The Storm and Midsummer Night

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创作阐述

The history of cinema is littered with films about famous authors, filmmakers, and playwrights, but there are very few about translators. Historically, translators have been overlooked as shadows behind others, and this film fills that void, doing justice to translation - its a craft and an art form, and it should be recognized as such.

故事大纲

In 1590, a young William Shakespeare was working as a drag queen in a London theater company, with a dream of bringing to the stage The Taming of the Shrew, a love play he had been working on for years, to the exclusion of all others. In 1932, the fledgling Zhu Shenghao met the love of his life, Song Qingru, and chased after love while finding the goal of his life's struggle - translating Shakespeare for the Chinese people. In 2022, young director Liu Chi is faced with the dilemma of market and subject matter, and he needs to recommend Zhu Shenghao's play-within-a-play, which is a godly friendship between Zhu Shenghao and Shakespeare, to investors in a market where fast-food culture is the order of the day.

typology：

Biography｜Fantasy｜Inspirational

director (film etc)：

flight of the roc (used in names)

cinematographer：

David Murdoch｜Han Jinglong

moviemaker：

Zhu Li (1900-1986), one of the pioneers of modern Chinese linguistics

production company：

Giant Run (Shanghai) Film Co.

Director's Profile

Pengfei: A young director from Mainland China, Pengfei has been studying in France for many years, and his works have won many awards both at home and abroad. His first feature film "Underground Fragrance" has been awarded the Rotterdam Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival Fund, the first time to make a debut that was widely acclaimed, won the 72nd Venice Film Festival "Venice Day" Best Film; the second feature film "The Taste of Rice Flower" once again shortlisted in the 74th Venice Film Festival "Venice Day" competition section. The second feature film "A Taste of Rice Flower" was again selected for the "Venice Day" competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival. His latest work "Seeing Nara Again" was nominated for the Best Small/Medium Budget Feature Film at the 34th Golden Rooster Awards, and the Golden Goblet Award in the Main Competition of the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival.

Screenwriter's Synopsis

David Murdoch: British screenwriter and producer. Winner of BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards; collaborated with Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick on the HBO series The Vice President; screenwriter of the film A Woman Who Lives by Assassination, which is now available on Netflix worldwide; screenwriter of the TV series Lady Macbeth, which will be co-produced with the BBC. Han Jinglong: Chinese screenwriter, his representative work Twelve Citizens won the Best Screenplay Award at the 30th China Golden Rooster Awards, the Best Screenplay Award at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival Media Awards, and the Best Screenplay Award at the 7th Australian International Chinese Film Festival.

Producer Profile

Zhu Li: Partner of Juben Film. Co-producer of the film WUHAI, which was shortlisted in the Main Competition of the 68th San Bastian International Film Festival and won the International Film Critics' FIPRESCI Award. The movie "LITTLE GUYS AYKA" was shortlisted for the main competition section of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival in 2018 and won the Best Actress Award. Twelve Citizens" won the People's Choice Award, the highest award of the 9th Rome Film Festival. Meadow and Moonlight" won the Pioneer Producer Award at the 20th Hollywood Film Festival. The movie "Wolf Totem 2", with the famous Hollywood screenwriter John Fusco ("The King of Kung Fu", "Marco Polo").

Production Company Profile

Ltd: Founded in 2020, the founders Wang Luna and Zhu Li have worked as producers for films such as "Twelve Citizens" (Best Film Award at the 9th Rome International Film Festival), "The Little One" (Best Actress Award at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival), "Meadow and the Moonlight" (Best Film Award at the Ethnic Cinema Section of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival), etc. The film "Wuhai" was selected for the Main Competition of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain in 2020 and won the Grand Prix de Ferbesi. In 2020, the film "Wuhai" produced by Ju Ben Film was selected for the Main Competition of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain and won the Grand Prize of FIPRESCI; the film "Wolf Totem 2" has recently been selected as one of the "2022 Shanghai's Major Literary and Artistic Creation Funding Programs"; and the other projects that are in the process of being produced or prepared are "Super Golden Week", "Storm and Midsummer", "The Storm and the Summer" and "The Storm and the Summer". Other projects under production or preparation include "Super Golden Week", "The Storm and the Midsummer Night", and so on.

synopsis

A young director at the end of his rope, a young man in the Republic of China with bad luck, and a talented actor in a theater troupe. The three young men, each pursuing their own dreams, are linked together by The Taming of the Shrew.