China Selects Feelgood Hit ‘Nice View’ for Oscars Race
China has selected feelgood comedy drama film “Nice View” as its contender for the best international feature film category of the Academy Awards.
The Chinese film industry has pursued an increasingly separate course from the rest of the world this year – few foreign titles have been granted import permits and quota release slots, and, similarly, few Chinese films have been allowed to play at overseas film festivals. So, it was unclear whether Chinese authorities would participate in the Oscars process and submit a national contender.
Inviting comparisons with “The Pursuit of Happyness,” the plot of “Nice View” involves a 20-year orphaned man who moves to the Shenzhen megacity and works as a repair man to raise money for his six-year-old sister’s heart surgery. When it goes wrong, his plan to borrow money to buy crates full of second-hand telephones leaves...
China has selected feelgood comedy drama film “Nice View” as its contender for the best international feature film category of the Academy Awards.
The Chinese film industry has pursued an increasingly separate course from the rest of the world this year – few foreign titles have been granted import permits and quota release slots, and, similarly, few Chinese films have been allowed to play at overseas film festivals. So, it was unclear whether Chinese authorities would participate in the Oscars process and submit a national contender.
Inviting comparisons with “The Pursuit of Happyness,” the plot of “Nice View” involves a 20-year orphaned man who moves to the Shenzhen megacity and works as a repair man to raise money for his six-year-old sister’s heart surgery. When it goes wrong, his plan to borrow money to buy crates full of second-hand telephones leaves...
- 10/31/2022
- by Patrick Frater, Anna Marie de la Fuente, Elsa Keslassy, Leo Barraclough, Nick Vivarelli, Mark Schilling, John Hopewell, Jennie Punter, Naman Ramachandran and Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Cinemas from Lisbon, Croatia, and Austria pick up the 2016 prizes.
European exhibitor network Europa Cinemas has crowned a trio of winners at the 2016 edition of its annual awards, which celebrates cinema teams across the continent.
Pedro Borges of Cinema Ideal in Lisbon, Portugal was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year. Since renovating and reopening two years ago in spite of considerable financial challenges, Cinema Ideal – which originally opened in 1904 — has already won awards for its architecture and equipment.
Director Borges said: “These last two years have taught us many things and we have used our knowledge to put pressure on local and national government with regard to the need for three, four, five or more Cinema Ideal theatres to be created, not just in Lisbon but in the whole of Portugal.”
Europa Cinemas general director Claude-Eric Poiroux called Cinema Ideal’s reopening “a brave and risk-taking choice and a statement of confidence.”
Kino Europa...
European exhibitor network Europa Cinemas has crowned a trio of winners at the 2016 edition of its annual awards, which celebrates cinema teams across the continent.
Pedro Borges of Cinema Ideal in Lisbon, Portugal was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year. Since renovating and reopening two years ago in spite of considerable financial challenges, Cinema Ideal – which originally opened in 1904 — has already won awards for its architecture and equipment.
Director Borges said: “These last two years have taught us many things and we have used our knowledge to put pressure on local and national government with regard to the need for three, four, five or more Cinema Ideal theatres to be created, not just in Lisbon but in the whole of Portugal.”
Europa Cinemas general director Claude-Eric Poiroux called Cinema Ideal’s reopening “a brave and risk-taking choice and a statement of confidence.”
Kino Europa...
- 11/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
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