Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 20 Return with Honor
Want to use the award to sell copyrights?
Think more.

For film festivals with a trading market, the latest transaction will be completed one or two days before the closing ceremony. On the closing day and thereafter, the film distributors have either completed their film purchase tasks or have left the film festival. Where can they sell their films? Not to mention a film festival like Montreal that has no trading market.

However, there were still a few managers from small film companies who came up to offer prices, but their prices were not high, so Li Qiutang did not sell it.

People in China knew that Li Qiutang had won the award, but firstly, Li Qiutang was not famous, and secondly, the Canadian Fantastic Film Festival was not a big film festival in China, so Li Qiutang's award was only known to a small circle of people.

For example, several portal websites have been copying articles from external websites. They all reported on Li Qiutang's winning of the award, but netizens were not very interested in it and just read it over and over again.

However, the Film Academy took Li Qiutang's award very seriously, and announced it to others as "our students won the Best Film Award at an international film festival."

A Class B film festival is not a film festival?
At first I thought being nominated and being able to go there would be a success, but I didn’t expect this guy to win the Best Picture award.

Students’ work won an international award, which should be considered a major teaching achievement.

The reaction from China Film Group was a little worse. They looked down on the Canadian Fantastic Film Festival and felt that although the award was not a fake one, it was not worth bragging about, even though the director was only 22 years old.

No matter what, Li Qiutang returned home with honor.

At the airport, he...no one came to pick him up, but he walked out huffing and puffing, dragging two suitcases, got in a taxi, and went back to the studio.

But what Li Qiutang didn't expect was that his friends held a welcome party in the studio.

Li Qiutang was surprised when she saw them as soon as she entered the room.

There are balloons, streamers, salutes, snacks and drinks.

boom!
Pull a salute.

"Come on, come on, welcome our great director Li back with honors. Best film. You're awesome."

"That's a nice thing to say, but it doesn't sound good." Li Qiutang put the two boxes aside and pointed at the snacks and drinks on the table. "Aren't these all mine? You guys are hosting a welcome party for me, so why don't you give me some money to buy food?"

"Oh, don't worry about the details. Just bring out the trophy so we can see it."

Li Qiutang took the trophy out of her bag and showed it to them, and was asked again, "Is there any prize money at this film festival?"

"Yes, the Best Picture award is $5000, but I haven't received it yet," said Li Qiutang.

“Tell us, is the film festival fun?”

"There are indeed a lot of things to do, more than a dozen movies a day, various activities and parties, and a lot of beautiful women."

"Oh--"

"There are many professional players, but there are also many romantic encounters."

“Why are there professional contestants at the film festival?”

"Nonsense, there are so many stars, there are cocktail parties and parties, and there is a lot of money. If the professional players don't come now, when will they come?" Li Qiutang explained, "I will go to Cannes if I have the chance. During the Cannes Film Festival, professional technicians from all over Europe are in Cannes Town."

"You know a lot about this, have you played it before?" He said with a sly smile.

"I haven't been there, but I've been there and seen it all." Li Qiutang defended. After the simple welcome party, everyone went to the restaurant to eat. After just two bites, Li Qiutang said, "When I'm abroad, I don't want anything else but Chinese food."

"Isn't bread and steak enough to satisfy you?"

"Breaded steak is really not that tasty. It's okay to eat it for one or two meals for novelty, but after a while I'll want to eat Chinese food. The Chinese restaurants in Montreal are terrible and the prices are expensive." Li Qiutang introduced the scenery abroad to them while devouring the meal.

Li Qiutang really didn't mean it, but in the ears of these friends, Li Qiutang seemed to look down on foreign countries. He went abroad to work, and he also admitted that foreign countries were better than China in many aspects, but he didn't want to stay abroad at all.

How many people want to go abroad now? Li Qiutang is really a freak.

He also talked about how selling films in Montreal was not going smoothly: "There is no official trading market at the film festival, so it is difficult to sell films. I don't know anyone, so I have no place to find film distributors. However, there are a few film distributors who have approached me, but the price they offered was too low, only $200,000 or $300,000."

"That's more than 100 million, so it's not a loss." How much did your movie cost? It's still too low to earn more than 100 million.

“He wants me for the worldwide rights.”

"We can't get the dividends of global copyright, so if he wants it, just give it to him." Having said that, Li Qiutang still wants to sell more: "After all, global copyright is so big, it's because we can't get it ourselves, so we want to sell more money."

"I'm away for a few days. Is there anything going on in the country?"

"It's okay in China. Ning Hao has become completely famous. Crazy Stone sold more than 2000 million. The reporters are almost praising him to death. So far this year, his is the only domestic film that has made money. He is also going to start preparations for his new film Crazy Racing. He has made it big." Many people present knew Ning Hao when he was still an underground gang.

Of course, since ancient times, scholars have looked down on each other, and many people say that "Crazy Stone" plagiarized Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".

It's a bit sour, but it's harmless.

The next day after dinner, Li Qiutang received a call early in the morning. It was from Xinlang, who wanted to interview Li Qiutang.

"It's me." Li Qiutang said on the phone.

"You are?" The reporter on the other side was very surprised. He originally thought that the call was from Li Qiutang's assistant or agent. "Are you free today? I'm on my way now."

"When you are free, just come. You know the address of my studio, right?"

"knew."

After hanging up the phone, Li Qiutang had a simple meal and then continued to work while waiting for reporters to come. Li Qiutang had just made her debut and her first film had not yet been released, so her job was that simple.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang." Li Qiutang took the money and really worked. "I'm Xiao Li. Let me tell you, our movie won an award, the Best Film at the Canadian Fantastic Film Festival. It's the best movie at this film festival. Yes, yes, yes, an international award. Do you have an email address? I'll send you some information about our movie. After all, you're an investor, so you should learn more about it."

Boss Zhang, who is far away in Shandong, can only play mahjong on his computer. He asked his secretary to get him the videos and materials sent by Director Li.

When Boss Zhang saw the photo of Director Li holding the trophy and saw that he specifically mentioned in his acceptance speech "Thank you to my investor, Mr. Zhang XX from Qilu for his investment in us", he was so happy.

"This is artistic vision!" Boss Zhang laughed, "Movie investment is a science. You said Director Li is a liar, but what did I say? He is a genius and an artist." At the beginning, many people in the company advised him not to invest in Director Li.

"Canadian Film Award, Best Film. They have been doing business all their lives, don't understand culture or art, and are still local tycoons." Boss Zhang became more and more excited as he spoke.

"I'm going on a business trip to Yanjing in a few days. Let's go see Director Xiao Li, hahahaha."

(End of this chapter)