The “Asian World Film Festival” held the “China Film Day” event, tribute to the Chinese realist film grandmaster Wu Tianming

For nine days, the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), which was recommended by 50 countries for film participation, held a retrospective of “China Film Day – Wu Tianming and His Chinese Films” at the famous Arclight Theatre in Culver City, Los Angeles on November 12th. Pay tribute to the Chinese realist film master Wu Tianming. Three films, directed by Wu Tianming and known as the classics of Chinese realist aesthetics, “Life”, “Old Well” and “River without a Navigation” are shown at the festival.

Wu Yanyan（Left）、Lv Liping（Right）

Wu Yanyan, director of the China Film Foundation Wu Tianming Film Fund For Young Talents; Lv Liping, an award-winning actress who has starred in the movie “Old Well”, and many Chinese film research experts and international students from Hollywood film industry and famous universities in Southern California participated in the all-day screening.

Wu Yanyan and Lv Liping were in the Q & A session after the screening of the film “Old Well”.

Lv Liping said: “She has always been very admired by Director Wu Tianming, and she is very honored to have the opportunity to appear in this film. Director Wu guide is so serious and hard work on his works. In preparation to shoot the movie “Old Well”, he went to Old Well Village for three months to experience the lack of water and use his life to shape this movie. At that time, the elite of this group gathered, and Director Wu Tianming held an open mind and listened to different opinions.”

Lv Liping said: “It is still unforgettable that the memorable details of the filming and the stories behind the film are enough for a book.” Her high praise for the role played by director Wu Tianming in the film is “too much like another, and there is no such thing as another actor.”

Wu Tianming’s daughter, filmmaker, Wu Yanyan, who is also the director of the China Film Foundation Wu Tianming Film Fund For Young Talents, inherits the tradition of his father’s commitment to helping the rising stars and provides support for young directors. She said that in the future, she will also cooperate with the Asian World Film Festival to bring the works of Chinese young directors to the film festival.

Georges Chamchoun（Left 1），Wu YanYan（Middle）、Ansan Chen（Right）

Georges Chamchoun, CEO of the Asian World Film Festival and famous film director and producer, said that the film “Old Well” was hailed as the first realist aesthetic representative in the history of new Chinese cinema. Wu Tianming’s series of films is the most representative of the history of Chinese cinema, and the classics of realism that stand the test of time. Director Wu Tianming’s unparalleled contribution to modern Chinese cinema has been to discover and cultivate a group of talents who are still active in the Chinese film industry.

Director（Right 2）、Producer Aaron Yu（Left 1）、producer（Right 2）with actor Sun Haiying (Left 2)

The 2019 top ten Chinese Outstanding Youth Award winners and outstanding young actors from Taiwan, Chen Xi’an, were invited to participate in the preparation of this year’s film festival. He and the festival Managing Director Asel Sherniyazova went to Beijing to invite Wu Yanyan for tin this China Movie Day arrangement in the festival, a tribute to the director Wu Tianming was established.

Many Chinese young filmmakers and cinematic students from the scene watched Wu Tianming’s film and were shocked and respectful of the artistic expression of the work. The 2019 top ten Chinese Outstanding Youth Award winner, young director Xie Yun, who just attended the 2019 China Jinan Wu Tianming Youth Film Summit, immediately rushed back to Los Angeles to participate in the day’s screening. Yao Zhuo, a young film composer graduated from the Berklee College of Music, said that as a native of Xi’an, he is particularly proud today, because of Wu Tianming was the president of Xi’an Film Studio.

Zero Yao（Right 1）

After the question and answer session, the audience’s enthusiasm for Sun Haiying and Lv Liping, especially the enthusiasm of the young audience, makes people feel that there is no difference in age. Lv Liping’s peace and gracious artist charm is impressive. Lv won best Actress Award at the Golden Horse Film Awards in 2010.

The Asian International Film Festival is co-organized with the Oscar Association of Foreign Journalists to recommend excellent films for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Awards. This year, 50 countries from the Asia Pacific region submitted films to participate in the film festival, including the Chinese film “Ne Zha”, Japanese new film “Weathering with You”, the Korean film “Parasite” etc. those excellent films with international reputation.