Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 129 Short Film Festival

When leaving, Zhang Leping told Zhang Yuanjun: "There will be a short film festival here in a few days. The first one will be very popular. I heard that many Hollywood producers and bosses will participate. You can go and see it. I don't have time to show you around these few days."

"I'm not very interested in this short film festival, but I really want to see the film major of your school."

UCLA's film program is world-renowned.

Zhang Leping smiled and said: "Then you have to wait for a few days, I will show you around our school after I finish my work."

In the next few days, Zhang Yuanjun took his assistant to enjoy the scenery of Los Angeles.

Beaches, parties, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Universal Studios.

He even drove to Disneyland in Anaheim and played around, fulfilling Xiao Zhao's Disney princess dream.

On the way back from Disney, Xiao Zhao said: "I told Yifei that we are in Los Angeles."

"Yeah." Zhang Yuanjun concentrated on driving, "Isn't she in New York?"

Liu Yifei currently lives in New York.

"Yes, she knew we were on vacation and told us to have fun."

"How is she in New York?"

"I didn't elaborate, it should be fine. Would you like to call and ask?"

"Forget it, there's nothing to say."

But Xiao Zhao still used his mobile phone to dial Liu Yifei's number and turned on the speaker.

"Hello?" Liu Yifei's voice came, "Didn't you go to Disney, how come you have time to call me."

Xiao Zhao said, "We are on our way back to Los Angeles, and Yuan Jun is driving."

Zhang Yuanjun said, "How are you doing in New York?"

"That's it." In fact, Liu Yifei is quite boring in New York, "eating, drinking and having fun every day." But she can't let Zhang Yuanjun know that she is bored.

"If you're bored in New York, come to Los Angeles," Xiao Zhao offered to invite, "The Hollywood Short Film Festival opens tomorrow, and we're going to see it."

"It's too far away." It took 6 hours to fly from New York to Los Angeles, so she didn't want to run there.

But Xiao Zhao fully grasped the pulse of Liu Yifei and Zhang Yuanjun: "You come, just play with me. I don't know the place and language in Los Angeles. When you come, you can sleep with me in the same room."

Sure enough, Liu Yifei went downhill: "Okay, I'll buy a plane ticket tomorrow and come over to see what the film festival has."

"I don't know, but the decoration outside is very grand. According to the flyer, it says that more than 100 short films from all over the world are participating, and there are many famous star producers. It's very lively. I haven't participated in a film festival yet."

Zhang Yuanjun didn't speak.

Liu Yifei over there said: "There are so many people, so I have to take a look. I haven't participated in a film festival either."

The two girls chatted a lot over the phone, but Zhang Yuanjun still concentrated on driving.

At 03:30 the next day, Zhang Yuanjun met Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei at the afternoon tea cafe.

Liu Xiaoli would definitely not let Liu Yifei fly six hours alone to Los Angeles to attend some film festival.

But she couldn't stand her daughter's repeated begging, saying that she was bored to death in New York alone and had few friends, so it happened that Xiao Zhao invited her to play with her at the film festival and wanted to see it.

After the Song Zude incident, Liu Xiaoli paid more attention to her daughter's mental health and loved her more. Generally, she would agree to whatever Liu Yifei wanted.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when the mother and daughter arrived in Los Angeles, and Zhang Yuanjun drove to the airport to pick them up.

In the car, Zhang Yuanjun took the initiative to explain that he was worried that Mama Liu would misunderstand him for kidnapping her daughter: "I'm coming to America to see my brother, and I'll play for a few days by the way."

Liu Xiaoli really didn't think much about it. She knew that Zhang Yuanjun's family was in a good condition, and she wasn't so narcissistic that she thought that Zhang Yuanjun came to the United States for Liu Yifei, so she said politely, "Please come and pick me up."

"It's okay, I don't know anyone here. My brother is busy these days, and Xiao Zhao and I are also bored. Yifei can come because it happens to be a companion."

A few people talked and laughed and came to the hotel where they were staying. After the mother and daughter settled down, they went to drink afternoon tea.

The four of them then drove to the film festival venue again.

Short films have always been a very popular film category. Most of the graduation assignments of students from major film schools around the world are short films. Many new directors also choose to use short films to build their reputation.

Major film festivals around the world also have competition or screening units for short films.

Every year, the Academy of Film supports the short films of students and teachers to participate in exhibitions around the world.

But because theaters usually show feature films, most audiences actually don't know much about short films.

This kind of event in foreign countries is also similar to temple fairs. There are not only movies, but also delicious food, drinks and fun.

Ms. Liu also went to the film festival with her daughter on the first day, but she didn't want to go on the second day.

She didn't seem to have much interest in movies, so she just joined in the fun.

On the contrary, I lingered on the various shopping promotions at the film festival and bought a lot of things in Hollywood.

Zhang, Liu, and Zhao went to the film festival, eating, drinking, and having fun.

On this day, Zhang Leping finally finished his work and came to take his younger brother to visit his school.

Liu Yifei also met Zhang Yuanjun's elder brother for the first time.

The three brothers and sisters of the Zhang family are really taller than each other. Zhang Yuanjun is 185, and Zhang Leping is 2 centimeters taller than Zhang Yuanjun.

But Zhang Leping's appearance is not as good-looking as the second and third children. The second and third children are all celebrities.

"This is my brother." Zhang Yuanjun introduced, "This is my classmate, Liu Yifei."

Both greeted each other graciously.

Zhang Leping looked at Liu Yifei, and his heart became active.

Of course Zhang Yuanying also told him about Liu Yifei.

What Zhang Leping thought at this time was: "It's really beautiful, my parents must like it."

Zhang Leping said: "Today is a good time. Our school has a film festival forum. I heard that there are big-name stars coming. I will take you to see it."

As they walked, they listened to Zhang Leping introduce UCLA, what is here and what is there.

"Now is not the busiest time for the school. If you come in March, it will be called lively. In March Crazy, we will fight hard with USC, and it will be very fun."

The two universities of Los Angeles, California and USC are "world feuds". Every year in the March Madness football game, the two universities will challenge each other and attack each other, which is very fun.

Zhang Leping then introduced the origin of the two universities and the source of their hatred.

"It's much better now, no more splashing of paint and setting fires." Zhang Leping laughed.

"Just like our Film Academy and Drama Academy?" Liu Yifei laughed.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Our relationship with the Academy of Drama is at most a competitive relationship, not a feud. We are the first film academy in new China, the cradle of Chinese film, what are they?" Regardless, Zhang Yuanjun will not recognize the Academy of Drama because he defends the honor of his alma mater.

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "If you have the ability, you can go to the Drama Academy to say this, and see if you get beaten."

Zhang Leping interjected: "Although I don't know much about movies, I've also heard that your film school produces directors, and after your directors have a script, they go to the drama school to choose actors."

Zhang Leping blocked Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei with one sentence.

Nothing to say, because it's true.

The director major of the Film Academy can be said to be the number one in Asia, and it must be ranked among the top five in the world.

But the performance major is indeed much worse than the drama school.

The school director's preference to use actors from the School of Drama has also caused dissatisfaction with the acting department all year round.

Wang Jinsong complained when he was in class: "Our students and what we teach are not bad, why don't they like to use their own students."

"Here we are." Several people came to a teaching building, where the film forum was held in the lecture hall.

(End of this chapter)