Shanghai Film School promotes the construction of a global film and television creation center, and Shanghai Theater Academy joins the International Federation of Film and Television Schools

A reporter from Jiefang Daily and Shangguan News learned that the International Federation of Film and Television Schools, established in Cannes in 1955, recently voted at its annual meeting and unanimously decided to accept the Shanghai Theater Academy as one of its more than 180 member units from various countries around the world. Among the members of this alliance, there are both internationally renowned professional film schools and film and television schools of famous comprehensive universities.

Information from the Center for Translation and Introduction of Chinese and Foreign Drama. Photo by Liu Jiaqi

Therefore, the Shanghai Film School, which mainly focuses on drama, and the "academic school" represented by Hu Ge and others, can bring greater help to the construction of Shanghai as a global film and television creation center. Li Zhenlin, director of Shanghai Theater Experimental Film Studio and dean of the School of Film and Television, said that "Flowers", which Hu Ge and Wong Kar-wai have been working on for four years, has finally "opened" and may become one of the biggest cultural events next year. This long-length drama series adapted from Jin Yucheng's novel of the same name has just officially obtained a distribution license and is expected to be a hit in 2024 by the audience.

Aesthetics, works, and characters are the three major elements that constitute the film school. Ethical orientation, civilian perspective, euphemism and elegance, etc., are all relatively important connotations of the Shanghai Film School. For example, the film "Wang Dao", which received approximately 160 million yuan in box office, basically belongs to this style school. "Shanghai Film School serving the construction of a global film and television creation center" is also based on the "Proposal on Accelerating the Construction of the "Three Major Systems" of Chinese Art Studies" and is based on the discipline system, academic system, and discourse system. One of the subject clusters.

Promote reality and influence reality with the academic pursuit of art schools. As an actor at Shangxi Experimental Film Studio, Hu Ge won the "Best Actor" award at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award for his movie "It's Worth It". A group of teachers and students from the "Shanghai Theater Department" like him are the main creators of film and television dramas, serving as directors, actors, screenwriters, and photographers, and have made great achievements in film and television creation. Currently, the first theatrical film "The Golden Hook" co-produced by Shanghai Theater and Shanghai Film Group is also in progress and is progressing smoothly.

In the next step, the Shanghai Theater Academy will fully promote the "Shanghai Film-Shanghai Theater" young director support program to allow more student works to win awards in the student units of the "four major international film festivals". At the same time, it will speed up the introduction of internationally renowned filmmakers and systematically cultivate art majors. PhD. In addition, it will continue to participate in the preparation for the establishment of the country's first Sino-foreign cooperative art university - Hengdian British University for Creative Arts.

In terms of infrastructure resources, the school has accelerated the construction of a series of "smart studios", including photo studios, sound effects studios, studios, standard screening rooms, multimedia centers, real-time motion capture studios, etc., and has focused on the construction of three laboratories jointly built by the central government and local governments. , including the film and television video and audio laboratory, the studio space laboratory, and the basic teaching laboratory of videography and production, providing technical and hardware support for the construction of the Shanghai Film School.

Currently in the process of international transformation and integrating with world film and television academic research, from drama to screenwriting, from the theoretical practice of performance directing to the design of performing arts in the era of digital intelligence, Shanghai Theater has built a "three-dimensional chain" that matches and has the characteristics of film and television dramas. Leading subject and professional clusters.

For example, the team of Professor Lu Lu, director of the Academic Committee of Shanghai Theater Academy, is building a "Chinese Drama Story Factory" to conduct experiments in drama editing with specific themes. Since 2012, when he presided over the creation of the first Shanghai university master play "Qian Xuesen" which was performed at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, more than 20 master plays have been created and put on the stage. His branded writing and acting model is radiating across the country. This year, the "Chinese Screenwriting Teacher Team" was awarded the third batch of "Huang Danian-style Teacher Team in National Universities", and the "Screenplaying/Introduction to Screenwriting" textbook was also included in the National Textbook Committee's recommended textbook candidates for the philosophy, social sciences and art subjects of colleges and universities. one.

Discuss the foreign translation of contemporary Chinese drama. Photo by Liu Jiaqi

If there is a good show, we should "go out", go in both directions, and learn from each other. Compared with the current diversified translations of foreign drama works in China, there are only a handful of foreign translations of Chinese modern and contemporary drama works. In fact, Li Jianwu, the famous dramatist and one of the founders of Shanghai Opera, was one of the earliest scholars engaged in foreign literature research in my country. He translated and introduced a large number of drama collections, including 27 Molière comedies, which is the most complete translation in China. Today, the Shanghai Theater Academy, together with the International Theater Association and the Chinese Dramatists Association, jointly established the "Chinese and Foreign Drama Translation Center" on the 5th, becoming the first domestic research center dedicated to the two-way translation of Chinese and foreign dramas, filling the gap in this contemporary field. It is understood that the center has five language centers including English, French, German, Japanese and Russian, which gather domestic and foreign experts in the fields of literature, drama and language to spread Chinese drama art to the world.