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MADRID INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 MADRID & MADRID ASIA 2018 EDITION

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WELCOME TO MADRID & MADRID-ASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Dear Filmmaker, Congratulations on your nomination, we hope you have a wonderful time with us in Madrid and we look forward to meeting all of you!

Our events are always held in one location and over the past 14 years that I have been developing the Festivals, have found that this format works very well, having all the filmmakers and professionals mixing together makes for an ideal fun and professional environment.

For the filmmaker, this helps them engage at all of our Festivals which then allows them to make new contacts and the possibility to do business with each other in the future.

Our Festivals open with a meet and greet, which is an informal gathering and for filmmakers this is a great chance to mix and socialise with other filmmakers and scriptwriters from all over the world. Of course we are open to the public but this is not our only consideration, we are keen that this is the start of a journey for you.

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We have with us the support of industry professionals, Brad Blain, Neil McEwan & Ray Davies who are readily available with advice on your project and can help with any questions you may have. We also are delighted to announce that Meghan Speake will also be joining us. Meghan runs her own distribution company and again, will be more that happy to advise you on any aspect of your film or script.

Finally we have Bobby Eastly available during the festival week. Bobby works closely with Edwin E. Brochin and Bobby will be holding a distribution Q&A to offer help finding markets for attending filmmakers.

Our screenings programme will be back to back and we have multiple screening rooms to showcase the incredible amount of talent that has been nominated at this year’s Madrid Festival. During the week we will also be holding networking nights, professional panels, Q&A’s and parties (please check the daily screening display for times & dates) to fully connect as much as possible. I would also like to remind you that during the week we offer you the opportunity of a filmed interviewed – as we do at all of our Festivals! All of the interviews are then posted on YouTube and you are more than welcome to use these on your social media to promote your latest movie or script – and you can find a number of previous interviews by visiting our website.

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THE USUKE BOYS To celebrate this beautifully made movie, Film The Magazine were privileged to interview the director and key cast members behind this incredible work of art.

Yuji Kakizaki – Director Interview FTM: First, I want to say congratulations on such a great film. The style, the music the scenery the dialogue and the message all worked so well. The film is about the process of wine making and making the ideal wine. Can you compare this to the process of filmmaking?

YK: When making wine, first you select the plot of land in the beginning. In film terms, it is the same as searching for an original work or story. Then, you decide what grapes to grow. That’s the same as deciding what kind of actors to cast. As for distillation with the harvested grapes, it is the same as the editing and directing process. Finally, the finished wine or film is just like a single “work”.

FTM: What fascinated you about Japanese wine and the Usuke Boys?

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YK: In Japan, the soil where wine is grown is different to that of Europe, American and South America. In Japan the humidity is heavy, it rains a lot in summer, and the soil is said to be very hard to cultivate wine grapes. Some ten years ago, the megatrend in Japanese wine was importing fruit juice from overseas, adding water and fermenting this into wine. For the most part, Japanese wine lovers drank imported wine. But then, a man Usuke Asai burst on the scene saying that the land that every one thought was not suited for grape cultivation might not be the case.

The performance of soil is known as terrior.

Asai’s belief was that “terrior” is defined by not only the land but by the people who cultivate it. Clinging to these words and believing these words, a young group of Japanese is making today’s wines. Of course, while the environment in Japan is much more harsh compared to places like France, Italy and Spain, with passion and sincerity, they were able to create wonderful wine that is not embarrassing on a world stage.

FTM: You used familiar actors that you have used before in this film. How did you go about casting the other characters especially the character of Okamura?

YK: Dai Watanabe, who plays the role of Okamura, is the son of Ken Watanabe. Actually, over thirty years ago, I co-starred with him and have respected him as an actor since then.

When I met his son Dai, I sensed he was a wonderful actor in the power in his eyes and his overall presence, which was not outdone by his father.

I was convinced that if it was him, he could play this role well and make it his own so I asked him to appear as the lead.

FTM: When shooting this film, what scene sticks out most in your mind?

YK: In the film, since we filmed in actual fields and actual buildings and in the real wine environment, every scene leaves a deep impression. If I have to select a theme, what was most memorable for me was being able to incorporate the ideology of wind, forest, fire and mountains, which existed 450 years ago in Japan into the scenes.

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FTM: As a director, what is the thing you most wanted to tell the audience of this film and why did you think about making this story into a movie?

YK: While I am Japanese and this is a work is a Japanese film, when I was making the film with people from around the world I felt that we people of the world are not divided by race or nationality, as wine is something that is produced and drunk around the world. As for the merits of the film, there are many. The culture of wine in Europe, which attained greatness, was adopted in Japan and enjoying wine is the same as enjoying Western culture. On the contrary, in Japan a breed of grapes called Koshu exist and these Koshu existed some 1000 years ago in Japan. Using their special skills, now, Japan is successful at producing wine even though it was said to be almost impossible.

Japanese people have certain greatness in their techniques and passion as well. This is our identity and proof that we have become a part of Western culture. Instead of quarreling that our culture is different, I feel it is better to say that we are one culture that have shared and interchanged or it is most important that we appreciate each other. To European audiences, wine may not equal Japan in their minds. And that is the biggest reason for making this film. I hope that you all will enjoy Japanese wine.

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Dai Watanabe - Lead Actor Interview FTM: When you saw the script, did it excite you to be part of such a beautiful story?

DW: About 14 years ago when I reached the age where I was able to enjoy drinking, there was little opportunity to drink Japanese made wine and restaurants and bars hardly carried it either. That awareness had not changed since being involved in this film. I never thought there were people creating wine in Japan on a worldwide level.

But after reading the script, my conceptions were flipped upside down. I thought what a waste if this wonderful story is not told and wanted to get shooting.

FTM: Your character was great and showed true dedication in educating himself and understanding the process of making wine. Can you relate this to film and being a better actor?

DW: Before shooting, I spent time in the fields with the character that Okamura is based on. I studied how he dealt with nature, the fields, the grapes and wine.

He was a very silent person and did not say much. I felt and learned to appreciate the strength in his stillness, as he stood silent in the fields. In order to put what I felt in the fields into this film, I think he totally influenced me. I also learned a great deal about lots of wine from director Kakizaki who made this film. I was able to drink and gain knowledge. Instead of being a good actor in this film, I become a good brewer. (laughing)

FTM: Did you find yourself more intrigued about the wine making process as the filming went on?

DW: Since participating in this film, I was able to fully learn the depth of wine. At the same time, I fully realized the pain in making wine. Maybe just drinking wine suits my personality better (laughing).

But if the opportunity arises, my hope is to make wine and drink it myself.

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FTM: At the start of the film everyone is in a wine club. Have you ever been part of any clubs yourself?

DW: Until the filming, I had not been a big drinker. But thanks to the film, my co-stars in THE USUKE BOYS have frequently enjoyed drinking wine together. Also, now, the overall degree of recognition for Japanese wine has risen but it is still not there. When I drink with other people, I recommend Japanese wine and hope to contribute a bit to the spread of its popularity. I’d like to establish a wine club and be the presenter to help the spread of Japanese wine.

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Masayuki Deai – Actor Interview FTM: When you saw the script, did it excite you to be part of such a beautiful story?

MD: I wanted to be a part of this film and studied to do so. When I got the offer from director Kakizaki and received the script, I was engulfed by an indescribable desire. At the same time, this was the first time to be in a film with wine as the theme. The pressure germinated inside me to play the actual people who have built up Japanese wine culture and are active today.

FTM: You always bring great emotion to the roles you play, how did you prepare for this one?

MD: I asked director Kakizaki about what I didn’t understand. The director made it possible for me to meet the person that my role was based on. I was able to see that person at work tending his fields and making wine in his distillery. I talked to him for a long time. What he said and thought influenced me in playing the role. I told the director how I wanted to play the role and played it.

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FTM: Did you ever have days on set where you felt that you had drunk too much or were you always in control?

MD: Basically, I’m not the type of person who can drink enough to lose self-control.

Actually, I was never able to drink much.

But when I heard from director Kakizaki before that he might depict a film about wine, I started drinking wine to prepare.

And now, I enjoy drinking wine alone in my home.

FTM: At the start of the film everyone is in a wine club. Have you ever been part of any clubs yourself?

MD: I have never been a member. During filming and after filming, the director created the chance for us to enjoy wine.

Among the actors, the chance to enjoy wine together has increased too. Each day after filming, I’d return to the hotel, buy some wine and drink it with everyone.

Since wrapping the picture and returning to Tokyo, I have gathered at my house and the homes of fellow actors bringing wine and drinking together. Wine connects people and actors together and in that sense this is a wonderful film.

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Yuka Takeshima – Actress Interview FTM: When you saw the script, did it excite you to be part of such a beautiful story?

YT: Yes, I was very excited. Before appearing in this film, I did not know much about Japanese wine. My image of Japanese wine was that it was drunk by only a handful of people who were very status-conscious.

From common sense about the world, Japan is not a wine country. I was seriously shocked to learn that Japanese people existed who were risking their livelihoods to create wine on a worldwide level. I was deeply moved to be able to present the lives of these people to the world in this film.

FTM: In the film your character feels ‘used’ when she is seen as just an employee, this scene has a lot of emotion, how did you prepare for this?

YT: My character is modeled after an actual person. Since this person actually experienced the same thing, before filming, I met the person and heard about various things. The husband of the person that I played said that at the time he thought she would never recover from the experience and was completely devastated. In some sense, this is still a trauma in her life and when I learned that, I wanted to help her overcome her trauma via my performance in the role. I was unable to fully recall the conversation we had at the time, but after going to their home, meeting them and having meals together as well as making wine, going to the fields and sharing as much time as possible, I was able to create my character based on our conversations, her thoughts towards wine and her pride in the world she had done.

FTM: Did you find yourself more intrigued about the wine making process as the filming went on?

YT: I became very interested. I think the process of winemaking and being an actor in the business is very similar. In preparing for the role, I thought that in this film each actor was like a grape. And when mixed together and fermented the wine that is made in the end…this fresh wine can be enjoyed and after ten or twenty years this wine and the film itself can be enjoyed.

In the same way that wine is made, I feel that I am alive as part of it. I totally agree with the idea that creating a good work or good wine is the same. From here on out, I wonder what kind of wine the woman that my character is based on will create. I’d like to keep my eye on her for a long time. As for my thoughts on wine, I’d like to keep studying and keep drinking and hope to share my life with wine.

FTM: At the start of the film everyone is in a wine club.

Have you ever been part of any clubs yourself?

YT: No, I had not been in one. But the director got to know Japanese wine about three years ago. I was there at the time as well and started to have an interest in Japanese wine. The director and other friends as well started to drink wine on a daily basis. Since then I have tasted all kinds of wine.

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Tsukasa Itoh – Actress Interview

FTM: Your role was the daughter of Usuke Asai, an actual pioneer of a Japanese wine. Did you pay special attention in preparing for this role?

FTM: When you saw the script, did it excite you to be part of such a beautiful story?

TI: Since I was unable to actually meet the person that my role is based one, I had to imagine what she was like. I imagined that her family must get along well and that she must have praised and supported her father in his life long devotion to his work and played the role accordingly.

TI: I was surprised and moved that these kind of people where in Japan and felt so strongly about wine. Generally, we had never seen the process for making wine and did not know much about it. Normally, I had only had the pleasure of drinking this delicious wine.

The biggest appeal for me was to learn the backstory into how this wine is made. I am truly honored to have appeared in this film.

FTM: When watching this movie, what scene impresses you the most?

FTM: Did you find yourself more intrigued about the wine making process as the filming went on?

TI: It is very hard to come up with just one, but if I have to then it would be when Dai Watanabe playing the role of Okamura is successful in cultivating wine grapes. When he watches the germination this scene remains in my mind the most. In this scene he is rewarded for his hardships so I think as a human we can appreciate this to a great extent.

TI: I didn’t get to go see the fermentation, but I heard from the other actors, read books about it and thought, “I see so this is how wine is made.” I learned quite well that all the brewers poured their hearts into their work and carefully cultivated their wine as if they were raising children. In the end, it really piqued my interest in making wine.

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ULTRA LOW

By Filmmaker Nicholas Gyeney

Ultra Low is a meta drama described as a cross between Clerks and Entourage, following a real-life filmmaking team from Seattle in an unfiltered look behind the scenes as they struggle to break down the doors of Hollywood.

While already having sacrificed to make several professional independent films with significant indie budgets and films starring name actors, this filmmaking team can’t seem to get the attention of the industry elite. Upon learning the news that their latest endeavor will not be accepted into any top tier film festival, the team has hit rock bottom. With heavy hearts, they push each other to pick up and move forward on development of their next feature film, a supernatural thriller called THE RED VISION, in hopes that THIS will be the one that finally turns heads their direction.

As development progresses, the team lands actress Lauren Holly, star of films like Dumb and Dumber, Beautiful Girls, and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and her voice shines as a guiding light of wisdom for the young filmmakers as they push forward through the trenches.

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The Director: The filmmaker behind Ultra Low is Nicholas Gyeney (pronounced “GENIE”).

Nicholas was born in Seattle to Hungarian parents on July 15th, 1986, and quickly immersed himself in the world of movies with the influence of his father, Örs Gyeney, who would sit with Nicholas to show him films like Star Wars, The Terminator series, and the adventures of James Bond. Sadly, the tradition ended in 1998 when Nicholas’ father died tragically. Fueled by his loss, Nicholas started diving deeper into movies than ever before and soon discovered his calling as a filmmaker.

After being awarded a full ride to the University of Southern California’s prestigious film program, Nicholas began work on his first independent film while continuing his studies.

After a successful premiere, the film found distribution and began paving the road for Nicholas to establish relationships with many of the industry’s most successful professionals.

In 2012, Nicholas directed his third feature, a dark comedy about love and revenge called Matt’s Chance, starring Edward Furlong (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, American History X, Detroit Rock City), Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy, Ash vs Evil Dead), Margot Kidder (Superman, Superman II, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II), and Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon, Point Break, Predator 2). After a successful film festival tour that garnered acclaim and several awards for best picture, acting, and original score, Matt’s Chance enjoyed a limited theatrical run in the United States, and is now available on various VOD platforms. Nicholas described his experience making Matt’s Chance as “walking through fire”. Between the eccentric personalities of Edward Furlong, Gary Busey, and Margot Kidder, as well as a very tight production schedule, Nicholas faced hard trials navigating the hazards of a difficult production, and emerged a stronger and more capable filmmaker because of it.

In 2015, Nicholas made an indie homage to 90s action movies called Beta Test. Sporting an exciting cast of both rising stars and genre veterans including Manu Bennett (Arrow,

In 2009, with USC and his first feature behind him, and after three years developing and sharpening his abilities as a filmmaker, Nicholas wrote, produced, and directed his second feature and first theatrically released film, The Penitent Man, a sci-fi drama tackling the themes of destiny and choices, which has been highly acclaimed for its unique structure and style. The Penitent Man stars Lance Henriksen (Aliens, The Terminator, Millennium), and Andrew Keegan (10 Things I Hate About You), and is available on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital platforms. In recent years, The Penitent Man has achieved a small cult following online, and is highly regarded in conspiracy theorist circles for its theories on where our world is headed.

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Spartacus, The Hobbit Trilogy), Larenz Tate (Menace II Society, Crash, The Postman), and Linden Ashby (Mortal Kombat, Teen Wolf, Wyatt Earp), Beta Test also boasts the current record for the longest single-shot choreographed fight sequence. Making Beta Test brought its own challenges, as it was Nicholas’ first time working with animators to construct 90s-styled video game action sequences, which intercut with live action footage to create a unique movie described as a cross between Gamer and Die Hard With A Vengeance.

Now, in 2018 comes Ultra Low. For an independent filmmaker, getting into quality film festivals can mean everything.

They can make careers almost overnight, and turn struggling artists into the next big thing. Those premieres have been in director Nicholas Gyeney’s dreams for a long time. And after trying for years -with The Penitent Man, Matt’s Chance, and Beta Test- to make a film deserving of a place at the table, Nicholas realized what a powerful story the struggle of getting there, and of getting noticed by the industry at large, could become.

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The basis for his latest film was born. Ultra Low is a unique narrative that takes an unorthodox approach to a classic adventure story by placing the real people who lived the story right into the film, recreating the very experiences that brought them to where they are today. By capitalizing on the actual story with many of the actual people involved, Ultra Low becomes more than just a film, and creates a sort of ‘Meta Cinematic Universe’ for the work they’ve all made and the people involved that made them.

If the film catches on with audiences, suddenly there is an entire encyclopedia of information for them to dive into, seeking out past films and ventures from everyone involved, which ultimately will enrich the experience of Ultra Low itself.

It’s a meta drama through and through, with a structure designed to emulate the classic epic dramas from the 70s that took their time to establish the world and characters in a slow burn narrative, ultimately bringing everything full circle for a grand finale.

With veteran actors like Lauren Holly (Dumb & Dumber, Beautiful Girls), Tami Stronach (The Neverending Story), and Yuji Okumoto (Karate Kid II) rounding out a cast of Seattle independent filmmakers, this ultra low budget Ultra Low hopes to be a film to inspire filmmakers and artists everywhere who might be feeling a little low on hope as they quest towards their dream.

The long game plan for Ultra Low takes it beyond the movie itself. Once the film’s worldwide film festival tour comes to a close, Gyeney plans to double down on the meta angle of the whole thing, and actually move into producing the film IN the film, The Red Vision, which is a horror movie he has been sharpening and developing for some time.

Q+A With Nicholas Gyeney How long was the shoot? Where did you shoot?

NG: This movie was hugely ambitious simply because we only had 22 days to shoot a pretty epic indie story. There are so many scenes in this little film. So many characters.

So many little pieces and details to capture.

It basically flies in the face of all the “rules” of indie filmmaking (Keep it at or under 90 minutes with as few characters and locations as possible).

The only way we could pull it off in such a short window was due to the luxury of a 3-camera team. This allowed us to accomplish quite a bit in every set up. The entire movie was shot in and around Seattle in the actual locations where the events took place. When you see my apartment, that’s THE apartment I was living in, dressed in the exact way it was.

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NG: It’s a little difficult because I’m particularly biased on this one from the personal nature of the story. There are so many scenes that evoke emotional memories from how it all happened. If I had to choose one, it would probably be the sequence in my apartment between myself and my producing partner Edi Zanidache, who has been my right hand through the making of all these films. That scene is particularly personal because it dives into the dark reality of my dream – that I could never be happy doing anything else.

The Red Vision combines the Horror, Superhero, and Romance genres to create a unique tone balancing scares, heart, and humor, in a horror movie described as a cross between Insidious, Ghost, and Unbreakable. And that film will see Lauren Holly joining an amazing A-list cast under the banner of Gyeney’s award-winning Seattle and Los Angeles based production company, Mirror Images LTD.

What are some stylistic influences that you used to create the world of Ultra Low? NG: This was an interesting balance. On one hand, I wanted to make the film feel as real as possible, to properly capture the experiences we went through. But, on the other hand, I wanted to juxtapose that realism against a very cinematic style in order to give Ultra Low a sense of adventure that you’d find in so many great classic dramas. This is the reason why you’ll hear a fairly over-the-top score in a movie that might typically have a minimalist musical approach. There’s also a lot of dialogue in the film, particularly during three major sequences that run over 8 minutes long each. These scenes serve as act markers for the team’s journey. I was particularly influenced by Quentin Tarantino for these scenes. Specifically, the long dialogue scenes in both Inglourious Basterds and Death Proof.

Obviously, my dialogue scenes can’t come close to the quality of his, but its something I certainly aspire to.

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What was the biggest challenge in making Ultra Low? NG: There were two big challenges I faced on this movie. The first was pulling believable performances out of a group of primarily non-actors. We rehearsed feverishly during pre-production in hopes of making my team’s deliveries feel as genuine as possible. I’d say we ultimately were able to pull performances from them that worked, with some rough edges to be sure. I can only hope that audiences will be along for the ride enough to look past any hiccups in performance along the way.

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The second challenge was wearing the four major hats of actor, writer, producer, and director, all at once. I gained new respect for filmmakers that can successfully direct themselves in movies. People like Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck, etc. I bow to these people who can do it so flawlessly. I found my brain being torn in so many directions, having to critique other performances and focus on the direction of the take without ruining my own deliveries in the process.

The dynamic was compounded by the

fact that I couldn’t be standing behind a monitor reviewing the shot as I typically would be, so there was a lot of stopping to review, and a great deal of trust placed in my camera team to deliver the images I hoped to capture. By the end of every day, I was mentally exhausted. But, I’m grateful for the experience. I fell in love with acting a little bit. Whether I deserve to get work in other films is to be determined, but I certainly had fun, no matter how challenging it was.

If you’d like to connect with Nicholas, whether as filmmaker to filmmaker, to inquire about investment opportunities or job opportunities in one of his upcoming films, or simply to talk movies, Nicholas can be found on Facebook, Twitter (@mirrorimages), or by e-mail: gyeney@mirrorimagesltd.com

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FIGHT Shaonian Xiaogui Wo Zai Lushang A Film By David Lim “FIGHT” is the winner of the Best director in a foreign language short film at the London International Filmmaker Festival 2018, and the same award at the Nice International Filmmaker Festival 2018. We are delighted to present to you this emotional, nondialogue movie. It utilizes slow motion pictures and has a strong musical score. The film is about a youths steps on a strange journey of retaliation after a bully fight, it chronicles the ever increasing storm that is brewing and the obstacles ahead. This is done with almost childlike Imagery.

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”A kid stepS in a strange journey of retaliation. A silent film speaks in a strong music score.”

SYNOPSIS Kid Kenny (Carson Wu) was set upon by a group of neighbourhood youths, although he was saved by a teenager (Paul Xiao) the kid wanted revenge. Things soon escalate as a knife is drawn and a gang of local thugs set about the teenager who in turn is saved by a man (Ming Shuai Shih) armed with a shotgun. The police arrive but the teenager and the man make good their escape taking the kid with them. They take refuge in the woods, anger begins to take over the night and the question becomes will the man and the teenager fight each other and let this go?

The story is inspired by Ken Chyan’s personal experience of a bully, a broken family and gun violence. He is an artist/ pastor now living in L.A. helping people to have a better choice due to his survival of a dark gangster life.

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A poetOC move for a Taiwan FILM. The story was originally designed to be silent, for the purpose to enhance the emotions not just “telling”, but to break the language gaps internationally. 2 years post production which was mostly taken by the music scoring & sound design which were all done originally. Capturing the essence of fear, pain and violence.

“Just violence, no artistic Eastern fight - Return to Honesty in the Taiwan Film.” SNAPSHOTS film critic magazine April issue.

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Without kung fu, martial art & gangster fights, Asian movie by its generations nowadays are changing. The team of “FIGHT” are mixed with the next new wave Taiwan artists. The nominations this year including best original screenplay, best lead actor Ming Shaui Shih, best cinematographer Tzu Hao Kao, best hair makeup & body design Ken Cyan, Ruipu Wang, Echo Yen and the best costume design Myrtle Lee. Featuring Chiang Wei Liang the winner of Audi award in The Berlin International Film Festival 2016 as editor, Sebrina Zheng the Taiwan award winning director as assistdirector, painter Ken Chyan, graphic designer Godki Dilla, visual artist Cathy Ho and famous singer/composer Yujun Wang and Sean Chao took their places as music/sound design.

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In original language title of Mandarin “Shaonian Xiaogui Wo Zai Lushang“ is as a meaning of a kid, a teen and a man on the road.

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PING PONG’D

talking about Ping Pong rackets having life. That struck his creative brain cell and he immediately started sketching. He was very stubborn on making these Ping Pong Characters Anthropomorphic (giving them a human element). A turning point in the making of this movie was when he was having lunch with his parents and his mother suddenly said, “What if, the base of the racket split open and became legs?”

A Film by Jijo Sengupta

A battle between the hard working and the over confident.

Biography Anannya Sengupta also known as Jijo was born in India and lives in Rochester, NY. His interest in animation dates back to when he was 3 years old and made his first animation movie when he was in 7th grade. He moved to the USA to pursue his academic rigor. He got his BS in New Media Interactive Development (Class of 2016) and is pursuing his MFA degree in Films and Animation (Class of 2019) at Rochester Institute of Technology. Jijo also co-founded AAJ Media Productions, a media productions company based out of India and Singapore. He wants to focus his efforts in the confluence of Live action and CGI and bring the culture of Hollywood and Bollywood together that he popularly calls as the ‘Holly-Bolly’ way.

This brought a sense of meaning in those characters as he could animate those humanlike legs to portray emotions in those characters.

Giving them legs also gave the characters the flexibility of doing various stunts during the final match. He didn’t want it to be a simple hop and hit, which was suggested by a lot of his critiques during the pre-production stage, but he stood his aesthetic ground.

Director’s Statement My vision for this film is to show the competition between two characteristics and how it affects today’s world. One character being a constant hard worker, while the other being an over confident champion. Putting these two in the battle ground shows which one is the important one and how we should always approach life.

How it all Happened It all started when Jijo was sitting with a group of friends and discussing random and silly things.

Then within this silly discussion they started jijosengupta@gmail.com

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Miracle of CHRISTMAS

European people to be shown our film whose director’s learnt her art in Europe and filmed in Japan.

This is the big treasure which “Miracle of Christmas” gave us.

“I just have a great gratitude.”

Eri also has another nominated film in this festival and I have included her comment as below.”

A film by Eri Tsukimoto

“We are extremely grateful that our film is evaluated in Europe where artistic sensibility is much higher than Japan.

Director’s comment for “Run through rainbow bridges”.

I cannot forget how I felt at that moment when my name was read out for our film “Miracle of Christmas” for the Best Lead Actor in a foreign language film at the Nice International Film Festival.

By all means, we wish you to know about this film, as well as I SADA acting in the main role whilst giving great respect to our director “Eri Tsukimoto”.

Our director truly loves art.

Eri’s learnt her art in England which for her pursues “Beauty, Humanity & Dreams” which is the most sparkling thing as a human being.

This is a little difficult to express in present Japan where we live, sometimes we encounter the situation of being afraid of describing “Dream & Love” directly.

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Japan´s known as perhaps having a restrained culture in the world, this is not the only bad thing, thus, the refined and delicate sensibility of the Japanese should be something to proud of, however, we should also be more free and open, our director is the one who may especially feel this. She´s a person who was born to make art, she approaches the expression of the purity, which I cannot imitate.

“Yuya”, the role I played has many dazzling things which I’ve left somewhere during my life, but I´ve surely also passed through it somewhere in the past!

“I really appreciate all of our nominations and wonderful award for Nice for “Miracle of Christmas”, I wanted to convey the true love, world peace, equality, friendship and courage through people overcoming their trauma and difficulties.”

I co-operated with Eri so much on this film. Some of cast members are my friends as well, I think a good comprehensive partner is essential for her to make such fantastic art in Japan.

It must take a huge sum of money, when she tries to express her imagined fabulous story 100 percent. Therefore, she aimed to reach her goal by making the most of her ability within a small limited budget.

Also, understanding friends cooperated with working as staff for sound and lighting.

At all points, “Friends” poured invisible precious essence and resource into her film.

Therefore, these wonderful nominations are extremely impressive and became our splendid treasure.

The important miracle is our marvellous encounter with beautiful artistic

“Run through rainbow bridges” is another story.

“Yukiharu lost his adored fiancée Mika by an accident. He became so depressed and thinks about her all the time. Then, Mika starts to appear in front of him. That´s the beginning of the story.”

I depict three type of love here.

“Loving a person forever, even though he cannot see her ever, Love... to wish a person to find a new happiness for him, Love...to hope to make a person happy by myself, and many friendships are studded to support them.

Can Yukiharu find out his answer and a new future to overcome their big tragedy?

You´ll be moved by the impactful development during the climax!

I really became pure and straight myself, when I acted this role, I truly loved the heroine “Remi” during the shooting of this film. Communicating with other roles... this is an actor´s job, however our director taught us to prepare to be more natural and have a great relationship with others in the cast during rehearsal.

Her job is so important with countless responsibilities, for instance, writing a story, rehearsing, advising, directing, editing towards the completion of the film and intervening for the actors’ relationships. I feel really dazzled or her passion, demand, and her manner for pursuing real art. I consider that her art where that brightness exists is absolutely precious.

By creating this film’s story, Eri had some inspiration by her great friends’ characters, even before I had met her. That’s why she had unforgettable feelings and strong wishes for their futures in this film. So, when I was offered this role “Yuya”, I felt a huge sense of responsibility and pleasure.

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ABIGAIL FALLS A film by Erica Dunton

The Story...

Just out of college, Abbey navigates a relationship with her troubled friend Jude who has recently been diagnosed Bi-Polar.

Abbey is thoughtful and guarded while Jude is her opposite, an intoxicating catalyst who lives every day as if it is her last. Friends forever... or at least until the fateful day when they both meet the enigmatic Henry.

Set against the cityscape of New York and the rural mountains of North Carolina and shot on an iPhone, the film offers a modern commentary on falling in love through the youthful gaze of the camera that we all carry around in our pockets.

Director Erica Dunton says, “This romantic drama looks at love, female friendship and all the things that stand in their way.

It provides witness to how bipolar as an illness can at times be seductive and those affected are often afraid to seek treatment because they fear that they will feel flat, less capable or less creative. Also within the context of friendship and love, the story explores how the dramatic shifts in mood and energy it causes affect one’s ability to think clearly and coupled with denial, may lead to choices that damage relationships irrevocably.” masterfully shot on the iphone

by Cinematographer Alan Newcomb with a whole range of lenses by Joe Dunton Stanley Kubrick’s lensmaker, this classic story is told through the most modern eye directly tapping into the youthful energy of its players. Carter Allen, one of the film’s young

producers says, “What’s really interesting about watching this story be told on an iPhone is how it captures the immediacy we feel as young people; it is the perfect medium to tell this story. You feel as if you are right here with these characters and in truth our phones are with us, everyday, essentially recording our lives, so choosing this way to tell the story, really works. It is not a case of technology dictating the content but the content dictating the technology”. Reece Allen, Carter’s brother and fellow producer concurs and adds, “ Technology is changing so fast, for this film we had four phones and

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were able to record 6 hours of 4K on each phone, but it is important to remember that just because we can now so easily capture the footage in broadcast quality, we do not forget all the craftsmanship behind and in front of the camera. The beautiful thing about this film is how the cinematography, lighting, production design, wardrobe etc are so expertly executed. Filmmaking is definitely a team sport and just because in theory you can now make a feature on an iPhone it doesn’t necessarily mean you want to do it alone. This film was truly a team effort and I think the finished product reflects that.”

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About the Director...

About the Cinematography and iPhone...

Director Erica Dunton graduated from Durham University with a Law degree and then went onto to study for three years at the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS.) Her first feature film, “FIND LOVE” starred Christian Camargo, Alexie Gilmore and Craig Sheffer. It successfully premiered at Slamdance, where it was picked up for distribution by Lionsgate/ Maple and won several awards including the ‘Best Independent Vision’ at Sarasota Film Festival. John Anderson, wrote for Variety that, “Dunton comes close to the epiphany of erotic connection.” Her second feature, “THE 27 CLUB” starred Joe Anderson and introduced Eve Hewson (The Knick, Bridge of Spies). It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and also won many awards including, ‘Best Script, Film and Director’ at the Milan Film Festival. It is distributed by IFC. Variety wrote, “Dunton displays a lightness of touch that defies social norms.” Her third feature, “TO.GET. HER” introducing Jazzy De Lisser (Game of Thrones) and Adwoa Aboah (Ghost in a Shell) won the BEST OF NEXT AUDIENCE AWARD at SUNDANCE and also the Best Fiction Film at Sarasota FF and Best American Indie at RiverRun FF. This Week magazine called it, “The smartest film I have ever seen at Sundance.’ Erica directed indie feature “PLASTIC JESUS” starring, Mackenzie Foy, Hilarie Burton, Joshua Leonard and Paul Schneider. Erica’s latest feature is ‘ABIGAIL FALLS with Jazzy De Lisser and Billy Baldwin. She has multiple television credits including the CW’s, “ONE TREE HILL” and E’s “THE ROYALS.” Erica is an avid stills photographer and the daughter of BAFTA winning cinematographer and camera technician Joe Dunton, BSC MBE who also invented the video assist in 1968.

Having been shot using MAVIS Pro Camera, Abigail Falls joins a small, but growing, collection of films that have been shot on iPhone. As part of this growing trend MAVIS has been at the forefront of technology development for mobile filmmakers.

MAVIS Pro Camera has been designed

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by filmmakers for filmmakers to pack professional production tools into your pocket. The app provides the same features found in conventional pro cameras, but optimised for the iPhone and at a fraction of the cost. It is redefining cinematography by providing high image quality, reliability and usability allowing directors and filmmakers to get the most from their productions.

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Having the right camera is a crucial part of the equation for getting amazing images.

Apple has been relentless in the pursuit of advancing mobile cameras with the latest generation rivaling even DSLRs. By giving cinematographers access to these cameras, via manual controls and features such as focus peaking and zebras, MAVIS gives filmmakers the power to define the visuals that they want for their film.

For the makers of MAVIS, their passion for filmmaking led them to develop an app that solved the problems they were having in the field. Sitting on a boundary between the creative world of filmmaking and the technology driven world of software provides a unique environment for the creation of intuitive and powerful software which reflects the needs and desires of the filmmaking community.

The Soundtrack by NO/NO NO/NO did the whole sound track and score for the film - described as having, “Great hooks that capture that indescribable 80s ‘New Wave’ sound” (Neon Vandal) and have had songs appear in Showtime’s, “Shameless” and Taylor Lautner’s movie, “Tracers.”

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The Museum of Lost Things A short film

by Gregory Cioffi & Dennis Pahl

The Museum of Lost Things, a 22-minute film directed by Gregory Cioffi, is funny, thought provoking, quirky, and haunting. It’s part mystery, part comedy, and part love story.

An aging New York writer stumbles upon a museum that he’s never noticed before. Stepping inside, he enters a strange world - a museum that is seemingly designed for him alone, where he discovers in each room pieces of his forgotten past. Among the things on display are his lost umbrellas, the hair he lost hair on his now balding head, friends he lost contact with, and traces of a love that got away.

His is a mysterious, surreal journey, a little like Dante’s journey to the underworld but even more like the trip that Alice takes down the rabbit-hole and through Wonderland. As the visitor goes deeper and deeper into the museum, wandering through a labyrinth of his own personal history, things get “curiouser and curiouser.” The movie poses the question: Is the past lost forever, or can we reclaim it through memory and the imagination? Moreover, can an old love story be revived and rewritten?

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The movie’s screenplay by Greg Cioffi was adapted from a short story by the producer Dennis Pahl, who also composed and performed the theme song that runs during the movie’s closing credits.

Shot mostly on the campus of Long Island University, the film makes use of an historic mansion, once owed by the socialite Merriweather Post, for the interior scenes. It’s here where we see the visitor, played by Steve Platt, searching his past, while the museum guard, played by Ricardy Fabre, escorts him around the museum. The visitor recounts his whole journey through the museum to a waitress in a diner, played wonderfully

by Marissa Perry (formerly the Broadway star of Hairspray).

Music director Michael Ferrari composed the score, and performances of music by Shostakovich and Chopin were commissioned for the film’s quirky, haunting and romantic moments.

The film has been nominated for best short comedy at the Madrid International Film Festival, and is an official selection at the Long Island International Film Expo.

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Looking back on her greatest hits, Cameron has seen her style evolve. “My music has changed so dramatically from my first 2008 record,” she says. “I feel like the songs got a lot better, a lot stronger, and they represent more of me.”

A stunning musical short by the multi-talented Kim Cameron

Whether on the pages of her books, in lessons with her students, or on an EDM festival stage, Cameron’s quirky creativity and artistic passion always shines through, leaving her fans on the edge of their seats awaiting her next exciting project.

Following a whirlwind of exciting winter and spring engagements in Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Ibiza, and Prague, musician Kim Cameron is ready to take on her next challenge – whatever it may be.

The two-time Billboard Top 20 recording artist, based in Miami, leads a multifaceted career. Her award-winning singles and music videos are just a small part of the picture; Cameron is also an accomplished children’s book author, and teaches voice and music lessons to at-risk youth.

This same eclecticism shapes her musical endeavors. Not one to be pinned into a single genre, Cameron delivers fresh hits with a high-energy fusion of dance, electronica, deep house, and pop – all with a vintage, European-style edge.

Take, for example, her Greatest Hits album, which dropped this past January. To develop the concept, Cameron dove into her oeuvre of hit songs dating back to her first album release in 2008, and reached out to collaborators from around the world to remix the tracks with a chic, 2018 sensibility.

“I decided to make this a very international, very artist-focused album,” Cameron says.

“I think this is an unusual and fun ‘greatest hits’ album, and something that a lot of artists will enjoy because there are so many different flavors in it.”

Full of flavor and fun, the eclectic tracks feature one common trait: “I’m known as a hopeless romantic,” says Cameron. “I think of different ways of how to show love, or how to love someone.

My inspiration really comes from that.”

Greatest Hits is available for download and streaming on Apple Music and Spotify. More information at sidefxband.net.

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NORA A short film by Catrina Castillo Kreinberg

When things are not always what it seem Synopsis Being accused for having an affair, Richard must prove his innocence to his grief-stricken wife.

The bitter conflict between Richard and his wife only worsens as time passes and begins to affect his daughters, Nora and Lori. As conflicts progress, strange and eerie things happen around the house. Ellena, the nanny, begins to help around the house while Richard attempts to mend the relationship with his wife. Unable to repair his marriage, it is up to Nora to keep their family together. With Lori constantly by Nora’s side, Nora must remain positive for her melancholy sister and convince her apathetic father to continue fighting for their mother.

Despite her father’s sad attempt of fixing his marriage, Nora’s fear of losing her mother becomes a reality. Disregarding his wife’s accusations, Richard brings another woman to his home, leading to the loss of his relationship with his family.

Director Statement Mental illness is a struggle in most people in our society, and the person affected by its conflicts usually feels closed off, alone accompanied by the sense of less freedom to express pain along with confused emotions which leads to multiple struggles in life. Im a writer before a director. I have considered my creative thoughts to write a few based true stories from other people who’ve come across and comfortably shared their emotional roller coaster ride with depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and post traumatic stress disorder. Outlining my visual approach, I have composed a fictional short story about a family experiencing difficult challenges in their life. Nora is a story about a little girl who is living with a mentally unstable mother as she struggles to cope and keep her

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father to fight for her mother. Following each character in the story will portray events that will hold an impression to viewers and reveal its outlook of the world coming from the troubled person’s point of view. The story is a combination of a drama and horror, as the story comes along, the strain becomes stronger by which silence as I used as a tool builds up the contrasts and it’s empowering tension. Using specific colors and objects, examples are red, black and pink illustrates symbolism in this story. Everything has specific meaning from its dialogue, colors and music. I’m inspired to work on this project because I understand others who may have been suffering from mental deficits, through my vision I wish to project their sentiment and show the world that they live in.

I used open ended points and enforced myself to create a thought provoking piece for viewers.

Director Short Biography Catrina Castillo Kreinberg was born in the Philippines and lived with her family in Manilla.

Her mother worked as an Executive Producer at an advertising production company and became a huge influence to Castillo-Kreinberg.

Being exposed to her mother’s hard work in the film industry at a young age, CastilloKreinberg took her passion for film to The United States when her family moved in 2000.

Castillo-Kreinberg studied Behavioral Studies at Cal State Long Beach while simultaneously exerting her creativity by hosting art exhibits with her own work. Continuously feeding her creative brain, Kreinberg possess the ability to play the piano by ear and can reproduce a piece of music without reading sheet music. CastilloKreinberg began playing piano at the age of 10 and puts on small concerts for her small family: Her loving husband, two cats and one dog. With an undying love for horror movies (Specifically Japanese and Korean horror films), CastilloKreinberg continues to pursue creative writing and directing. In addition to being creative, Castillo-Kreinberg values health, which led to her desire in becoming a nurse to help others.

Castillo-Kreinberg went to a nursing vocational school in 2008 in order to become a devoted assistant to Dr. Brian Flyer. Working in the medicine field for 9 years, Castillo-Kreinberg became a health enthusiastic and fell in love with running. She completed 11 marathons by 2016 and is still an avid marathon runner to this day. Catrina Castillo Krienberg made this film to inspire dreams and will.

Producer Danny M. Kreinberg was born and raised in Los Angeles. Krienberg attended a private high school in Palisades and currently working as a Paralegal at a Labor Law Firm. Aside from working at a Law Firm, Kreinberg is very passionate about fictional novels and history books. Kreinberg is a nature enthusiast and will spend his free time snowboarding because of his adoration for snow. Residing in Los Angeles, it was inevitable for Kreinberg to meet people in the Film Industry and becoming close friends with those who work in Film, Kreinberg developed a passion for film making and ultimately produced his first short “Nora” in 2018, which was inspired from his love of suspense, thriller and science fiction films, Kreinberg will continue to produce films alongside his wife, Catrina Castillo Kreinberg.

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CATRINA CASTILLO LONDON KOPROWSKI as NORA CC KING as LORI ANNA MCNIVEN as DOREEN/ RED WOMAN CATRINA CASTILLO JOE O’DELL as RICHARD GORDON RIVER as FIDDLE MAN JEWELS BRETTIN as ELLENA (MAID) ISABEL ZHONG as DOCTOR/THERAPIST JOHNNY KEARNS - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY DANNY KRIENBERG - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JAMIE REED TRINA MARIANO - MAKEUP ARTIST MUN KANG JAMIE REED MARIANA MARCANO - FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MMJOE SANCHEZ - SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LU ORTIZ - SOUND MIXER T.J. YOSHIZAKI - BOOM OPERATOR / SOUND MIXER KYLE HANUS - ASSISTANT CAMERA JACK HO - GAFFER JOHNNY KEARNS - CAMERA OPERATOR MAXWELL OLLIVIER - SECOND ASSISTANT CAMERA JAMIE REED - GRIP STUART FERREYRA - COLORIST MYKUH BELL - STUDIO TEACHER JARED CASTILLO BRANDI LOU AMANDA VARELA WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

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FLYING ON THE WINGS OF TIME CHAPTER ONE: NOW AND THEN From the Buenos Aires Trilogy “Flying on the Wings of Time” A Short Documentary

By Dr Teresa Mular MD

This is a personal journey which describes how the architecture and the view of the city of Buenos Aires, where I was born, raised and educated, have changed the landscape of the neighborhood where I lived and I knew so well .

‘Now and Then’ narrates the changes that have occurred between the past ( 40 years ago ) and the present. Memories that are intertwined with landscapes where I spent my childhood and teenage years. Wandering and wondering through the eyes of the filmmaker, who appears on and off, almost as a ghost throughout the project. Recollections of a time that has passed and has left great memories.

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Director Statement Coming to terms with one’s past and present takes much more than “ guts “. Thus, to decide and shoot a documentary about the place where you grow up, especially after several decades of being absent from that very place you once knew so well has been a complex process. I believe that anyone who has left his/her own hometown, be that in the same country of birth or as an emigrant, can experience a connection to what was left, what has been replaced and the passage of time in general terms and in a most intimate personal path as well.

Director Biography - Teresa Mular Dr. Teresa Mular was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was raised and educated there, completing her University studies and graduating as a Medical Doctor at age 23.

Parallel to that she studied piano and voice at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires. As a young person she developed a lifelong passion for classical music and the arts.

She moved to New York, to further her training at Downstate Medical Center, State University of New YorkKings County Hospital, in Brooklyn.

She became an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology years later at the same institution and had a long career as a physician and teacher.

Currently she has been President of the New York Gynecological Society (New York city) from 2014 to 2015. She has

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received several awards for her teaching activities from Stony Brook University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Although geographically far from her native town, she continued to visit her family in Buenos Aires and remained in close contact with her beloved homeland throughout the years. She developed a strong interest in creative photography, which led to obtaining various awards at diverse Long Island, New York photo competitions.

She is fluent in Italian (which she studied in Florence starting in 2006) and it is in Italy, where she found the germinating seed for making her first documentary about the land that witnessed her birth. She completed this work in 2011, which is a four-part documentary that pays homage to the various artistic complexities and cultural life of Buenos Aires, under the title “ Flying on

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the Wings of Time “ Volando en las Alas del Tiempo”. This documentary (“ Flying on the Wings of Time”) was shown at the XXXIV International Women Film Festival of Florence, Italy, to great acclaim in December of 2012 and also at the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre in April of 2012. The Argentinean Cultural Center showed it in June of the same year in Long Beach, New York. The same film received a Silver Award in the Short Film Category, awarded by the Oregon Film festival in November of 2012.

It has been screened at the Lucerne International Festival (Switzerland) and shown in Lucerne in October of 2014.

She completed another documentary entitled “ The Muse is the Mountain”, which deals with the life, struggles and achievements of a group of artisan women in the mountainous regions of Costa Rica.

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Its premiere was held on May 6th, 2014 at Instituto Cervantes of New York. It was selected for screening in various festivals around the world, including the International Film Festival in Jakarta (2014), Indonesia, being awarded with a Silver nomination in the Director category and a Gold nomination in Documentary and it was selected as Best Director of a Short Documentary at the Milan International Film Festival (Italy) 2015, and an Excellence Award at the Dada Saheb Film Festival in India (2015).

It was also an official selection at the Costa Rica International Film Festival of Peace with the Earth (2014) and at the Helios Film Festival, Cincinnati, USA (2015) and nominated in the categories of a) Scientific and Educational Award and b) best director at the Milan International

Filmmaker Festival in November 2015. It was nominated for best Foreign Language Documentary at the Madrid International Film Festival 2016.

Her film “ Four Journeys “ was completed in June 2016. It is a documentary about immigrant Latin American women now working in New York and who have struggled in various ways since arriving as newcomers to New York, but are now successful in their own careers and private lives. It has been officially selected, nominated and awarded ad various film festivals at a national and international level. thmular@optonline.net Documentary

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4 Dancers’ Dreams Directed, Produced, Narrated & Originated

By Nancy J Lilley

A must see film, especially if you are inspired by the human struggle to succeed in a competitive world. It not only wows with spectacular dancing, but it teaches and inspires, as it follows four aspiring dancers in their last year of dance school. They all have different strengths and talents and all want to go professional. They must find the path to success that suits each one of them best and be wise and passionate enough to follow it.

These 4 friends share their private dreams and ambitions, their set-backs and triumphs.

They take us to Germany, where two of them compete as members of the Canadian National Tap Team in the International Dance Organization’s Tap Competition. We also travel to Seattle, WA, USA for the Regional Semi-Finals in ballet of the Youth America Grand Prix.We learn what it takes to become a professional dancer and where our four featured dancers end up…pro or not?

Awards. It won an Award of Excellence from Headline Intl FF- Canada, Award of Merit for Feature Doc and 5 other awards from Impact Docs Awards!, Award of Recognition from IndieFEST Film Awards, Artist Circle from Nova FF, and it screened at the Artemis Women In Action FF in Santa Monica, CA, USA. It is nominated for Best Doc from Yes! Let’s Make a Movie FF – Canada and is nominated for 5 awards from the World Music & Indie FF Awards, including Best Editor, Best Woman Filmmaker, Best Costume Design, Best Feature Documentary and Best Directing in a Documentary. It is also a Semi-Finalist for Best Doc Feature, Best Director, and Best Woman Filmmaker with the Los Angeles International Film Festival Awards.

4 Dancers’ Dreams had its’ World Premiere at Hollywood Dreamz Intl FF, Las Vegas, USA, and it has won Best Feature Documentary from; Creation Intl. FF Ottawa, Ont. Canada, Flathead Lake Intl. Cinemafest, Polson, MA.,USA, Believe in Your Dreams FF, Arkansas, USA and London Independent Film

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THE WETBACK A short tale of magical realism Written and directed by A.P. Gonzalez Produced by A.P. Gonzalez and Jeff Vibes

Whatever your age, how do you remember your first love?

Ten year-old Danny and his friends find a body while playing near the L.A. River. A forlorn older woman, the neighborhood’s eccentric, eventually claims the body, believing it to be her long-lost love. Danny’s grandfather and mother must take the body back and give it a proper burial, realizing that the authorities don’t really care about another illegal immigrant, another wetback. In the process, a generation-long secret is revealed in this tale of “magical realism.”

The genre of magical realism treats the emotional reality of characters as real.

Fantastical elements are not just possible but authentic - so much so that we begin to question the very nature of objective reality.

“The Wetback” is not about misery and poverty and other stereotypical notions of American Latinos. Instead, it is about community, longing, compassion, and the mysticism in Latino culture. The dead immigrant in the story impacts and represents the broken dreams – and severed relationships – of so many people on both sides of the Mexico / U.S. border. apg@ucla.edu

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“The Wetback” is based on a storyline that runs trough Ron Arias’ well-known novel, The Road to Tamazunchale. A feature screenplay – from the same source novel – has already been adapted. Writer/director, A.P. Gonzalez and producer, Vesna Jovanoska, are now attaching name talent, seeking financing and/or a coproduction.

“The Wetback”premiered in California at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. It has garnered “awards of merit” from three key international competitions: Best Shorts, Global Shorts and The Accolade Competition. The Madrid International Film Festival marks its European premiere, and the film is nominated for “Best Directing of a Short” and “Best Editing of a Short.” https://www.facebook.com/WetBk

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RECONNECTED A dark-hearted short film

by S.J. Main Muñoz

When a suburban professional struggles to reconnect with his family after an extramarital affair, he’s forced to confront his scornful mother-in-law.

Reconnected is an adaptation of the award-winning published short story “Re:Connected” written by actor/author Robert Kerbeck. Kerbeck stars in the film as troubled ‘Bob’ and three-time Emmy award-winning, Golden Globe nominee and Hollywood Walk of Fame Star recipient Barbara Bain portrays his sneering motherin-law ‘Gloria.’ Acclaimed actress Kerry O’Malley plays the role of Bob’s wife ‘Deb’ while Kerbeck’s real-life son, Davis Fox, plays the role of Bob’s despondent son ‘Dom.’ Derek Classen and Main Muñoz of Tica Productions produced the film.

The screenplay was written by Kerbeck & Main Muñoz.

Reconnected has been nominated for Best Director of a Short Film, Best Lead Actor of a Short Film and Best Lead Actress of a Short Film. The Madrid International Film Festival is the film’s European Premiere.

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR SJ Main Muñoz graduated with honors in directing from UCLA and Columbia University. At UCLA, she received the James Bridges Award for Excellence in Acting. She’s worked in production in roles including Director of Development and Post Supervisor. Her work is supported by WeForShe, NALIP, AWD’s Industry Support program, IFP’s Narrative Film Week, FIND’s Project:Involve and Women In Film. Her short films La Cerca and Luck of the Draw screened worldwide and garnered premier awards. In addition to her current film Reconnected, SJ’s new short film Requiescat, for which she received a Clairmont Camera Filmmaker Grant, launches on the circuit this year. As a second-generation Latina, SJ takes pride in expanding Latinx representation in mainstream media, and she’s a resident of both the USA and Costa Rica.

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I Will Never Forgive A feature drama by Hideki Wada

Director Hideki Wada, who is not only a director but also a psychiatrist specializing in psychoanalysis, has made the film based on a non-fiction novel of Yoko, who was raped at the age of 15 and given up by her parents. A week later, she meets a middleaged man, Hayata, who suggests they form relationship that he will give her money for sex. She accepts the offer and has sex for $2,700, which again changes her life.

The film was entirely shot in the POV perspective of a rape victim, which is a documentary-like fashion so that the audience can see the world just as the victim sees it and tell the pain of rape and struggles in her life. The director desired to express the theme of the original autobiography of a rape victim, that trauma of rape and the reactions of people around the person can cut off the continuity of time and change her personality, not just inflict permanent damage like PTSD. The crew consists of the screenwriter Hisako Kurosawa, who wrote “Caterpillar,” a film directed by Koji Wakamatsu, winner of The Silver Berlin Bear at The Berlin International Film Festival. Editor Yoshinori Ota, who edited most of the films by Takeshi Kitano including “Zatoichi,” the winner of The Silver

Lion at The Venice Film Festival and the director of photography, Kenji Takama, who has worked with famous directors including Shusuke Kaneko and Koki Mitani.

The film is nominated for the Best Screenplay of a Foreign Language Film, the Best Lead Actress in a Language Film and the Best Language Feature Film at The International Film Festival.

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Lights and Shadows A mesmerising movie telling four beautiful stories by filmmaker Olivier Nolin

In its dreamlike approach to everyday life, this is an extraordinary film with surprising images. He tells us about shipwrecked love.

With its echoes, its correspondences and its symmetries multiplied with pleasure like a partition of chamber music where dominates an atmosphere of voluptuous torpor, it evokes four passionate love story where the shade underlines the lights of the souls.

“Some there be that shadows kiss, such have but a shadow’s bliss.”

Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice JUDITH A young baker who’s infatuated with a prostitute, sells his bakery to marry her and takes her to live with him.

MAYAH & TOVAH A young sculptress, Tovah, lives with her muse a passionate love story until Maya, the model, finds out that Tovah occasionally prostitutes herself...

MYRIAM & AZAZEL The devil invites himself into Myriam’s life who occasionally prostitutes herself.

AVIVA While looking for a forgotten memory, Daniel will discover love.

Four stories weaved together to tell about the romantic encounters of our very young heroes and heroines who are seeking for an almost impossible happiness, because they imagine that it is easier to get it from others. Intimate, paroxystic and tempestuous relationships, in which good and evil, death and love are side by side, and merge occasionally, in unexpected ways. Moments and places, where the search for THE absolute, or reckless rage and love leads to the darkness of the soul.

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Thursday [ JUEVES ] A short film by John Flavin

‘JUEVES’ is the story of Adrianna and Diego, 2 Spanish youths who are trying to start a new life in a new city but with dire consequences for both of them. Consequences they might not be able to come back from.

Director Statement JUEVES took me into a new world I know little of. A world of broken people, drugs, depravity and psychosis, and making it helped me realize that we are all inherently good at the core, and along the way life throws us curve balls. The purpose of this film is to showcase people on the wrong path, but not belittle them or make them bad or “evil”. I believe strongly that empathy is the key to happiness, and if you can find that tiny spark of good in a person you, too, will be shown the same if you fall. I hope my story helps you to open your mind and realize the good in everyone.

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14-minute short drama, he wrote, produced and directed in Valencia, Spain. Born in Ireland to an impoverished background, and taken out of school at 14, he left Ireland at a time when it was not okay to be gay, and moved to the USA at age 20 with $30 in his pocket and a dream. Since then he has been chasing dreams and JUEVES is just one of his dreams to come true. The plan is to continue making art, and influencing people of all backgrounds to never give up, and anything is possible when you persevere and keep your eye on the prize.

He is currently working on a commercial for a new clothes line and writing a feature film which begins several months after “JUEVES” ends. The film will span both the USA and Spain; exploring family dynamics, corruption and the intriguing story which unfolds. He is also working on a gritty, but inspiring TV series, set in Madrid dealing with youth and current world experiences. He is currently seeking representation.

John Anthony Flavin SUBMISSION CONTACT, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER John Anthony Flavin’s industry experience brings years of producing experience to his role as a new director. Being a producer on HBO’s award winning series BOARDWALK EMPIRE and DIVORCE, as well as years of experience with some of TV’s most prestigious directors enhances his new career, and the caliber of his work speaks for itself. He just finished JUEVES, a Drama

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MANRY AT SEA in the wake of a dream A feature documentary by Steve Wystrach

Newspaper editor Robert Manry was a happily married father living in the suburbs. His colleagues at the Cleveland Plain Dealer were shocked to learn he had secretly set sail across the Atlantic in his 4-meter sloop, Tinkerbelle, to pursue his childhood dream.

It was 1965, twilight of the analog age - color television had just arrived, slide rules still ruled math, copper-bound telephones had dials, and sailors found their way by compass, charts and stars.

By the time his summer-long odyssey ended, Manry had become the target of a wild news paper chase perpetrated by his employer, was welcomed by a cheering mob of 50,000 Britons, and had become a hero on both sides of the Pond… and to dreamers everywhere.

Director Steve Wystrach began the project two decades ago after reading Manry’s book, Tinkerbelle. “It’s an exciting book filled not just with adventure but with practical details about his plans and preparations,” Wystrach recalls.

“The equipment list mentions a 16mm movie camera. As a film editor, archivist, and offshore sailor, three bells rang, and I asked the question, ‘What happened to the film?’”

Although Manry died in 1971, a two-year search finally unearthed the film in his brother’s garage, waiting to be tossed out during the next Spring cleaning. “I then located hours of newsreels, interviewed nearly everyone involved, and teamed up with editor, Steve Armstrong, to work through the footage and construct a vibrant and inspiring song of the sea.

The voyage is both adventure and metaphor, made by a complex man masked by his modesty and sense of humor. It’s

a lesson in forethought, ingenuity, and craftsmanship – and as the ferocious press begins a chase for headlines, a tale of buccaneer hijinks ensues. Above all, it’s a reminder that excuses only help make our time run out…

Wystrach notes, “I’m delighted to have the European Premiere in Spain, partly because my friend, trikitixa artist, Kepa Junkera, provided music for the ‘soul of the sailor.’ For me, screening the film in Madrid is a dream come true about a dream come true…”- DEM Documentary

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DAWN HASN’T COME Directed By Nisreen Sbeihi

There is a place in this world where children die with their toys looking at them.

There is a place in this world, where parents die leaving their children alone, permanently looking for them.

There is a place in this world that has been in war for more than three years; its people die burning; they die of starvation and disease.

This place is called Yemen, the home to mocha coffee.

“Dawn hasn’t come,” a movie by director and filmmaker Nisreen Sbeihi, features the children of Yemen, the victims most affected by the war. It displays more than 10 cases of children who lost their whole family, or a limb, and suffered psychological trauma because of the war.

Children are silent victims--victims that fail to defend their rights. Parents carry that responsibility, but when the war takes them away, the children are left without protection.

War has murdered their childhood and deprived them of their natural right to life.

This film is an outcry and appeal to spare children the atrocities of war. Stop the war!

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ONE NIGHT STAND A stunning short film featuring a stand out performance by Matthew Sauvé

“I guess destiny has a crazy way of recalibrating one’s life. The thought of becoming an actor when I was young was just that - simply a thought. It was just something I would daydream about to myself; I would keep it a secret and tell no one.

Almost twenty years would pass before I allowed that quiet little voice inside of me to finally speak up. I ran in the other direction in life. After my older brother was hired as a cop, I thought,”I guess I will do what he’s doing”. I’ve been an actor now just over six years after leaving a twelve year career in policing and I regret nothing. This was my journey and through all of the ups and downs and highs and lows that I’ve endured I’ve come to realize it was metaphorically the “extreme pressure” that created the imperfectly perfect diamond which is my life as I know it today.

I’m here at the Madrid International Film Festival promoting the short film “One Night Stand” for which I am honoured to be nominated for “Best Lead Actor”. This is a film that has allowed me to travel the world, winning me the jury prize of ‘Best Actor” and the coveted annual Golden

Fox Award of “Best Actor” at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival’s annual gala in Calcutta, India this past December.

It was an experience of a lifetime and I’m extremely humbled to be recognized in such a way. I don’t take any of this for granted, not for one second.

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The film revolves around my character ‘Travis’, he’s on a business trip and meets an attractive woman named “Ellen” played by the wonderful actress Trish Rainone, and as the title indicates they find themselves in a romantic fling for the night. It’s what happens afterwards that makes this film unique.

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I don’t want to give anything away, but the story shifts when my character is faced with a moral dilemma. I love the way the film plays out because my character doesn’t have a lot of dialogue and the audience goes on this journey with the sense of “what should he do?” and they also ask themselves “If I was Travis, what would I do?” This film has a special place in my heart as I met some really good friends on set which I am still very close with to this day.

I’ve been fortunate to have worked on some really fun projects over the past few years.

One in particular was being the lead actor in Simple Plan’s music video “Singing in the Rain”.

We filmed it over a period of twenty-three hours in February of 2016 and I don’t think I stopped laughing the entire time. The guys in the band are so genuine and treat their fans so good, they made a point to take pictures and sign autographs with every single extra on set. I heard the song a thousand times that day while filming and I honestly didn’t get tired of hearing it once. If there is one thing Simple Plan knows how to do, it’s how to write a catchy song that gets serious radio airplay. In April of 2017 I was in Hollywood, CA with my daughter Anne visiting close friends. It was just a pure coincidence that Simple Plan was having their 15th anniversary show in Hollywood while we were there. I reached out to one of the guys and they gave my daughter and I the VIP treatment. The highlight of the night for me as a Dad was when we were backstage and one of the wives of the band members told my daughter who was thirteen at the time, “You’re too young to realize this now but when you’re older you will look back and know you have a really cool Dad, you’re backstage at a rock concert in Hollywood”.

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My daughter smiled, and in that brief moment I was a “Cool Dad”... Did I mention “brief moment”? Hahahahahaha.

Looking back on my past six years as an actor, there is one moment in particular that was pivotal. On August 16th, 2016 I found myself in an audition with Hollywood Director/Writer Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Light Between Oceans).

I don’t know what stars had to align for me that day, but I am forever grateful they did. I was in the room with him for close to twentyfive minutes it seemed. This is a person whose body of work I’m a fan of, so I’m grateful my training kicked in and for the time I was in the room with him I was an actor and I had a job to do. He made sure of it too, completely down to earth and very calculated with the questions he asked me. He made me forget everything else going on outside that room and brought me on an emotional roller coaster ride. I cried, I laughed, I got angry, I got sad, I was stripped of all my emotional armour that society creates for us to survive in this world today. At the end of the audition he got out of his seat and held me tight in the same way a boxing trainer would hold a prize fighter after going twelve rounds in the ring and he said to me, “Thank you for being brave, open and vulnerable with me here today; you possess all of the qualities a great actor needs to have and who knows maybe we’ll see each other again someday.” I entered that audition room with a fire already lit inside of me that day and those words Derek Cianfrance said to me afterwards was a barrel of gasoline being dumped onto that fire.

Regardless if I ever cross paths with him again, he is a man who simply wouldn’t have said it had he not meant it.

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My long time acting coach Robyn Kay who’s trained me for years out of her studio would always tell me, “you never know how powerful the words you say to another human being can be”. Well this is a perfect example of that - a Hollywood Director who directs some of the most talented A-list actors on the planet has forever made a positive impact on me for the rest of my life, simply by the power of his words.

As an actor, I have this drive inside of me to be a storyteller. I have an upcoming project I’m extremely excited about, and it’s because my character “Grant” has every layer of the onion. It was originally shot as a pilot by another director two years ago. In August of 2017, Director Jesse Mann came on board and worked with writer Jake Wilkens to create an original script from spec in three weeks time, from an idea co-producer Caine Chow had.

It’s an eight part Web Series called “Forgotten Corpses: The Confinement”. My co-star in this web series who plays the role of “Anna” is Aleksandra Maslennikova. She is such a talented actress; I don’t even know where to begin. Let me just say that I’m a better actor for having worked with her; she truly is powerful to watch on screen. “Forgotten Corpses: The Confinement” is a story of a news broadcast advising people to stay inside until further notice. Anna, who is caught outside, far from home, seeks shelter in the home of Grant for the time being. Anxious to get home to her ill mother, we soon discover more about what’s happening outside, as well as whom Grant and Anna truly are. We filmed this in September of 2017, and all of the cast and crew were like one big happy family. We all believed in this project. I absolutely adore the Director Jesse Mann. Her direction is so on point, and I would work with her again in a heartbeat. One of the days we filmed was my birthday, and the entire cast and crew surprised me with a birthday cake and sang happy birthday to me.

It was very touching. I love cake!

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For the past three years, I regularly teach film/television acting workshops for kids.

This has proven to be one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done. I take pride in teaching, identifying and nurturing young talent. To watch some of my former students go on to book major blockbuster Hollywood films is surreal to say the least. Speaking of words “having power”, I thrive on teaching these young kids that the words they speak to themselves have the most power of all.

Although I cover the fundamentals of film and television acting, I teach in a manner where I build their self confidence and tell them that the two words “I can’t” are only a make believe limitation they create as a way to play it safe in life and avoid the possibility of failure.

I know this because I’ve lived it, and I know my life lessons are wisdom I can pass down to them. I make a point to bond with the parents if I truly feel a student possesses a certain “X factor”. There are a handful of parents I speak to regularly if they have questions or need advice regarding their child’s acting career. If there’s one thing I know without question that is if I discover a talented child in a workshop, I feel it’s my duty to find them an agent. I didn’t have anyone encouraging me into the arts when I was their age so this is something I’m extremely passionate about.

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For the past four years I’ve been training in the Meisner Technique with my acting coach Robyn Kay. Robyn Kay Studio has been a home away from home for me. She creates a safe space for actors to grow in their craft and I can say without question, meeting her and training with her has had the single biggest impact on my acting career. She has a vested interest in seeing her students succeed, and it shows in her passion to teach. When I teach kid acting workshops, I see why she loves to teach. I don’t think there’s anything more rewarding than helping someone see the talent they already possess within in themselves.

Since day one of my acting career my agents Breann Thordarson and Jessica Martins have been in my corner. Hero Artists Talent Agency is more than just who represents me, these

two ladies have had my back through it all and I am forever grateful to them both and consider them family. They’ve watched me evolve in every level of my life, and I know without even having to ask them that they are so very proud of me seeing where I’ve come from to get to the place I am today.

I have a motto in life which I’m sure most people can relate to, and that is “family over everything”. Yes, acting is my passion and vocation in life but with that being said, it will never come before being a Dad. My daughter Anne is the most important person in my life, she’s my world. I know my acting career is going to bring me to LA someday, but only when the time is right and I’ve watched my daughter grow up and graduate from high school.

Patience is a virtue, it can only be learned not taught. I have all the time in the world if I want it, I believe in goal-setting and writing down the things you want to achieve in life. I also believe in how life sometimes sends us detours, not to derail us from our dreams, but to build our character to prepare us for them.

We’ve all heard the saying “be careful what you wish for, it just might come true”; I say be bold in what you wish for so it does come true.”

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Synopsis Kijima Kaito (grade 5) moved with his family to Ogi-jimah, where his father was originally from, because of his mother’s illness. After the death of his mother, he lived with his father and grandfather.

Eventually his father left the island to go back to work as a photographer.

A Short Film by Keiko Umenoki

This was filmed with a focus on the scenery of Ogi Island, found within the Seto Naikai area and with a focus on the people living there. “W&M”, my previous film portrayed the lives of individual women visiting the island.

But during the creation of this film I had in mind the children, who’ve moved to the island and their growth and struggles regarding their future.

Yuu Takagi (also grade5), who recently moved to the island, smiles at him in the midst of his loneliness. The two of them grow up together and are now high school students.

My desire is to continue to show these films, both inside and outside of Kagawa, as a means of revitalising the islands of Seto Naikai and Kagawa prefecture.

This is a story of two children who moved to the island, fell in love, and grew up together.

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Cast Makoto Shinada as Kaito Kijima Kyoko Ujihara as Yuu Takagi Yoshiyuki Ito as Denjiro Kijima Akiko Kinouchi as Michiko Takagi Takaki Obayashi as Kaito Kijima’s Child Aoi Kobayashi as Yuu Takagi’s Child Crew Writing & Director Keiko Umenoki Director of Photography Tomoaki Iwakura Editor Takeshi Iwamoto Music Main theme guitar Music [Beyond the sky] by Howdy Music tomy M Ending theme song [Instead of saying good-bye] by Maiko Piano music [Dream diary]

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With two nominated entries for The Madrid International Film Festival, the filmmaker behind these, Chester Yang, gives us some insight into these extraordinary films.

Sierra Leone’s Disgruntled Youths A personal Journey into one of Africa’s poorest countries.

Produced, Directed & Shot By Chester Yang

SL Disgruntled Youths is a documentary by UK filmmaker, Chester who was a theatre actor and director when he fled the civil war in Sierra Leone over 22 years ago. 70% of the youths are unemployed and are struggling to survive the legacy of corruption and war in a devastated country. Chester takes you to various regions of the country to meet people who despite the vast natural resources their country produces live in desperate measures.

We see how they recycle cans to make pots, scavenge at old diamond mines, trade in the street, farm with no machines, carry loads weighing up to 100kg on their head to make money to live an inadequate life.

As the heavy weight hustlers take painkillers to nurse their agony, the musicians at the dumpsite sing the songs of war and peace; they show us their world, explaining their plights, questioning the corruption of their leaders and point out their view on development.

Today Europe is facing a migrant crisis and we only look at the problem from one angle.

SL Disgruntled Youths is a microcosm of the plight of the youths in Africa and it’s a personal testament on the reasons for people to migrate to better and safer places.

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CYCLING NOMADS Produced & Directed By Chester Yang

Three young men from Australia and Europe meet while travelling in Europe and embark on a journey from the Gateway of Europe, Turkey to Asia, through the ancient silk route of the Pamir Mountains, a beautiful, remote and dangerous part of Asia. Ben, Sam and Felix set out from the banks of the red sea with their bicycles and a bag pack to explore this mystical and deserted region. They take us to a world we might never venture to visit, especially on bicycles.

As they take us through breathtaking and majestic mountains and landscape, they struggle to fight the elements and danger of the journey. Eventually Ben is the only one left to complete the quest. The effect of being alone, lost in the wilderness creates a powerful view into the nature of humanity, our relationship with the environment, how willingly we venture into the unknown to escape our realities.

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NOTHING BEHIND A stunning feature film by Zhang ChunGuang

Every common life has its time of great passion When this couple appears together, it usually hits people right between the eyes: the skin of the women is purer than snow, her temperament is elegant; The man has a dark complexion and looks as though he may be from India.

One word that is particularly apt for this couple is “weird”.

Director Zhang ChunGuang comments: “The richness and variety of China’s current social life have provided rich materials for film creation.

Feature films, to be more specific, literary film and in this smaller category, Chinese films seem to be gaining wider acceptance.

Chinese people’s emotional delicacy, if not unique, is very different from European and American countries. It doesn’t even need a specific environment, that is, it can fully demonstrate this delicacy. We all use live action based on such a perception.”

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Zhang ChunGuang both wrote the script, and also directed the film. Also, his wife, who is a top student at musical college, created the score for the film and is also the producer of “Nothing Behind”.

“When I stood behind her, I heard the piano music coming out of her fingertips. My eyes were filled with tears” said Zhang ChunGuang.

With almost all their savings, the couple set off on a cinematic journey, as if they were running free in the wild. It seemed reckless, like the director’s pursuit of his wife, full of adventure.

“When I worked in shenzhen, as I first saw her picture from a friend, my life changed” explained Zhang ChunGuang.

In his first letter to her, a dozen pages long, he bragged about THE GODFATHER and PULP FICTION. He didn’t know if she was interested in movies. The girl, who was no more than twenty-two at the time, and with a little humility in her reply, spoke with great interest of LEGENDS OF THE FALL and SEVEN. In traditional Chinese culture, matchmakers are HongNiang (Ms.), and their matchmakers, who are not only of different genders, but also appear to be more spectacular and powerful.

“Why make such a film, because we never forget the past, because as time goes by, we have a deeper experience of the truth: all mediocre life, all had blood in.”

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What makes this small independent film special is that it’s a vintage wine from life.

Two of the main creators, the couple, were lucky enough to have been inspired by movies since they were young.

Director’s alley is facing a cinema, he was very young go to the cinema alone, even after he bought a ticket to enter, he is interested in the encounter and not interested in the film and is in the movie theater playing a kind of hide and seek. I believe that for a moment, the film was still subtly affecting him. There are all kinds of ways to see movies. “Quentin Tarantino was watching in the store. No one knows what ambition he had. All we know is that if he’s conscientious enough, there’s only one good guy in the world, and one less master” explained Zhang ChunGuang.

The director’s producer wife, who was also teaching children to play the piano, regularly watched two or three films on the weekly coach home. During the long journey, hanging on in front of the coach a small light of the screen shot of the movie, reflects each passenger’s face.

By combining the rich plots of scattered jumps into such a complete and coherent story, we can see that every bit of old life is firmly locked in their heart.

Time goes on, life goes on, and no one stays in the old days.

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Almost everyone has a cameo in the cast, the producer, the director, the juicers, the recording engineer, the make-up artists, the driver of the cast; they are in the way like a mirror and have left an indelible mark in this film.

In the movie, there are old friends in hometown, a small restaurant landlady, college students and taxi drivers living by the road, It also naturally created a social custom picture scroll, making this film without an academic atmosphere, thus sending out a unique warmth and intimacy.

Film producer: Qian Qian Director / writer : Zhang ChunGuang Photography director: DengKen Music director: Qian Qian Starring: Liu QiYuan Wu XiaoChen Film editor: Mei HuaGuang

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GUMM [ LOST ]

‘GUMM’ is about a man who wakes up in the middle of nowhere with no recollection of his past, and now has to face the consequences of his actions.

It is the struggle of a man for his family. The film revolves around two characters who are interlinked by a series of unfortunate events involving thriller, action, drama and romance.

A Feature film by Kanza Zia & Ammar Lasani

‘GUMM’is changing the course of Pakistan film Industry’s history. It has been selected in 8 International Film Festivals and won 5 Awards worldwide. ‘GUMM’ has been nominated in 4 categories at The Madrid Asia International Film Festival including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. No Pakistani film has ever been recognised at such level.

The film is written and directed by Ammar Lasani and Kanza Zia. The debut directors have emphasized on visual storytelling in their film, for which they took some bold decisions involving creative and unique techniques. “Being environmentalists, a major portion of the film has been shot in the jungle to subconsciously highlight the graveness of the issue of deforestation. Also, the entire jungle sequence is shot on a single wide lens and all in natural light. The shots of the film depict the story accurately.” Ammar and Kanza were not only the directors of the film, but they were also the directors of photography, editors and background musicians.“One of the major things which we attribute to the success of ‘GUMM’ is that all of its aspects are entirely gelled in. We did not let go of the vision, hence film came out to be exactly how we envisioned it in the conceptual stage.”

However, it did not happen easily. Ammar said, “they faced a lot of problems because films are in a budding stage in Pakistan and people hardly understand the scope of celluloid.” Kanza added, “as a woman, it was a greater challenge to lead the position as a captain of the ship.”

The directors believe that ‘GUMM’ shall explore the good and bad in all of us. “We are all grey in real life, playing different roles, continuously fighting for our loved ones.”

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MODERN LOVE

Run Time 112 mins

The film describes the loneliness and mental conflict of a woman who lost her boyfriend, and the wavering emotions which followed.

Directed by Takuya Fukushima

This is a science fiction, as well as a philosophical and a totally unexpected story. The story asks the question, “What is true love?” This film is surely entertaining, and definitely one of a kind.

MODERN LOVE is Takuya Fukushima’s new feature film after eight years. One of his earlier films, OUR BRIEF ETRNITY, released nationwide, was highly acclaimed at the Tokyo International Film Festival and around the world.

STORY NASA announces the discovery of a new planet in the solar system, Emanon, where life might exist.

Despite people’s enthusiasm, abnormal weather events occur frequently.

As a director, Takuya Fukushima has been described as “outrageously gifted,” “distinguished” and “a leading figure in the independent film sphere.”

Working part-time at a travel agency, Mika is doing her Master’s degree in theoretical physics. She hasn’t been able to get over Teru, her boyfriend who disappeared five years ago. As a matter of fact, she spends every day talking to Teru in her delusions.

One day, Mika suddenly experiences déjà vu and meets a version of herself…

Director’s profile After working under Gakuryu (Sogo) Ishii, Takuya Fukushima established P-kraft which has been the base of his activities thereafter. His first film PRISM marked a record high of visitors at the theater where the film was released. OUR BRIEF ETERNITY was officially screened at film festivals around the world starting with Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2016, a special screening titled ESCAPE FROM THIS FUCKIN WORLD/TAKUYA FUKUSHIMA’S COLLECTION was held.

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FEELING YOU A Feature film by Yuez Zeng

The film tells the story of a man and woman from two different time periods. Through mysterious forces they are interconnected, they share senses of touch and sounds in a love story that transcends space and time. FEELING YOU directed by Yuez Zeng, a new and vigorous female 90s director of China, graduated from Beijing Film Academy, and she also has the thinking of writing, editing & thinking. She likes to break through and innovate, and likes to constantly explore interesting and novel expression of film.

“This film is a fairy tale and also a pure love story. The two people in this film will sacrifice themselves for each other. They are soul mates in fate. At present, Chinese directors do not choose to make pure love stories because the society is too complicated. They are growing up or working, and they are always trying to climb up and overshadow their weaknesses.

In the selection of spouses, they take profits as their priority. They laugh at poverty and give compliment to wealth. As a female director who is a minority in China. I hope to tell everyone in this movie that we should love for love and live for happiness. No matter how many coincidences overlap, whether it is destined to meet each other, we must be sure to find the one who is destined to accompany you to complete your life.” jill.wang.2016@gmail.com

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Beneath the Diamond Sky A young man’s rational perception of the world is challenged and ultimately overturned by his confrontation of the supernatural and the revelation of his own fate as the world draws towards imminent apocalypse.

This film is about an unusual change to our conscious awareness in the near future.

Thematically, the narrative deals with the interaction of external and internal forces with our destiny, as well as with the awareness of our self. It depicts a world that is similar to ours, but where the supernatural presence of an unknown calibre is immediate and its purpose is not apparent. We are led to believe that an apocalyptic change is imminent, but the conclusion indicates that this is not a certainty.

The genre is science fiction mystery, and the film is set in the near future of mankind, but because this is not quite an alternate reality world, the story is also about our own.

This project was a student film made during a university break, and I was very honoured that my script attracted the attention of some well-known figures. The team included Ben Hecking (director of photography), whose film won in two categories at this festival last year and whose participation made the project especially enjoyable.

Having this work nominated in two categories – best original screenplay of a short film and best supporting actor in a short film – was a great graduation present (I just completed an MA in English at the University of St Andrews).

I am now looking at the material that has accumulated over the last few years, aiming to begin the next project.

A brilliant short film by Arseny Muchnick

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Best Original Screenplay of a Short Film Madrid IFF 2018

Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film Madrid IFF 2018

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THE KING OF METIABRUZ A Feature Film By Joydeep Das

Is life purely circumstantial or is everything predestined? The King of Metiabruz is a strong, evocative story depicting the uncanny parallels in the struggling fate of a king, or “raja”, some 150 years back in colonial ruled India and that of our introverted protagonist, also named Raja. As a successful Indian immigrant, Raja is forced to face a series of adversities under the wake of the current environment in the United States. Is Raja’s life in a quandary? What of his budding relationship with Moumita, a resilient Bengali woman also facing deep societal prejudices of her own? The King of Metiabruz explores a very relevant subject brought to life by Joydeep’s’ nuanced use of imagery and powerful storytelling.

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Making a living as a corporate finance professional, Joydeep is a self-taught Seattle based hobbyist filmmaker. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, he derived his initial love for filmmaking from the works of the Indian masters Satyajit Ray, Ritwick Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. “The King Of Metiabruz” is his third film after “In Search of Fairytale” (short /2013) and “The Decision” (feature/2015).

Joydeep’s films have been featured in festivals in the U.S., Canada and India. He makes his films on a tight shoe string budget using bare bone and self-made equipment. The cast and crew of all his films are all amateurs recruited from the local Seattle community. The story, script, cinematography, editing and music design of his movies are also envisioned and brought to life by him.

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A TRIP WITH FRIENDS A film by Chang Gyun Kim

“By the time you read this, I will have finished filming my 5th film. Generally, if a movie that you were preparing for is stopped due to circumstances, no one knows when it will start again.

However, for my films, if the actors are willing, I try not to stop filming even if it means I have to change the plot. My first three films, ‘Cine Cafe in Paris’, ‘Snapshot’ and ‘A Trip with Friends’ turned out differently than I originally planned, The first film was actually completely filmed in Paris but originally it was supposed to be filmed in various cities in Italy. However, the hotel prices at one of the candidate cities, Milano, was too expensive so I gave up.

I didn’t have experience travelling in Europe at the time, so I made a mistake and as a result, the budget suddenly increased a month before filming had started. However, the main actress was adamant, therefore, we decided to film only in Paris and the plot was completely changed.

The second movie I prepared for was originally “A Trip With Friends” and after picking five actresses, there was around four to five months to prepare. The reason why the preparation period was so long is because the actresses were all unknown and had little to no experience, so they needed practice.

Eventually, because the preparation process was too long, I created a comedy called “Snapshot” with the 2 actresses that stayed with me till the end. Also for the third film, I started with 4 actresses but in the end, there were only two left. Once, a movie was cancelled because only one actress was left, so I contacted her again. Fortunately, she wanted to be in the film so I made “A Trip With Friends” with three actresses.

This movie reflected the actresses’ thoughts the most. This is due to the actresses quitting in the middle, the preparation process was much shorter. The third movie that I originally planned was about a male director who was torn between a rich female producer and a poor female writer.”

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ISLAND OF DOCTOR MORON A film by Chris Dockrill, Island Grunt and The New Olympia Theatre Company

Edwyna and her bumbling boyfriend, Douggie, are shipwrecked, captured by a band of crazy Rastafarian natives led by Voodoo Valma and her right-hand man, Balthasar, almost cooked and sacrificed and then sold to the maniacal Doctor Moron for his experiments in genetic mutation.

Along the way they meet Rubber Gloves, the Slave Market Junkie (featured in the poster), Brother Bob the hip black American preacher whose singing rips the paint off the walls, Schnapps the manic photo historian and Fitter and Turner, the doctor’s dwarf lab assistants who just love the ‘wet jobs’. What a night! What a show!

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“We filmed the show with 14 cameras per shoot over many nights’ performances. We then took ten months in the editing suite to assemble a cinematic film of the live show in perfect 5.1 sound.”

The result is a unique film that, as Dockrill explains, “is like the live show on steroids.”

Indeed, one major paper in Australia, tagged the film as ‘Rocky Horror on Steroids’ (Google it!). “We wanted to smash through the fourth wall and propel the viewer into the show,” said Dockrill. This is precisely what the film does, as the Vox pops and thousands of amazed audience members confirm.

What is great about the film is that its appeal cuts across all ages, genders and tastes. Jack Thompson AM, one of Australia’s most famous stage and screen actors followed the evolution of the show from early rehearsals to the live show and then to the film. Thompson is on record as saying: “The Island of Doctor Moron has breathed new life into live musical theatre. I witnessed the live show work its magic on a fullhouse audience of all ages. The film of the show is amazing; it has captured and amplified that magic. The energy and fun the film produces is irresistible.” Matthew Reilly, international best seller and action writer who saw both the live show and the film said of ‘Moron’, “Moron is fun. If you want a good night out, go and see Moron.” Reilly’s fans number in the hundreds of thousands so he should know what appeals.

That aptly sums up this wonderful film. If you want a good night out, go and see Moron! www.theislandofdoctormoron.com

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TOP RIGHT: BALTHASAR - CRAMER CAIN AS BALTHASAR WITH ENSEMBLE MEMBER LUCAS RUZICZKA (ROSE). MIDDLE RIGHT: BROTHER BOB - WAYNE MCDANIEL AS BROTHER BOB. MIDDLE LEFT: DANCERS2 - ENSEMBLE WITH CHOREOGRAPHER, DAVID CAM FAR RIGHT. LOWER LEFT: EDDIE - LYNDEL ARTHUR AS EDWYNA “UNDER DOCTOR’S ORDERS”.

Eight countries, nine international film festivals and thousands of delighted fans. That’s the track record so far for this amazing and unique film of an original Australian rock musical called The Island of Doctor Moron®. This film is what cocreator/producer/director, Chris Dockrill calls a “hybrid”. “We created and produced the live show in Sydney in late 2014,” he said. “With a cast of 35 actors and musicians, the show is a powerhouse of original music, energy-packed choreography, larger-than-life characters and a plot that takes you on a strange and unforgettable journey to this zany island.

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JAMBITE

Production In 2017 Hypatia Pictures decided to produce the short film called “Jambite” to point out its social issue, greceiving a nomination as best short film at the Madrid Film Festival.

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The story was written by the journalist Hilary White that also received another nomination for best screenplay.

Same educational opportunity for everyone!

The Nigerian word “Jambite” identifies students who in Nigeria have the privilege to go to university. This short film focuses on an existing social issue where not all of the students that are refugees in Europe can go to University.

The international production was directed by the Italian director Alessandra Usai and coproduced together with Valeria Bandino, an actress and producer.

In the crew there were Irish, Polish, Brazilian and Hungarian nationals and in the cast were also professionals from several different nationalities where we find as the protagonist Rachel Moyne, a young girl of Nigerian origin, who debuts with this short taking her first nomination as best actress.

A story based on the real-life experiences Zita along with her family are residents in one of Ireland’s Direct Provision centres. It has been five years since they arrived as refugees and their status shows no sign of changing.

Zita is about to graduate from secondary school and along with her mother Lewa and younger brother Daraja arrives at the college for the graduation day.

During the Principal’s speech, Zita has flashbacks to her last 5 years and thinks back to her arrival in Ireland, her first day of school, her first love and many other beautiful memories that make her feel Irish and proud to be in this country.

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At the end of the secondary school graduation ceremony, she is sad instead of happy because she is worried about her future and the possibility to go on to the University; she starts to realize that all her dreams for the future can be destroyed. She will never be a “Jambite”!

Despite considering herself Irish the State begs to differ. She is a refugee and cannot have the same rights of education as of the other Irish students.

At a time when most young teenagers are looking forward to a bright future, Zita can only resign herself to the limbo that Direct Provision forces her and the other 2,000 children in Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres to endure.

Social Issue How cruel to deny this girl her dreams... as well as the dreams of many others.

Because of the Direct Provision System, in Ireland nearly 2000 children continue to live in centres around the country. Although the state has granted them the schooling, what happens after they graduate from secondary school?

Why must these children pay such high ‘foreign’ student fees for University (around €10,000/year excluding books) whilst the families are very poor?

This short film’s production has been very hard due to the great difficulties in raising money and support because the topic is about refugees in Europe, even if the problem concerns young people.

It has been months spent to organizing the production, to find locations, the cast and crew and also the money to cover the costs.

Only two schools that were not managed

by Irish people agreed to collaborate for the shoot. We didn’t give up and we found some other people that accepted to support the film and in the end, we were able to make this film.

The film, focusing on an Ireland case, wants to denounce a social problem that still exist in many countries where the young refugees do not have the same rights to the education system as other teenagers.

In 2018, the education should be a right for everyone, but in western countries it is not, and to thousands of teenagers that are refugees it is to negate this right to continue to study by a taxation system that penalises them.

This is a common problem for many European countries.

What next We think that this film deserves to be shared and to travel around the world to have people talking about its social issue.

Please help us in sharing the message: Same educational opportunity for everyone! http://hypatiapictures.com

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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant A stunning documentary film

by Herbert Golder A fresh and candid glimpse of one of the great masters of cinema at work, by his longtime friend (of more than 25 years) and collaborator (on 10 films) Herbert Golder, BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT chronicles Werner Herzog’s making of the feature film, MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (co-written by Golder), which was nominated for a GOLDEN LION at the Venice Film Festival, and which stars Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, and Chloe Sevigny.

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MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE was inspired by the true story of an actor who acted out in reality the crime he was supposed to enact on stage in a production of an ancient Greek play: he murdered his mother. BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT explores the process through which this true story, itself inspired by a fiction, is transformed back into a fiction—that is, a narrative feature film—once again.

Unlike other documentaries which have been made about Herzog, in which he stares

almost defiantly into the camera and, in his inimitable way and in his famous voice, articulates his views on life, this film shows a side of him known only to his friends and close collaborators. Although refreshingly candid and surprisingly revealing, this portrait in no way diminishes Herzog’s mystique—quite the contrary—but it does deepen our appreciation of his humanity, and offers, through Golder’s running commentary—as much part of an ongoing conversation with Herzog as a conversation with the viewer—an insider’s insight into his craft. Even as we come closer

to knowing Herzog more intimately in this film, we also become increasingly aware of his privacy and the deep solitude that in some essential way defines him. Herzog’s idea that film should be, not analysis, but an “agitation of the mind” informs the telling of the story that unfolds here. Not without its moments of humor and warmth, BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT nonetheless manages to explore, through what we see taking shape on screen and through Golder’s voiceover narration, some of the most abiding and deepest themes of Herzog’s films.

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All men dream, but not equally . . .

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The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd Written and directed by Uwe Schwarzwalder

This drama is about a businessman, Jeff Boyd, who dreams of living in Australia.

When he signs an investment contract, he’s full of hope to be able to leave with a pocket full of cash. He soon realizes that it’s not that easy. And after a heavy argument with his boss, Jeff’s world collapses. That’s when he meets a young woman, Wendy, also in a delicate state. Their common worries about what the world turns into comes more and more into light, and they decide that they want to change that with a dangerous plan!

The cast includes Uwe Schwarzwalder, Yessica Sanchez, Zarina Tadjibaeva, Jörg Reichlin, Julian Booth, Brian Pinkus, Freigeist van Tazzy, Leonard Kocan, Patricia Sluka and many more.

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Gillespie who also wrote and performed “Fall” and Amanda Ply with “Waiting”, who all underlined the film with a vivid score.

This is his first film as a director. He tried to bring out the essence of each character and to stay truthful to the moment. (So truthful, that one time a real police SWAT

team showed up as they suspected a hold up. Also important to him was the logical aspect of the story being told. All had to make sense and be believable as it would be in real life. And it becomes the real life - with weaknesses, vulnerabilities and objectives.

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Tin Pan Alley

Redevelopment now threatens the future livelihood of music-based artisans in this historic street.

A fascinating feature documentary of “Britain’s music street” by Henry Scott-Irvine

This documentary concludes by illustrating how London is losing this creative hub to gentrification.

Britain’s birthplace of popular music and song Tin Pan Alley aka Denmark Street remains London’s only street of musical instrument shops.

‘Tin Pan Alley’ has resided in London’s Denmark Street since Francis, Day & Hunter the first music publishers moved-in back in 1906.

The loss and destruction of areas of cultural heritage is naturally of international concern.

This is the first full length documentary to highlight this pressing matter.

It was home to songwriters, music venues, recording studios, rehearsal spaces, demo studios and music instruments shops, as well as being the birthplace of British Silent Cinema, before becoming London’s ‘Little Tokyo’ until World War 2.

Director Statement Tales From Tin Pan Alley is told by key people who worked in London’s Denmark Street. The interviews were given in the wake of music being threatened in Tin Pan Alley/Denmark Street.

London’s Tin Pan Alley remains unparalleled.

30 people who worked in this legendary music street take us on a 110-year journey through Tin Pan Alley, aided by British broadcasterauthors Dan Cruikshank, Paul French, Joshua Levene and Will Self.

The true ‘unsung heroes’ of Tin Pan Alley are the musicians, the songwriters, the music publishers, the technicians and the people from behind-thescenes who have come out of the woodwork, out of history and out of retirement to approach us. Individuals that would be very hard to find in any other circumstance have come forward from across the globe, saying, ‘We want to be in this special documentary film!’

Contributors include singer Dame Vera Lynn, ‘Skiffler’ Chas McDevitt, The Small Faces’ drummer Kenney Jones, David Bowie’s bassist Herbie Flowers, Sex Pistols’ bassist Glen Matlock, Damned guitarist Captain Sensible, Beta Band’s Steve Mason, soul singer Linda Lewis, Tom Jones songwriter Barry Mason, Eurovision hit songwriter Bill Martin, Music Industry Legend Eric Hall, Acid Jazz’s Eddie Piller and Guardian journalist Simon Usbourne, among others tinpanalleytales.co.uk

We have them here now. This is their story - a contemporary urban Canterbury Tale - a vital testament from over 30 musicians, broadcasters and historians.

Henry Scott-Irvine

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Uwe Schwarzwalder wrote the story in late summer 2014. When meeting the actors, he tried to connect on a personal level instead of the usual audition process. The core scenes were shot within a few weeks early in 2015 while adding additional shots continuously until 2016. Post production was eventually a very long process, in co-operation with 4 musicians, Michael Klubertanz, Paco Periago and Brendan

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Korazon Okupao [ OCCUPIED HEART ]

by Alejandro G. Etola

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Korazon Okupao ( Occupied Heart), is a black comedy that uses the fish out of water technique, widely used in comedies of all sorts, in a naive and thought provoking manner.

The protagonist has to face two different kinds of antagonists: his overprotective father and the overprotective father of his love interest, the leader of the squatters. And to add to the theme of the overprotective father, there is another father: the Spanish state, which makes laws in favor of the squatters.

The film is also a coming of age feature. By infiltrating the gang of squatters, which have occupied his house, the protagonist gains the necessary self esteem and confidence to face the squatters and get the girl. And eventually, he will replace his love for the marijuana plants, with the real love that has occupied his heart. The occupied house, an Eden like home, is like another character in the film and represents the protagonist’s ego, the dream world. And this is why the dream sequences in the film are so important in the understanding of his inner turmoil caused by his

overprotective father. And show with great accuracy and lively images in slow motion, the inner turmoil of the protagonist.

The film takes place in Madrid, in the month of August, when the inhabitants flea to coastal areas to escape the summer sun. And it was actually shot in Madrid during the hottest three weeks of the summer of 2016.

Filming during this time of the year had two main advantages: it was easier to shoot in public places and the lack of rain, and even clouds, made everyday count. And this was crucial due to the fact that everyone was multitasking. It was not a film with no crew, like “El Mariachi” by Robert Rodriguez. Because there were two sound operators in hand taking turns. The fact that the crew was small, in all honesty, made the film very gratifying to shoot and everyone left the film with a special bond. And, this low budget indy film, has no intentions of being larger than life. And that makes this film very honest and very entertaining to watch.

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Shomshuklla Das Writer, Director, Producer ...Auteur.

With three films in competition in Madrid: “Murals”, “Mixed Medium” & Flowers & A Lap of Rose”, here we look at Shomshuklla’s background to find out a little more about this talented, driven and stylish filmmaker

2006 was the year of growth for Shomshuklla. She was at the peak of directing whilst staging her plays, under the banner of Kali Theatre in India with performances across the country. That was the year too, for her to make the huge decision of changing her profession from dramatist to a filmmaker.

Thus, followed years of self-training, learning the nuances of film making.

Having never been to film school, Shomshuklla is self taught with an intense filming regime.

In 2012 all her training culminated in her directorial debut, “Sandcastle”, the story of the journey of a woman, to find who she is.

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Film festivals began recognising her work and other filmmakers started identifying with her story, with critics comparing her style to the film making to Terence Mallick and awards across the globe began pouring in.

For her there is no looking back. She realised this is her journey, to be a filmmaker.

The years following “Sandcastle” were hectic as she started writing more scripts and shooting more films. There was no stopping her.

“Chhuti aar picnic (picnic)” a musical film was then shot followed by “Hopscotch”, a psychological horror, where she expressed that she was highly influenced by Polanski & “Tiktok” soon followed. She started creating her own style, which was both experimental and unique.

Her, poetic film, “Flowers and a lap of rose” won the Legend award at a US Festival and an award was created in her name.

Her unique style of film making evoked enthusiasm for research by the University of Maryland, which is to emphasise her technique, as this is not taught at the film school.

Thus, her journey of film making has given her a rounded career, where it is not only the Festivals that appreciate her work but also, she has become a part of an academic career.

The life she has chosen to live.

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MURALS “We shot the film in Kenya. It was an absolutely a fantastic shoot with the wildlife around us, their life and living.

I conceived the film to be shot in a resort and thought Africa will be the right place.

I acted in the film for the first time thus it was wonderfully challenging for me. As I had to check the shot and the frame and act as well!

The lead actor Sumanto Chattopadhyay had already acted in my previous film (“White Bee”) thus he was very comfortable with the script.

Alot of inputs also came from the DOP Ashish Singh as well.

It was interesting that after we landed at the resort, we started marking the spots of our shoot.

The whole experience was full of adventure.

It is the story of a couple who parted without saying a clear good bye. They suddenly meet in the resort and find each other; and are completely surprised.

Their parting remains unclear and they want to find out what went wrong but, whilst they go through the reason of their previous breakup, they slowly begin to get involved again. While in this journey of life they are unsure whether to become committed once again to each other. Will this renewed relationship work for them?

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I shot this film all across Mumbai in India. Around the sea front, street, even in an art festival, thus getting some awesome props to enhance the journey and life of artists. Two plays which are staged in the film are my famous two plays, which I performed at the Edinburgh fringe festival, called We Draupadis and Sita’s, and Oh Gandhari, Oh Kunti which was performed in the famed Kala ghoda art festival in India.

Mixed Medium is a story of the artists portraying the difference between their real and reel life.

It is a journey of how surreal their work and life is whereas in real life, a simple cup of coffee can enlighten their day. Life full of mixed mediums and a way they live their life sometimes artistically or sometimes intellectually. They may be in their dream world full of aspirations but it’s the rain that brings them to reality. It’s a story of how they rehearse and perform for their stage show, and contradicts to that how relax and how they like to be in their own space. Also, you will understand how romance and love plays a critical role in each day of their lives.

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MIXED MEDIUM Mixed Medium has been directed by multiple award winning woman indie filmmaker, Shomshuklla, whose previous award winning works include such dramas as Sandcastle (the story of a woman finding her true identity), A Holiday & A Picnic (an adaptation of Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore’s famous romantic novella, Shesher Kobita), Hopscotch (a psychological horror film) and her recent release TikTok TikTok (a surreal, romantic film).She and her team have received multiple awards at several Festivals including for Best Cinematography, Best Male Lead, Best Director & Best Foreign Language Film.

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FLOWERS AND A LAP OF ROSE “Flowers and a lap of rose is my 6th feature film and very close to my heart. The film was shot in some of the exotic locations of New York and India. Initially the script of the film was written in poetic layout. The thought was to give an ethereal look to the film, because of which we planned the shoot during the snow in New York. And by God’s grace and our luck, just a couple of days before we planned to shoot, a snow storm hit the city and covered the entire central park and other places with fresh snow. It looked magical.

Bharat Dabholkar, the lead male actor of my film is a reputed actor in Indian Cinema. His character sketch was designed in such a way so that it gives a distinctive look to the film; a masculine well built man having a good time with his dog and bird. He is playing the character of a poet in the film.

My female lead, Ria Patel who acted as the muse in my film is an alumni of LA film school. She got connected to me and showed interest when I narrated to her the story of my film. She played

her character wonderfully and has added beautiful flavours to my film.

My DOP, Alex Megarowho is also a great friend and is from New York. I met him at a festival and got connected with him. The best thing that I liked about him was where he could visualize all of my ideas and give me exactly what I wanted from my film. Each frame that he shoots for my film is very artistic; he understands the brief. He is an award winning

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director and cinematographer.

With great effort and hard work put in by all of my team we created this amazing art piece!”

Synopsis One can find love in the beauty of flowers or the verses of poems.

Flowers and a lap of rose is a story of an established poet and the magic of his verse.

It’s a story of finding a world

in your dreams. The story makes you love yourself. One odd day something deep and a romantic sensation pushed him and he decided to pen a new sonnet. It is all about this young starry-eyed girl who is in her own journey of discovery, she see everything differently.

As the poet started writing this new poem he began to sail in a reverie with this charismatic girl of obsession. cuttocut.ent@gmail.com Drama

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THE WILD DANCE

THE FILM THE WILD DANCE is a feature film made with the purpose of creating awareness, as well as incubating general reflections, debates and motivating action that can help prevent the horrors of human trafficking.

A powerful feature film produced

by German Castilla & Bernardo De Urquidi

Human trafficking is a global phenomenon of terrifying scale. In 2017 alone, there were more slaves than at any other point in history.

In order to fulfill its goal, the film is divided into six different sections, each dealing with a specific topic related to human trafficking. The stories depicted throughout the film were the result of a strenuous and meticulous process of both research and creative development involving seven film directors and more than twenty experts of various areas: sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, criminalists, and specialists in human rights and human trafficking.

According to a report issued by the White House*(¿Año? Seríamejortenerlo, pero no es de vida o muerte)*, more than 27 million people around the world suffer conditions comparable to slavery. Although anyone can be in danger of being caught in the web of organized crime, when it comes to exploitation, children and young people are in especially serious danger because they are not familiar with the mechanisms that are usually used to draw them in.

SYNOPSIS Internet as a victim facilitator for sexual slavery, underage hit men, child labor and workers under inhuman conditions, dysfunctional shelters, victims of collateral damage and distraught families are some of the topics engaged by THE WILD DANCE. THE PURPOSE Produced by non-governmental organization Educadores sin Fronteras and the producers ReflektoKreativo and Bala Films, the film aims to serve as an alarm signal and as a looking glass that reveals the background of many seemingly harmless situations to young people. It also seeks to raise awareness among those who believe that people who offer sexual services often do so voluntarily. In most cases they have been victims of organized crime and live in a form of slavery. The film aims to offer a powerful message: without consumers there can be no human trafficking.

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FAR AWAY PLACES A short film by Tatiana Shanks

In the late 1970’s, a 12 year old streetwise boy from Los Angeles travels to the island of Tahiti to visit his Tahitian relatives. During his stay, he is stirred and shaken by the discovery that his little 9 year old cousin is secretly being abused by one of the locals. We see her grow from being a shy and reserved little girl, into this brave and fierce one as her American cousin becomes her protector. This is a story based on true events about tragedy, love, bravery and triumph!

“I believe film is the best medium to tell a story. I have created this film for the sole purpose of deepening peoples understanding of important issues in life. Creating films isn’t just for entertainment purposes. It’s a visual art that can make you feel and understand a subject you may yourself have or never experienced before.

We often grow an attachment while watching films and are emotionally moved, which leaves us inspired and compelled to want to do more.”

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CARLINHOS DE JESUS “Dancing is a celebration for me, it's a rite of passage”

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“The Brazilian" is an independent documentar y about the rise of major ballroom dancer and choreographer: Carlinhos de Jesus.

Born in the poor outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Carlinhos raised into stardom by following his dreams and by dancing through ever y challenge live has thrown his way.

F rom the tragic loss of his mother and son, Carlinhos is an example of how you can-look at life as a journey to improve yourself.

He celebrates and overcomes death and tragedy through his dancing, his art and his incredible creativity. inn Carlinhos is an innovator and a key figure in the countr y’s cultural histor y, as he was the first dancer to create a choreography for samba dancing, allowing samba to be shown in theaters and included in the world-famous Brazilian Carnival.

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MILLION LOVES IN ME A Feature Film by Kenny Chan & John Y

Multi-award winning film, MILLION LOVES IN ME made its debut onto the big screen in cinemas in Malaysia on 24 May 2018.

MILLIONLOVES IN ME follows the story of a wealthy mother and daughter who suffer from the psychological issues of obsessive – compulsive disorders, and their controversial private lives are exposed to thepublic through a charge of their animal hoarding behavior by the police.

The story begins when Katy, the 45-year old daughter, is charged with animal cruelty after the police discover more than a hundred dogs and cats being hoarded at her apartment.

Following her trial at the court,the abnormal lives of Katy and her mother are unveiled.

Behind their weird appearances, the mother and daughter live an extremely well-off life, with an uncontrollable urge to shop excessively for clothes, handbags and pets…

Million Loves In Me has already received over 100 awards worldwide since February 2017.

Million Loves in Me is produced by Kenny CHAN and John Y, first time producers of a feature film. It is interesting to note that John Y was the lawyer acting for the real life Katy in the court case. He has empathy towards the real life Katy that prompted him and gave him inspirations into writing the original screenplay of the film.

Home Away – a feature motion picture that has been nominated for multiple awards at the Nice International Filmmaker Festival – and here we profile the man behind this stunning film: Oliver Yan.

Oliver Yan was born and raised in Shanghai.

He graduated from university in 2002 where he studied physics and he made his first short film “R” that had no dialogue in 2008, screening at the Cannes Film Festival short film corner and then won Best Foreign Short Film in the Washougal international Film Festival in the same year. In 2011, He wrote, directed, shot, edited and produced his first experimental feature “Flipping” which then won the Best Foreign Feature and Best Screenplay (nominated) at the 2012 Madrid International Film Festival. Oliver’s third short film The Help which he wrote, directed and produced won the Award for Best Director in World Film Awards and Best Screenplay in Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival and also received other nominations including Best Foreign Short Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress at several international film festivals including the European Independent Film Festival, World Art Film Festival 2014. His new feature movie HOME AWAY has won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematographer, Best Lead Actor, Best Editor at the NYC Indie Film Awards 2017.

Million Loves In Me has received positive reviews and feedback upon its release.

Different audiences have different feelings about the film. Some like the comedic part and some have sadness leaving the cinemas.

Most of the audience commented that upon watching, they do not have a single question as to why the film has received so many awards.

The producers of the film have scheduled the film to be released in Los Angeles, USA and have already edited a US version of the film fit for an American audience.

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This debatable drama about animal hoarding, mental disorder and confinement of life is the acting debut of John Y The mother, Mami is played by LO Koon-Lan , a famous and renowned actress in Hong Kong. She is a frequent winner of acting awards in stages and films. She has been a professor of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

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It was also nominated as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematographer, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 New York City International Film Festival.

Director Statement “As a filmmaker, I believe that film is about stories and is an instrument for story-telling and raising questions by means of which more people may start to think about what human value means, especially in the background of today’s Chinese society. We need to assume responsibility for everything, draw inspiration from everything that happens around us and learn about and recognize our problems. Aside from being an instrument, film art is, more importantly, a medium for awakening the mind”.

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THE BLOOD HOUND Directed by Liu Jianhua & presented

by YONG WEI FILMS

Two forest rangers and their families clash amongst the remote mountains of Western China.

SYNOPSIS: Lao Gou is a forest ranger stationed at Tianshan Mountain in Western China. He patrols the mountains accompanied by dogs which he trains and keeps in kennels, giving rise to friction between him and his wife Wang Rong who feels that Lao Gou takes better care of the dogs than he does his own wife and two daughters.

One day Lao Gou crosses the path of Zhang Biao, a ranger who arranges an illegal hunting expedition which targets a rare local wolf under Lao Gou’s protection. Lao Gou’s actions lead to Zhang Biao’s imprisonment, and whilst serving his sentence, Zhang Biao swears to take revenge against Lao Gou.

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When he is eventually released, Zhang Biao puts his plans into action and attacks Lao Gou, his dogs, and even his family. The strain of the ensuing troubles leads to the breakdown of Lao Gou’s marriage. Ultimately his elder daughter’s life is threatened as a result of Zhang Biao’s growing passion for her. After various struggles, Lao Gou and his younger daughter find themselves stranded in the snow and attacked by the wolves.

Rambo, Lao Gou’s lead dog, runs to get help, but it is eventually Zhang Biao himself who saves the day by shooting the protected wolves before giving himself up to the police.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT In order to achieve an authentic feel for this film, we raised wolves and trained dogs for six years and travelled deep into the Tianshan Mountains.

The script too underwent extensive re-writes to capture the sensibility we wanted to express.

We feel this film is a Chinese film with a westernChinese feel. A number of excellent films of its kind, such as Yellow Earth and Red Sorghum, have ever been “business cards” for Chinese films in the wider world.

The film’s themes are varied: forest protection, love and protection of animals, a desire for justice, relations between humankind and nature … We think the film covers all these, with a focus on people’s persistence in holding to their ideals and integrity and their need for self-salvation.

Such qualities are particularly relevant in today’s acquisitive world.

Director: Liu Jianhua Liu Jianhua was born in 1957. He currently works as a director for Western Movie Group Co. Ltd and as director, producer and art director for the Arts Center of Xi’an TV Station.

He is a member of the China TV programmemakers Association and a member of the China Film Association. He is an honorary professor in Northwest University and was named one of the top ten TV artists and Excellent Director and Producer in Shaanxi Province. His TV dramas have won various prestigious national awards. The Blood Hound is his first feature film. To prepare for filming, seven years were spent raising and training wolves and dogs and six years writing and polishing the screenplay.

Filmography The Blood Hound (2017) 1. 2ndAward, Chinese Film Festival, The Montreal World Film Festival 2017 2. Best Social Contribution Award, the 13th Chinese American Film Festival 2017 3. Best Feature Film Award, 3rd Silk Road InternationalFilm Festival 2016 4. Silver Remi Award, Action-Adventure, WorldHouston International Film Festival 2018 5. Nominated for Best Original Score, Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film and Best Director of a Foreign Language Feature Film, Madrid International Film Festival 2018 6.presented in the Panorama Section, the 7thZabaikalskyInternational Film Festival 7. Presented at 31stGolden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival

This is a realistic work – without realism, what we have done would be meaningless. All efforts in modelling, performance, set design, location, environment, lighting, costumes, properties, effects, photography and recording, were intended to help establish the sense of realism.

Similarly with the music, which was organically combined with western regional characteristics, were an important element of the film.

What we want above all is that an audience can feel satisfied after watching it in the cinema because we are all busy and it is immoral to waste people’s time!

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Screenwriter: Liu Xia Liu Xia is an editor and emerging scriptwriter.

She is the post-production director of China Film Studio of China Film Group. She graduated as a Film and TV Directing major from the Department of Film and TV Art of the Central Academy of Drama. As a middle school student, her composition Road won the first prize of “Ye Shengtao Cup” Composition Contest.

She has written scripts for films such as asSha’tar, Poplars in Manas, and The Blood Hound.

She is the chief writer of the TV series Snow Leopard Action and Single-winged Tercel.

In terms of micro films, she wrote and directed Hand-pulled Noodles and Knot.

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Music: Tao Long Tao Long graduated from the Department of Composition at the Xi’an Conservatory of Music.

Currently, he is a top composer at Western Movie Group, a member of the Chinese Musicians Association and director at the China Film and Music Group, Shaanxi Musicians Association, Shaanxi Film Association, and Shaanxi Folk Song Research Association. The film The Swordsman in Double Flag Town won the Best Story Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, and was rated as one of Hong Kong’s top ten Mandarin films in 1992. In 1993, it also won the International Film Review Award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

His film works include Battle of Tianmen, Looking for Enemies in Ying and Yang, The Last Princess of Manchuria, Codename Cougar, We Are the World, Blue Malefic, A Rare Sword and a Jewel Box, The Swordsman in Double Flag Town, A Half Ink-stone and The Blood Hound.

Literature Consultant: ZhengDingyu ZhengDingyu is the Vice Chairman of the Shaanxi Artists Association. In 1984, he acted as the deputy director of literature of the Xi’an Film Studio and editor in chief of Western Films. In May 1989, he was appointed as the deputy business director general (director-general level) of Xi’an Radio and Television Bureau which manages Xi’an Television. He served as the art director of the Xi’an TV Art Center in 1996 and reviewed and revised dozens of TV scripts. He acted as a TV script censor team member of the Provincial Radio, Film and Television Bureau twice.

His TV series include People in the Valley, Zhou Lanu, Mao Zedong in Northern Shaanxi, My Grandma, Old Street, Drug Enforcement Section Chief and Unable to Fly Even with a Pair of Wings.

Sound Director: Zhang Chaocai As a recording director at August First Film Studio, Zhang Chaocai has been engaged in recording work for more than 30 years.

Zhang Chaocai’s films include My Sisters and Brothers, The Liberation of Northwest China, Love, Attachment to the Hometown, Far From Home, Shooter, The Warriors in Mashishan, Marching into Northeast China, and The Blood Hound.

He presided over and participated in shooting the following works: In the Wild Mountains, The Black Cannon Incident, The Grave Robbers, The Magic Braid, Red Sorghum, Old Well, An Army in An Impasse, Iron Mayor, Mao Zedong in Northern Shaanxi, and The Blood Hound.

TV series Zhang Chaocai worked on include The Frosty Leaves are Red Like a Flower in February, Shi Guangrong’s Youth in Flames of War, The World of Us, Bus Detective, Blue Orchid, The Villagers, Perfect Happiness, Blood of China, Pursuit, Business Legend, Shi Guangrong and His Children, Secret Ferry, Mainland and Island, and Kashgar Family. The film Fragrant Vows was nominated for the 21st Golden Rooster Award for Best Sound Recording and the Huabiao Film Award. Frightful Billows and Terrible Waves was nominated at the 23rd Golden Rooster Awards for Best Sound Recording and won the Huabiao Film Award. The TV series Fugui won the Magnolia Award of the 13th Shanghai TV Festival in 2007.

Production Designer: Cao Jiuping Cao Jiuping is a film art director, member of the China Film Association, first-class artist, and professor at the Communication University of China. In the Production Design & Art Direction Screencraft published by the UK’s RotoVision in 1999, he was rated as one of the world’s top 20 film art directors.

His major works include Red Sorghum, Codename Cougar, The King of Chess, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, The Story of QiuJu, Living, Shanghai Triad, The Emperor’s Shadow, Keep Cool, Not One Less, The Marriage Certificate, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Be With You, Mojin-The Lost Legend, and The Blood Hound. The films My Father and Mother and Letter from an Unknown Woman won China’s Golden Rooster Award for Best Art Direction in 2000 and 2005 respectively.

The film Kill Bill was nominated for the American Film Institute Award for Best Art Direction in 2004, and the film The Sun Also Rises won the Best Art Award of Asian Film Awards in 2008.

Stylist: Tong Huamiao Tong Huamiao graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the Beijing Film Academy. As a member of the China Film Association, she serves as a professor at the Communication University of China. She has worked long term in movie costume and character design.

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Her major works include Codename Cougar, Living, Shanghai Triad, The Emperor’s Shadow, Keep Cool, Not One Less, My Father and Mother, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Kill Bill, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Blitz and The Blood Hound. The film Raise the Red Lantern won the “GingreyModeling Special Award” issued by the Italian fashion industry in the 48th Venice International Film Festival. It was commented that the styling and design gives vivid expression to characters’ disposition. The film The Story of QiuJu won the “Italian Women’s Clothing Award” of the 49th Venice International Film Festival and was nominated in the 13th China Golden Rooster Award for Best Costume Design. The film A Battle of Wits was nominated in the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Costume Design.

China. He starred in the TV series Party Member Jinzhu is a Little Busy and won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor. The films 25 Kids and a Dad and Fallen City, in which he worked as actor, scriptwriter, and director, won dozens of domestic and international top awards such asthe Golden Rooster Award, Hundred Flowers Award, Xia Yan Film Scripts Award,and Iranian Golden Butterfly Award. In 2016, The Blood Hound starring Huang Hong won“Best Feature Film Award” at the 3rd Silk Road International Film Festival. He was also nominated for Best Actor.

Editor: Du Yuan Du Yuan is famous in China for being a top editor.

She won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Film and Television Editing, the 19th Golden Rooster Award for Best Editing, and was nominated at the 43rd, 46th and 51st Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Editing and the Best Editing Award of the 8th Asian Film Festival.

Her main works include Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Living, The Story of QiuJu, Shanghai Triad, Keep Cool, Crazy Stone, Crazy Racer, Love in the Internet Epoch, Chrysanthemum Tea, Yang Shanzhou, Judge Zhan, The Game Sports, On the Other Side of the Bridge, Lemon, No Man’s Land, Breakup Buddies, Goodbye Mr. Loser, Mojin-The Lost Legend, and The Blood Hound.

Huang Hong (as Lao Gou) Huang Hong is a celebrated comedy performer, national first-class actor, scriptwriter, director and artistic consultant. He has performed on the stage of the annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala for twenty-four consecutive years. With a large number of short sketches like Guerrilla for Extra Births, Playing Cards and Decoration, he is known as the “King of Short Sketches” in Supporting Actor: Liu Xiangjing (as Zhang Biao) Liu Xiangjng graduated from the PLA Academy of Arts. Known as one of the most promising actors in China, he can master a wide range of roles, both righteous or black-hearted. He boasts the charm of a mature man and superb performance skills. Large numbers of films and television dramas with his participation have been widely hailed and won domestic and foreign awards, including the Thirteen Heroes, Once Upon a Time in Tsingtao and Pass through the East.

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Sun Tao (as Chief Liu) He graduated from the Performance Class of the Department of Drama, PLA Academy of Arts. As an actor of the Modern Drama Troupe of PLA

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General Political Department, he is known as one of the most popular actors in China.

He debuted on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the sketchMaintaining Orderin 1995, and created classical images for the Gala as a security guard in the comic sketches JixiangSanbao and You Get the Trouble. He also created vivid, impressive images of serviceman and policeman in a number of TV plays such as The Woman Ruling the Roost, Story of the Detective II, Advance Company and My Hometown Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei.

Supporting Actor: Zhao Tingting (as Cong Zhu) She is an excellent, capable young actress on the Chinese mainland. She was also the champion of the 55th Miss World Finals in China.

Wang Haiyan (as Mrs Zhu) As a graduate from Shanghai Theater Academy, Wang Haiyan is a well-known Chinese actress.

With solid performance skills and great ability in delicate character portrayals, she is a rare actress in “serious dramas” on the Chinese mainland.

She appeared in the TV dramas Getting Through the Close Siege, World Granary and The Silent Oath which won a number of major awards for TV dramas such as Golden Eagle Award and Flying Apsaras Award. In 2003, she was rated as one of the top ten actors of CCTV.

She made debut on the screen by playing a role in the film Bean Curd Girl starring Cecilia Yip and Ng Man Tat. Subsequently, she played in No Promises,West Holy Land (winner of China TV Drama Flying Apsaras Award), Swords, Poplars in Manas and other films and TV dramas. She acted the leading role in the film Ghost Double and played the heroine Li Jiahui in the large-scale inspirational TV drama Single-winged Tercel.

Thanks to her solid performance skills, ability in delicate character portraying and vivid creation of different characters, she is known as an emerging star in China.

Supporting Actor: Fei Long (as Chang Zi) Originally named Wang Helong, he is known as the actor with most comic skills in China. His silly, lovely and funny image can be found in various TV programmes and films.

In the film Buddha Mountain starring Fan Bingbing in 2009, he played the second leading actor “Soap”, a lovable character which brought great popularity to him. This film was rated as the Best Film of 2011 at the LeTV Film and Television Awards Ceremony and 2011 Asian Film Week, and wonBest Artistic Contribution Award at the 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival. It was one of the top ten Chinese films of the 2010 Youth Film Handbook. He was also nominated as Best New Talent at the 18th College Student Film Festival.

CREW Director:Liu Jianhua Screenplay: Liu Xia Cinematographer:Ma Delin Editor:Du Yuan Production Designer: Cao Jiuping Sound Director: Zhao Chaocai Music: Tao Long Producer: Liu Jianhua CAST

Supporting Actor: Zhu Lin (as Zhu Lin) Born in Urumqi in 2003, she has worked with wolves since the age of two. At age 9, she gave a performance in a cage with a wolf at the Second Xinjiang Fine Tibetan Mastiff Exhibition & Famous Dogs and Pets Expo, making a sensation. A number of media representatives from Beijing, Shanghai, Shandong, Guangdong, Sichuan and even Hong Kong covered her performance, calling her “the youngest dog trainer in China”. liujianhua0427@163.com

Huang Hong as Lao Gou/Zhu Wang Haiyan as Mrs Zhu Zhao Tingting as Zhu Cong Zhu Lin as Zhu Lin Liu Xiangjing as Zhang Biao Sun Tao as Chief Liu Fei Long as Chang Zi

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The Film Industry Network The Film Industry Network – 2018 And Beyond!

Across years of attending International markets and through its official launch with the ‘Film Festival International Group’, ‘The Film Industry Network’ (hereby referred to as ‘TFIN’) has advised hundreds of filmmakers on film packaging, production, distribution and how to best navigate the treacherous waters of the film market. With fantastic success stories being unveiled, others starting their journey in post production and several new film projects in development, ‘TFIN’ moves into ‘2018’ with a clear focus on precisely what members and attending first time film makers need to focus on in order to succeed in the film business.

The ‘TFIN’ Life Cycle in the Festival Arena.

We’ve created fantastic inroads enabling people to achieve their goals. Outside of our film packaging service, we’ve referred and connected talent with Legal services, Production Servicing and Distribution. Our core focus has never been to capitalize on clients, but to be the catalyst for positive change and help genuinely talented storytellers achieve their goals! ‘TFIN’s’ creators know the market well and through the ‘FFI Groups’ London, Nice, Cannes, Madrid, Berlin, Milan and Amsterdam events we’ll continue to provide both seasoned and first time filmmakers with invaluable support at festivals and via our bespoke one to one members service. Our focus and corporate philosophy has not changed and neither has our remit.

‘TFIN’s intention going forwards is to provide additional support to those attending the film festival circuit by offering progressive one to one’s for concept development to all.

‘TFIN’ Market Research Assessment.

Whilst attending the International markets over the last five years, ‘TFIN’s creators discovered a trend in low

budget films being made with preattached questionable sales agents and agreements on board. It was the monitoring of said deals that prompted our research to formulate a working strategy. Out of the titles that crossed our desks, the only films that seem to have had any success were the ones that agents co-produced or pre-sold, with several finding route to digital platforms and stockist shelves.

In some cases, but not all, the number of paid Producers attached to the project left us asking the question, ‘What was the total budget and will the investor ever see any real return?’

In other cases the marketing spend remained uncapped, leaving it unlikely that these films would recoup their monies back. The evidence showed that the capping of the marketing spend stopped agents taking large fees out of the films sales profit, allowing producers to recoup some, if not all of the budget by way of a return on the production expenditure across a typical market sales cycle.

Although there are of course many other essential contributing factors that have to be in place commercially to assist this outcome.

The ‘TFIN’ Observation Of Emerging Talent.

With simplifying technology being a plus point, we discovered over 75% of filmmakers were technically adept. The presentation standard was high and so was the rounded knowledge of technical planning.

Where the majority of people came up short was their understanding of the business end of the entertainment arena. It’s not something anyone learns overnight.

Why join ‘TFIN’ and the Annual Concierge Service?

In an ever changing landscape it is vital that you keep your eye on the market,

its trends and what you are doing to meet those trends. To join ‘TFIN’ means that as aspiring contributors to the film business, you’ve total piece of mind as to how your film will navigate its journey into a sales market. The network provides a year round advisory service on the planning of projects and will help navigate you clear of the rocks in the sales arena. In this ever changing market place there is no shortage of people that will sell your content. The market’s a big, exciting house of candy that is both daunting and alluring. The question is...are you Hansel, Gretel or the last witch’s victim? For piece of mind ‘TFIN’ has sourced global Agents and Distributors and will continue to grow relationships. Our Theatrical agents and Digital Aggregates seek all levels of Shorts, Animation, Feature, Documentaries & Music content.

‘TFIN’ is not just in a prime position to help achieve your career goals but also to ensure you’ve a chance to make money from placing content with the right opportunities.

Which ‘TFIN’ Service Model Is Right For You? If you were to acquire services from an industry consultant outside of TFIN, you would expect to pay a retainer of $1,500 on a 30 day invoice to allow a recognized bespoke support service to enable you to achieve your set aims and objectives.

For $249 ‘TFIN’ will provide a 12 month, one to one bespoke mentoring service including: a) Placement for content. b) Support advisory. c) Contract assessment. d) Project assessment.

‘TFIN’s real value is the year round concierge and festival support. This unique service will oversee the growth and development of many projects per festival, starting with London. Ask about our new content pitching and placing service.

For further details on The Film Industry Network and the services and opportunities it can bring forward, please contact:

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I AM THE WHITE TIGER A film by Lei Chiu

SYNOPSIS Stuntman, action director, and martial arts legend Mark Houghton tells his story of breaking into the Hong Kong film industry, his struggle with injuries and depression, and the promise he made his teacher, the legendary filmmaker Lau Kar Leung.

Here, FTM had the opportunity for a short interview with Brian Chumney and grabbed it with both hands!

Producer Brian Chumney began his film journey working as a sound editor at George Lucas’ post production facility, Skywalker Sound. Brian has worked in the sound department for over 70 feature films. In 2005, he started his first production company in Pittsburgh, PA, eternally grateful for the mentorship of Russ Streiner, John Russo, and George Romero. An awardwinning sound editor and an experienced industrial and commercial producer, Brian’s love of film and Hong Kong action cinema continue to drive him.

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FTM: With your incredible background in filmmaking, what really drove you to make this your first film as a producer and how did IT actually end up being made?

BC: It all started around 2008, when I first met Mark and Lau Kar Leung, I’d actually got into the producing side of things a few years earlier where I’d worked with the guys who’d made “Night Of The Living Dead” - Russ Streiner & John Russo – and started my small production company in Pittsburgh that you mentioned in my bio. From there, I really began to get the producers bug and found out that Lau Kar Leung was trying to make a film actually a sequel to “Disciples Of The 36th Chamber”. It really was a case of me thinking well maybe I can help him produce this movie and then through one of Marks students I met Mark on-line and chatted with him via e-mail and ended up going out to Hong Kong in March of 2008. Then once Mark & I had met he was kind enough to introduce me to Lau Kar Leung and we decided that we would like to work together!

And then I started to work as a producer trying to get his film financed but unfortunately it didn’t because of course the economy went South then (like it did everywhere!). I mean we literally had investors and companies lined up but sadly a lot of them went under and it was just really bad news for everybody. But I still kept in touch and when Lau Kar Leung sadly passed away Mark invited me out to the funeral and I really started to become close to Mark then and we eventually came up with an idea for a pilot or a TV series, kind of like a reality show.

Then about 4-years ago I went out and started to shoot some footage for that and started to pitch that around and then Mark started working on this documentary with the director and I became involved kind of remotely just helping out conceptually and as the producer. Then by last summer it became clear that they needed more help just to get it over the goal line as it were! Then I started to become involved much more directly and I went out and spent a month with them getting it where it needed to be so we could end up having a finished product.

FTM: So would it be fair to say that what actually ended up being “I Am The White Tiger” didn’t actually start that way?

BC: “I Am The White Tiger” did start as a film project, but as they were beginning production in Hong Kong, I was still in the US working on the docuseries pitch. We were lucky that we were able to take some of the material from that shoot four years ago and use it as a kind of connective tissue. In fact, the first cut of the documentary wasn’t quite there yet - it just needed something more and luckily the footage we had shot previously supported what we were saying in the film and worked really well with the new material.

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