Chapter 2059

Alberto looked at lanli with a smile on his face. He observed the tiny changes in lanli's expression more carefully than ever before. He was a little dazed for a moment, but it was fleeting. Then he showed a smile again. "You are really a charming guy. You should be used to such words?"

The corner of blue Li's mouth rose gently, "praise can make the devil dance, who can resist?"

"Ha ha." Alberto burst out laughing again, which made lanli's eardrum vibrate faintly. For a 60 year old man, he was very mean. "Although I still don't fully understand what you said about streaming media, I can see that it should be a breakthrough to change the whole industry. As for whether it is good or bad, I can't judge, The only thing I can say is that I admire your courage. "

"Just admiration? What about joining? I thought we were ready to work together for a long time. " Lanli's tone was light witty and joking. Even if he was rejected, he was not surprised - because he knew that it would take time to precipitate and brew.

Alberto just outspread his hands. "You should know that some things are not so simple, as you just said. Are you sure we need to continue to waste time on this issue?" Alberto is not an easy old fox to deal with.

Lan Li pursed the corners of his mouth and gently agreed, "it's fair."

As a matter of fact, the cooperation between the three major European film festivals and Don Quixote channel is possible. In Lanley's personal opinion, Berlin is the most likely, Cannes is the second, and Venice is the most difficult.

From the perspective of historical development process, "Rome", directed by Alfonso Caron and invested by Nafi, was refused by Cannes to move to Venice and finally won the Golden Lion Award. This seems to mean that Venice has a higher degree of acceptance of streaming media, but this is only a superficial illusion——

France has a rigid rule that Cannes entries must be shown in theaters for a certain number of weeks, while Italy does not, which leads to such a result; However, in terms of the degree of acceptance and discussion of streaming media, France pays systematic attention to the move of streaming media, while Italy lacks sufficient system framework. In addition, the complicated power relationship of Venice Film Festival makes the prospect of cooperation full of more variables.

Just as Alberto said, this is not unexpected. Just like inviting him to be the chairman of the jury, the cooperation between Venice and Don Quixote channel is full of difficulties. At this time point, there is no need for further discussion, because it is impossible to happen.

Furthermore, it's not the best time to cooperate with the three major European film festivals. Langley has made psychological preparations.

However, Langley is still planting a seed, waiting for the long process of development in the future to be watered slowly, looking forward to one day to really blossom and bear fruit. Anyway, the development plan of Don Quixote channel can not be achieved in a short time.

Although Langley expressed his understanding and did not continue to entangle with him, Alberto's thoughts did not get rid of immediately. The more he thought about it, the more crazy he felt. Langley's idea was really shocking, which further confirmed Alberto's determination and desire to cooperate with Langley.

After a little delay, Alberto continued, "although the streaming media platform may be difficult, we can still have a long-term cooperation. For the films produced by Sisyphus pictures, we are ready to open our arms and welcome you to Venice." At this time, Alberto really got to the point, "especially the works you played; We are full of confidence. This is bound to be the beginning of a good cooperation. "

Lenley chuckled. "It's an honor for any film to go to Venice. It seems that we need to focus on film production, or we will fail to live up to Mr. Alberto's trust. That's not good." Even if they don't go to Venice, Sisyphus still needs to block the quality of their works. Otherwise, a little loss and failure may lead them to the road of DreamWorks.

"There's a chance now." Alberto was carried around by Langley, almost forgetting his original purpose. Now he is finally back on the right track. "Would you like to come to Venice, the drummer and the night walker?"

This is Alberto's direct goal of this special trip to New Orleans!

Everything else is a follow-up plan, and the starting point of the whole plan is the two works of "pop drummer" and "Night Walker", which Alberto hopes will appear in the main competition unit.

For the three major European film festivals, the film works apply by themselves, and then the selection committee will watch and evaluate them, and select the works suitable for each unit. It is not easy for the selection committee to watch 300 or more films at the festival every year.

But there are a small number of special cases, such as Quentin Tarantino or Woody Allen shooting new works, then the film festival will take the initiative to invite the film to the exhibition; Of course, the selection committee still needs to watch and judge whether it is suitable for the main competition unit or other units after adding the score of popularity and reputation——

Occasionally, there will be some embarrassing situations. The film festival invited a director master to participate in the competition, and the master did rush to complete the work, but the quality of the finished product was not as good as expected. As a result, the selection committee had to refuse. From the perspective of human feelings and face, this is very embarrassing, but it does happen occasionally.

Just as Cannes has established its own lineage, Berlin and Venice have their own lineage, but the latter two are not perfect and have relatively limited influence.

Now Alberto has arrived in New Orleans in person for two of Sisyphus's films.

When he learned of Alberto's intention, he was slightly surprised. Although from an objective point of view, this is an unexpected but reasonable answer: otherwise, there is really no connection between him and Alberto. How can Alberto come to visit us?

The main reason for the accident is that he never really put himself in the position of producer, and never really interfered in the behind the scenes work of film production, distribution and publicity plan; Now, Alberto has come all the way to ask Langley's opinion. Even if this is the most reasonable explanation, the unexpected mood will inevitably surge up.

Langley stopped for a moment, then asked a very elementary question, "but, the cracker drummer has already participated in the Sundance Film Festival, can he continue to participate in the Venice Film Festival? I always thought that you only accept the world premiere works to participate in the main competition, and only the market like Toronto Film Festival is open to apply for all films. "

Sure enough, it was a primary problem, and Alberto laughed merrily. "I've never heard of such a rule, at least not in Venice."

In fact, none of the three major European film festivals has such rigid regulations. The reason why they prefer the works premiered in the world is to ensure the attention and attractiveness. After all, the works that have been officially premiered lack the attribute of "unique" and are more or less influential. This is just the tendency of purely considering the market, In terms of rules and regulations, there are no relevant provisions at all.

Last year, the Grand Prix of Sundance's jury was "fruteville station", and then went to Cannes Film Festival. It was not the main competition, but also participated in a kind of attention unit; Similarly, the jury award work "Southern beast" of 2012 Sundance Film Festival has also been shortlisted as a concern unit of Cannes Film Festival, and has won a series of awards in Cannes. Finally, it entered the year-end award season in a high spirit, which broke out in the Oscar nomination stage.

Just two weeks after this year's highly acclaimed "God helps the girl" in Sundance, she went to the Berlin Film Festival to participate in the exhibition of the crystal bear unit.

There are so many similar situations. In the final analysis, the screening of film festivals is still limited to specific groups. It's really normal to go from one film festival to another. Even the three major European film festivals are no exception, including the Cannes Film Festival.

"As for other festivals, I'm not familiar with them." Alberto's eyes twinkle with cunning light, although there is no clear name, but the implication clearly points to Cannes——

This year, Cannes Film Festival didn't give an olive branch to "pop drummer", but also rejected "Night Walker", because the style of these two works is too gloomy and dark, not suitable for Cannes style. But now, there are other meanings in Alberto's hint. Are they stumbling each other?

Lanli can't help but think of the time when he attended Cannes last year. Those high-level officials were also openly and secretly controlling Venice. The competition between the two sides was really amusing; What's more, Berlin seems to be isolated in this way. If the three film festivals are personified, the relationship between them will become more and more interesting and intriguing, which makes Langley show a big smile.

"Personally, I really look forward to your coming to Venice again." pop drummer "has received a lot of praise in Sundance, and our expectations are increasing step by step. I can't wait to see this work, and I sincerely hope that the Italian audience can enjoy this work for the first time." Alberto added that there was a genuine and bright light in his eyes.

"And, of course, Jack Gyllenhaal."

Just as Langley was about to speak, Alberto added this sentence, which made Langley smile directly. "I don't think Jack will be satisfied with this kind of treatment. He should also be the leading role, right?"