Night Fight, produced by CTV year-4student LV Mengxia and Gaochang, won the Best Experimental Short Film Award and the monthly PK winner award in the Original Short Film Competition which was sponsored by China Telecom. They were awarded with 3000 RMB prize money and a laptop priced 2000RMB. The awarding ceremony was held on Dec 17 at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou university Town.
Prof. Nancy Wu and the winners of the Best Experimental Film Award
Another two CTV year-4 students Ning Xixi and Zhouyuan were also nominated for the Best Experimental Film Award. Besides, the Summer Days by CTV Year-3 student Zhou Xintong was nominated for the Best Documentary Award, Tattoo rhapsody by Year-3 CTV student Xiang Ge was nominated for the Best Feature Film award, and My cheap person and my umbrella was nominated for the Best Story Award.
The Best Story Award Nominee and CTV teacher Mr. Liu Baohua
This provincial competition in Guangdong started in July 2009, and had received hundreds of competing films from Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology and Guang Dong University of Foreign Studies, etc. The judges composed of professional teachers from these universities and professional film makers from the Pearl River Motion Picture Group.
The competition had a cooperation with the Sapling Plan which was promoted by the Pearl River Motion Picture Group. The objective of the Sapling Plan was to provide a platform for young film makers to show their works, and discover prospective professional film-makers.
Group photo of UIC attendance
One of the initiators of the Sapling Plan Prof. Nancy Wu from the CTV program at UIC said the success of our students shows that we are no worse than other students from Sun Yat-sen University or other famous universities. The achievement of our students made a good promotion of the brand of UIC.
She further pointed out that a growing number of mobile phone users are considering the 3G mobile phones, which means a big increase of demand for short video clips, as well as more channels for the publication of short films produced by students. She encouraged UIC students to take part in this kind of competition to advance to professionality.
Reporter: Richard Xu
Media and Communication Office
