On the evening of December 20, the 4th New Era International Film Festival Golden Flower Award·SAIC Volkswagen Weiran Night Award Ceremony was held grandly at Wynn Palace in Macau. The winners of various awards were announced on the spot. Yang Feng won the award for “The Cold City” Winner of the Jury Award for Best Director, the much-anticipated “Cold City” won the Best Suspense Film of the New Era.
68The shortlist includes outstanding domestic films from the past year The movie “Cold City” won great awards Won the Jury Award for Best Director best suspense film
Looking at the entire shortlisted films, they almost include excellent domestic films of various types and themes released in the past year or so, including “Man Jiang Hong”, “The Wandering Earth 2”, “Fengshen Part 1”, “Ten Thousand Miles Homeward Bound” and other high-box office movies. Productions include “The Octagon”, “Vicious Lawyer”, “All or Nothing”, “She Disappeared”, “I Am a Mountain” and other realistic-themed works that have aroused heated discussions among the audience, including “Unfamiliar Life”, “Operation Moscow”, “Rescue Suspect” “People” and other distinctive commercial genre films, including excellent animated films such as “Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang’an”, “Bear Bears: Accompany Me Bear “Core”” and “Tea No. 2 Middle School”, as well as “Yong’an Town Stories Collection” “The Light of the Tower”, “It’s Worth It”, “The Mistake by the River” and other excellent small and medium-cost literary films.
The movie “Cold City” is even more eye-catching. It won the “Best Director of the Jury” and “Best Suspense Film of the New Era” at this New Era International Film Festival. The movie “Cold City” directed by Yang Feng was conceived in 2016 and officially launched in 2018. During this period, the script was adjusted for no less than ten drafts, and the shooting scenes spanned four places, from Beijing to Changzhou, to Shanghai and In the virgin forest of Changbai Mountain, in the process of condensing words into images, director Yang Feng strives for excellence and strives to reproduce the real scenes of the era, presenting the audience with a vivid 33rd year of the Republic of China. 90% of the entire film was shot on location. You can see in the film The scenes you see are almost exclusively original in “Cold City”. Important scenes such as casinos, newspapers, bathhouses, mansions, docks, and barber shops were all created by the staff who consulted a large number of historical documents, photos, texts, and watched the character shapes and architectural details from documentaries of the 1930s and 1940s. The film was recreated on the basis of historical prototypes, especially It is the director’s in-depth analysis and portrayal of many complex human natures in the film. The speeches of the Republic of China people are mastered, and the lines are rigorous, restrained and vivid. Let the audience experience the charm of film art in an immersive way, bringing great artistic shock! This is also rare in today’s film market.
“Profound artistry “Strong appeal” the jury’s evaluation of Director Yang Feng
Director Yang Feng mentioned in the interview: “Filmmakers, first of all, must have awe of movies and do a solid job in the core of the film. Your values are very important. Secondly, it is a director’s comprehensive aesthetics, which can be accurately achieved through sound, light and electricity. interpretation”. This time, the New Era International Film Festival’s Golden Flower Award jury gave director Yang Feng a cross-criticism of “profound artistry and strong appeal.” This is also the highest praise for director Yang Feng’s generation of “filmmakers.” It is precisely with such a director and such “persistence” that we can see a hundred flowers blooming in the theater.
The New Era International Film Festival Golden Flower Awards was founded in 2019. It is a film selection event held in Macau, China, aiming to promote the “Chinese Dream”. It is jointly initiated and hosted by a number of mainstream media in Hong Kong and Macau, China, and the Chinese entertainment industry The Academy, China Film Academy, and China Urban Research Institute provide strategic support. This film festival is co-organized by Wynn Hotel Macau and hosted by Macau Lotus TV. It also received strong support from Aolai Yipin.
