The 9th Pingyao International Film Festival announced the shortlisted recommended works for the industry unit "Migration Plan: From Literature to Film and Television" on September 1. Many literary masterpieces published in recent years that have great potential for film and television adaptation and have not yet undergone any film and television development will soon have the opportunity to be adapted into film and television. Writers such as Bi Shumin, Hai Fei, Ye Mi, Li Xiuwen, and Zhao Defa are on the list.
The "Migration Plan: From Literature to Film and Television" was established at the 6th Pingyao Film Festival. It is an industrial unit founded by the Pingyao International Film Festival and the Chinese Writers Association's "New Era Literature Climbing Plan" and "New Era Mountain and Rural Transformation Creation Plan" in cooperation with key literary and artistic publishing units. It is committed to recommending the latest literary works with potential for film and television adaptation to the film and television industry, and providing a film and television cooperation and incubation platform for literary works. It aims to connect the literary and film and television circles, promote the integration and industrial cooperation between the literary and film and television fields, and promote the transformation of literary works into film and television.
Over the past three years, the film and television conversion rate of the shortlisted recommended works in this unit has reached as high as 72.55%. After their debut in Pingyao, 37 literary works such as "Yan Shi Ji", "Sunflowers by the Sea" and "City of Steel" have successfully reached copyright transactions with film and television companies and entered the film and television track.
This year's film festival's "Migration Plan: From Literature to Film" features a slew of new works by renowned authors, encompassing novel themes and diverse genres. Bi Shumin's military novel "The Kunlun Promise," based on her personal experiences; Xu Xiaobin's "Pattaya: The Birth of a Film," which recounts the difficult birth of a film; and Lao Teng's novel "The Self-Healer," which examines contemporary mental illness and AI engineers. A Cheng's crime drama "Don't Lie About Small Things" and Hai Fei's spy novel "The Remaining Snow" offer a wealth of possibilities for audiences and readers to explore.
"Many Trees", a work by Ye Mi, the original author of the film "The Sun Also Rises", tells the story of a woman's self-growth and pursuit through the two encounters between Wang Haiying, a girl from a Jiangnan alley, and Lei Xingdong, a young man from Beijing; "Night Rain Sent to the North", a new work by Li Xuwen, the original author of the film "Bound to Heaven", uses a fantasy story of an actress and a monkey to show how ordinary people who are swept away by the torrent of the times can find dignity and redemption in the cracks; "Sea Wind", a new work by Zhao Defa, the original author of the TV series "Give Birth to All Things", uses the struggle and resistance of a fisherman's son to show the changes in the relationship between man and the sea and the changes in the times.
This time, many rural-themed novels were shortlisted, including Shen Nian's novella "Fishing Fire" about the "Fishing Fire Project", Liu An's novel "Good Land in the World" with the construction of high-standard farmland as the background, and Aning's "Taihang Fu" which truly reproduces the great changes in mountainous areas in the new era from the perspective of village cadres.
In addition, Nanxiang's "The Old Pharmacist and His Daughter" tells the story of the "migration" experience of an old pharmacist and his daughter to Shenzhen; Zhegui's "Everything Insignificant" presents the mixed life stories of three generations of a family for nearly half a century; He Liwei's "Even a Thought" tells the story of a fishmonger in Xiahe Street, writing about the humbleness, helplessness and the courage and determination of fatherly love; Zhou Xuanpu's "That Man" uses simple and delicate brushstrokes to outline a spiritual sketch of contemporary rural workers.
The 9th Pingyao International Film Festival will be held from September 24th to 30th at the Pingyao Film Palace in the ancient city of Pingyao, Jinzhong, Shanxi Province. Shortlisted films and their publishing and editing representatives will be invited to attend the 9th Pingyao International Film Festival to promote their works to domestic and international film and television copyright procurement agencies, copyright project development agencies, film and television production companies, distribution agencies, and film industry professionals, and to engage in copyright negotiations to secure film and television adaptation partnerships. The Pingyao International Film Festival will also provide a dedicated negotiation space for shortlisted films, offering one-on-one opportunities for representatives and film and television industry professionals to discuss and exchange ideas.
