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OH dear... where does the time go...
2012-02-29 8:28AM / 會員可以看
What's been going on and on? : Stuff
What stuff... well....... it's been so long since I've been on here i guess i have to bullet point it :- new houseOkay, That's about it!
- new relationship (ha not so new now huh?)
- new funding for Focus On Film from the HK government
- new job teaching at CIS
- writing three new scripts
Oh: I"m super happy about all of it by the way. I may even write a blog entry or two now that I've remembered I'm on AnD!!!
In the meantime: why did I remember I"m on AnD? Because my friend Ross Clarkson sent me over his short script and I LOVED it. I"m helping him out putting this one on its feet.
We are looking for GOOD actors. Here is the deal- DOOOO it:
Casting for a short film. A twisted comedy based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Seeking one male and one female actor between 25-35 years old. The roles are dramatic and challenging with extensive English dialogue.
This no budget production is being shot and directed by an accredited feature film DP. You will receive a copy of the final film for your showreel. The production is aimed at international film festivals and shoots soon in Hong Kong.Interested parties please send your CV and picture to badromancecasting@yahoo.com
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Family
2009-08-02 6:59PM / 會員可以看
We spend so much time in Hong Kong working and promoting ourselves.
But i think it is time to talk about family.
Family? Yeah, family.
So, we are born into these units called families. Some people think we choose which families we come to. But if we are going to be scientific, and I am in a scientific mood, then there is no evidence and most likely it is all chance and we, by chance, end up in this unit, this entity called a family. We maybe don’t gel with this unit, maybe we are at odds with it, or rebel against it, or join it or collude with it. But no matter what we do, it is in response to it.
I’m at my father’s bedside in the hospital. Watching him fight and succumb by turns. Each episode leaves him with a balance in the negative or positive. These days the negative taking the upper hand, and always the possibility of tomorrow, with a little more of his fighting, ‘control freak’ spirit engaged, the possibility that he will change the tide of his ailing health. The health that he has lived in denial about for years. His smoking, his bad eating, his lack of exercise…
Does the unit change its general nature when the relation of its members to each other changes? I think not. My father has just winced, his face contracting like a baby’s, as the nurse once again puts the needle in his arm. He is exhausted, I can see it. They have just bathed him, each roll over making him cry out, panting with pain.
What can I do? Nothing but just sit here and tell him I am here. Sometimes reaching shyly for his hand, sometimes talking to him like he is a child, sometimes being told- patronizingly- that I’m not helping at all. Amazingly he has tried to get me to join forces with him against the nursing staff. It is just like that film “All That Jazz”. You know, when Roy Scheider gets open heart surgery but in the recovery room sneaks in liquor and cigarettes, throws parties and harasses the nurses?
Well, it was almost like that the day before yesterday. But now reality has set in and he is just exhausted, delirious, and cantankerous.
But it is family. And this is where I have to be.. where i am glad to be actually. And we are glad to be with each other, in spite of our glaring differences. And my dad has made it through the operation after all. Something we were not sure of. It would be strange to lose the old man. Just too strange
Family. Yeah. Family
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CANNES FILM FEST>...... getting the hang of it!
2009-05-20 5:52PM / 會員可以看
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CANNES FILM FEST>...... Early Days report
2009-05-20 5:17PM / 會員可以看
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CANNES! Film Fest and other stories
2009-05-14 6:39PM / 會員可以看
