《School》Won the New Gulfstream Project Annual Short Film Award, and six young directors received support

 On November 9, the 7th Golden Rooster Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao Youth Short Film Season New Gulf Stream Project concluded in Xiamen.- Going to School - directed by Lu Zhenhao - won the Short Film Award of the Year; - The End of the Color - Moments Like This - won the New Short Film Award; - Vacuum Zone - Migration - Helong - won the Short Film Award of Special Interest.This selection selected these six short films from hundreds of works by new directors in the Greater Bay Area.

This year’s mentor jury is composed of five filmmakers: Zhang Ji, Peng Fei, Shen Keshang, He Miaoqi and Liang Ying.Works go through stages such as collection, preliminary evaluation, and review.The Annual Short Film Award provides 50,000 yuan in support funds, the two emerging short film award directors each receive 30,000 yuan, and the three special attention short film award directors each receive 10,000 yuan.

《Going to school》The story is set in a typhoon in Guangdong in 2007.The primary school student has to go to school every day, and the old grandfather from the north who does not understand the language insists on escorting him out.The embarrassment and perseverance of the grandfather and grandson in the storm reveal the life of a family that moved from the northern interior to the south in the early days of reform and opening up.Guangdong director and screenwriter Lu Zhenhao connects the early morning walk to school with the experience of immigrant families taking root in a foreign land: the sound of the environment, the old man's breathing when speaking in northern dialect, and the sound of rain hitting the umbrella cover are intertwined, carrying the dignity and dedication of the older generation and the warmth between grandparents and grandchildren.

Wang Yuchen, who comes from Jiangmen, Guangdong, wrote about a relationship hovering on the edge of recognition in "Wei Cai": a robber returning home on the run met a young man who was determined to leave just after he became an adult.The two of them are like father and son, but they flinch between recognition and denial. The more they want to escape their fate, the more they are pulled back by fate.Wang Yuchen said that the family secret recipe in the film has been affected by the times, but the emotions and imprints in it will not fade, and it also constitutes a kind of spiritual inheritance.

Another cutting-edge short film - Moments Like These - is directed by Teochew director Lan Canzhao.A left-behind girl in a remote mining area uses Michael Jackson's dance moves and short video footage to find spiritual refuge in a life of scarcity.The film deals with real-life dilemmas by looking at the characters head-on, and also touches on the mental changes and loneliness that the Internet has brought to rural youth.

Special attention is paid to the short film - Vacuum Zone - directed by Hong Kong director So Wai Ming, which begins with a mixed-race Macau truck driver who falls into gambling debt.The characters move from caution to all-or-nothing, and black humor intersects with absurd violence to present the situation of the little people behind the prosperity of the gambling city.

In "Migration" by Shenzhen director August DMNK, an old man who was forced to go abroad when he was a teenager was cursed by an old friend who died unexpectedly at the end of his life and insisted on returning to his hometown.Cultural conflicts and mismatches in communication between people also bring humor to this journey back home.

Tian Junchao, who is also from Shenzhen, brought an AI video - Helong -.The two sides of the river are separated by fog and legends. The accident at the old bridge left Shi Ming traumatized, but he was once again involved in the fate of bridge repair.The film builds a fantasy world based on Eastern mythology, and writes the adventure of building a bridge as a journey about trust, hometown and reconnection. The closing of the bridge also corresponds to people coming to each other again.

The awards will be held at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival's Golden Rooster Chinese Movie Night on November 9. Media Asia Media Group CEO Lin Xiaoxian presented awards to six directors.He said that this year is the third session of the New Gulfstream Film Project, and the selected works not only describe local life in detail, but also have collisions from cross-regional cultural perspectives, reflecting young creators' attention to practical issues and humanistic care, as well as their gradually maturing creative consciousness.

The New Gulfstream Film Project takes the exhibition, exchange and growth of young filmmakers' works as its work content, hoping to promote the integration of film creation in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.Media Asia Films will continue to invite directors and producers from the Greater Bay Area to participate and provide guidance and support for the incubation of feature films by young creators.