Jia Zhangke’s production of “Nujiang” starts
The film “Nujiang” supervised by director Jia Zhangke recently held a launching ceremony in Tengchong, Yunnan. Director and screenwriter Liu Juan, chief producer Jiang Hao, starring Wang Yanhui, Deng Enxi and other main creators all appeared. The film centers on a confusing cross-border pursuit, and the emotional relationship between the two protagonists is extremely tense.
■New Express reporter Nie Qing
Director Liu Juan:
I hope each of us is that light
“Nujiang” won two awards at the 2021 Golden Rooster Film Venture Capital Conference. In 2013, with the support of Andy Lau’s “Asian Rising Star Director” program, director Liu Juan made her debut feature film “First Love Not Full”, and won the Special Jury Prize of the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival Asian New Talent Award for this film. , and her documentary “Bharaf” on Indian refugee children also won the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award.
“Nujiang” tells the story of a cross-border pursuit. In order to find out the truth of his daughter’s death, Hu Dengjie, who lost his daughter, pursued his daughter’s best friend Ji Hong for thousands of miles, and was therefore involved in a secret transaction at the border. Jia Zhangke served as the producer of the film. He was touched by the story created by Liu Juan when he saw the script for the first time, “The story is very full, very powerful inside, and innovative in type; in addition, its attention group has a certain social Meaning, left-behind teenagers in small border towns need more care and attention from family and society.”
Director Liu Juan, who has always been concerned about juvenile issues, will focus on the growth of left-behind girls this time with a genre-based filming method. Talking about the original intention of filming, director Liu Juan said, “Because I was a volunteer teacher in Tengchong, I had the idea to do the story of “Nujiang”. It has been seven years, and my personal life has changed a lot, but I have always Nothing has changed. The difficulty of filming this film is not low, because there are a group of creators with centripetal force and artistic pursuit, which guarantees the production level. ‘Everything has cracks, that’s where the light comes in’, I hope each of us is that light .”
Played by Wang Yanhui
The father of “chasing the murderer for a thousand miles”
Wang Yanhui, who has always been known to the public for his superb acting skills, plays a father with a distinctive personality and loves his daughter in this film. He said: “The first time I read the script, I was deeply moved by the characters. A father who chases a murderer for his daughter thousands of miles away, and an ’emotional orphan’ who longs for love. I hope it can bring you a different touch.”
Deng Enxi, an outstanding young actor who has performed brilliantly in many works such as “The Unknown”, “Hello, Zhihua”, “Calm and Peaceful”, “Famous” and so on, plays Ji Hong in “Nujiang” this time, a precocious left-behind A girl, she loves pop culture and goes through fire and water for her love. Talking about the film, Deng Enxi said: “I have a certain distance from Ji Hong’s life. I feel sorry for her, but I hope I can be her in this film.”
It is reported that Wang Yanhui and Deng Enxi will have a lot of opposing scenes in the film, and the two will work together to interpret the love of cross-border chasing and each other’s psychological growth and family difficulties.