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  • Strong Start

    Monday, Nov 24, 2008 1:43PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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     My second entry in four months.  What can I say, I like to pace myself.  I'm happy to say though that i've come out of this momentary break with the 8th draft of a screenplay called, 'DEADMONTON' which I co-wrote with Olivia Cheng (Broken Trail, Iris Chang: the Rape of Nanking).  We've been developping it for the last two years and have Grace Park (BattleStar Galactica, The Cleaner) attached as a lead. It's not your typical prairie story, as the story tracks young asian gang violence in Edmonton seen through different layers of perspective. Not only at the urban level but from a media standpoint, and how modern media shapes social perception in small market media. This perception trancends into the social environment and propels a wider racial gap that often forces first and second generation immigrants into nefarious realities that are sometimes stranger than fiction. Edmonton is the back drop to this contemporary and relevant story based on experiences that Olivia and I both had being born and growing up in Alberta. Grace, Olivia and I will star and produce. We're currently taking meetings with production/distribution companies looking to option DEADMONTON.  This project will ultimately be bigger than the individuals involved but I look forward to the collaboration and evolution. We are working it in the Canadian market, and have potential Telefilm funding.  It will be an adventure in serendipity, bureaucracy and frustration. But at this point we're still lining up our ducks and ultimately will look to have it financed privately with distribution in place before we go to camera. So if anyone wants to come over to Canada with bags full of money and help us make a movie, let me know! peace

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  • gilgamesh
    posted on Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 4:20AM [Report]
    Sounds solid, i wish you success !!! =)
  • Flagday
    posted on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 7:58PM [Report]
    Interesting theme.  Sounds like it would have a rather large cast.  Good luck with the process.  Sorry, I misplaced my bag of money or I'd send you some.
  • leandro
    posted on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 7:02PM [Report]
    Grace Park is gorgeous! there will be bureaucracy (always there), but when is your project, you pass over, it may take years but will be held.

    Grace Park could distribute kisses for ten dollars. I pay.
    Our luck is that grace is not like ray park.
  • JaysonLi
    Official artist 
    posted on Monday, Nov 24, 2008 2:11PM [Report]
    Hope you get the Telefilm funding. "young asian gang violence in Edmonton" is definitely something new. I am way too familiar with it in Vancouver. If you don't get the funding I'm sure someone will finance it as DEADMONTON sounds really good. Good luck!
  • rottendoubt
     
    posted on Monday, Nov 24, 2008 1:59PM [Report]
    welcome back terry!  if you want, email me some info and i can forward it around.  =D

    grace park = awesome.

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