The 14th BJIFF
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Tiantan Award
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Panorama
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Opening and Closing
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Forum
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Market
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Carnival
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BCSFF
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Film+
- NEWHER Female Film Section
- Art&vision certain unit
- Run for Fun
- Game-Based Animated Films Exhibition
- Film + Fashion Section
- Short Video Section
- Science & Technology Section
- ASUS e-Volunteer Social Good Video Section
- BJIFF Basketball Game
- Magic Editing Forum
- AIGC Film Shorts Section
- Yanqi Lake International Film Music Festival
- ReelFocus Program
Fernando E. Juan Lima: Linking the Two Ends of the Pacific Ocean with Films
The name of Fernando E. Juan Lima, President of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Vice President of Argentina’s National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and a well-known Argentine film critic, is conspicuous on the list of the jury members of the Tiantan Award announced recently. He will participate in the story of filmmaking between China and Argentina this April.
Fernando E. Juan Lima, a jury member of the Tiantan Award at the 13th BJIFF
When it comes to Argentina, you probably first think of Lionel Messi, who captained the Argentine national team to World Cup victory last year, Buenos Aires, where people are intoxicated in Wong Kar-wai’s films, and Ushuaia, the country’s southernmost city and known as the lonely beacon at the end of the world. Because China and Argentina lie on opposite sides of the Pacific, our knowledge of this country is often limited to fragmented and spectacle symbolic emblems in popular culture.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of China-Argentina diplomatic relations last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Argentine President Fernández jointly announced the launch of the Year of Argentina-China Friendship and Cooperation in 2022. Countless invisible bridges connect the two countries across the Pacific Ocean. The “bridge of films” is one of the bridges. Argentina was the guest of honor at the 2022 BJIFF, and this cooperation is included in the framework of the Year of Argentina-China Friendship and Cooperation in 2022. At the same time, the BJIFF invited Tristan Bauer, Argentine Minister of Culture, as a distinguished guest, and Argentine director Lucrecia Martel as a jury member of the Tiantan Award at the BJIFF in 2022.
Lucrecia Martel served as a jury member of the Tiantan Award at the 12th BJIFF
Argentina undoubtedly takes center stage in a certain sense in the Latin American cinema sector for two reasons. First, in the 1970s, the “Third Cinema”, a term coined by well-known Argentine filmmakers including Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, with its revolutionary creative concept of “opposition to colony, racial discrimination and oppression”, become a centripetal force for Latin American film creation. Second, Argentina is the host country of Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the only A-list film festival in Latin America.
A film festival exhibition serves as a showcase for outstanding films and a stage for outstanding filmmakers to receive prizes, as well as a platform for communication for the film industry and its practitioners. The latter has more prominent significance and role for the sole A-list film festival in a region, such as the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. On the annual film festival, filmmakers from Latin America and even many European countries gather in Argentine city of Mar del Plata, which pumps fresh blood into Latin American films like a heart. As the president of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Fernando E. Juan Lima brings an international vision to the jury and sows the seeds for exchange between Chinese and the Latin American film industries by serving on the jury of the Tiantan Award.
Moreover, Fernando E. Juan Lima is a film critic with extensive experience in written media, radio and television. At the same time, as the vice president of INCAA, his service as a jury member of the Tiantan Award will surely result in more frequent and closer film industry exchanges between China and Argentina.
