BACK ONCE AGAIN

Well, work went underway on 1st Sept for the Terracotta Festival 2010.

We've already screened about 20-25 movies since then and found one or two gems, one or two not so gem like ones and some watchable, but possibly too run of the mill films.

stand out ones for us include: two chinese arthouse films LOST IN BEIJING which was banned in China due to its sexually expiclit nature, and stars Tony Leung Ka Fai; the other is IN LOVE WE TRUST which was brought to our attention from our friends in Paris.

KAMUI, a fugitive ninja story, is billed as being an USD18m action film. this opened in Toronto film fest and we sadly got only an unfinished version so cant really give it thumbs up or down right now. definitely one to keep in mind.

PONYO was slightly disappointing coming from the great Miyazaki, only because we had high expectations. perhaps the formula in the past of humans entering a fantasy world worked, but this time it was about fantasy creatures entering the world of humans which was enjoyable though not as captivating as previous Studio Ghibli classics.

DEPARTURES was a real stand out, after all, it DID win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year. Sadly, it wont be included in our line up next year, though, good news is.... it will be out on general release soon in the UK!!!

quick shout out to Louis of Sci-fi London who i met and introduced me to a trio of guys planning a Himalayan film fest in Feb which sounds great: just think of the diversity of cultures from that region, plus film makers from outside that region making films ABOUT the region! - more details on that to follow. (double shout to louis for introducing me to MEANTIME BEER - local beer from a brewery in Greenwich. get it? meantime?).

Well, asides of sitting at home and watching movies we are off to korea to,....well, er.... sit around and watch more movies. the slight difference will be that we will be at the Pusan Asian Film Market and hope to catch some of the latest films there.

On the distribution side, since our last post we released Taiwanese award winning multi-story film GOD MAN DOG and crazy macabre circus antic filled FOX FAMILY. We held some special screenings of both- keep your eyes open for our newsletters or on our fb group which both have news about our screenings as well as this blog.


Adding to the good news tally... we picked up Yang Ik-junes BREATHLESS, which, if you kept your ear to the ground in the last 12months has created quite a few underground murmurs during its slow march westwards across the globe from Korea conquering the film festivals to pick up more than 13 awards at various festivals from Singapore to New York.

thats big news for us.

and a i guess, a good note to end our first post back after a while.
we will be posting stuff almost daily from Pusan, so stay tuned!