「坚守艺术，返本归真」2021第三届蒙哥马利国际电影节发布获奖名单

MIFF电影艺术区

MIFF蒙哥马利国际电影节从2019年创办，今年是第三届了。

自从电影进入平常百姓，几乎所有人，从记事起，方方面面都和电影分不开。穿什么衣服，留什么发型，交什么样的朋友，做什么样人，长大后做什么职业，大都来自电影里的人物或故事的启发。

过去的电影都有很强的艺术气息，后来商业电影越来越多。随着好莱坞商业帝国的兴起，电影成了产业，成了娱乐业的快餐。没什么营养，但是吃的人真够多的。对于渴望思想成长的观众来说，越来越觉得到电影院看电影是在浪费时间，浪费生命。

MIFF蒙哥马利国际电影节的发起，就是希望能有更多的有意义有营养的电影给到观众，特别是年轻人，能让孩子们在电影里获得智慧获取灵感，而不是像到麦当劳那样吃饱不饿，成了垃圾的制造者。

电影的本质是艺术，希望有更多的电影制作人把精力投入到艺术上，而不是挣钱上，同时也发掘更多的投资者能支持艺术电影的制作和推广发行。这就是MIFF要做的，坚守艺术的品格。

虽然全世界都还处在新冠疫情当中，但是仍有很多电影制作人抑制不住创作的热情，本届电影节收到了近400部参选影片，其中15部电影分别入围纪录片、短片和剧情片竞赛单元。

本届电影节还单设了华语电影竞赛单元和青少年电影单元。

本届电影节的评委对入围竞赛单元的电影给予高度评价。创作者们在非常有限的条件下，创作了非常有艺术价值的作品。

9月19日电影节成功举办了在线颁奖礼，揭晓了本届的获奖名单。

·最佳纪录片【A Tale of Three Chinatowns】United States

·最佳短片【DIRT】United States

·最佳编剧【RUINS】United States

·最佳摄影【PASSADE (JUST A FLING)】France

·最佳女演员 Fanny Valette【PASSADE (JUST A FLING)】France

·最佳男演员 Jeff Wincott【The Issue with Elvis】United States

·最佳导演 Charlotte Wincott【The Issue with Elvis】France

·最佳影片【PASSADE (JUST A FLING)】France

·华语片单元·

·最佳影片【无约而至】China

·最佳导演 徐向峰【无约而至】China

·最佳制片人  邱国钦【非凡父子】China

·最佳摄影  张杨珉鸣【谢谢你温暖我的世界】China

·最佳编剧  贾溯【谢谢你温暖我的世界】China

·最佳女演员  钱冬妮【谢谢你温暖我的世界】China

·最佳男演员  曲博【谢谢你温暖我的世界】China

本届电影节特别委托评委会评委鲍振江导演开设独立的华语片竞赛单元，并负责选片和评审工作，筹备电影节今后的常设华语片竞赛单元。鲍振江导演非常认可MIFF蒙哥马利国际电影节“电影回归艺术本体”的宗旨，希望能有更多的华语独立电影通过MIFF和世界各国独立电影制作人、团队以及投资人开展交流和合作。他对资深电影人Marc Baschet能加盟和支持MIFF感到欣慰，因为正是一大批像Marc Baschet这样的坚守艺术的电影人的努力，才有了今天艺术电影在欧洲在法国的生生不息，在那里电影还保持着艺术品的品格，电影人作为艺术家受到社会的尊重，有着活跃的艺术电影院线，有很多把电影当作艺术品的投资者，不是为了挣钱而是为了精神的享受心灵的升华。华语电影需要坚持，电影回归艺术，需要电影人的坚守。艺术不是权贵们餐桌上的美味，更不是权贵们胯下的罗裙。华人世界里艺术作为下九流的思想根深蒂固，要想改变，全靠艺术家们自己。

疫情在全世界起伏无常，人们突然惊醒，缺乏良知，缺乏艺术本真，无限度发展的科技，给人类带来了越来越多的问题和灾难。没有限度的被金钱捆绑的“政治正确”正在摧毁人类的文明。像所有艺术手段一样，电影也必须从被商业至上的拐骗中挣脱出来，摆脱彻底背叛艺术沦为娱乐鸦片的厄运。

MIFF蒙哥马利国际电影节虽然很小很小，但是我们得到了很多朋友和机构，以及当地政府的支持和帮助，因为在MIFF有最宝贵的东西，那就是艺术的火种。

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Founded in 2019, MIFF Montgomery International Film Festival is excited to bring the joy of film to the community for a third year in a row.

Ever since film became an integral part of the human experience, it has shaped many aspects of our daily life. Movies have influenced the clothes we wear, the popular hairstyles of the time, the foods we eat, the friends we choose to keep around us and even what type of person we aspire to be.

Compared to the films of the past, Hollywood has progressively commercialized films that feel more like fast food instead of a hearty, satiating meal. For audiences that want to nourish their mind, the modern day cinema is not filling enough for their voracious appetite that yearns for original thought. 

The MIFF Montgomery International Film Festival was launched in the hope that more meaningful and nutritious films would be presented to the community, especially young audiences. Instead of feeding children McDonalds, they can be fed a balanced diet of wisdom, courage and inspiration.

Film in its purest form is art. We at MIFF, want to encourage filmmakers to devote their energy to making art instead of sales. MIFF invests in original filmmakers to support their production and distribution of their craft.

Although the world is still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still numerous filmmakers who cannot restrain their enthusiasm for creation. This year the film festival received nearly 400 films, 15 of which were shortlisted documentaries, short films and feature films.

This year’s film festival also set up a Chinese-language film competition unit and a youth film unit.

The judges of this year’s film festival spoke highly of the films that were shortlisted for the competition. Creators have created works of great artistic value under very limited conditions.

On September 19th, the Film Festival successfully held an online awards ceremony and announced the list of winners this year.

·Best Documentary [A Tale of Three Chinatowns] United States

·Best Short Film【DIRT】United States

·Best Screenplay【RUINS】United States

·Best Photography【PASSADE (JUST A FLING)】France

·Best Actress Fanny Valette【PASSADE (JUST A FLING)】France

·Best Actor Jeff Wincott【The Issue with Elvis】United States

·Best Director Charlotte Wincott【The Issue with Elvis】France

·Best Film【PASSADE (JUST A FLING)】France

·Chinese Film Unit·

·Best Film 【Arrival without an appointment】China

·Best Director Xu Xiangfeng【No appointment】China

·Best Producer Qiu Guoqin [Extraordinary Father and Son] China

·Best Photography Zhang Yang Minming [Thank you for warming my world] China

·Best Screenplay Jia Su [Thank you for warming my world] China

·Best Actress Qian Dongni [Thank you for warming my world] China

·Best Actor Qu Bo [Thank you for warming my world] China

This year’s film festival specially commissioned the jury director Bao Zhenjiang to open an independent Chinese film competition unit. Bao Zhenjiang was responsible for the film selection, judging the films, and paved the way for a permanent Chinese film competition unit of the film festival. Director Bao Zhenjiang is very much aligned with the Montgomery International Film Festival’s mission of “Returning Films to the Doctrine of Art”, and hopes that more Chinese-language independent films can communicate and cooperate with independent filmmakers, teams and investors from all over the world through MIFF. He is very pleased that the senior filmmaker, Marc Baschet could join and support MIFF, because it is thanks to the hard work of filmmakers that dedicate their lives to art, like Marc Baschet that have made craft films continue to flourish in Europe in France today. Fortunately, there are still investors who treat movies as works of art, not for the sake of making money but for the spiritual enjoyment of the transformation of the soul. Chinese-language films need persistence, and the return of films to an art form requires the tenacity of filmmakers. Art is not just a delicacy on the table for the powerful. In the Chinese world, the ideology of art as superfluous is deeply ingrained, and it is up to the artists themselves to change this philosophy.

The epidemic of unoriginality continues to spread all over the world. People are waking up to the  lack of artistic authenticity. The unrestrained “political correctness” that is tied up to money is destroying human civilization. Like all artistic crafts, movies must also break free from the confines of commercialism. Filmmakers must ward off the plague of betraying art and turning it into a cheap drug of base entertainment.

Although the MIFF Montgomery International Film Festival is very small, we have received support and help from many friends and institutions, as well as the local government, because MIFF has the most precious thing, that is, the enduring flame of artistry. For more information, please visit MIFF official website, www.miffus.com