Exclusive: China’s Desen International Media has brought on board top VFX houses including Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop for its upcoming $27m 3D fantasy adventure.
Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal is currently shooting in China with acclaimed Hong Kong DoP Peter Pau serving as producer, DoP and VFX director on the film.
The cast is headed by Chen Kun, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao, Bao Beier, Yang Zishan and Jike Junyi. Executive producer is Desen’s Ann An.
“This will be a unique, oriental-style visual feast that will raise the bar in terms of story-telling, performances, photography and VFX,” said Pau, who is working with 3D stereographer Vincent E. Toto (Dredd) and a 3ality TS5 rig.
Zhao Tianyu (The Law Of Attraction) is directing, while Guo Junli (Gone With The Bullets) headed the screenplay team.
The story is based on legendary Tang Dynasty hero Zhong Kui who struggles between his desire to bring justice...
Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal is currently shooting in China with acclaimed Hong Kong DoP Peter Pau serving as producer, DoP and VFX director on the film.
The cast is headed by Chen Kun, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao, Bao Beier, Yang Zishan and Jike Junyi. Executive producer is Desen’s Ann An.
“This will be a unique, oriental-style visual feast that will raise the bar in terms of story-telling, performances, photography and VFX,” said Pau, who is working with 3D stereographer Vincent E. Toto (Dredd) and a 3ality TS5 rig.
Zhao Tianyu (The Law Of Attraction) is directing, while Guo Junli (Gone With The Bullets) headed the screenplay team.
The story is based on legendary Tang Dynasty hero Zhong Kui who struggles between his desire to bring justice...
- 3/24/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
My heartfelt thanks to Michael Hawley for sharing his preview of the current Sffs Screen lineup with Twitch.
* * * 2008 was a wildly ambitious year for the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs). In addition to presenting a stellar 51st Sf International Film Festival and launching two successful new mini-festivals—French Cinema Now and Québec Film Week—they also assumed stewardship of the 32-year-old Film Arts Foundation and its broad range of services for Bay Area filmmakers. And as if that wasn’t a plateful, they also jumped into the film exhibition business with the Sffs Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
Inaugurated last June as a venue for week-long runs of films with limited distribution, the Sffs Screen played host for three of my favorite films of 2008: Yang Li’s Blind Mountain, Andrea Staka’s Fraulein and Khuat Akhmetov’s Wind Man. I would have attended with greater frequency, but often...
* * * 2008 was a wildly ambitious year for the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs). In addition to presenting a stellar 51st Sf International Film Festival and launching two successful new mini-festivals—French Cinema Now and Québec Film Week—they also assumed stewardship of the 32-year-old Film Arts Foundation and its broad range of services for Bay Area filmmakers. And as if that wasn’t a plateful, they also jumped into the film exhibition business with the Sffs Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
Inaugurated last June as a venue for week-long runs of films with limited distribution, the Sffs Screen played host for three of my favorite films of 2008: Yang Li’s Blind Mountain, Andrea Staka’s Fraulein and Khuat Akhmetov’s Wind Man. I would have attended with greater frequency, but often...
- 2/4/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
NEW DELHI -- The week-long Kolkata Film Festival, India's only non-competitive festival, ended Friday with a screening of Kaalpurush by renowned Indian director Buddhadeb Dasgupta.
Now in its 12th year, a highlight of this year's festival was the first-ever participation from China, which saw four contemporary films screened including a Sunday premiere Sunday for 7 Colours, a collection of seven short films. One the film's seven directors, Lu Yitong, and actress Yang Qing were in attendance.
The Chinese flavor at the festival comes just a week before the official visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India.
Other Chinese films unspooling included Yang Li's noirish 2003 title Blind Shaft; 2005 Cannes Jury Prize winner Shanghai Dreams, directed by Xiaoshuai Wang; and 2005's Perpetual Motion, by director Ning Ying.
The festival, which opened with Danish filmmaker Andres Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples, showcased 225 films, compared with 149 last year, from 53 countries, including a special showcase of eight films by Ingmar Bergman.
Also included were retrospectives of Italian filmmakers Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini, whose birth centenaries are being observed this year.
Now in its 12th year, a highlight of this year's festival was the first-ever participation from China, which saw four contemporary films screened including a Sunday premiere Sunday for 7 Colours, a collection of seven short films. One the film's seven directors, Lu Yitong, and actress Yang Qing were in attendance.
The Chinese flavor at the festival comes just a week before the official visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India.
Other Chinese films unspooling included Yang Li's noirish 2003 title Blind Shaft; 2005 Cannes Jury Prize winner Shanghai Dreams, directed by Xiaoshuai Wang; and 2005's Perpetual Motion, by director Ning Ying.
The festival, which opened with Danish filmmaker Andres Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples, showcased 225 films, compared with 149 last year, from 53 countries, including a special showcase of eight films by Ingmar Bergman.
Also included were retrospectives of Italian filmmakers Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini, whose birth centenaries are being observed this year.
- 11/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Bangkok International Film Festival was won over by the French-Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions, which walked away with the Golden Kinnaree for best film. Director Denys Arcand's Barbarian was one of 13 films in competition. One of the entries -- Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation -- got lost in transportation, never making it to the screen at the festival. The festival came to a close Sunday evening with the world premiere screening of David Mamet's Spartan. Other winners included three Chinese actors in Blind Shaft sharing the best actor Golden Kinnaree. Yi Xiang Li, Shuangbao Wang and Baoqiang Wang won in the Chinese movie directed by Yang Li. Giovanna Mezzogiorno walked away with the Golden Kinnaree for best actress for her role in Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Window, made in Italy, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Portugal.
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