The Macau International Comedy Festival officially announced that the "Comedy Festival" will be held from March 11 to 18, gathering in Macau in March

On the afternoon of February 5, 2024, the first Macao International Comedy Festival held a theme press conference on "first smile as respect" at the Macao Cultural Center. Liang Huimin, Director of the Bureau of Culture of the Macao Special Administrative region Government, announced that the first Macao International Comedy Festival will be held in Macao from March 11 to March 18 this year.

The scene of the press conference was arranged in a unique way, with devices such as golden sentences and blind box walls of jokes, deeply integrating comedy elements with humor genes, showing the organizers' determination to amuse the guests and spread happiness, and the enthusiastic interaction of the media at the scene. The atmosphere of the meeting was warm and full of relaxed laughter. The Macau International Comedy Festival presents a grand and ebullient "happy gathering" for comedy practitioners and enthusiasts all over the world while celebrating the 25 anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland.

The three plates are immersed in creating a happy hometown, and many excellent works convey the power of happiness.

As the first Macau International Comedy Festival, this exhibition has three major sections-love to hear, enjoy, and talk with a smile. The first big section "Love to hear and see" contains wonderful guest repertoire and film screenings. The repertoire chooses both avant-garde and mass entertainment, including the award-winning song and dance comedy "A Comedy of Operas" (Comedy Voice) from Spain, and "A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football" (Dance Yue Football), which combines elegance and power with a sense of power. There is also Happy Mahua's Cantonese version of the immersive interactive drama "Crazy Barber Shop", which is exclusively customized for the Macao International Comedy Festival, with a cast made up entirely of Macao's local actors, ensuring that this "Australian comedy" is authentic and cordial. What's more, "Happy Liaozhai Sansheng plus", which is based on the Chinese classical literary masterpiece "Strange Tales of Liaozhai", reinterprets the classics with magical realism, injecting a large number of pungent jokes that fit the pain points of contemporary workers, making the audience laugh all over the audience.

In the film screening process, three excellent films, "Dining Drama", "the doer" and "staggered Luxembourg" are selected for screening, taking into account the ironic love between men and women, and humorous satire on social phenomena, as well as comedy segments integrated into the details of life, enriching the sources of joy and comedy dimensions, so that the audience can think and gain after laughing. More outstanding award-winning films will be released to the audience in March.

The second largest section is a gratifying reward, and the Comedy Festival will create a comedian award ceremony that has never been seen before. this is a crazy annual meeting for comedians. During this year, comedians were heartbroken to make everyone laugh. This party, we will see the most reversal awards, the most hilarious comedy performance, let the comedian's humor light up the night sky of Macao! This is also an award party to affirm the performance of comedians in the field of art. during the award session, we will set up the most creative and humorous comedy awards, which will be presented by senior comedians to young comedians. thank and affirm their outstanding contributions to the comedy industry, and encourage them to go on more firmly.

The third section is about laughter, which covers industry forums, film master classes and cross-border communication about comedy psychology. The festival will invite directors, screenwriters, actors and experts from various professional fields in the field of comedy creation to exchange and discuss with you, face up to the current situation and difficulties of comedy creation, and help comedy newcomers to break the situation. to precipitate more new forces for the comedy industry. Cross-border communication studies and analyzes the positive psychological therapy behind laughter from a psychological point of view, which provides a solid scientific basis for comedy creators to better understand the audience and create works that are more suitable for the public and loved by the public. At the same time, this comedy festival also announced that it will launch the venture capital section next year to provide more powerful help for comedy creation. In order to realize the concept of one session and two places, the forum section of this comedy festival will be held in Hengqin.

In addition, on the occasion of the Spring Festival, the Comedy Festival is also invited to participate in Macau's most iconic festival event-New year float Show, a 29-member performing group composed of dancers, choreographers and directors, modeled on Disco Night of the happy mahua original musical "Dongguan East", to show you a performance with both charm and comedy atmosphere, which will be full of "red" luck and auspicious joy. In addition, the theme light box of this year's Macau International Comedy Festival has also landed on the bank of Yavin Lake in the South Bay of Macao, attracting many tourists to stop and clock in.

Many comedians at home and abroad gathered in Macao to cast a comedy spring event.

As a unique and comedy-focused event, the participants had high hopes for the future of the Macao International Comedy Festival. Liang Huimin, director of the Macao Bureau of Culture, said in a speech, "for Macao, the theme innovative comedy festival is held in this Macao. Presents a large-scale comprehensive carnival-style festival with comedy as the core and integrates performance, amusement and commercial consumption, which enriches the performance elements of Macao. The development of cultural and tourism integration projects and the linkage of exchanges and cooperation between Macao and the mainland play a positive role in promoting. In the future, the Culture Bureau will also establish more iconic performance brands, strengthen the cultural and artistic connotation of the 'capital of performing arts', enrich the cultural and tourism resources of Macao, and create a diversified, distinctive and dynamic cultural Macao. " Zhang Chen, chairman of Happy Mahua, recalled his childhood experience and recalled that the happiest days of his childhood were when he gathered with his family to tell jokes and share jokes during the Spring Festival. I have been hoping to share a festival with a group of people who "shake" baggage, "love to shake" baggage, and "understand" baggage, and this happy wish spanning three decades is about to be realized in Macao. He Miao, president of Barley Culture, also sent a message to the first Macao International Comedy Festival. Macao, as a "place to travel from south to north", has attracted countless tourists from home and abroad, and the atmosphere of the comedy festival is undoubtedly a grand event that better matches the customs of Macao. It is reported that in order to help the Macao International Comedy Festival, many comedians at home and abroad will collectively go to Macao in March to perform repertoire and serve as festival guests. At that time, Macao will become the happiest city in the world and a place to warm people's hearts and cure weary treasure.

In the future, the Macao International Comedy Festival will continue to enrich the content and form dimensions of the Comedy Festival, and create a comedy feast backed by the Great Bay area, based on China and radiating the world in a more popular and cutting-edge pioneering way. use comedy, an art form accepted and loved by the whole people, to spread Chinese humor to the world. At the same time, the Macao government has also reached a long-term cooperation mechanism with Happy Mahua to establish an industrial model for long-term resident performances, to land comedies in Macao, and to promote the training and growth of a team of local young actors and creators. while providing full employment opportunities for the local, develop and strengthen the ranks of comedians and inject a fresh vitality into the comedy cause. It also makes a modest contribution to the realization of the real industrial landing and the promotion of the international competitiveness of Macao's cultural industry.

The first Macau International Comedy Festival is jointly organized by Beijing Happy Mahua Entertainment Culture Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Barley Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and officially co-organized by the Cultural Bureau of the Government of the Macao Special Administrative region. Official support from the Ministry of publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central people's Government in the Macao Special Administrative region, the Macau Government tourist Office, the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Bureau, and the Economic Development Bureau of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone Jointly organized by Sands China Co., Ltd., MGM China Holdings Co., Ltd., Galaxy Entertainment Group and Hengqin Shenhe Investment Co., Ltd. Nanguang Culture and Creative Industry Co., Ltd., School of Humanities and Arts of Macao University of Science and Technology, Macao Federation of Cultural circles, Chess Entertainment production (Macau) Co., Ltd., Macao Volunteer Association, it will be held in Macao from March 11 to March 18, 2024 to celebrate the 25 anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland. And bring an international, innovative, entertaining and spectacular comedy feast for tourists and audiences all over the world.