【要闻】洛杉矶国际短片电影节携手Hanhai Studio 共同创立洛杉矶短片电影学院

洛杉矶短片电影学院作为洛杉矶国际短片电影节的教育延伸，首批将开设电影制作、导演、编剧等三个专业，由知名业界老师授课，提供多样化课程，包括大师班、导演、编剧，电影制作培训和中美交换班等。Hanhai Studio 在伯班克市中心橄榄大道上8 万平方英尺的大楼将成为电影学院的主校区。

学院将于2015 年10 月中旬开课，学生主要为洛杉矶国际短片电影节参选人，招生对象面向全球特别是中国电影界人士，并逐步将校区扩展至位于硅谷、波士顿、和多伦多的瀚海孵化园区。瀚海智业在中国丰富的业界资源，也将吸引许多中国电影业爱好者加入到学习中，结业者会得到洛杉矶国际短片电影节的特发证书。

已成功举办18 届的洛杉矶国际短片电影节是全球范围内最具公信力的电影节之一，其奖项被每年颁发奥斯卡奖项的美国电影艺术与科学艺术学院（AMPAS）和英国电影电视艺术学院（BAFTA）认可，获奖的作品都有资格角逐奥斯卡和BAFTA 奖项。过去历年中，44 位参加洛杉矶国际短片电影节的电影人获得了奥斯卡提名，13 位电影人赢得了奥斯卡奖项。今年在洛杉矶市中心LA LIVE 举行的洛杉矶国际短片电影节吸引了超过8000 名电影爱好者及知名业界人士，去年著名影星斯嘉丽·约翰逊、黛米·摩尔和蒂姆·伯顿等都应邀出席并作裁判。

Hanhai Studio 作为中国第一家在美的文创孵化器，旨在通过定期培训、对接服务和早期投资链接中国与好莱坞，为中美文创企业提供国际间的交流与合作、项目对接和资源共享，打造一个中国文化创意科技公司与好莱坞之间的零距离平台。Hanhai Studio 一流的国际化管理团队和国内丰富的产业资源将为文创企业提供强大的平台服务和后续支撑。

在洛杉矶短片电影学院学习的学生，只需步行几个街口，就可以走进伯班克的电影公司、演员代理公司和后期制作公司。华纳兄弟制片公司，迪斯尼公司，卡通频道公司，及众多的动漫、动画制作公司都聚集在伯班克这个好莱坞制作中心的腹地。洛杉矶短片电影学院将充分利用起身边的资源，致力于通过积极的国际合作，建设一流的电影人才教育机构，成为帮助学生提高技能和实现梦想的平台；并通过文创产业孵化和影视融资发行，推动洛杉矶短片学院成为世界知名的影视人才培养高地。Hanhai Studio 与洛杉矶国际短片电影节的这次联手，被视为一次国内文创孵化器与美国好莱坞及世界电影体系接轨的尝试，使国际电影人才与中国电影产业相互协同，产生良性互动，为中国电影界输送新鲜血液，推动中国电影产业的转型和升级。

A major China Hollywood collaboration in film education and entertainment incubation

Los Angeles, CA (August 19, 2015) Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (LA Shorts Fest), one of the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world, and Hanhai Studio, the first Chinese creative production incubator in the U.S., will jointly put efforts to extend the festival’s education arm and build entertainment incubators, which makes it a major collaboration effort to connect China and Hollywood in film education and capital investment.

This year, more than 30 films were submitted from China, an 80% increase compared to last year. The Song of Seashore, directed by Long Yang was selected to screen at the festival this year. It’s a short film to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the world’s anti-Fascist war and the people who suffer in the war. Moreover, a number of movies submitted were directed by Chinese filmmakers who study in top film schools in U.S., such as USC and Loyola Marymount University. Coupled with the fact that film business is booming in China, and opens doors to more China-US coproduction films, the film festival with education arm, entertainment incubators and China-Hollywood perspective is of significance to create a platform for China-US filmmakers, promote cultures between east and west and support Chinese filmmakers on an international level.

The new education program will offer a variety of courses from producing, directing, script writing, documentary, narrative, and animation. Master class, short-term training and US-China exchange program are also offered to meet China-Hollywood market needs. Hanhai Studio’s 80,000 square feet building at downtown Burbank will serve as the main campus.

With LA Shorts Fest’s affiliate festivals in New York, Toronto, Austin, Hawaii, and next year in Europe, qualified works will have the opportunity to exhibit on other festivals around the world. Hanhai Studio’s incubation platform will also actively look for investors and production companies for outstanding student works.

The annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival has been successfully held for 18 years, and is one of the most accredited film festivals worldwide. It is an official qualifying event for the Annual Academy Awards (the Oscars) offered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) short film awards, which means the award winners from LA Shorts Fest are eligible for Oscar nomination and to win BAFTAs. Within the past several years, there have been 44 Academy Award-nominated films from LA Shorts Fest, with 13 winning the coveted Oscar statue. This year LA Shorts Fest was recently added the eligible international film festivals for the Canadian Screen Awards presented by Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT).

Hollywood celebrities attend the festival each year, including Scarlett Johansson, Demi Moore, Courteney Cox and many more. This year, LA Shorts Fest has successfully attracted more than 8,000 moviegoers, filmmakers and entertainment professionals at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles.

“We achieve two key milestones as we enter our 20th year,” said Robert Arentz, the founder of LA Shorts Fest, “One is our move to the L.A. LIVE, and the second is the creation of the education arm of LA Short Fest, partnering with Hanhai Studio. This partnership will raise the international awareness of the festival.”

“Hanhai Studio is the first pioneering Hollywood-Chinese creative production and technology incubator in the US. We aim to create a zero-distance platform between Chinese creative production and technology companies with Hollywood through regular training, incubation, and investment,” said Hanguang Wang, chairman of Hanhai Zhiye, “with a first-class management team and rich industrial resources in China, we aim to provide powerful platform service and follow-up support for creative production companies.”

Known as the “backbone of Hollywood movies”, Burbank gathers major entertainment companies, such as Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, Cartoon Network, and animation production companies. From Hanhai Studio, students will have access to various studios, talent agencies, and post-production companies within minutes, since all these companies are within a few blocks.

Situated in the center of American film industry, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival programs will make full use of the resources around to build a world-class educational institution via active international cooperation, helping students develop skills and achieve dreams. The cooperation of Hanhai Studio and LA Shorts Fest is seen as an attempt to integrate Chinese incubator and Hollywood’s film industry. The positive interaction between the Chinese and the world’s filmmakers is believed to result in facilitating the transformation and upgrading of Chinese film industry.