Alberto looked at Lan Li with a smile on his face, earnestly like never before, carefully observing the small changes in Lan Li’s expression. At a certain moment, he was a little stunned, but it was fleeting, and then he smiled again, "You are so full of Charming guy, you should be used to these words, right?"

The corner of Lan Li's mouth raised slightly, "Who can resist praise for making the devil dance?"

"Haha." Alberto laughed heartily again. The loud and hearty laughter made Lan Li's eardrums faintly vibrate. For a 60-year-old man, it was full of breath, "Although I I still don't fully understand what you are talking about streaming media, but I can perceive that this should be a breakthrough to change the entire industry. As for whether it is good or bad, I have no way of judging it. The only thing I can say is that I admire your courage. "

"Just admire? How about joining? I think we are ready for long-term cooperation." Lan Li's tone maintained a brisk joking and teasing. Even if he was rejected, he was not surprised because he knew that, between, All this still needs time to settle and brew.

Alberto just spread his hands frankly, "You should know that some things are not that simple, just like what you just said. Are you sure we need to continue to waste time on this issue?" Anti-General, Alberto is not an easy old fox.

Lan Li pursed the corners of his mouth, gently chin to express his approval, "This is fair."

In fact, the cooperation between the three major European film festivals and the Don Quixote channel is possible. Lanly personally believes that Berlin is the most likely, followed by Cannes, and Venice is the most difficult.

From the perspective of historical development, "Rome" directed by Alfonso-Caron and produced by Netflix investment was rejected by Cannes to move to Venice, and finally successfully won the Golden Lion Award. This seems to mean that Venice has a higher acceptance of streaming media. , But this is just an illusion

France has a rigid rule for Cannes entries that “must be shown in theaters for a certain number of weeks”, while Italy does not. This leads to such a result; but in terms of the acceptance and discussion of streaming media, France systematically pays attention to it. With the move of streaming media, Italy lacks a sufficient system framework, coupled with the intricate power relations of the Venice Film Festival, all of which make the prospects for cooperation full of more variables.

As Alberto said, Renly was not surprised by this result. It was like inviting Renly to be the chairman of the jury. The cooperation between Venice and Don Quixote was also full of difficulties. At this point in time, there is no further discussion. Necessary because it simply cannot happen.

Furthermore, it is not the best time to cooperate with the three major European film festivals, and Lanly is mentally prepared.

However, Lanly has planted a seed now, waiting for the long process of development in the future to slowly water it, looking forward to one day in the future that can truly blossom and bear fruit, anyway, the development plan of the Don Quixote channel is not in the short term. It can be done overnight.

Although Lan Li expressed his understanding and did not continue to entangle himself, Alberto’s thoughts were still not able to get rid of immediately. The more I thought about it, the more I felt... Crazy, Lan Li’s idea was really shocking, which further confirmed Alberto’s relationship with the world. Lanly's determination and desire to cooperate.

Slowly, Alberto continued, “Although the streaming media platform may be difficult, we can still have long-term cooperation. For the films produced by Sisyphus Pictures, we always open our arms and welcome you to Venice.” Only then did Alberto really get into the topic, "Especially the works you starred in; we even raised our hands to welcome, we are full of confidence, this is bound to be the beginning of a good cooperation."

Lan Li chuckled softly, "It is an honor for any film to go to Venice. It seems that we need to focus on film production, otherwise we will fail Mr. Alberto's trust, which is not good. "This is not a polite statement. Even if you don't go to Venice, Sisyphus Pictures needs to get stuck in the quality of the work, otherwise a little loss and failure may let them embark on the path of DreamWorks."

"There is a chance now." Alberto was taken a big circle by Lan Li, almost forgetting his original purpose, and now he is finally back on track, "Blasting Drummer and Nightcrawler, willing to come to Venice ?"

This is the direct goal of Alberto's special trip to New Orleans!

Other things are follow-up plans, and the starting point of the whole plan is the two works of "Burst Drummer" and "Nightcrawler". Alberto hopes that they can appear in the main competition unit.

For the three major European film festivals, film works are applied for by themselves, and then the film selection committee will watch and evaluate, and select works suitable for each unit. On average, for every year's film festival, the selection committee needs to watch 300 or more works, which is by no means an easy task.

But there are a small number of cases that are special cases, such as Quentin Tarantino or Woody Allen shooting new works, then the film festival will take the initiative to issue an invitation, hoping that the film can come to the exhibition; of course, the selection The committee still needs to watch and judge. After increasing the favor points and fame points, it can judge whether it is suitable for the main competition unit or other units.

Occasionally there are some embarrassing situations. The film festival invited a master director to participate in the competition. The master did rush to complete the work, but the quality of the finished product was not satisfactory. As a result, the film selection committee could only refuse, from the perspective of humanity and face. In all, this is very embarrassing, but it does happen occasionally.

Just as Cannes established its own direct lineage, in fact, Berlin and Venice also have it, but the direct lineage influence of the latter two is not perfect, and the influence is relatively limited.

Now, Alberto has personally arrived in New Orleans for two works by Sisyphus Pictures.

Knowing Alberto’s intentions, Lan Li was slightly surprised, although from an objective standpoint, this was an unexpected but reasonable answer: otherwise, there is really no connection between Lan Li and Alberto. How could Alberto make a special trip to visit the class?

The reason for the accident is mainly because of Lan Li himself. He has never really put himself in the position of a producer, and has never really interfered in the behind-the-scenes work of the film's production, distribution, and publicity plans; now, Alberto made a special trip to ask Renly's opinion. Even if this is the most reasonable explanation, unexpected emotions will inevitably surge.

Renly paused for a moment, and then asked a very basic question, "But, "Blasting Drummer" has participated in the Sundance Film Festival, can you continue to participate in the Venice Film Festival? I always thought that you only accept the global The premiere works participate in the main competition, and only markets like the Toronto Film Festival are open for registration and accept applications for all films."

It turned out to be a primary problem, and Alberto laughed happily, "I have never heard of such a rule, at least not in Venice."

In fact, none of the three major European film festivals have such rigid rules. The reason why they are more inclined to works that are premiered worldwide is to ensure attention and attractiveness. After all, those works that have been officially premiered lack "uniqueness." The attributes of, more or less still have an impact, this is simply a tendency of market considerations, from the rules and regulations, there are no relevant provisions at all.

Last year, the Sundance Jury Award "Frutville Station", and then went to the Cannes Film Festival, not the main competition, but also participated in a focus unit; similarly, the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award The work "The Beast of the South" was also shortlisted for a focus unit of the Cannes Film Festival, and received a series of awards in Cannes, and finally entered the year-end awards season in one go, and broke out in the Oscar nomination stage.

This year's Sundance's highly acclaimed "God Help Girl" went to the Berlin Film Festival just two weeks later to participate in the screening of the Crystal Bear unit.

There are too many similar situations. In the final analysis, the screening of film festivals is still limited to specific groups. It is really normal to go from one film festival to another, even the three major European film festivals are no exception, including The incredible Cannes Film Festival.

"As for other film festivals, I'm not very familiar with it." Alberto's eyes gleamed slyly. Although he did not explicitly name his name, the insinuations in the words clearly pointed to Cannes.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival did not extend an olive branch to "Burst Drummer", and also rejected "Nightcrawler~lightnovelpub.net~ because the styles of these two works are too gloomy and dark to suit the style of Cannes. But now, In Alberto's suggestion, other meanings were deduced. Is this stumbling each other?

Lan Li couldn't help but remembered that when he attended Cannes last year, those high-level officials were also constraining Venice overtly and secretly. The competition between the two sides in love and killing is really uncontrollable; more importantly, Berlin seems to be isolated like this. , If the three film festivals are personified, the relationship between them will become more interesting and intriguing. This also makes Lan Li couldn't help showing a big smile.

"Personally, I really look forward to your coming to Venice again. "Blast Drummer" has received a lot of praise at Sundance. Our expectations are increasing step by step. I can’t wait to see this work. I sincerely hope that Italian audiences can appreciate this work for the first time." Alberto further added that there was a sincere and bright light in his eyes.

"Of course, there is also Jack Gyllenhaal."

Just as Lan Li was about to speak, Alberto added this sentence, which made Lan Li chuckle directly, "I don't think Jack will be satisfied with this kind of treatment. He should be the protagonist too, right?"