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CANNES FILM FEST>...... Early Days report
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:17PM / News / CANNES FILM FESTIVAL / Members only
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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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enigma306
posted on Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:28AM [Report]

Glad you're getting such great feedback
Kate Sullivan
posted on Friday, May 22, 2009 10:44AM [Report]

Congrats darling.Your hard work is paying off! xx
Junichi Kajioka
posted on Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:25PM [Report]

Wow, great pics. I've just come back from HK! I was supposed to be there, but I will miss it this year. Hope your film goes well in Cannes. :-)
Darren E. Scott
posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:34PM [Report]

Glad Y4 is kicking some ass =)

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Elissa Rosati

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Film maker, Performer, General Mover and Shaker. If im not making something I'm not happy!...
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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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