20 stage works will appear at the Beijing International “Super Live” Image Week

The 3rd Beijing International “Super Live” Image Week will be held in Beijing from November 3rd to 8th.The 20 premiere and screening works cover dramas, dance dramas, operas and Peking operas, and Beijing People's Art - Mutiny - is also on the list.The event also invited industry guests from China, the United Kingdom, Greece, Brazil and other countries and regions to conduct exchanges around cross-media production, international distribution and communication methods.

In the international premiere section, Golden Boy will have its domestic premiere and be broadcast simultaneously with the world.This new National Theater production is adapted from the work of American playwright Clifford Odets, in which the protagonist is a violinist who becomes a boxing champion and whose life turns to bring about a cruel change of fate.Director Sam Yates directed Andrew Scott's version of Vanya, which won the Olivier Award; lead actor Josh O'Connor won the Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award.

Italian director Emma Dante's first collaboration with the Comédie Française - The Pedant - is also included in the premiere film list.The stories written by Molière are put into exaggerated physical performances, strong stage beauty and costume colors, and the concepts of the old era and the situation of new women collide on the stage.Brazil's Warehouse Theater's "Memories of the Death of Blas Cubas", Okuta Theater Company's "Machine", and Greece's Melpo Stage Image Distribution Company's "Electra" will also meet the domestic audience.

Domestic works are composed of fine works from four major academies.《Mutiny》had previously appeared at the Beijing International Film Festival and returned this time; the dance drama《Five Stars Out of the East》won the Five One Project Outstanding Work Award and the Wenhua Award."Sunrise" created by Yanghua Drama to commemorate the 115th anniversary of Cao Yu's birth, and "I Owe You a Little Red Star", a new Peking Opera jointly produced by Shenzhen Huoyunshan Pictures and Shanghai Hongxing Drama Club, will also be screened.

The International Distribution Workshop and the High-Definition Stage Art Image Distribution Promotion Conference are both launched for the first time this year.

The workshop selects Chinese and foreign content providers to display projects and conduct special discussions, including program selection, multi-camera shooting standards, overseas channel development, theater and theater distribution network construction, as well as copyright operations and cross-regional cooperation.The promotion meeting will invite domestic and overseas literary and artistic institutions, art academies and video distribution organizations to display videos and introduce projects in turn.Domestic and foreign distribution experts will also discuss the path for “Super Live” content to enter the international market and cooperation opportunities through keynote speeches and dialogues.The organizers hope to drive collaboration in creation and production through the connection of content and distribution projects.

From National Center for the Performing Arts opera live broadcasts to Beijing People's Art Theater videos, various theaters and troupes are sending stage works to theaters and more viewing spaces.This event puts the combination of “culture + technology” on the main line, discussing how to use images to break through the limitations of performance time and location, allowing high-quality stage resources to reach a wider audience, and incorporating it into the practice of the construction of national cultural centers and the audiovisual development of the Capital Radio and Television Network.

Image Week is hosted by the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Dramatists Association, and hosted by the Beijing Dramatists Association and Beijing Ojevi Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.When the event was founded in 2024, it was called Beijing International High Definition Stage Image Week. This time it was upgraded and renamed Beijing International “Super Live” Image Week.