BEIJING STORIES...
is a film which probes
the heart of an emerging nation as an entire diaspora of people
looks east and the world turns towards a rising CHINA.
BEIJING STORIES is a voyage of six distinct narratives that explore the
ancient, the contemporary and the avant-garde—

• A train ticket intertwines the fate of a rural girl and an urban cop,
whose game of hide-and-seek ventures into the underground world
of a Beijing railway station.
• A martial-arts fantasy propels a teenage girl through a coming-of-
age adventure into a dazzling ancient legend.
• A family reunion opens a generational wound when two Beijing
brothers realize their American dream is lost forever.
• A psychological journey follows a lonely young woman who
searches for her lover while trying to find herself.
• An afternoon shopping trip triggers a chance encounter between
two women whose connections actually run much deeper than they
realize.
• A broken toilet unnerves a rocker couple whose intense, playful love
quickly turns into such bitter hatred that it
takes the plumber to keep them from each other’s throats.


This is the more immediate project, but another one I am working on simultaneously is to be shot in the NJ/NY area.

All Those Roadkill Funerals
When a solemn hermit and a vulnerable gangster fall in love, their lives are forever changed.

My friend Eun-ah Lee  is prepping to go to Cannes this year with a short film she DP'd: This is the Story of Ted and Alice. Hou Hsiao Hsien is apparently the main juror for shorts this year. We've been meaning to set up a page for her here, so hopefully we will have one set up by the time she comes back!


Also, I am posting my sister Sandra's reel of work she's done at USC animation. She hasn't blogged much yet, but if you haven't gone to her page, check her out at Sandra Cheng, or sandramouse.
The first segment of the reel is meant to be seen with those red and blue 3-D glasses. Unfortunately, the quality of the picture is greatly reduced here. It's a little abstract, but it's an interesting subject - about Wilhelmina Fleming.
I copied and pasted some info about her here:

She worked as a maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering. Pickering became frustrated with his male assistants at the Harvard College Observatory and famously declared his maid could do a better job.

So in 1881, Pickering hired Fleming to do clerical work at the observatory. While there, she devised and helped implement a system of assigning stars a letter according to how much hydrogen could be observed in their spectra. Stars classified as A had the most hydrogen, B the next most, and so on.

Sandra's animation reel:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=sandra+cheng+reel&sitesearch=

Any suggestions on the reel, please let us know! Thanks.

BTW, thanks to the girls on NY side who put out the invite for the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and sorry I couldn't go, and hope y'all had a good time! Any blogs about it?