2019-04-19  

On 16 April, the Young Filmmakers Training Program 2019, co-sponsored by Inhumane Co Ltd and China Film Foundation and jointly organized by Huayi Brothers Media Co Ltd and Wu Tianming Youth Film Foundation, officially released the list of award winners. Four student works from the College of Film and Television  Academy of the Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA) were on the list as follows:

1.“Short Film Competition” - Young Talent Short Film Creation Award

“The Roots” (Feature film by Bu Ruijin of BA Film and Television Photography and Production 2014)

2.“Short Film Competition” - Young Talent Short Film Creation Award

“Gua Gua” (Documentary by Chen Shuang of BA Film and Television Photography and Production 2016)

3.“Short Films Competition” - Nomination Award

“Sacrifice” (Ancient costume feature film by Hu Huanzhen of BA Film and Television Photography and Production 2016)

4.“Film Screenplay Competition” - Excellent Young Writer Award

“Fuguitu” (by Ding Hezhi of MFA Film and Television 2016 Film and BA Radio and Television Directing 2011)

In addition, Zhang Jinwei, an alumnus of BA Broadcasting and Professional Hosting 2013 of the STA College of Film and Television and a current postgraduate student of the stage play scriptwriting major at the Central Academy of Drama, won the nomination award of the “Film Screenplay Competition for his work “I Am Not Me”. 

This year’s “Young Filmmakers Training Program” was divided into two competition sections, i.e. “Short Film Competition and Film Screenplay Competition. The organizing committee selected 398 works out of the 800 submissions in the preliminary round. Then, a second round of selection was made after online display and voting on the event-specific page of the official website of XinhuaNet. Finally, 32 award-winning works were selected by an expert panel composed of directors, screenwriters, film critics and college tutors.

In this high profile competition, STA students (including alumni) won nearly 16% of the awards, which has clear competitive advantages over other specialized colleges and universities of the same kind in China.

The award ceremonies of the “Young Filmmakers Training Program” will be held at the Cannes International Film Festival on 15 May, and special events will be held on May 16 to promote outstanding award-winning works. This will be the second consecutive year for the students of the STA College of Film and Television to be present at this most important international film festival. On 17 May 2018, Shen Di, a student of B Radio and Television Directing 2013, stood out from 2,426 films submitted by 512 film schools around the world and won the second prize of the “Cinefondation Award” in the short film competition of the Cannes International Festival 2018 with his graduation short film Uma (aka “The Storm in Her Blood”).

Let's look forward to Cannes in May this year. STA students will be present at the capital of movies and let the world see us.