Tencent IEG: NEXT IDEA Film festival
On 29th of October 2016, NEXT IDEA Film Festival and NEXT IDEA Youth Actor Contest Finals successfully closed the curtain in Shanghai Poly Grand Theater. Tencent youth film and television talents selection project, which lasted for six months, finally came to the perfect ending.
In the final stage, In the final, the performances were absolutely stunning. In a total of five performing teams performed one by one.
The work “Actually I love you” of a team from the Nanjing Arts Institute caught the spotlight, winning the 2016 NEXT IDEA Youth Actor Championship. The actor Yang Zhen won the best young actor award, and the political work “Laugh? Cry!” from the Shandong Youth College together with the work from the Communication University of China and Guangzhou Institute “Forced marriage” shared the second and third places.
The organizing committee for the 2016 Tencent youth film and television talent selection project screenwriters and directors presented awards to the winners.
NEXT IDEA established in 2012, sponsored by Tencent Group, which is one of the most influential Youth Innovation Talent exploration projects in China, directed by the Tencent group. The NEXT IDEA Youth Actor Contest acts as its sub contest. The best ones are screened under three categories: director, screenwriter, and actor.
The purpose of this project is to explore and bring up young screenwriters, young directors, and young actors. There is a hope to provide a prosperous platform to aspire young talents, to help explore and bring up young artists. To the final scene, the Organizing Committee specially invited the current NEXT IDEA image ambassador, the famous director, actor, screenwriter Chen Sicheng, meritorious actor Alan, Entertainment CEO Zhang Kaiyi, actor after 90 Dong Zijian to become the members of the jury to select young film talents.
Before the game, Chen Sicheng expressed his expectations to the contestants. He mentioned, “The competitors participating today, including the young friends determined to work in the industry, need to stay calm. Remember, enthusiasm always comes first, then comes the mentality. It is impossible to do a good job without focusing and dedicating to what you are doing.”
Growth is the key
The program lasted longer than five months; the current NEXT IDEA Youth Actor competition cooperated happily. We selected five teams into the final race through elections in professional colleges, online national film star competition areas, searches directed by drama clubs among a significant number of people and many other channels. They were from the Shanghai Conservatory Of Music, Nanjing Arts Institute, etc. Also, there were five universities, which separately mounted the platform to stage their real contest plays. Not to mention, there were ten possible new incomers from the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing Dance Academy and other institutions, who also brought excellent performances to the table as well. In the final scene, several guests of honor from the jury also separately graded and commented on the five participating teams. At the same time, the organizing committee carried out live broadcasting through Tencent live broadcasting, Tencent, QQ hosting, Tencent video, iOS iPhone Entertainment, Longzhu broadcasting, Huya broadcasting, 360-degree broadcasting, a all-rounded media coverage without a single blind spot.
It is worth mentioning that a bold innovation was made throughout the project: in addition to the “harsh” requirements to perform live. Each team also had to play an original microfilm in the final scene to push everyone over the edge, just joking.
The purpose of it is not to push them down into the pit of hell fire but to get the best out of all the performers. Facing the challenges, the contestants withstood the pressure with excellent performances of microfilms and brilliant shows and received thunderous applause from the audience. Moreover, the scene evaluation of each actor received excellent comments. Chen Sicheng mentioned, “The devil lies in the details, you could only become a great actor by paying attention to details no matter where you are, or what you are doing”.
A flawless ending
During this grand ceremony, in addition to the performing categories, the two categories of screenwriting and directing produced respective winners.
Since the start of 2016 NEXT IDEA young screenwriter contest on 31st of May 2016, original literature scripts and the screenplays adapted by Tencent IP were collected from the whole country, covering 500 universities nationwide. Totally, more than 400 full-length scripts collected. They were reviewed by veteran filmmakers and professors, and selected from both literature and market fields.
Zhu Congqian and Li Han won the 2016 NEXT IDEA Award as best young screenwriters, and Tencent vice president, president of Big Dream Pictures Studio Mr. Chen Hongwei delivered them the cup and medals in person. Moreover, Big Dream Pictures shall officially announce this year’s complete list of outstanding young screenwriters in this November.
About NEXT IDEA Youth Innovation Contest
After four years of practice and exploration, the Tencent NEXT IDEA Innovation Contest has established an innovative platform covering games, literature, animations, films and other cultural and creative fields connected with innovations and technological talents.
The purpose is to select outstanding works of art and brilliant talents to combine the Intellectual Properties of Tencent and Comprehensive Entertainment roots to help plenty of young talents in the film industry to spread their wings.
This year Tencent invested an unprecedented amount of resources into the film industry and demonstrated its attention and determination towards the film industry and human resources.
Hit that ❤ button if you enjoyed what you read, and follow us if you are looking for more insights. Your support is greatly appreciated :)
Stay tuned and check us out on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram for a closer look at our recent actions, and check us out at our Tencent IEG official website. Thank you : )
