Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 239 The So-called Exchange Meeting

After the Beijing University Student Film Festival awards ceremony, the organizing committee also arranged a creative exchange meeting, saying it was for academic exchanges.

It is not mandatory, guests can attend or not.

In fact, this can be regarded as a disguised social platform built by the organizing committee, just like the dinner after the Oscars.

However, sometimes many guests will contact some people to make arrangements on their own and not attend the creative exchange meeting.

With fewer people staying, the creative exchange meeting will become a crew meeting to interact with college students.

After today's award ceremony ended, the staff arranged for the participating college students to leave in an orderly manner. Almost all the guests in front sat still and did not leave from the other side.

Zhang Min stood up and prepared to leave, but she felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so she sat down again and asked Xu Ke in a low voice, "Isn't it over? Why are so few people leaving?"

"We are all waiting for the exchange meeting later."

Tsui Hark said perfunctorily.

"Really? Do we still have to attend that exchange meeting? Is it necessary to attend?" Zhang Min asked curiously.

“It’s not mandatory.”

Even Tsui Hark was speechless. No wonder you have been shouting about making a comeback, but there hasn't been any splash until now.

Can't you see? We are all waiting for that person's decision. If that person wants to stay and attend the exchange meeting, most people will probably stay.

This is a good opportunity to get to know or deepen the relationship with that person, who is notoriously low-key.

If I stay, I may not get any opportunities, but if I leave, I will really have no chance.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Zhang Min asked, she really didn't want to stay and attend any exchange meeting, what was there to exchange? Talk about art with those art film directors?

Tsui Hark was indeed not planning to attend the exchange meeting, but leaving at this time would be too conspicuous and would make him seem a bit eccentric.

Although he is called "Old Weird Xu", he is not stupid. He is planning to develop here and certainly does not want to leave a bad impression on people, as it is too easy to offend people.

"Wait a moment. The students are leaving now. If we leave too, it might cause chaos if a student comes up to ask for autographs."

Tsui Hark didn't want to say more and just answered casually.

Alas, with your emotional intelligence, you still want to marry into a wealthy family and force your family to marry you. It's really...

It may also be that he has been praised too highly and pampered for too long, so he doesn't care about people in the mainland film and television circles. That's why he is like this.

This is not clear in form.

Cao Yang has to wait for the exchange meeting, as he promised his old leader.

However, he has a headache now.

Gao Yuanyuan sat on his right, fiddling with the trophy for the most popular actress among college students from time to time, and then said to Cao Yang, "This trophy is quite heavy."

After a while, he said to Li Xiaoran who was sitting on Cao Yang's left: "Xiaoran, feel it, this trophy is indeed a bit heavy."

I'm touching your grandma's legs!
Li Xiaoran was so angry.

The influence of the College Student Film Festival is just that. Whether or not she wins an award has no impact on Li Xiaoran, and she doesn’t care too much.

But Gao Yuanyuan won the award!
It would be fine if she was selected by the jury as the best actress, after all, she was nominated for Xiao Gangpao's "A World Without Thieves". Unlike Gao Yuanyuan, it is normal for her to lose to Cao Yang's movie.

The key point is that this vixen Gao Yuanyuan won the Most Popular Actress Award chosen by college students!

This is a consolation prize, but on the other hand, it is a competition of pure popularity.

In other words, she lost to the vixen in popularity!

This is very uncomfortable.

"Xiao Ran, this trophy is really heavy. You will know once you try it."

Gao Yuanyuan smiled and said in a low voice, then as if she remembered something, she acted as if she suddenly realized something.

"Oh, by the way, you've never won the Most Popular Actress Award among College Students, so you definitely don't know the feel and weight of the trophy. How about you try mine?"

Li Xiaoran originally wanted to pretend that she didn't hear it and ignored it, but after thinking about it, she turned her head and said with a grin, "
"In addition to 'Nine-Tailed Demon Fox', the box office of 'A World Without Thieves' has also exceeded 100 million. The box office of the movies I starred in is higher than yours."

"My endorsement fee is higher than yours, and I endorse more luxury goods than you." Gao Yuanyuan also turned her head and retorted with a smile.

"My offer for the film is higher than yours." Li Xiaoran also fought back.

Although both of them are international film queens, Li Xiaoran has two movies that grossed over 100 million yuan. In this day and age, let alone 100 million, even over 20 million is considered a big hit.

Li Xiaoran not only won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actress award, but also starred in two movies, "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox" and "A World Without Thieves", which grossed over 100 million yuan, so her film pay offer is indeed a little higher than Gao Yuanyuan's.

"I am the first female lead of "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox", and I am the most popular actress among college students." Gao Yuanyuan took out the trophy and shook it again.

"Hehe, some people may have forgotten that it was me who was nominated for the Best Actress at the Xidu Film Festival held in January, not you, the self-proclaimed 'first female lead'." Li Xiaoran retorted.

"Ha, that's ridiculous. Is it the Xidu Film Festival where the organizing committee didn't raise much money, there were few participating films, and very few stars showed up to show their support? If the Film Bureau hadn't stepped in and contacted the stars to attend, and called you, would you have gone?

Humph, I was attending an event in Shanghai at the time and didn’t have time to go. If I had gone, you wouldn’t have had anything to do with it.”

Gao Yuanyuan said the sarcastic words but her face was full of smiles, and Li Xiaoran also had the same smile. People who didn't know the truth saw it and thought that the two movie queens "good sisters" were having a friendly conversation.

Cao Yang was getting a headache from the noise. He looked back and saw that most of the college students had already left.

He stretched out his hands, pushed away the two smiling heads that were about to come together, then stood up and walked towards the arranged exchange venue.

"Humph!"

Gao Yuanyuan smiled and snorted at Li Xiaoran, then stood up and followed Cao Yang away.

Li Xiaoran also stood up with a smile, took two quick steps to catch up with Gao Yuanyuan, put her arm around him, and hummed in her ear...

"Director Cao..."

"Director Cao..."

"Director Cao..."

As Cao Yang walked over, people kept greeting him along the way. Directors and actors from the Beijing Film Academy and other familiar people stood up and joined him. Those who were more familiar with Cao Yang walked beside him, while those who were less familiar with him followed behind.

Soon the team became huge.

Little Cannon didn't get up. He seemed to be sitting leisurely in his seat, looking at the crowd, but he was actually very envious.

"Director Feng, shall we go?"

Shou Bing asked in a low voice beside him.

In fact, she couldn't wait any longer. If Little Cannon hadn't been right next to her, she would have joined the crowd no matter what.

"Let's go."

The little cannon stood up slowly and walked towards the exchange venue.

At the same time, he couldn't help but look behind him, and then he couldn't help but laugh at himself. Fortunately, he was a big director after all, and he still had three or five followers.

Well, although most of them are from Huayi.

Zhang Jingchu graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, but because the director of the film she was acting in, Zhang Jiarui, was from the Beijing Film Academy, she also "slipped" into the big team.

She looked at the director, who was usually stern and solemn, and who was one step behind Cao Yang, talking and laughing with Cao Yang from time to time, and laughing very happily. She almost doubted whether this was still Director Zhang Jiarui.

Then I saw Zhang Jizhong, a top figure in their Central Academy of Drama, walking on the right side of Cao Yang, laughing from time to time, in a somewhat exaggerated way. This gave me a deeper understanding of Cao Yang.

Then she noticed the person on Cao Yang's left whom she knew. He was the famous director Huang Jianxin, who had won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director. He was a graduate of the cadre training class of the Beijing Film Academy's Directing Department and was a classmate of Mr. Han from China Film.

Zhang Jingchu noticed another detail. No matter who it was, even Zhang Jizhong or Huang Jianxin, they would not walk in front of Cao Yang, and they would intentionally lag behind by half a body length.

Although she didn't understand the twists and turns involved, she could still see that everyone was centered around Cao Yang.

This made her wonder, if she could get along well with Cao Yang, or even go a step further, would her career and future be smooth sailing?
Then she thought of Li Xiaoran, Gao Yuanyuan and Yu Feihong, all of whom won international film awards thanks to Cao Yang, and are now all top actresses in the country.

Together with Zhang Ziyi, an international actress who rose to fame with the help of Zhang Yimou, they are known as the Four Qingyis and are in the first echelon.

Zhang Jingchu knew very well that without the support of a big director, even if she found a wealthy sponsor, she could only bring in some resources at most. It would be impossible for her to become one of the top four actresses or even the next best.

What a great director!

She couldn't help but look at Cao Yang. Such a young, handsome and popular director is rare in the world, or even non-existent.

Which actress wouldn’t be moved or confused when seeing this!
The exchange meeting was quite casual. The organizing committee provided snacks and water, and there were no restrictions.

Zhang Jingchu really wanted to get to know Cao Yang, but she was a little disappointed. It had been almost half an hour since she entered here, and Cao Yang had been chatting with several famous directors.

After waiting for a long time for the directors to disperse, Zhang Jingchu seized the opportunity and was about to go up, but someone was one step faster than her. Shao Bing had already followed Xiao Gangpao up.

Bitch!

Zhang Jingchu couldn't help but curse.

She has not signed with Huayi yet, but she still has some understanding of several major companies in the industry.

Especially for Huayi, because she had wanted to sign with Huayi before. Huayi's resources are obvious to all, and it has some connections with Hollywood, and also has a good relationship with Hong Kong.

However, she was a little disappointed after learning about it.

Previously, Huayi intended to promote the two Bings, but because Pang Bing was disobedient and was said to be unwilling to participate in social events and accompany guests, he was "banned" by Huayi and it became difficult for him to get resources.

This kind of company is really worrying.

She first moved closer to Cao Yang, finding a suitable distance so as not to appear too rude.

Zhang Jingchu planned to rush over as soon as Xiao Gangpao and Shou Bing left.

(End of this chapter)