和世界一起拍電影

How many times you pop an idea of making a film by yourself but give up at last？How many times you enjoy films but you think you can do better？Then，how many times you are disappointed with those so called “dapian”？

Quick Flick World (QFW)，an organization in nine countries，is coming to China and tries to make every film-fan involved in this interesting industry: make a short film with the people all over the world，and let your film broadcast in the other side of the earth.

What is QFW？

QFW is an organization which gives common people a platform to be a short film’s director. Calling itself a “monthly digital video festival”，it is now swapping all over the world.

“We give a topic to our fans in the world，”said Tung Bi，one of the QFW China，“and there comes the most interesting part of this activity: you shot a same-themed film on your own with people all around the world.”

“Every month brings something new and unexpected—this festival is very fluid beast and is constantly evolving to carve out a niche in a brave new media world，”said Saint，the founder of QFW，“the best part about the festival are the people making it happen in each city. I found them，and sometimes they found me，but they are all‘shanti’and very cool people to develop this cultural phenomenon with.”

You don’t need a professional film camera，or you don’t even need a DV: a shotting mobile phone is your weapon. In the first few days members of QFW will discuss together and settle down one topic. Any idea related to this topic，wide or narrow，can be made into a short film from 15 seconds to five minutes.

Later，“In a party atmosphere，friends，young directors，DJ’s and creative-types connect to screen and share their latest creations relating to global theme they’ve collectively choosen，”said QFW. In the show time，you can watch all the excellent films from different parts of the world. Just imagine your shot film broadcasting in the other side of the world. Wow. You are Steven Spielberg. (Only if your quick flick is as good as others.)

Saint is the founder of QFW. He told Beijing Today that QFW was born in New York City in April 2001. He and some friends got together and encouraged each other to make short films every month. He was living in Brazil between 2002 to 2004 and introduced the idea to some friends in production there. “The most interesting thing for me was always seeing how Brazilian and American film-makers would see the same subject differently and be inspired by their own cultural foundations，”he said，“I decided to grow that idea to a global scale.”

QFW in China

QFW has reached ten cities，including New York， London， Berlin， Mexico City，Barcelona，Sao Paulo，Buenos Aires，Beijing，and Tokyo. It came into China in July this year，with the world’s welcoming theme “Made in China”. As its nineth destination，China brought the QFW a typical Chinese look and spirit，letting more and more people know the deep culture and individual’s idea of Chinese people.

“People in other countries have a fixed view in China. They think China is a countryside，not so advanced place，just like the film Xiao Wu， or Raise the Red Lantern. However，the case is not like this，”said Tung Bi，“those kind film want be to be outstanding in those international film awards，and the world has a fixed model of Chinese movies. The very important thing is，QFW shows the world another China，modern，advanced，and open-minded.”

What is QFW spirit？

Tung Bi emphysied “the spirit of QFW”many times during the interview. However，it is really hard to name the spirit of QFW in a few words.

“I wish QFW can influence this industry in its own small way，”Saint said to Beijing Today，“QFW can offer two things: first，a unique，global and optimistic platform started By filmmakers FOR filmmakers to encourage artists to develop their craft; second，an insight into other cultures around the world that shows exposes our differences as being shallow and unimportant. We are all human and if we can entertain each other，then that might bring us a bit closer together.”

Maybe QFW website’s quote is the best description of it: “Pluralism of expression，ideas flowing，a symphony，resonance，the world，themes，life，thoughts，creativity，synapses，looks，ideas，techniques，passion; all giving shape to a movement aimed to spread to a dozen of the world’s creative capitals.”

How to take part in

QFW says that no matter you are skillful or not，if you have a camera you can make short films with the people around the world.

1.Ask the QFW the topic on 18 or 19 every month. If you want to be a constant film maker，you can give your email address to the organizor，they will send you the topics every month regularly.

2.You have three weeks to make your QF，totally freeform audiovisual work from 0.15 to 4 minutes，which you then submit in the Masterclass，on data-CD，.mov or .avi. Setting: DV/DVC Pro and 48000Khz.

3.Submit your film to your country’s QFW part on Masterclass about 10 or 11 every month.

4.Once your QF has been submitted and screened，its uploaded to beam.tv to be voted？for by all the curators and producers from all the QFW cities. If selected，they include you in the following month’s Showcase，which is screened in all the QF cities.

5.Go to the QFW festival on 17 or 18 every month. The festival will show 17 to 22 excellent quick flicks of the previous month and all of your country’s this-month films.

6.Ask the QFW the next month’s topic.

For example，you are asking December’s topic on November 18 or 19. On December 10，you submit your own film. You go to QFW festival on December 17 or 18 to enjoy October’s short films all over the world and November’s Chinese short flicks. If you want to know whether your click is good enough and ranks high in the world’s eyes，you’ll know on the show of January 17 or 18 next year.

編輯/希卡魯