Being a director starts with fighting domestic violence

The two walked out of the shadows and discovered that the wretched man was not as powerful and scary as they had imagined. He was just a cowardly, despicable and wretched wimp who only dared to attack a child of a few years old.

Later, Mary and Xu Qing went to the cinema to support "Cold Dew". After knowing that Gao You was also the author of "Fantasy Dragon Universe", they bought the book and became fans of the book.

This time I saw the report and learned that Gao You's new film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Simona Film Festival, so I came here specifically to support her.

I didn’t expect Gao You to come over specially to take photos and shake hands with them. It was really happy.

There were several other movie fans, some of whom were international students from Singapore and Malaysia, as well as Chinese students from the Beacon Country.

They all came here specifically to support Gao You because they had watched "Cold Dew" or "Fantasy Dragon Universe" and became fans of Gao You's movies and books.

On the red carpet, the Yan Hui twins also walked on the red carpet with the crew of "The Silence of the Night".

Teacher Mo and Director Cen have been very happy these two days. Not only was Gao You shortlisted for the main competition unit, but Yan Hui's short film was also very popular. They are working hard to sell Yan Hui's short film at a good price.

This time, both crews were invited to attend the award ceremony, which means they both won awards.

In the past two years, it seems that under Gao You's leadership, the students of their class have produced many excellent works, frequently participated in major film festivals, and achieved considerable results.

Such as the leader Gao You, the powerful Wang Qiyun, Zhuo Qian who was shortlisted for the documentary unit at another film festival last year, and Yan Hui who was shortlisted for the short film competition unit this year.

These students from the directing department have produced excellent works on the subjects they like and are good at.

For Mo Huaiyu, as a teacher, being able to accompany them on this journey is the happiest and most gratifying thing.

Director Cen lamented that the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, which has always been dominated by men and lacks women, has been turned upside down in the past two years.

Not only Gao You and her class, but it seems that there are also several promising directing talents in the next class.

The directing department students, who have always had difficulty with funding, have, with the financial support of Gao You, several freshman and sophomore female students have begun trying to make their own short films.

Several students who are about to graduate also received funding from Gao You to shoot their graduation works.

Even their Qingying Studio also benefited a lot from it.

In particular, their film "Factory Pianist" won both awards and box office success, making Qingying Studio the focus of attention in the past two years.

While the leaders were happy, they also did some things to secure some benefits and conveniences for the students, giving them more room for creativity.

Of course, there were also individual male students in the directing department who privately expressed their dissatisfaction and reported it to Teacher Mo.

Why don't they get funding, is it unfair, just because they are men?

Teacher Mo explained to them that Gao You’s support for female creators was her personal behavior and her freedom, and the school had no right to interfere.

Gao You didn't know about this, but she is following her own plan and will set up a foundation to support female filmmakers in the future, and is also preparing to set up a foundation to grow fledgling filmmakers.

The front is to support all female filmmakers.

The latter Fledgling Foundation supports all student filmmakers in school. Everyone can participate, and selected scripts can receive a certain amount of funding.

But she hasn't officially announced it yet and is still doing the preliminary preparations.

But even if she knew, it wouldn't affect what she was going to do.

There is no conflict between her helping female filmmakers and helping student filmmakers.

As long as there are good scripts and good ideas, she is willing to give them a chance.

She wants to have influence not only among female filmmakers, but also among all filmmakers.

Gao You and the crew walked across the red carpet and entered the award ceremony.

Their seats were also in the front rows.

Although she won the Best Actress Award at the Sarolin Awards last time, she also won the Golden Lens Award in the Focus Unit at the Simona Awards.

But this time, it feels very different to have "General Mulan" shortlisted for the main competition unit.

This means that she has officially entered the film industry and will compete with filmmakers around the world in terms of awards and box office.

Being a female director can bring her some different kinds of attention, but it also means that she has to face more challenges and scrutiny.

Gao You felt a lot of pressure in his heart.

But now that she has come this far, all the pressure can only become motivation, the force that drives her to move forward step by step.

The awards ceremony began, first with some other non-competitive awards, and then with various awards in the short film competition unit.

Gao You has also been paying attention to the awards in this unit.

She hopes Yan Hui can win the award!

As expected, the presenter of the biggest award in the short film category read out Yan Hui's name on the stage.

Gao You clapped his hands happily and was very happy for Yan Hui and the twins.

Yan Hui’s English is not very good, and she was a little confused when she heard her name called out on the stage.

Also, the presenter's pronunciation was a bit weird, it sounded like he was saying "date".

It was only when Teacher Mo reminded her and the twins hugged her excitedly that Yan Hui finally reacted.

"Director Yan, it's us. Don't be confused, let's get on stage quickly!" The twins had followed Gao You twice before and their reaction was faster than Yan Hui.

"Oh, oh." Yan Hui hugged Teacher Mo while thinking about how to express her gratitude.

She had clearly had a surprise attack with Gao You, but now she has forgotten everything.

"Relax. If you don't speak, just speak Mandarin." Teacher Mo comforted Yan Hui.

"Okay, okay." Yan Hui walked towards the podium with the twins.

Gao You waved to them and congratulated them.

The twins waved back to Gao You.

When Yan Hui saw Gao You, she suddenly felt a little excited.

No one in her family is engaged in the arts industry; her mother and father are just ordinary workers.

When she said she wanted to apply to the Beijing Film Academy's directing department, her family felt that this industry was too far away for ordinary people like them and did not quite agree with her studying it.

Her father even threatened that he would not allow her to go to college if she studied this.

But Yan Hui was very persistent. Her father was stubborn and she was no less so.

Later, she got admitted to Beijing Film Academy as she wished.

She saved up her tuition and living expenses by picking up waste and making snacks and hair ornaments to sell.

Yan Hui's mother was soft-hearted and did not dare to support Yan Hui openly, but she still secretly made hair flowers for her daughter and prepared snacks for her to sell.

After much arguing at home, Yan Hui was admitted to the directing department of Beijing Film Academy.

She was also lucky enough to get the support of Gao You, who allowed her to make her first short film and direct a TV series.

Her mother is her biggest supporter, and Gao You is her guiding light.

Yan Hui smiled at Gao You, and her brain finally returned to normal functioning.

She received the trophy from the presenter, which was the biggest award in the short film category.