China・Chongqing Technology Film Week Revolutionizing the Film Industry with AI
TapTechNews June 26th news, from June 25th to 30th, The First China・Chongqing Technology Film Week is held in Yongchuan, Chongqing, with the theme of artificial intelligence revolutionizing the film industry, and sets up five theme characteristic exhibition areas including film industrialization, virtual shooting, AI display, post-effects, and intelligent full-process and standard exhibition areas at Yongchuan Technology Film Set and Yongchuan Convention and Exhibition Center.
According to Zhang Zhikui, the secretary of the Yongchuan District Party Committee, Yongchuan is striving to build a Western Technology Film and Television City with Chongqing's recognition and national influence. Yongchuan has the only technology film set in the west, which is the leading in the country, and is equipped with the virtual shooting studio with the largest space, the highest brightness, and the best standard in China. The shooting quality is benchmarked against the level of Hollywood film industrialization, and can serve multiple large and medium-sized film crews simultaneously, and build a full-industry-chain system for film and television production, realizing factory-like production of film and television dramas, 'come with the script and leave with the finished film'.
The常务副部长 of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee's Publicity Department and the director of the Chongqing Municipal Film Bureau, Guan Hong, said that more than 100 film and television crews are attracted to shoot in Chongqing every year, including popular film works such as I Belonged to You and Better Days and Invulnerable. In the first half of this year alone, there are Wild Times, In This World, The Theory of Relativity of Blood Relationship, Hard to Seduce, Prosecutor and Teenager, A Life at Stake, The Dreaming Girl Who Doesn't Speak, etc. TV dramas are filmed intensively in Chongqing.
From June 25th to 30th, in various districts and counties of Chongqing, by combining open-air screening and theater playback, free screenings of excellent Chinese and foreign films such as The Wandering Earth 2 are provided to the masses. This film week also includes virtual girl group concerts, etc.
In addition, the China・Chongqing Technology Film Week will sign a sister festival contract on-site with the Siena Earth International Film Festival in Italy. TapTechNews found out that the Siena Earth International Film Festival was born in Siena, Italy, and has held 27 sessions so far, focusing on independent films. The 28th session will be held in the second half of this year, and this year's theme will focus on artificial intelligence, which just coincides with the theme of the first China・Chongqing Technology Film Week.