Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

Christian is a famous Italian director and the chairman of the jury for the Horizon section of this Venice Film Festival.

The Horizon Unit is one of the two official competition units of the film festival, which focuses on encouraging film experimentation and innovation to capture the future trends and trends of international films.

The Horizon unit is a screening unit. The participating films do not participate in the competition for the Golden Lion Award. The participating micro-films belong to this competition unit.

He watched the five-minute movie "Leave Me" several times and was full of praise for its storyline, narrative techniques and shooting techniques.

He estimates that if this short film is entered, there is a high chance that it will win the Best Short Film Award.

But what is regrettable is that there is a big close-up of the Canon camera LOGO in the movie!

Suddenly this well-conceived literary film turned into a short film advertisement for Canon! This goes against the purpose of the Venice Film Festival to "serve serious art".

Didn't even pass the preliminary examination!

It is a big loss for the Venice Film Festival that such a good film cannot be exhibited.

But principled things cannot be violated. Even if he appreciates it very much, he cannot open the back door and can only reluctantly give up and withdraw.

Can the author revise it again?

Along with the official email receipt, Christian also sent a private email of his own.

After three days of visiting Paris, Yu Dongqing and the others are planning to take a flight to Venice tomorrow.

"How are you going to get so many things? We have to go to Italy." Yu Dongqing was helpless when he saw the large and small bags of things in the hotel room.

"Dad, there is express delivery. I made an agreement with my aunt. My things will be sent directly to my grandma's house, and hers will be sent to the school."

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Yu Dongqing was speechless.

At noon the next day, the three of them took a plane directly to Venice, Italy. The plane landed at Marco Polo International Airport. When they exited the station, they saw Elena wearing a miniskirt and flaxen hair in the terminal.

"Intimate Meili, you are finally here." Elena gave Meili a warm hug.

"Tongtong."

"Brother-in-law."

Enthusiastic Elena hugged each other, and then took them out of the terminal and boarded the bus to the city.

On the way home, the two girls kept chatting.

"Mingliang, did you have fun on your trip?"

"We were very happy. We visited all the attractions in London and Paris. By the way, we also went to Casborough, a small seaside town not far from London. It is a very interesting seaside town."

"Yes, my brother-in-law also wrote a song called "Cathborough Fair", which is very nice."

"how do you know?"

"Susan also talked about this on her Twitter. She highly praised the song and planned to cover it. My brother-in-law's original song has already appeared on Spotify's new song rankings."

"Yeah?"

Meimei was busy playing around with this thing and didn't pay attention to it.

Yu Dongqing didn't care even more. She sat in the back with Yu Tongtong and looked at the scenery outside.

Coco Polo International Airport is only eight kilometers away from downtown Venice. Soon they entered the city. Yu Dongqing and the others followed Elena and got on the water bus.

Standing on the boat and admiring the scenery of the Venetian architectural complex is an indescribable enjoyment. The buildings on both sides of the waterway are very exquisite Gothic and Renaissance buildings.

Elena's home is located in a street near St. Mark's Square. It has three floors in a building. Elena told Meili that her parents went to Milan to visit her grandparents. She is the only one in the family, so you don't need to live there. Hotel, stay directly at my house.

"It's so lonely at home alone. It's best to have a companion!" Elena said excitedly.

The room has been packed up, and it is still Yu Dongqing's room. Meili and Yu Tongtong live next door. After the two packed their luggage, Elena greeted them to go out.

"I'll take you to our local specialty - cuttlefish noodles! There are also shrimp polenta and branelli cookies!"

Hearing that there were so many delicious foods, Yu Tongtong's mouth watered and she immediately shouted to go out.

In a small restaurant on the side of St. Mark's Square, four people sat at a table by the window, eating delicious food while admiring the scenery outside.

At this moment, Mingmei's mobile phone prompted that she had received two emails.

"It's an email from the Venice Film Festival jury!" Meimei was shocked and quickly opened one of them.

Suddenly I felt disappointed.

The content is brief.

It is said that films at the Venice Film Festival "serve serious art" and do not accept overly commercialized films, let alone participate in award competitions in the form of advertising short films.

But at the same time, Meimei also received a personal email from Christian, the chairman of the jury.

In the letter, Christian made no secret of his affirmation of the artistic value of this micro-film and his great appreciation of the author's talent. He strongly suggested that the author make revisions or make a new micro-film for submission.

this?

"What's wrong, Mingliang?" Elena asked.

Meimei showed everyone two emails.

This result is somewhat unexpected.

"How about, brother-in-law, just follow Christian's suggestion, let's remove that LOGO and use the original version." Meiliang suggested.

She estimated that the problem lay in the Canon logo.

Yu Dongqing shook his head.

"Now that we have signed a contract with Canon, we must act in accordance with the contract."

"Then just make another one!" It was Elena who spoke.

"Elena, I came to Italy to travel, not to make a movie!" Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

"You can make movies while traveling. I heard from Meimei that you only spent three days filming and post-production on "Leave Me"."

"That's right, brother-in-law, this is a rare opportunity. Christian is a famous director in the world. People admire you very much. Keep up the good work and win another grand prize!" Meiliang said.

Do you have such confidence in me?

But yes.

We can’t win the Golden Lion, but we can win the Best Short Film Award, right?

Yu Dongqing was a little moved.

but

"Meiliang, Elena, even if you want to make a short film, how can you make it without the equipment and actors? I don't plan to use a camera this time."

"Leave this matter to me!" Elena immediately took over the topic: "One of the world's three major film festivals is held in Venice. You can imagine the development of our Venice film industry!" Elena looked proud: " As long as you are willing to shoot, I will help you find equipment, venues, and even actors!”

Ah?

Oh well.

In the original time and space, there was also a short film.

In a small restaurant on the side of Marco Piazza, Yu Dongqing told the two girls the script of another micro movie.

Adrian is a talented pianist who has been studying piano for 15 years. He failed in the coveted Bernstein Piano Competition and his life fell to the bottom.

After a period of adjustment, Adrian rebounded and became a blind piano tuner.

In fact, he just wears contact lenses, which will make others think that his hearing is sharper, and thus get more sympathy and consumption, and even peek into other people's lives and privacy. Although he is immersed in this kind of Being in a busy city yet feels like you are in a transcendent world.

One day, he came to work in a house, but he didn't know that a murder had just occurred here.

This is the famous short film "The Tuner" from time and space!

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