Gu Xiaogang knows firsthand the impact that international film festivals can have.
Gu turned to the Beijing International Film Festival back in 2018 in an effort to get his breakthrough feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, made. He took his film to Bjiff’s project market and he walked away with the funds he needed after impressing investors with his story — an intimate look at a family’s life as it evolves across one year — along with his languid style.
The international film world has since felt much the same. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains went on to become the first Chinese-language film to close Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2019, was selected among the top 10 films of the year by the leading French film magazine Cahier du Cinema in 2020 and led directly to Gu being named a co-winner of the Akira Kurosawa Award at last year’s 36th Tokyo International Film Festival,...
Gu turned to the Beijing International Film Festival back in 2018 in an effort to get his breakthrough feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, made. He took his film to Bjiff’s project market and he walked away with the funds he needed after impressing investors with his story — an intimate look at a family’s life as it evolves across one year — along with his languid style.
The international film world has since felt much the same. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains went on to become the first Chinese-language film to close Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2019, was selected among the top 10 films of the year by the leading French film magazine Cahier du Cinema in 2020 and led directly to Gu being named a co-winner of the Akira Kurosawa Award at last year’s 36th Tokyo International Film Festival,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Mathew Scott
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Beijing-based world sales and multi-territory distribution outfit Tiger Pictures Entertainment has acquired international rights to Chinese comedy Godspeed, which is currently topping China’s May Day holiday box office.
Written and directed by Yi Xiaoxing (Bath Buddy), the film revolves around a young man who goes on a road trip with the parents of his fiancée. Chinese comedians Ma Li (Moon Man) and Qiao Shan head the cast.
The film was released in China on April 28 in time for the May Day holidays (April 29-May 3), one of the country’s four key box office periods, along with Chinese New Year, summer and the National Day holidays in October. At the time of writing, the film was topping the China box office, according to online ticketing platform Maoyan, and had a cumulative gross of $55M (RMB380M).
Founded by Beijing-based film executive Owen Young, Tiger Pictures has built...
Written and directed by Yi Xiaoxing (Bath Buddy), the film revolves around a young man who goes on a road trip with the parents of his fiancée. Chinese comedians Ma Li (Moon Man) and Qiao Shan head the cast.
The film was released in China on April 28 in time for the May Day holidays (April 29-May 3), one of the country’s four key box office periods, along with Chinese New Year, summer and the National Day holidays in October. At the time of writing, the film was topping the China box office, according to online ticketing platform Maoyan, and had a cumulative gross of $55M (RMB380M).
Founded by Beijing-based film executive Owen Young, Tiger Pictures has built...
- 5/2/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
A “family” of four unexpectedly begins a truck journey full of laughter and tears. Truck driver Zhou Donghai (Qiao Shan) disapproves of his prospective son-in-law, Wan Yifan (Fan Chengcheng). But the harder Wan Yifan tries to please his future father-in-law, the more he gets himself into trouble. In the meantime, the prospective mother-in-law Huo Meimei (Ma Li) and the daughter Zhou Weiyu (Zhang Jingyi) are racking their brains to mediate between this pair of enemies. Can the hapless Wan Yifan successfully pass the various tests set up by his future father-in-law during this road-trip? (Source: Translated from Douban)
Director Yi Xiaoxing has previously worked as a screenwriter with Chen Sicheng (Detective Chinatown trilogy) in 2022’s Mozart from Space. Godspeed will premiere in China on April 28, 2023.
Director Yi Xiaoxing has previously worked as a screenwriter with Chen Sicheng (Detective Chinatown trilogy) in 2022’s Mozart from Space. Godspeed will premiere in China on April 28, 2023.
- 4/4/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
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