Here's part of my half-hearted attempt to keep myself promoted.
Notes:
2010 so far has been decent, as we launched a new TV show, "The Joy of Kitchen" 《乐享厨房》on Shaanxi TV 陕西卫士 6 pm Sunday nights. We'd already wrapped that show for the year when I found out that the 35 mm short film I produced won a prize!
Written and directed by Adam Christian Clark, "Goodbye Shanghai" was shot August 2009 over 3 days here in Shanghai, starring Charles Mayer and Loran Frederic, with Zhang Jing and Yuzu Chen. Great cast, great crew (especially DP Shu Chou), relatively smooth shoot other than a couple of props gaffes. Anyway, it's starting its festival run this summer and so far is in 3 of them: New Media Film Festival (LA, won best short), Beijing International Movie Festival (shown twice by popular demand) and HollyShorts Film Festival in a few days.
The synopsis:
When Jon is ordered to leave Shanghai, this hardened economic hitman has to test the trustworthiness of his new partner, Loran. The stakes are life, death and $15 million in cold cash as Loran must navigate an intricate web of deceit to find the contact who is his only way out of the Paris of the East.
Finally, I've managed to get my own Canon 5DMkII short done just a few days ago. I wrote and directed "Pigs in Zen", shooting last December with DP Jakob Montrasio. We just finished post, as the animation, made from original paintings by Wang Taocheng which we scanned and re-animated in Motion and Aftereffects, took forever to complete. It's a mix of live-action and animation, starring William Poy Lee (author of "The 8th Promise"), Aimee Butler and Charles Mayer.
The synopsis:
This is the worst day of ad executive Jim Fu's life. In the wake of swine flu, he's getting fired for failure to get people eating pork again. He's pretty sure his girlfriend is cheating on him. And her pet miniature pig smells to high heaven. But in this new generation telling of Animal Farm, Jim will get one last chance at redemption, as Pinky the Pig reveals the secret of the true relationship between animal and human.
It's just starting the festival application process, so I'll be sure to add photos and keep y'all up to date-ish.
