Being a director starts with fighting domestic violence

Chapter 193 Looking for You to Film a Movie

There is also a film called "Red House Blue House" directed by a Taiwanese director, which was shortlisted for the main competition unit.

"Comrade Xiao Gao, nice to meet you again." Director Xu smiled and spoke in her not-so-fluent Mandarin, opening her arms and wanting to hug her.

"Director Xu." Gao You hugged her.

"You're amazing. Your film has been shortlisted again this time." Director Xu gave Gao You a thumbs up.

"Good luck." Gao You himself also felt that he was really lucky.

This documentary actually doesn't quite meet the preferences of foreign judges, so it was quite surprising that it was shortlisted.

The screening was arranged yesterday, and the Chinese audiences and film producers seemed to be quite engaged in watching the film.

After watching the film, another Chinese audience member came over to Gao You and said excitedly that she was an overseas Chinese and had not been back to China for a long time. The development in the country was beyond her expectations, and she planned to go back to China after a while to take a look.

Gao You smiled and said that she was welcome to return to China. Although China is not as developed as foreign countries, it is full of vitality and vigor.

Film producers in other regions are not very interested in this documentary.

The image of the Chinese college students in the film is so positive, so confident, and so good.

The content shown is too positive.

In their country, not many people watch it.

Because this does not fit their stereotype of China.

Sure enough, Gao You and his friends did not receive an invitation before the award ceremony.

Neither Gao You nor Teacher Mo were very disappointed.

Expected.

The reason I was able to be shortlisted this time, apart from good luck, is probably that during the preliminary round, I just happened to catch the eye of a judge, who gave me the nomination as an encouragement.

But when it came to the award judging process, there was a lot of controversy, and it was normal for it to be eliminated.

However, Mr. Mo told Gao You that after being shortlisted, CCTV was interested in purchasing and broadcasting the program.

It was an unexpected gain.

CCTV had expressed its intention before, but it was later shelved. Now, a year has passed, and this film can finally be broadcast on TV.

The two packed their bags and prepared to return home.

But someone knocked on the door at this time.

When Mr. Mo opened the door, he saw that it was producer Leung Ka Ying.

"Producer Liang, why are you here?" Teacher Mo is more familiar with Director Xu and only knows Leung Ka-ying by acquaintance.

"I'm here to see Director Gao." Leung Ka Ying smiled and looked at Gao You behind Teacher Mo.

"Looking for me?" Gao You thought that Leung Ka Ying wanted to ask her to make a movie.

"Yes, I want you to make a movie." Leung Ka Ying said with a smile.

When Teacher Mo heard this, he quickly invited the person in.

Gao You poured a glass of water for Producer Liang, and they sat down and chatted slowly.

"What kind of movie are you making? Do you have a script?" Gao You was very interested.

She is also working on the script of "General Mulan" with Mo Huan, and is currently in the stage of collecting materials.

There is still some post-production work to be done on "The Factory Pianist". In the next few months, apart from going to school, she has no plans to make any films.

Oh, there is another movie she wants to make, but it’s still early. She only has an idea in her mind and is still far from writing a script.

"The script has been almost finished. It's called Cold Dew, and it's based on the work Cold Dew by writer Li Cheng. It's about the period when Hong Kong fell into Japanese hands," said Leung Ka-ying.

Gao You had heard of this novel, but had not read it. He only knew that it was quite famous.

She has seen a few films produced by Leung Ka-ying. They were of good quality and did not have the usual vulgar jokes about shit, piss and fart that Hong Kong films usually have.

Gao You is very interested in this film, and it would also allow him to break into the Hong Kong circle, so why not do it?

"Yinsheng'an Investment?" Gao You asked.

"Shengxiong Pictures is the major investor, and we at Yinsheng'an invested part of it. The director is Xu Baoheng, and you will play the leading female role." Liang Jiaying had previously felt that Gao You was very suitable for the leading female role in her film, and now that she looked closer, she was even more suitable.

I heard that Gao Youcai just directed and starred in a feature film, which shows that she is confident in her acting skills.

"Ah?" Gao You then realized that she was not asked to be the director.

Well, being able to ask her to act is also a kind of recognition.

For her, acting is as natural as breathing, and she has no aversion to it.

If the script is good, she might take a look at it.

Moreover, this period partially overlapped with her filming of "General Mulan", so she could also draw materials from it and accumulate experience.

Moreover, it is a rare opportunity to be able to act in a film directed by Xu Baohua.

"Teacher Mo, is this okay?" Gao You looked at Teacher Mo.

"Just communicate with the school." Teacher Mo has become accustomed to Gao You's various requests for leave.

Although the school does not encourage students to go out to film too early, there are always exceptions.

Gao You took leave for the first time and filmed "The Heart of the Asian Games", which was shortlisted for Sarolin.

The second time I took leave, I filmed "Lost Hands" and won the Sarolin Short Film Golden Director Award.

He took a third leave, established the Wujiang Rescue Team, and returned to his hometown to help with disaster relief.

Every time, it’s a big move.

Could Teacher Mo stop her from asking for leave?

"Then let's keep in touch. This is my business card. I'll give it to you when the script is completely finished." Producer Liang handed over his business card.

Gao You took it.

"it is good."

After returning to China, before Gao You had time to rest, she received a call from Gu Donghua, asking her to sign the recently published "Fantasy Dragon Universe".

This book was officially published before the Spring Festival. The first edition was printed in 500,000 copies. It was sold out within a week after it was released.

We are still working overtime to print more.

The same situation was true for the simultaneous publication in Hong Kong, which sold very well.

After the novel was serialized for more than two months, a "Fantasy Dragon Universe" craze had already formed in Hong Kong. The daily sales of the "Hong Kong Chinese Newspaper" has now soared from 100,000 copies to 350,000 copies.

It broke the newspaper's sales record in the past decade.

The owner, editor-in-chief and Editor Zhou of the Hong Kong Chinese News were all very happy.

The editor-in-chief even raised the remuneration to 800 yuan per thousand words.

If the boss had not disagreed, the editor-in-chief would have wanted to raise the salary to 1,000 yuan per thousand words.

The boss said that he was just a student from the mainland, and paying him 800 yuan per thousand words was already unprecedented.

Don’t let these young people’s appetites get too big. What if other writers follow their example and ask for more royalties?

The editor-in-chief had no choice but to give up.

I complained in my heart, do you need that little bit of money?

You are just stingy.

As the novel was released simultaneously on the market, it sold 100,000 copies in Hong Kong within a few days, and even pirated copies sold tens of thousands of copies.

It has topped the sales charts of major bookstores.

Various plagiarized and imitative works even began to appear in other newspapers and magazines on the market.

These forgeries and imitations of varying quality have actually fanned the trend of time-travel fantasy.

Hong Kong filmmakers, who have a keen sense of smell, are even starting to make time-travel films.

However, most of them were copied from here and there, and were poorly made, with average box office performance.

Some people are also inquiring about the adaptation rights of "Fantasy Dragon Universe".

But Editor Zhou had already asked Gao You about this.

Gao You does not sell the adaptation rights.

Gao You is also planning to wait until the domestic market is suitable before making his own movie in the "Fantasy Dragon Universe".

This is the super IP she wants to create herself, how could she let others shoot it?