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- Funding the dream
- Wong Kar Wai returns with new film 'The Grandmaster'
- Depardieu gets Russian passport, meets Putin: Kremlin (Updates)
| Posted: 06 Jan 2013 04:17 AM PST IT takes virtually no budget to make a short film. All you need is a camera or a smartphone, and if you have neither, you can easily borrow one. But if you have a grand idea (perhaps Avatar meets Mission: Impossible meets Titanic meets The Avengers) that requires an equally grand sum of money, here are some ways you can source for funding. Competitions > BMW Shorties BMW Group Malaysia is perhaps one of the first corporate giants to ride the short film wave, setting up the country's most highly anticipated competition, BMW Shorties, in 2006. Past winners like Quek Shio Chuan have gone on to bag the Best Short Film Award at the prestigious Alto Vicentino Film Festival in Italy. Grand prize: RM75,000 Entry fee: Free Competition period: Every September > KL 48 Hour Film Project The 48 Hour Film Project first started in Washington, DC, in 2001. Today, filmmakers from more than 70 cities around the globe, including Kuala Lumpur, compete to produce the best short film in just 48 hours. Grand prize: The chance to represent Malaysia in the 48 Hour Film Project finals in Filmapalooza at Los Angeles, United States. Entry fee: RM350 Competition period: Every October > The Berjaya Youth Short Film Competition Open to youths age 18 to 25, the competition is an initiative by Berjaya Group to provide young filmmakers with a platform to express their creativity. Grand prize: RM35,000 and a Canon Digital SLR Entry fee: Free Competition period: Every May/June > Aiffa 2013 Short Film Competition Open to filmmakers from Asean, this inaugural short film competition seeks to capture the beauty and diversity of region's culture. Grand prize: Category A: Students, RM3,000 (US$1,000); Category B: Filmmakers, RM9,000 (US$3,000) Entry fee: Free Competition period: July 11, 2012 to Jan 31, 2013 Grants > Film Art And Multimedia Development Fund In an effort to encourage the production of high-quality local films, the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas) provides grants to help filmmakers produce and publish their short films. Amount awarded: Up to RM30,000 Application period: Available all year round Crowdfunding > PitchIN Have a creative idea for a short film? Why not get the public to "pitch in" some money to get it started? PitchIN is a website where project owners can propose their projects and the public can pledge to donate any sum of money. Related Stories: |
| Wong Kar Wai returns with new film 'The Grandmaster' Posted: 06 Jan 2013 02:34 AM PST BEIJING: Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai's long-awaited martial arts film "The Grandmaster" was shown in public for the first time in Beijing on Sunday, after more than six years in production. The film spans several decades of Chinese history to tell the story of legendary martial artist Yip Man, who went on to train Bruce Lee, and features lengthy battles between rival kung fu masters. Wong is best known for his 2000 slow-burn drama "In the Mood for Love". His new film, packed with Chinese stars including Hong Kong actor Tony Leung and Beijing-born starlet Zhang Ziyi, appears well placed to capture the local audience. In his first press appearance to promote the film, Wong was also confident that "The Grandmaster", which runs for over two hours in its current edit and is steeped in traditional martial arts culture, would be well received abroad. "There is no such thing as a Western or Eastern audience... the elements of cinema are the same worldwide, although their expression is different," said Wong, wearing his trademark dark glasses. The film, set to hit Chinese cinemas on Tuesday, follows its lead character through some of China's most tumultuous recent history including the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. It has been delayed several times, amid rumours of extensive reshooting and injured actors, but Wong shrugged off claims that the filming had taken too long. "It felt like three years of university... we didn't want filming to end," he said. Wong made his international breakthrough in 1994 with "Chungking Express" and was the first Chinese director to sit on the jury at Cannes. In February he will lead the jury of the Berlin film festival, which traditionally highlights Asian cinema. - AFP |
| Depardieu gets Russian passport, meets Putin: Kremlin (Updates) Posted: 06 Jan 2013 01:20 AM PST MOSCOW:Gerard Depardieu, the French actor who says he is quitting his homeland to avoid higher taxes for the rich, has received a Russian passport and met with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said Sunday. Depardieu met Putin, who earlier granted him citizenship, at the Russian leader's residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Saturday, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told AFP. But Putin did not personally deliver the document to the actor during what was "a short meeting," Peskov said. Depardieu "was handed his passport," Peskov said without providing detail. National television broadcast images of the Sochi meeting featuring Depardieu and Putin hugging each other and sharing a meal at Putin's residence. Dressed casually in a white shirt and a dark jacket, Depardieu asked the Russian strongman whether he had seen a film about the mysterious Tsarist monk Grigory Rasputin played by the French actor. "Did you see the movie at all?" Depardieu asked in remarks translated into Russian, appearing to use the familiar form of address to speak to Putin. The film is a France-Russia co-production about a monk who was famous for his mystical influence over Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra and was assassinated in December 1916 by a group of discontented aristocrats. In a separate statement, the Kremlin said "the actor is in Russia on a private visit." Russia's decision to grant citizenship to the star of Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Card and the Asterix and Obelix series was the latest volley in a highly publicised row between the actor and the French government over its attempt to raise the tax rate on earnings of more than one million euros ($1.3 million) to 75 percent When Depardieu first announced he would leave the country to avoid the tax, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault branded the move "pathetic". Earlier this week Russian television broadcast a letter in which the former Oscar nominee declared his love for Putin and called Russia a "great democracy". The Kremlin move and the actor's subsequent comments praising Russia sparked amusement and disbelief among many in the country. "He is impressed by our democracy - he has completely lost his marbles," wrote one Facebook user, Vladimir Sokolov. Depardieu, who can easily earn up to two million euros per film and who has extensive business interests in France and elsewhere, will qualify for the 13 percent tax rate if he spends at least six months of the year in Russia. The annual tax rate will go up to 30 percent on all income made locally and in other countries if he spends more than half the year abroad. The eccentric actor has been a huge star in Russia since the Soviet era and still enjoys cult status among many movie buffs. In a surreal twist to the saga over Depardieu's move into tax exile, cinema legend Brigitte Bardot earlier this week threatened to follow him out of France unless two elephants under threat of being put down are granted a reprieve. The two elephants face being put down because they have been diagnosed with tuberculosis and deemed a threat to the health of other animals and visitors to the Tete d'Or Zoo in Lyon. - AFP |
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