First Chinese language Kids’s Movie “Little Journey” Begins Manufacturing in Hollywood
Not too long ago, Candice Jiang (Chinese language identify Jiang Chen), a widely known Chinese language host and actress, has taken on a brand new position as a movie producer. Devoted to selling Chinese language tradition abroad, she participated within the funding and manufacturing of the primary Chinese language youngsters’s movie “Little Journey,” which started filming in Hollywood on June 14. Notable figures similar to Chinese language producer and supervisor You Jianming, principal of Golden Sunshine Academy Tan Ye, famend younger director Shi Tanxuan, and vice-chairman of the Los Angeles Chinese language Movie and Tv Artists Affiliation Ren Xiangdong had been invited to the standard Chinese language-themed opening ceremony. The movie “Little Journey” is ready to be launched on main platforms after completion and has already acquired invites from a number of A-list movie festivals.
Candice Jiang has not too long ago added one other layer to her identification as a famend actress and host, now additionally serving as an abroad challenge investor and producer. Using her expertise each in entrance of and behind the digicam, she based Starbridge Image and Starbridge Academy, specializing in youngsters’s theater and movie training abroad. Candice says, “Every child is like a star in the sky, unique and shining. They need the support and understanding of their parents, and at every stage of their growth, they need multiple ‘bridges’ to connect their interests and passions and realize their dreams. The initial purpose of Starbridge is to be such a bridge, accompanying children with love and dreams on their interesting journey of growth. We offer courses in public speaking, film acting, voice acting, scriptwriting, directing, shooting, and more. Film is not limited to acting; we encourage children with wild imaginations to write scripts and make films as part of their growth. For those with leadership qualities who want to express themselves through the lens, we teach them how to use the camera, storyboard, and convey their ideas visually. For children with voice talents, we help them become outstanding voices, whether in music, speech, or film. Our goal is to help children express themselves confidently. Confidence is the most important lesson in a child’s journey to adulthood.”
Candice Jiang, together with her distinctive worldwide perspective and high-quality sources at residence and overseas, has constructed a mechanism for movie coaching and supply between China and the U.S. by means of Starbridge, making a bridge to help the desires of younger individuals. Lately, based mostly in Southern California, she has been dedicated to youngsters’s theater coaching, aiming to comprehensively promote the filmization of youngsters’s theater. She has additionally been actively concerned in selling and exporting Chinese language tradition abroad, serving to “ABC” and American youngsters study Chinese language and converse Mandarin.
Candice Jiang Unlocks New Position as Movie Producer, Devoted to Selling Chinese language Tradition Abroad
As the primary professionally produced youngsters’s movie by Chinese language filmmakers in Los Angeles, “Little Journey” facilities round a restructured household within the U.S. and, by means of the story of youngsters’s interactions, makes an attempt to reinforce understanding between Chinese language and American youngsters with a light-hearted and nice visible model. Because the producer of “Little Journey,” Candice Jiang has transitioned from actress and host to movie producer. In an interview with the Los Angeles Submit, she acknowledged that the movie took six months to arrange, from script to casting and filming.
The movie is directed by Icy Li (Chinese language identify Bingliang Li), who got here to the U.S. in 2016 to review movie manufacturing at USC and UCLA. Throughout his research, Director Icy Li received the “Best New Director” and “Best Student Film” awards for “Trifles” on the GSIFF Movie Competition in Los Angeles and the Las Vegas Movie Competition. His works showcase the traits of Chinese language and American cultures, reflecting his distinctive insights from his life within the U.S. and Chinese language cultural background. “Little Journey” tells the story of a single white father and a single Chinese language mom forming a brand new household and the way their two youngsters transfer from battle to understanding. The manufacturing group consists of graduates from USC’s movie faculty, and the kid actors had been chosen from over 30 auditionees. Candice Jiang hopes that youngsters who love performing will develop properly of their skilled fields and obtain nice success.
Starbridge Image and Starbridge Academy Promote Movie Schooling for Kids and Youth Abroad
With the expansion of the Chinese language and worldwide pupil filmmaker neighborhood within the U.S., movie creation subjects have develop into more and more numerous. Younger filmmakers are regularly forming their very own distinctive types, and movies that includes Chinese language youngsters might require extra consideration from younger filmmakers and the Chinese language neighborhood. Each on and off-screen, Candice Jiang’s ardour and dedication to youngsters’s movies are evident. From youngsters’s movie coaching to movie manufacturing, she has been constructing a high-quality movie ecosystem for Chinese language individuals in Southern California, taking part in a task in cultural output and promotion.
Starbridge Academy is presently devoted to movie training and coaching for kids and youth, actively selling cultural trade between China and the U.S., spreading Chinese language tradition, and introducing extra Hollywood stars and initiatives to China. Not too long ago, she hosted the CCTV-6 movie channel’s “World Film Tour,” inviting Hollywood filmmakers to assist Chinese language audiences higher perceive world cinema. In sports activities, Candice Jiang signed NBA star Tyrese Haliburton for enterprise illustration in China, increasing her enterprise scope. She additionally assisted Hunan TV in inviting Western artists for the favored present “Singer 2024,” facilitating efficiency collaborations between Submit Malone, JVKE, and Chinese language artists, selling cultural trade between the 2 nations. In training, Starbridge Academy collaborates with Stanford youngster psychologist Dr. Cody Abbey, Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore’s performing coach Peter Frisch, and educators from main movie faculties to supply programs in movie performing, voice performing, scriptwriting, vocal music, musical theater, and extra. They intention to domesticate artistic “little filmmakers” with skilled abilities. Starbridge Academy encourages youngsters and youth to create scripts, direct, act, and movie their works, providing an annual $100,000 scholarship to help their progress and development. In addition they facilitate expertise exchanges between home and abroad establishments and are set to kind a strategic partnership with the New York Movie Academy, offering high expertise to main corporations like Hunan TV, Mango TV, iQIYI, Jiaxing Media, Big Photos, Caviar Leisure, and director Yang Wenjun’s studio. In addition they hyperlink with the United Nations to let extra Chinese language youngsters and youth voice their opinions at UN conferences.
With the enlargement of abroad artist company providers, Starbridge Image’s abroad enterprise contains world enterprise illustration for Hollywood stars and NBA gamers, in addition to supporting Chinese language artists going overseas. They’ve strategic partnerships with famend Hollywood producer Frederic Golchan (identified for movies like “Kimberly Chaos Theory” and “Twelve”) and Star Trek director Keith Tsuji, leveraging intensive home and worldwide movie and enterprise sources to supply complete help for artist growth.
