Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012 8:28AM / Members only

What's been going on and on? : Stuff
What stuff... well....... it's been so long since I've been on here i guess i have to bullet point it :

- new house
- new relationship (ha not so new now huh?)
- new funding for Focus On Film from the HK government
- new job teaching at CIS
- writing three new scripts

Okay, That's about it!
Oh: I"m super happy about all of it by the way. I may even write a blog entry or two now that I've remembered I'm on AnD!!!

In the meantime: why did I remember I"m on AnD? Because my friend Ross Clarkson sent me over his short script and I LOVED it. I"m helping him out putting this one on its feet.
We are looking for GOOD actors. Here is the deal- DOOOO it:

Casting for a short film. A twisted comedy based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Seeking one male and one female actor between 25-35 years old. The roles are dramatic and challenging with extensive English dialogue.

This no budget production is being shot and directed by an accredited feature film DP. You will receive a copy of the final film for your showreel. The production is aimed at international film festivals and shoots soon in Hong Kong.

Interested parties please send your CV and picture to [email protected]

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Family

Sunday, Aug 2, 2009 6:59PM / Members only

We spend so much time in Hong Kong working and promoting ourselves.

But i think it is time to talk about family.

Family? Yeah, family.

So, we are born into these units called families. Some people think we choose which families we come to. But if we are going to be scientific, and I am in a scientific mood, then there is no evidence and most likely it is all chance and we, by chance, end up in this unit, this entity called a family. We maybe don’t gel with this unit, maybe we are at odds with it, or rebel against it, or join it or collude with it. But no matter what we do, it is in response to it.

I’m at my father’s bedside in the hospital. Watching him fight and succumb by turns. Each episode leaves him with a balance in the negative or positive. These days the negative taking the upper hand, and always the possibility of tomorrow, with a little more of his fighting, ‘control freak’ spirit engaged, the possibility that he will change the tide of his ailing health. The health that he has lived in denial about for years. His smoking, his bad eating, his lack of exercise…

Does the unit change its general nature when the relation of its members to each other changes? I think not. My father has just winced, his face contracting like a baby’s, as the nurse once again puts the needle in his arm. He is exhausted, I can see it. They have just bathed him, each roll over making him cry out, panting with pain.

What can I do? Nothing but just sit here and tell him I am here. Sometimes reaching shyly for his hand, sometimes talking to him like he is a child, sometimes being told- patronizingly- that I’m not helping at all. Amazingly he has tried to get me to join forces with him against the nursing staff. It is just like that film “All That Jazz”. You know, when Roy Scheider gets open heart surgery but in the recovery room sneaks in liquor and cigarettes, throws parties and harasses the nurses?
Well, it was almost like that the day before yesterday. But now reality has set in and he is just exhausted, delirious, and cantankerous.

But it is family. And this is where I have to be.. where i am glad to be actually. And we are glad to be with each other, in spite of our glaring differences. And my dad has made it through the operation after all. Something we were not sure of. It would be strange to lose the old man. Just too strange

Family. Yeah. Family

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CANNES FILM FEST>...... getting the hang of it!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:52PM / Members only

I think i get it now.... you just have to be invited... to like, everything.

Most of the contacts are made here... in the cocktails, at the events, at the screenings...

Just a few snap shots of the China Night Party (thanks to the people at the Hong Kong Pavilion!!!) and the screen displaying Permanent Residence... a film by Scud being promoted by HKg at the festival.

For the other events... well... i couldn't carry my camera to the black tie things folks- now that would have been inappropriate!!!! But i did steal a few shots of my friend Laurent at the avant-premiere of his film 'Le Petit Nicolas' (he also directed 'Moliere'). I was very lucky that this old film school friend showed me the town in style- complete with red carpet walk to prized screening of Agora while we got (well, HE got) recognized and announced and the big after party - what did i wear?.... sorry- no photos so you will have to guess

more later!

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CANNES FILM FEST>...... Early Days report

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:17PM / Members only

How's this for a spotlight on Hong Kong?!?

Well, the first days at the Cannes Film Festival were a bit of an eye opener. It is not that easy to arrive with no PR support and promote work on your own. I know, i know... it LOOKS glam, but it is actually hard work.

We have come with seven of Focus on Film student's short works, all entered into the Cannes Short Film Corner. The feedback has been amazing- across the board... no one thinks for a second these are not actual adult film maker's work. Even in casual conversation with producers and production houses you can see the eyes open wide when i explain what it is we do with the kids... Yesterday, wonderful contacts were made with the Bournemouth Screen Academy and the Fremis (French film school). The word is getting out!
(www.focusonfilmhk.com)

Making my way across the floor i also plug my own personal work- in development the feature film Y4 Deathloop. Reactions to the teaser/trailer are amazing. Meetings planned, producers want to talk money... but it's not my schtick! So back to Hong Kong i will come and turn this all over to the REAL producers.

In the meantime, i will keep up the energy and keep getting those invites! Anybody out there know anybody in attendance at Cannes they think i should look up???? Any lead is a good lead!

Doing it: Cannes Style!

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CANNES! Film Fest and other stories

Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:39PM / Members only

May 12, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Local Non-Profit Film School Screens 7 Films at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner

Hong Kong SAR – Focus on Film, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young people through film will have 7 films screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the short film corner. All the films are produced, directed, shot, and acted in by students who have been through the Focus On Film programs. They range in age from 11 to 21. The films include:

"The Life of a Girl" (女孩的一生)
dir 導演: Grace Yau
-"Ana" (安娜)
dir 導演: Isaac Harrison/Alina Luk
-"Breaking It Or Not" (突破好麼)
dir 導演: Kirti Nandwani/Jennifer Lai
-"Sorrow" (憂傷)
dir 導演: Morgane Azevedo
-"Orange Fall" (橙,墜下來)
dir 導演: Tessa Ng
-"Orange You Glad" (橙,你很高興)
dir 導演: Aaron Michaelson/Isaac Harrison
-"Orange Invasion" (橙之侵略)
dir 導演: Lian Furness/Wingshan Smith

The first three films “The Life of a Girl”, “Ana”, and “Breaking It or Not” were part of a 6 month long program sponsored by the Women’s Foundation where the participants explored the theme of gender stereotypes. The other films were selected from various programs in the past two years including holiday camps and the Pangea Day World Wide initiative.

This will be the second time Focus on Film’s work is screened on the international stage, the first of which was Pangea Day where Focus on Film was chosen to run workshops and the resulting work was broadcast globally.

Focus on Film’s Founder and Artistic Director Elissa Rosati is currently in France and will be representing Focus on Film at Cannes in the hopes of extending bilateral programs with other film schools and non-profit organizations.

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Elissa is blogging from the front line:
Check it at
http://liscious.posterous.com/

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hi, I am now shooting a feature film in China....the schedule is now only partially available end of May...may be not fit for your schedule for Cannes...
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Film maker, Performer, General Mover and Shaker. If im not making something I'm not happy!

Elissa Rosati is a graduate with honors from New York University’s TISCH School of the Arts with a degree in film and television production. She is a graduate from New York's famed High School of the Performing Arts in dance. After years of experience as a professional performer in places such as New York, France, Italy, Germany, and Taiwan, she comes to Hong Kong where she has made a name for herself producing and directing theater and video. Her innovative productions such as “The Last Five Years” and “Oklahoma!” have been well reviewed and were commercially successful. Her recent partnership in Silk Purse/RDR Productions has already produced music video and several critically acclaimed shorts. This cutting edge production group has put the feature BoBi in development. "BoBi" a romantic gangster musical, shoots in Hong Kong and New York and is slated for principal photography in fall of 2009.

As a performer Elissa continues a career started in New York with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. Dancing and singing professionally since her teens Elissa has appeared on stages world wide and on film in Sir Richard Attenborough's "A Chorus Line". In Hong Kong alone she has taken on main roles in productions as varied as her background: Elizabeth Proctor in “The Crucible”, Little Red Riding Hood in “Into the Woods”, Sheila in “A Chorus Line”, Joanne in “Godspell”, and she has recently developed the characters Polly and Dawn for Lindsey McAlister Productions original musical: “Flesh”. Elissa contributes actively in the Cantonese Musical Production scene appearing in cameos in local productions and she donates her time to amateur theater groups as well.

Elissa has taught in conservatories world wide and continues to teach at such prestigious institutions as the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts for dance and drama and the Youth Arts Foundation where she directs and develops curriculum; perhaps most notably Shakespeare Express, which she designed to bring the Bard to local students through creative performance.

In order to bring together all of the many facets of a professional directing, performance and teaching career spanning several disciplines, Elissa recently founded FOCUS ON FILM. This non profit arts organization brings the art of film making to youth. The mission of Focus on Film is to empower youth creatively giving them the tools to express themselves through visual media and providing them with a platform to show their work.
http://www.focusonfilmhk.com

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