020 , his film was nominated as  Best Asian Feature Film  and  the Best Asian Actress and the Best Producer , and the Best Director of NVIFF  as well. In 2020 , his film   was s elected for the Filmarte Festival - 5th Edition .   In 2021 , his short film   “ The Smell of Memory ”   was   n ominated as the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Cinematography in the East Europe International Film Festival 2020; His documentary Dragon B...

  Profile of Leon Zhao: Leon Zhao is a young Chinese director and scriptwriter, who was born in Shanxi in the 1980s, and now lives in Beijing. Leon began to learn oil painting when he was a little child, which laid a solid foundation for his accomplishment in fine arts. He once obtained a bachelor's degree of Multimedia Art Design at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, and later further studied Directing at Beijing Film Academy. He also studied at Hollywood, the United States. Leon has been committed to producing ingenious, thought-provoking, and touching films that suit both refined and popular tastes. 1.  Leon Zhao, the director of “Run Shunzi!” was originally a painter. Other painters who became film directors include Fritz Lang, Ridley Scott and David Lynch. Do painters make good film directors and what about the world or art prepares one for film-making?   Frame is a very important element for film making. Painting can cultivate one ’ s sense of frame. D...

  Profile of the director: Director Xu Youshi (徐有时）is a photographer who’s work has always taken him to the edge of modern cinema, a media which he loves. He’s been writing scripts since 2018 and in 2020 he shot his first short film “My Beloved”. The following year he wrote and completed his first feature “Chenxiang”: he’s currently working on another short film. 1.  My Beloved is about “Left Behind Children”; the kids who are left in rural areas by parents who travel to China’s cities to find work. How serious a problem is this and what should be done to tackle this problem? A: There are many in China. At least there are a lot around me. The whole society is trying to care about these children. But they lack the love from their parents. Only their parents can solve this problem.   2.  There is an old saying that one should never work with either children or animals. Yet for Xu Youshi’s first short film you decided to work with both. What attracted you to want to mak...

  Profile of Sun Jianjiang: Sun Jianjiang, born in 1981, Han nationality. Graduated from Harbin textile and garment industry school in 2000 Serving as the art editor of 9:61: A Record of The Authors of DV Independent Video of the Post-80s Generation in China by Sanlian publishing house in 2004. Producing more than ten online films for the film Guoing.com and Joy.com in 2006 Filming drama columns for Heilongjiang satellite TV in 2009 Studying in the literature department of Beijing Film Academy in 2010 Engaged in film editing in Beijing, editing movie trailers and promotional films for 1942, American dreams in China, Personal tailor, Starry Starry Night, etc in 2011 1.  Low-End Population deals with the economic impact of Covid-19, especially on the working classes. It’s a brilliant film which presents a bleak image of the struggle of the “low-end population” to survive. What made you want to make this film? A: Because of Covid-19 , I, a filmmaker working in Tier 1 cities like ...