Nanjing girl Zhuo Yang's creation script "Night Air East" won two international awards

"My short film script won two heavyweight awards," Zhuo Yang, a girl in the United States, told reporters excitedly. Zhuo Yang won the 24th Los Angeles Short Film Film Festival (LA Shorts) best script award at 8 am on August 21, Beijing time at 8 am on August 21, Beijing time. On July 29th, the 18th Hollyshorts Best Women's Script Award won the 18th Hollyshorts.

It is understood that the Los Angeles short film international film festival is one of the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world. The importance of the film festival can be seen through two sets of numbers: 65 LA SHORTS filmmakers were nominated for the Oscar award, of which 16 were won by the Academy Award. The film festival has shown more than 300 films in 26 years, attracting 10,000 participants each year, including Hollywood industry professionals and emerging unlimited independent film producers. The Hollywood short film festival founded in 2005 is located in the TCL China Theater at the Hollywood Center. It brings together top creators, industry leaders and companies, and has allowed many filmmakers to enter the next stage of their career. Last year, six Oscar nominated films came out of Hollyshorts, and two of them finally won the Oscar award.

Let us follow the footprint of Zhuo Yang, and understand how she will embark on the creative path through what kind of cause.

The group photo of Daniel Sol, co -founder/co -owner of Hollyshorts

Nangwai "poor students" who do not take ordinary roads

Zhuo Yangsheng is an ordinary knowledge family in Nanjing. Affected by her parents, she has been interested in the knowledge of natural sciences from a young age. She dreams of becoming an adventurer like the host of the Australian animal program Steve Owen. However, like most of her parents, her parents hoped that she would follow the mainstream to look forward to studying and study, and has a stable future. She also lived up to the training of her parents. In 2001, she was admitted to Nanjing's best middle school -Nanjing Foreign Language School. But it was surprising that her performance in Southwai had a landslide, and a difficult time was spent between a crowd of elite students, and her dream was once dusty. But Nanwai also gave her a precious international perspective, and the interest and ambitions that were not constrained by scores. She began to read a lot in a loose atmosphere, published prose in the school's "Sea Wide Sky" as the origin of her on the artistic path.

In high school, Zhuo Yang moved to Shanghai with his father's work and obtained East China Normal University. In her sophomore year, she encountered an opportunity to go abroad: the departments of her own department had a project to communicate in Australia. But this project is only 2 to 3 places, and it is only half a month from the registration deadline. To overcome TOEFL within half a month, she learned nothing; if the TOEFL test position was short, she flew to Hainan to take the test. In the end, Zhuo Yang successfully flew to the other side of the ocean. During the exchange of Australia, she was no longer limited by the original profession. She turned to the media that she had always been interested in, and chose the three courses of media writing, script writing and interviews. This time, I seemed to be a key to study abroad, and opened the drawer of the dream of Zhuang Zhuoyang's childhood- "I want to be a natural documentary."

Due to the hopes to try different educational systems, Zhuo Yang transferred to the University of Virginia to study media and participated in the "Maritime Institute" study touring project. He was able to cross the Atlantic and the Mediterranean on the ship, while studying knowledge related to local culture. It was also on the boat, Zhuo Yang began to pick up the camera and practice shooting documentary. By the time of graduation, Zhuo Yang had studied five continents during the undergraduate.

Zhuo Yang's personal photos

From a documentary to a story film, don’t forget the original intention

After graduating from undergraduate undergraduate in 2013, he went to the Smithsonni National Natural History Museum in the United States, becoming the first Chinese to serve as a video producer for the museum. What she wants to do is to show the research results of scientists behind the museum in the form of multimedia interaction, so that everyone is more interested in science. This job can be a dream to come true for her since she was a child.

Zhuo Yang is responsible for a new exhibition area called "Q? RIUS" in the museum. The audience is mainly adolescents. The National Natural History Museum of the United States is not only an exhibition space, but also a scientific research institution. There are many scientific research behind the scenes that are worth seeing the public and stimulate children's interest in learning science. The video she made has become part of the museum's propaganda materials, helping to get the largest donation of $ 75 million in history; her video has 8 million visitors in the museum every year and is still playing.

She is more and more handy about making documentaries. One year later, she chose to return to China from scratch and become a free professional director. With the accumulation and hard work of three years, she served as the director of the "Gannan Memory" diversity in the Chinese cuisine documentary "House Canteen" in China. After being broadcast on Shenzhen Satellite TV, the "Gannan Memory" achieved a lot of results. It got the first national ratings in the country's golden time.

Zhuo Yang, who is shooting works

When you come here, Zhuo Yang can finally convince traditional parents with strength, and girls can also succeed on this "non -mainstream" road. But she did not choose to stay in the comfort zone, but continued to explore and adventure. In 2017, she returned to the United States to study and tried to break through herself. She obtained a dual degree from New York University MBA (Industrial and Commercial Management)/MFA (Movie), becoming the first mainland student admitted to this project. She hopes that while having artistic creative ability, she can also grasp the right to speak. During her school, she filmed her first story short film "Mother Tongue", showing the mother -daughter relationship between the mother and daughter of the Chinese immigrant family in the poetic lens language. "Mother's Memorial" premiered at the American Asian Media Center Film Festival, the largest Asian film festival in the United States, and met with 15 international film festivals in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea. The most emotional thing is that in May of this year, she returned to the mother tongue film festival hosted by Smithsonni College with "Mother Tongue", just like everything drew a circle and returned to the initial starting point of her dream.

After graduating, Zhuo Yang chose another way to walk. She works in a world -class management consulting company in the United States while continuing to explore art. Among the continuous cross -border over the years, she has already become a natural "slope youth".

Cross -cultural anti -war story "Night Airlines Dongdu"

"Last Ship East" is Zhuo Yang's latest short film project. It tells the story of the eight -year -old Jewish refugee Hannah. But they don't know that when Japan joined the axis country, their friendship would change tremendous changes.

Zhuo Yang has always hoped that the history of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Army will be traced back on the international stage, allowing Western audiences to understand the suffering caused by the Japanese invasion of China, and the far -reaching impact on the entire world. And as a Chinese who lives overseas, she is committed to exploring cross -cultural connections and connects audiences with different backgrounds through stories.

On the eve of the Nanjing Massacre, Zhuo Yang's grandmother was a six -year -old girl. She and her father escaped from Nanjing City, all the way to Wuhan, where she met a kind person to Hong Kong, and took the auto boat in Hong Kong to the safe Hong Kong and Shanghai at that time. Zhuo Yang saw the same experience as Shanghai Jewish refugees in her grandmother -the collective trauma of war not only belongs to a specific nation, but a universal human theme, namely mourning, struggle, and hope. "I hope that through the eyes of children," Night Air East "can explore the intersection of Asia and Jewish culture and let the audience reflect on the trauma brought by the war."

Zhuo Yang, who is shooting works

Zhuo Yang has created the script of "Night Airlines East" since 2021, and is currently raising funds for this project. In the process, she interviewed Shanghai refugees and their relatives that year, and did a lot of research with scholars focusing on this field to ensure the accuracy of historical facts and cultural accuracy. Support of non -profit organizations. In the next step, she hopes that more Chinese researchers and organizations will join in, so that the project itself will also become a bridge for cultural exchanges.

In July of this year, the 24th Los Angeles Short Film International Film Festival said in the best script award of "Night Air East": "We think your script represents the highest criterion for art works, and we are proud. La Shorts has your participation, we wish you all the best in the future work. "

(Jiangnan Times reporter Zhang Yaqian Zhang Ruixian)

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