Cannes films will be sold online! What are the advantages and disadvantages of online market?

In this report, we try to answer these questions:

1. How is the Cannes Film Market held this year?

2. Can the online movie market accommodate all the transactions during the film festival?

3. Can film producers buy this year’s competition films online?

4. What is the impact of online market on movie trading?

5. What else can Cannes film market do besides trading?


Special feature of 1905 film network What to do in Cannes this year should be the topic that fans are most concerned about during this period. May every year not only means how more than 100 films will meet the audience, but also means that those films will become the focus of discussion by the audience in the coming year, and what kind of films will be displayed at major film festivals.

 

Cannes Film Festival not only provides a few months’ talk for fans, but more importantly, it is one of the largest film markets in the world. In May, together with directors, actors, producers and the media, there were also representatives of film companies, agents, distributors, film foundations and other people in the industry from all over the world.

 

The market set a record in 2019 How to face difficulties in 2020?


2019 is the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival film market, which has welcomed more than 12,000 participants in an unprecedented way. This year, when the selection of three parallel units was cancelled and the date of the official screening unit was ambiguous, the future of the film market and the screening markets in many countries behind it became a topic of more concern to the industry.

 

Now, the film market has decided to hold it online this year. In its official statement, this year’s online film market will fully simulate every function offline, from the agent booth to the film agency exhibition hall; From online video conferencing to online watching movies; There will even be online forums.



But at the moment, will the online movie market still maintain the vitality of offline every year?

 

"In our platform, the film market accounts for about 10%." David, a reporter from a film media who has reported the Cannes Film Festival for many years, said, "This year, I don’t think the impact will be great, and maybe there will be a lot of transactions."

 

The person in charge of the film market said that 80% of the publishers they consulted were willing to try the online market; 66% still have the ability to buy films including films, post-production and script creation.

 

The person in charge stressed that this year’s online film market will provide an efficient and cutting-edge platform for film screening, trading and financing. The online movie market has been scheduled for May 22nd for a week.

 

Online movie market Can you replace the seaside luxury hotel?


Walk into the movie palace and go down the stairs directly to the basement. These hundreds of planes and the two floors above them are the movie market in Cannes. Film companies and agents from various countries distribute thousands of film copyrights to all parts of the world here.


 

But among other movie people, there is an invisible "market" in Cannes, which is located in hotels lined up by the sea. Larger film companies often negotiate cooperation here. Someone from a film company once said: "The films in the movie palace market are basically films that no one wants after the copyright is robbed."

 

When the film market appears online this year, will there be "two markets"?

 

"I don’t quite agree with this statement." Li Yihua, the person in charge of Nianhua outside the window, said. In recent years, she has bought the China rights of many films in Cannes and other film festivals. "The so-called hotel is the second market, which may be a relatively large company and needs more freedom. I think the difference between talking about business and not talking about business is not so big, but the conditions and timing of negotiation. "

 

Li Yihua believes that the film market of the Film Palace actually plays an important role for sales companies to develop new customers and buyers. This is also the necessity of the existence of the official film market in Cannes.


But this year, the market turned online, and she felt that it might not be so friendly to new buyers. When selling films, sales companies may have concerns in the face of buyers they have never met.

 

In the Cannes film market transactions in the past few years, even many familiar companies talked about their cooperation intentions long in advance in order to improve the efficiency and success rate of the transactions during Cannes. Li Yihua mentioned that for new buyers, online film festivals may also bring difficulties. Not knowing the sales company and not meeting in advance will reduce the success rate of the transaction.


Advantages and disadvantages of online market Can a film dealer buy a competition film?


The official statement of the film market of Cannes Film Festival seems to be a reassurance to film practitioners. Perhaps the only worry is what kind of films can be bought this year.

 

Recalling the experience of buying films, an industry insider who went to Cannes Film Festival all the year round revealed that every time, he had to sit down at the booth of the Film Palace market, listen to the seller’s introduction, and then spend two or three minutes watching a film. If a company has 10 films, it may take 30 to 40 minutes to watch it, and then he can start to talk about conditions, and basically he will not decide whether to buy a film immediately. Actually, it’s a waste of time



This year’s film festival was held online. In the eyes of this industry, it actually saved a lot of time for purchase and negotiation. "The same work can be done online, and there are written materials in advance, which can make better decisions. If there is a link to the demo, everyone in the company can watch it. More flexible. "

 

Li Yihua, who buys copyright for her company at major film festivals every year, agrees with this view. She said that she has to fly to four or five film festivals every year to hold meetings, watch films and sort out materials in a few days. The time is particularly tight: "If you are online, the time on the road and the time difference will be omitted. It will be more efficient for everyone to watch films directly."

 

Li Yihua told us that at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, she chose to watch the film online at home and then make a decision to buy the film: "Some foreign companies anticipated this problem and sent us the link when they showed it in Berlin. I watched a lot of competition films, and the last film I bought won this year’s Golden Bear. "

 

David, a film journalist, is generally optimistic about the online market this year. He thinks that in this year’s environment, the copyright transaction volume of online broadcasting may reach a new high. But at the same time, he is worried that because the market is held before the film festival, filmmakers may not be able to buy any "explosive" movies.



"The online market will not have much impact on procurement." Li Yihua said, "But if there is no nomination, or a stunt like a competition unit, I think it will be very difficult to buy a film." She mentioned that more than 100 films in the official and parallel units of Cannes will be concerned by the domestic media because of the name of "Cannes", but this year’s changes will make her more cautious in buying films.

 

The online transaction is solved. Where is the offline activity going?


"The film market is a more specific, practical and functional trading platform extended by the film festival. It will include market screening, forum activities and so on, and its diversity and inclusiveness are also very important." According to Liu Lei, the operation director of China Film Foundation’s Wu Tianming Youth Film Special Fund, this is a very important part of the offline activities of Cannes Film Festival.

 

Liu Lei mentioned that the world filmmakers attracted by Cannes Film Festival will help young filmmakers understand the necessary practical skills such as film promotion skills, joint production, international finance, market strategy, market distribution and international sales.

 

Therefore, for filmmakers, the film market is a platform for buying and selling film copyrights. But at the same time, the establishment of this market is also helping young people in the industrial chain to stand on the international stage faster.

 

Liu Lei gave us an example: Xiao Gancao, our producer, was greatly encouraged after he came to Cannes. Before that, he never thought that famous actors could be used in this project, but after returning to China, he found Duan Long, and after many conversations, he "knocked him down" and became the star of the film.


When the movie market moves online, what will happen to these projects and forums outside the copyright?


Liu Lei did not disclose whether there will be relevant arrangements for this year’s Wu Tianming Youth Film Special Fund. But he said: "Some of the things that the Foundation can do is to help filmmakers in need to answer their doubts. Of course, switching to online also represents a lot of workload for Cannes film market staff. If there is anything we can do, we are also willing to contribute. "


Whether it is the Cannes Film Festival or the international film festivals in Beijing and Shanghai, for them, the work is not only a screening, but also an important part of the global or regional film industry system. The film market turnover of Beijing International Film Festival is increasing year by year; The venture capital unit of Shanghai International Film Festival has become a climate. At this time, it is even more necessary for filmmakers to support each other and make the film industry develop continuously in a new form.


 

In the interview, Liu Lei said: "Under such a global crisis, we can use this time to reflect on the future development of the film, the film itself, its commercialization, cultural attributes and so on. The film has never stopped for more than 120 years, everything will pass, and we will eventually get back on the road. "


The suspect fled with a million for 18 years: surfing the Internet and playing games only cost 200 yuan every month.

  On August 1st, when the procurator from Chongqing appeared at Luo Gang’s home in Dongguan, Guangdong, Luo Gang suddenly collapsed on the sofa like a deflated ball.

  Eighteen years and eight days have passed since Luo Gang absconded with millions of dollars on July 23rd, 1999. At this time, he is not what he imagined at first, but he stays at home every day, playing mobile games on the neighbor’s network, and all the expenses add up to more than 200 yuan every month, and the water fee is even less than that of 5 yuan.

  He absconded with millions of dollars.

  The case has to start from 18 years ago. In 1999, Luo Gang, who worked as a cashier in a company in Chongqing, heard that the unit wanted the last welfare housing allocation. At that time, he was 28 years old and lived with his parents and brother. He hoped to have a house of his own. But he soon heard that the house was divided without him this time. The more introverted he was, the more angry he became, and finally decided to reach out to the public funds of the unit. While the accountant was not paying attention, Luo Gang secretly stamped the company’s seal on the cash check, ready to commit the crime.

  Friday, July 23rd of that year. Considering that he didn’t have to go to work for two days at the weekend, he had plenty of time to escape. On the afternoon of the same day, Luo Gang took a check with complete procedures and went to the bank to withdraw 690,000 yuan of public funds and 300,000 yuan of house purchase money paid by company employees, and embarked on the road of escape.

  After more than ten years of squatting, I failed.

  On the morning of July 26th, the company found that there was a large amount of cash missing from the account. It happened that Luo Gang’s father came to the company and said that his son had not come home for three days. When the situation was found to be wrong, the company leaders reported the case to the procuratorate.

  However, Luo Gang seemed to evaporate, and there was no more news.

  Cao Hongbin, currently the deputy director of the Vocational Investigation Bureau of Yuzhong District Procuratorate, participated in the handling of the case that year. He said that considering that Luo Gang’s parents and family members are in Chongqing, Yuzhong District Procuratorate chose to stick to this "stupid method": every New Year’s Eve, the prosecutor would go to Luo Gang’s parents’ house to try to catch this fugitive suspect. However, nothing has been gained for many years.

  In 2002, Luo Gang’s father died. The prosecutor speculated that Luo Gang might go home at this time. Unfortunately, Luo Gang still hasn’t appeared.

  A phone call attracts attention.

  Where the hell did Luo Gang go? What is the breakthrough of this case?

  At the beginning of this year, some police officers put forward an idea — — Since Luo Gang’s identity information can’t be found, it means that he has already bleached his identity. However, it is impossible for Luo Gang not to contact his family through his mobile phone, and he may be able to break the ice with his family.

  After repeatedly comparing and analyzing the phone records of Luo Gang’s relatives, a phone call from Dongguan caught the attention of Yuzhong District Procuratorate. Soon, find out the name of the owner of the suspicious number — — Zeng moxiong

  Prosecutor’s clever arrest in a foreign land

  On July 21, Zhao Qing, the captain of the Judicial Police Brigade of Yuzhong District Procuratorate, and Yi Nanting, an investigator, formed a pursuit team and went to Dongguan with the police officers of the Command Center of the Municipal Procuratorate.

  With the help of the local public security organs, the arrest team quickly locked in the community where "Zeng Moxiong" was located.

  When Yi Nanting knocked on the door in the name of gas pipeline maintenance, he determined at a glance according to the photo that he had seen countless times — — "Zeng Mouxiong" is Luo Gang!

  On August 4th, the pursuit team successfully escorted Luo Gang to Yuzhong District Detention Center. At this point, the case supervised by the highest inspection and listing was finally settled after 18 years. Our reporter Qian Ye

  ■ He works in the clothing factory of Escape Road, earning 2,000 yuan a month.

  According to Luo Gang’s account, he came to Dongguan, Guangdong Province in 2002, and chose to settle in a town in Dongguan after traveling around with more than 1 million yuan in cash. Here, there are many migrant workers, and the personnel situation is complex and easy to hide.

  Luo Gang found someone in the local area to set up a fake ID card, alias "Zeng Mouxiong", bought a house in the local area with the stolen money, and married a working girl from Jiangxi to have children.

  More than 1 million yuan of stolen money was quickly spent. In order to make a living, Luo Gang began to do odd jobs everywhere. Because there is no legal ID card, Luo Gang can only go to those garment factories with less strict management and earn 2,000 yuan a month. The money Luo Gang earned was not practical. Once the garment factory laid off employees, Luo Gang was often the first to bear the brunt because of his older age. At the beginning of this year, he was unemployed again.

  After his wife divorced and took the children back to Jiangxi in 2015, Luo Gang became an "otaku" completely. He hides at home every day and rubs the neighbor’s network. In the hot and humid summer, there is no air conditioning, so a small fan is blown.

  He seldom goes out except for food procurement to maintain his basic life, thus squeezing his living cost to a minimum. Every month, all the expenses add up to more than 200 yuan, and the water fee is even less than that of 5 yuan.

  ■ His confession once went to Chengdu and he dared not go back to Chongqing.

  Prosecutor: I have never thought about going home in these years?

  Luo Gang: Yes, I’ve been to Chengdu recently, but I’m still afraid to go back to Chongqing.

  Prosecutor: Looking back now, do you regret it?

  Luo Gang: Regret. At that time, it was also an impulse, which caused me to hide in Tibet for more than ten years. When my father died, I couldn’t go back to Chongqing to see him for the last time, and my mother couldn’t pay for it when she was sick. It was all because I was impulsive.

  Prosecutor: You don’t have a regular job in Dongguan either. What are you doing every day?

  Luo Gang: Playing games. I don’t have any friends there, and I’m afraid to make friends. I’m used to being alone and muddling along.

"The Story of the Origin, Why is Socialism with Chinese characteristics Good?" Thinking about the meeting ② "Green Variations" in Yucun.

  Yucun, a small mountain village in Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the bamboo sea is continuous and the scenery is beautiful, and the concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" was born here.

  30多年前,余村依靠“矿山经济”一度成为远近闻名的首富村。可村庄富了,山体却被大面积破坏,环境污染十分严重。2005年8月,时任浙江省委书记的习近平在余村考察时首次提出“绿水青山就是金山银山”,为余村指明了绿色发展之路。

  人不负青山,青山定不负人。在“两山”理念的指引下,余村人唱响了“绿色变奏曲”,用实际行动实现了从“卖石头”到“卖风景”的华丽转身。

  余村的绿色蝶变,是“两山”理念转化为实践的开始和缩影。余村的振兴之道,源于生态文明思想的科学指引,源于“共建共享”的共同富裕之路。

  由长城新媒体集团主创,“学习强国”河北学习平台联合“学习强国”湖州学习平台共同推出的“原点的故事·中国特色社会主义为什么好”思享会第二期,邀请浙江农林大学党委书记、生态文明研究院院长沈满洪教授,走进浙江余村,与当地干部群众共忆蝶变故事,畅谈绿色发展之路。

  浙江余村村庄面貌新旧对比图。

  浙江余村矿山修复前后对比图。

  返乡创业青年边月明(左)与浙江农林大学党委书记、生态文明研究院院长沈满洪畅谈依靠葡萄种植增收致富的奋斗历程。刘佩尧 摄

[The story of China people] These place names of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway actually come from this! Tears running after watching!

  China Youth Network Golmud August 15th(Reporter Lu Guanqiong) There are thousands of roads in the world, but there is such one, which makes countless young people dream and make up their minds to take a trip in this life. It is the Qinghai-Tibet Highway leading to the roof of the world.

  As people know, this road is full of mystery, because it is hard to walk, across the snowy area and stretches over the plateau. But few people know that it was a general who pioneered this "heavenly road" at the earliest, and his life was integrated with this road!

  "Life is bound to die, but there are roughly three kinds of death in life, which are nothing more than old age, illness and death. I don’t want to lie in bed and die of old age and illness, but I am willing to die in a combat position. "

  In the autumn of 1994, when his ashes were scattered by his family to the vast Kunlun Mountains, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Wan Li suddenly began to snow all over the sky. Wrapped in silver, the loyal soul is gently covered. Throughout his life, he realized his last wish to sleep with the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and returned to this place where he fought bloody battles.

  His name is Mu Shengzhong-the father of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway with outstanding achievements, General Tianlu, and the founder of Golmud, a military city. He led officers and men to cut off 25 snow-capped mountains, which lasted for 7 months and 4 days, built the highest highway in the world and wrote the legend of a city and even a country.

  In the spring of 1953, Tibet encountered an unprecedented food famine, and tens of thousands of PLA troops entering Tibet were in danger of running out of food. The Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China decided to set up a grain transportation column, and Mu Shengzhong, then political commissar of the Tibet detachment of the Northwest Military Region, was ordered to take on the arduous task of transporting grain and supplies to the troops in Tibet.

  The team set out from Golmud, Qinghai, freezing cold, howling wind, lack of oxygen in the plateau, starving, trudging up and down the snow-capped mountains and canyons, and turning over the Kunlun Mountain to fight the disease. It took more than seven months to go back and forth, transporting 2 million Jin of grain, at the expense of more than 30 people, and more than 4,000 camels fell down one after another. All this hurt Mu Shengzhong’s heart.

  He had a strong idea: to aid Tibet’s construction, we must build an unimpeded road!

  This year, Peng Dehuai just returned from the Korean battlefield. Mu Shengzhong took the opportunity to go to Beijing for a meeting and went to see the old chief specially. During the talk, Mu Shengzhong reported to Mr. Peng the difficulty of transporting grain from Qinghai to Tibet with animals, and suggested that the road must be repaired!

  "This is the second time you have walked into Tibet. Can you build roads on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?" Peng Dehuai is also thinking about this issue after hearing Mu Shengzhong’s briefing. He walked to the front of the map and stared at the western half of the motherland for a long time, sighing: "Such a large area of land is a blank of roads!"

  With the approval of the central authorities, Mu Shengzhong began careful preparations. In May 1954, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway finally started. Thousands of construction workers live in tents, drink ice water and chew dry buns together in a deserted place, working day and night. Many people suffer from strange diseases and are covered with purple spots because they have not eaten vegetables for a long time.

  The plateau is short of oxygen, and there is no time to delay. They used picks, shovels and hammers to dig through frozen soil and sand-stained stones, and built a wooden bridge in the Rift Valley in three days by using earth methods. Mu Shengzhong also personally ventured to test the quality of the bridge by car. He moved the stone road in the biting ice water, and his feet were so swollen that he couldn’t even put on his shoes … …

  In October, the road construction team drove up the Tanggula Mountain, the "life forbidden zone". The mountain pass is more than 5300 meters above sea level, and the oxygen content in the air is only half of that in the mainland. Not to mention working, even walking on it will make you feel dizzy, chest tightness and asthma. Because of the bad weather, road builders are often attacked by hail. Whenever the snow comes, they cover their faces with shovels; When hail comes, cover your head with a tin bucket or a clay basket. The army of road builders fought here for 20 days and nights with amazing perseverance.

  During this period, Mu Shengzhong didn’t leave the construction site for a day. He threw a sledgehammer during the day and slept in a tent at night. His lips were chapped and his face was black and purple. Just then, the superior sent a telegram to inquire about the loss of thousands of camels in the transportation corps. Emotional Mu Shengzhong grabbed a sledgehammer and dumped it for seventy or eighty times in one breath: "If there is a road, how can so many camels die?" The determination to build the Qinghai-Tibet Highway cannot be shaken. Even if I die, I will head for Lhasa! "

  In fact, at the beginning of the determination to build a highway, someone asked Mu Shengzhong, where is Golmud? Mu Shengzhong thrust the spade into the soil and replied, "Golmud is at your feet. Where is our tent, where is Golmud! " Perhaps, from the beginning, he was determined to lay down his life to keep his promise. When building roads, Mu Shengzhong once carved "Mu Shengzhong’s Tomb" on his spade. He told his comrades, "If I die on this road, this is my tombstone. Wherever the road is built, please bury me … …”

  In barren and cold areas, everything is creation. Many place names along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were originated in Mu Shengzhong, so they go wherever they are built. For example, the famous Tuotuo River. Because of the sand, when people go into the river, the sand immediately covers their feet like a shoe cover. Mu Shengzhong named this river "Taotao River", and the translator translated it into "Tuotuo River". There are also "Snow River", "Little Jiangnan", "Twelve Steps Mountain" and "Freezing Spring" … … Mao Zedong also praised these place names for their revolutionary optimism.

  And some place names are for remembering. On the way to the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, a camel worker surnamed Han in Ningxia died of illness and fatigue, which made Mu Shengzhong burst into tears. "Good brother, you left too early! The worst days are over, and Lhasa is just around the corner. I wanted to put a big red flower on you in Lhasa, but you didn’t even wait for this day … … This place is called Hantan! "

  In order to carve out this road leading to the roof of the world, more than 3,000 martyrs stayed in the snowy plateau forever.

  Under the leadership of Mu Shengzhong, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway is more than 1,000 kilometers long from Golmud to Lhasa, which was successfully completed in just seven months and four days, creating a miracle of the new China highway construction. The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway has put an end to the modes of transportation that Tibet has used for thousands of years, such as plank roads, zip lines and camel backs, and changed the long-term closure of Tibet.

  In 1982, Mu Shengzhong, who was over 70 years old, returned to Golmud. He wanted to see the Qinghai-Tibet Highway that haunted him. Standing on the Kunlun Mountain, the white-haired general charged: "After my death, you scatter my ashes on the Kunlun Mountain, and let the rumble of cars on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway accompany me to sleep." In 1994, the old general "returned" as he wished and finally merged with the snow-capped mountains.

  Golmud, born of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, has developed into the second largest city in Qinghai Province. China Youth Network reporter Lu Guanqiong photo

  American traveler Paul Taylor once wrote in his book Traveling in China: "With the Kunlun Mountains, the railway will never reach Lhasa." Before his death, Mu Shengzhong knew that it was necessary to rely on railways to fundamentally overcome the difficulties in entering Tibet. In October, 1955, Mu Shengzhong led four engineers from Northwest Design Branch of the Ministry of Railways to conduct on-the-spot investigation on the feasibility of building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway for three months. On July 1, 2006, when the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which runs side by side with the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, opened the first train to Lhasa, the old general who was buried in the foothills of Kunlun Mountain must be very pleased.

  2014年8月,习近平总书记就川藏、青藏公路通车60周年作出重要批示,要求进一步弘扬“一不怕苦、二不怕死,顽强拼搏、甘当路石,军民一家、民族团结”的“两路”精神,助推西藏发展!

  多年来,一批批官兵奔赴青藏线担负起守护天路的重大使命。战士们在可可西里无人区执勤并向途经列车敬礼的情景,还曾被旅客拍下图片,走红网络。

  哪怕原野空无一人,也要在战位上不折不扣履行使命。一句“什么都不说,祖国知道我”的忠诚誓言,让人民见证了“天路神兵”的信仰海拔!

  远方有多远,蓝天有多蓝?谁坚定的步伐,翻过了十万大山?一代一代,接力前行。问那高原冻土,问那寸寸江河,让人魂牵梦萦的天路,镌刻着多少既平凡又伟岸的中国人的故事……