and it's even better that i'm getting to work on a very lovely project...emotional purging...something i so often need, and the best place i know how to put it is thru the characters i get to play... every time i come back, it feels like i never left...i immediately fall back into the pace, the place, all of it...hoping that this project will be the first of many this year and beyond...and appreciating how special it is that she chose me for this beautiful piece...am honored, and over joyed...even with the painful purging, i'm at the end of such days, so blissfully happy and can't wait to go back for more...
happy new year first of all. i had a lovely holiday spent with my siblings and their significant others and of course seth, our favorite family dog, up in the mountains at kirkwood...in a gorgeous huge cabin that my mother so generously got for us, and was expected to have been there with us only to have been held up by shooting...her absence made me so sad, i was so looking forward to quality time with my mom...i'm not a pro boarder like my sisters and bro, i'm the one who cuddles in a chair next to the fire with a glass of wine, a book, a movie, the dog...and waits for them to come rolling in from the snow, all full of joy and cool red cheeks and huge happiness on their faces...makes me so happy to see that...and if mom were there, she'd have been there with me watching our favorite movies together...but every night my brother shot video of us toasting to her at our family dinner and she was definitely there with us in spirit...i cried almost every time we did that toast to her...we're so lucky to have had this trip...and now, the new year...clean slate, like the snow that was piled up high outside the window...a new start...so many things going on in my mind already...i'm trying to calm myself down, take note, know that everything i want to do this year, i can get to...but take it a day at a time...i feel energized, excited, ready, eager, hopeful...that this year is going to bring me new adventures, new challenges that i will hopefully handle with grace, and new mountains to climb...no more fear...live life fully...everyone keeps encouraging me to do this...and this year, i'm going to make sure i do...i'm so grateful for my family, my great great friends who are also my family, and to all of those angels that "yuan fen" brings to me, bringing me moments of bliss, awareness, reflection, and...peace...thank you...i hope that the new year brings everyone lots of wonderful wonderful moments, experiences, however brief...because all of these blessings and memories you can close your eyes and just...bring yourself back, and smile...i love that...i love those memories...and i'm ready to add more...
FOG is opening the HK indie film festival on NOV 13th and i will be heading out that way to attend and celebrate with our lovely cast and some other FOG family members...Kit, Patrick, Terence, Phat, we'll all be there and hope you can come and join the fun...good times...good times...
Please come and support the HK premiere of FOG at the HK Indie Film Festival!
Wai,
a young man whose memory has been wiped entirely clean from a rare
amnesia, tries to recall his past through the conflicting recollection
of his family and friends. Their poker faces seem to be hiding some
secrets, which Wai will finally determined to confront with. The story
was set at the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong reunification with China,
rather than introducing the audience to some grand history events,
Director tries to show how a memory loss can affect the smallest moment
in life. Terence Yin, who gives a remarkable performance as Wai, is
faraway but convincing. Eugenia Yuan, daughter of martial arts legend
Cheng Pei-Pei, acts calmly and deeply. Even our familiar TVB actress
Camy Ting offers us a different sensation. Fog astonishes you in its own
pace, just follow it.
* 2010 亞美國際影展 Asian-American International Film Festival 2010 * 2010愛丁堡國際電影節 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010 * 2010 北京國際電影節 Beijing International Movie Festival 2010 * 2010 阿姆斯特丹CinemAsia CinemAsia 2010 * 2010 絲綢銀幕：美國亞裔電影節 Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival 2010 * 2010 新加坡國際電影節 Singapore International Film 2010 * 2010 挪威Kosmorama Trondheim國際電影節 Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival 2010
well, i AM in a fog, but that's another story...i'm also in FOG, which is premiering in LA at the ID FILM FEST on OCT 8TH at 7PM and you can watch TERENCE YIN walk around in the state of mind i think many of us find ourselves in at one point or another...KIT HUI directed this, and she's going to come all the way from London to be here and bring me my favorite coffee that my sister marsha and i enjoyed everyday maybe 3 times a day while we were there last summer...what a lovely time that was. does it seem like time is flying by so quickly? too quickly. hope all of you in LA can come out and support and watch this moody piece and go and be moody afterwards...as always, i'm sending positive thoughts and happy days to all of you...as my good friend elizabeth says to me, love and light...love and light...even thru the fog...
LA Premiere Screening of FOG
Friday, October 8th 7:00PM - 11:00PM
Japanese America National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
6:30 PM -- Doors Open
7:00 PM -- Screenings begin
Short Film: Journey of a Paper Son by Ming Lai
Feature Presentation: Fog
Q&A with filmmaker Kit Hui
Followed by the Opening Reception
the la asian film fest is happening starting this thursday, the 29th, and STRANGERS will be showing on SUNDAY MAY 2nd at the SUNSET 5 theater at 9PM! yay! if you're in la, come, watch, laugh, cry, yell, enjoy...i'm excited to see it here with all of our cast and crew who worked so hard for nothing. it'll be like a reunion/wrap party/celebration. hope some of you can make it and see this beautifully shot piece...come, say hi...don't be a stranger. and...thank you...
besides english and 2.5 dialects of chinese, i also speak spanish and russian and hope to learn japanese, french, and italian...i love languages...i dream of going to buenos aires and living there for a while perfecting my spanish and enjoying the whole vibe there, then going to france and living there and speaking french and doing french movies, and...just...adventure, life, love, happiness!
and...thank you...
