Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 11:42AM /
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Here's a short clip from something Jane Campion (The Piano) said at Cannes this past year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFkcIY9CGg
It's incredible.
INCREDIBLE that there are so few female filmmakers. That one of the most powerful machines in human representation and communication is so rarely accessed by women. Just doesn't make sense.
If Nora Ephron could write a great film like When Harry Met Sally, and if it was great partially because of her female sensitivity to relationships - why is that an oddity? In the 21st century?
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Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007 12:38PM /
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Sometimes I cannot believe I have a nephew. It amazes me. Kyle is going to be very smart and very tall. And very bi-lingual... I think. Because his mom was raised in China and his dad was raised here in the States.
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Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007 11:42AM /
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Our second year in grad school, my friend Kim was doing her film and trying to find Vietnamese actresses. The actress who was in Indochine (Linh Dan Pham) was slated to be in her project and she dropped out at the last minute. I was AC-ing (assistant camera) and Kim just asked me to act in it. So I had to learn Vietnamese on the spot. Kind of funny. Also did some ADR.Here's the clip (I put it up before but that was before I started the blog).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVOVI7pLpwk
This was about an old man who hears his deceased wife through the radio, then eventually ends up joining her in death and radio-singing. The kids hear the voice, too, but my character doesn't hear anything so she thinks everyone is on crack. This film won a "women's" post production grant from Jim Jarmusch's wife (Sarah Driver, who was once his producer).
"The tree that grows slowly bears the best fruit." - A fortune cookie from my past which I surely hope is true.
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Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 4:23AM /
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Sometimes when I look at my last short film, I think, why didn't anyone tell me I was insane? Girls doing hapkido like ballroom dance in toile skirts? The funny thing is that that was the part of the film that worked. (It was sort of a cartoonish comedy). The part that didn't work was when I tried to capture an ordinary reality. So I stopped trying to have too much fun with it and started paying attention to life as is, around me. (Most filmmakers are all about paying attention to reality, but me, I had to work on that. I usually live inside my head. I was more the type who wanted to see something on screen that I could not see in real life.)
So the film I'm editing is just realism, and a slow-paced one. But soon enough I would like to go back to the weird lalaland b/c I think that's really me. Don't know if you can tell from the pix, but part of me wanted to hearken back to the splashy theatrical magic of old musicals like Stanley Donen's Singing in the Rain. I know there's someone else out there who has that same nostalgia.
Some of the people in the pix: Tim Kang, our lead (you can imdb him - he was doing commercials last I spoke to him).Jiae - a model in NYC - (last I saw her in an ad in the Village Voice)Rain Noe - everyone seems to know Rain. He and Logan Lo have decided to do their own show called 72nd and Canal (online).
It's definitely very low budget and indie. But funny! You should check it out. Those guys have really funny, no bullshit personalities, and you still don't really see that enough on Asian characters in the states.
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Monday, Jun 11, 2007 7:52AM /
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One of our classmates just sent this clip from his thesis film to us. I think it looks great. It's amazing what people can do within the space of a few years if they are dedicated and stick to their sensibilities! Kinda reminds me of Stand By Me/Rushmore. Definitely inspiring me to go try comedy for the next scrīpt.
http://www.robmeyerfilms.com/aquarium/Movie.html
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