ARCHIVE: WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO
A SELECTION OF PAST WORK, COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PARTNERSHIPS
2010
FOCUS ON FILM INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN
DATE: Oct 30th 2010
Venue: Artistree
FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE UPCOMING EVENT CHECK BACK SOON
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU MIGHT BECOME INVOLVED PLEASE CONTACT US AT
info@focusonfilmhk.com
GET INVOLVED!
There has never been a better time to get your work out there. Several festivals are up and running and looking for entries. Focus On Film supports your ideas. If you are under 25 years old and want to submit to any of our partner festivals, contact us with
your brief
your crew list
a proposed shooting schedule
and FOCUS ON FILM will support your shoot in any way possible. This could mean through use of FOF equipment to FOF instructor mentorship.
Below a list of FOCUS ON FILM SUPPORTED EVENTS
- ifva (deadline: Nov 5th, 2010)
- one day on earth (deadline/event: Oct 10th, 2010)
- 48 hour film festival (deadline/event: Oct 15th, 2010)
- ted x (deadline: Oct 16th, 2010. Event Oct 30th, 2010)
now: get out there and show the world your ideas!!!! It's that simple!
FOCUS ON FILM ARTICLE IN THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
the article on Focus On Film's quest for funding, our presence in several international film festivals and our reprensentation at film markets world wide is the subject of a feature article in The Hollywood Reporter appearing on the web and in print World Wide
CAUSEWAY BAY EVENT A BIG HIT!
At 2:45, a large crowd of media, onlookers and kids gathered in front of the video screen at Sogo to witness the unveiling of a 2-minute video about air pollution. The video, which went live at 3 pm sharp, contained highlights from the footage created by 200 secondary school students from 13 schools throughout Hong Kong . These students were exposed to filmmaking for the first time during the last half of 2009 on a program created and implemented by FOCUS ON FILM.
Shortly before 3 pm, FoF Artistic Director, Elisa Rosati ascended the podium to congratulate the kids on successful completion of the One, Two GO! video mosaic. CAN campaign manager, Sum Kwong, and celebrity duo, 2R, Race and Roseanne Wong, ascended the podium to congratulate the kids as well and to say a few words about the desperate state of Hong Kong's air.
After the banner-signing and photo-taking in front of Sogo, 60 students and teachers gathered at Times Square restaurant, SML, to meet each other and journalists.
There were a lot of media at yesterday's event, including Apple Daily, Oriental Daily, TVB and the SCMP, so expect to see coverage in your favorite publication this week.
The videos will be playing twice an hour 24/7 for the next month at both the Sogo screen and Times Square. If you are in the neighborhood, don't forget to look up!
Jan 2010
Mark it on your calendars! The date is FEBRUARY 6, 2010. 2:30PM
Hong Kong Mansion - at Yee Wo St and Great George St. Causeway Bay. See Map.
The unveiling of the work from the CLEAN-AIR-ONE-TWO-GO! campaign. 200 participants, 10 schools, one issue. The students interviewed hundreds of Hong Kongers about their feelings on air quality. Join us for speakers, videos, and a tea party afterwards. Support the clean air initiative!
2009
The Clean Air Network Program has finished with a dozen participating schools learning the craft of film production over a three month period. The participating students produced hundreds of video bytes that represent what young people in Hong Kong feel about the quality of the air they breathe.
Focus On Film will weave these videos into a mosaic of images which will be screened repeatedly in Times Square over a two month period.
Stay tuned for more information about the unveiling of the final work.
Sept 2009,
Focus On Film participated in the production of this promotional video by Filmages about the Clean Air Network and its effort to secure signatures for a campaign to lobby the government in Hong Kong for better air quality. Focus On Film currently is running a program in over a dozen local schools in Hong Kong to produce video bytes with kids on the topic of air quality. The work will be 'woven' into a video tapestry and publicly displayed at the end of the year.
藍天一二大行動!
CLEAN AIR ONE TWO GO!
Focus on Film正與健康空氣行動合作透過錄像製作喚醒大眾關注空氣質素問題。錄像片斷將會剪輯成一齣短片，並在公眾大型屏幕播放一個月。關鍵就是 ─ 我們需要你的參與！
藍天一二大行動！旨在：
1. 教育年青人有關香港空氣質素的課題
2. 教育參加者有關錄影節目製作的技術，透過錄影節目表達自己意見
3. 為參加者提供平台展出作品
4. 喚起公眾關注空氣污染
課程共五星期，將在九月至十月期間進行。Focus on Film導師會每星期與參加者會面，製作「video bites (錄像片斷)」，內容由參加者自由發揮，可以是訪問、清新空氣和污濁空氣的影象、改善空氣質素的課題等等。
Focus on Film is teaming up with Clean Air Network to raise public awareness about the issue of air quality through film making. The end product will be a massive VIDEO TAPESTRY that will be displayed on a huge public video screen for a month! BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP!
CLEAN AIR ONE TWO GO! aims to:
- Educate young people about the issue of air quality in Hong Kong
- Educate participants in video producing techniques as a medium to express their views
- Provide a platform for the participants to show their finished works
- Raise public awareness about air quality issues
The program will run for five weeks starting in September and through October. Focus on Film instructors will meet with the students once a week to produce a number of "VIDEO BITES" (short video clips) of interviews, images of clean and dirty air, sources of dirty air, ways of improving air quality, or anything related you can think of!
學生 – 如果你想加入行動，請與你所就讀學校的老師洽談，並請他們到此網站登記。
STUDENTS - If you want to join this program, talk to your teachers and administrators. Tell them to look at this website and sign up.
教職員 – 如你希望為你所任教的學校登記加入行動，請於2009年８月31日直接聯絡我們報名。
ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS - If you want to enter your school into the program, please contact us directly right away, deadline is August 31st, 2009.
課題範圍：
• 描述及評估環保問題的專門用語，例如持分者、大眾福祉等
• 記敘和寫實拍攝手法
• 攝影機運作、燈光與及基本電影藝術
• 影片剪輯及顏色修正
• 錄音、聲軌剪輯及混音
Topics Covered Include:
- Terminology used to describe and assess environmental issues (ie stakeholder, common good...)
- Narrative and Documentary storytelling
- Camera Operation, Lighting, and Principle of Cinematography
- Picture Editing and Colour Correction
- Sound Recording, Editing, and Mixing
此課程附合新學制的「其他學習經歷(OLE)」要求，幫助學生發展對藝術的鑑賞力，促進多元文化，建立公民責任意識，以及提升其獨立思考及創意表達能力。導師將以廣東話或英語授課。
The program also fits the requirements of the new curriculum's Other Learning Experiences (OLE) by developing the students' appreciation for the arts, promoting cultural diversity, developing a sense of civic responsibility, and developing critical thinking and creative expression skills. Instruction can be given in CANTONESE OR ENGLISH.
June 26, 2009
Recruitment for CLEAN-AIR-ONE-TWO-GO! will begin in a few days, the videos are up. Check them out here. Thanks for all the participants at Chinese International School for making them over only one weekend!
June 1, 2009
FOCUS ON FILM launches "CLEAN AIR ONE-TWO-GO!" with the CLEAN AIR NETWORK.
The program is already underway with the production of recruitment videos at Chinese International School this coming weekend! Click here to read more and contact us if you want to participate!
Wait to see what we have lined up! This is our biggest campaign ever! Wooooo hooooo!
May 19, 2009
- Hot off the press!
May 9, 2009
- FOF goes to Cannes! Follow the blog on line at: http://focusonfilmhk.posterous.com/
May 2, 2009
- What a week! Thanks to our apprentices who came out this past weekend. Vanessa, Issac, and Ryosuke did a fabulous job. We hope you enjoyed yourselves and that we did not work you too hard. There will be lots more to come, and one day we want to see trainees on your own shoots.
- Focus on Film in Cannes Short Film Corner!!! Unbelievable! Elissa is leaving for France on Tuesday and will be representing FOF at one of the biggest industry festivals in the world. 7, count them, SEVEN of our films will be screened in sunny Southern France.
- Registrations are coming in for the summer camps. Sign up soon to make sure you get in!
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THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FUNDS EXTENSIVE PROGRAM TO RAISE AWARENESS ON THE EFFECTS OF GENDER STEREOTYPING ON YOUNG PEOPLE
New videos from A Girl's Life are up!
The Women's Foundation Sponsored this nine month program created by Focus On Film that culminated in the production of three original works by film makers as young as 11 years old! Given the topic of Gender Stereotyping and using the tools and the craft of production as taught to them by their Focus On Film mentors, the young people created their own work and produced it according to professional film making structure. The works have been screened globally to critical acclaim.
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From the 14 to 17 year olds: "ANA" - Director: Issac Harrison Writers: Laura Zhang, Sandy Woo Producer: Alina Luk Cinematographers: Vanessa Chan, Benjamin Chasnov
genre: Narrative. running time: 14 min. synopsis: A young girl with eating problems has trouble differentiating fiction from reality. Her psychiatrist tries to help her but she transitions more and more frequently between waking dreams and reality. Her world finally crumbles and she cuts herself violently bringing the seriousness of her condition to her family’s attention. ‘Ana’ is a fictional story inspired by the death of the screenwriter’s friend from the condition of anorexia.
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From the 18 to 22 year olds: "BREAKING IT OR NOT" - Director: Kirti Nandwani, Producer: Jennifer Lai
genre: Documentary, running time: 14:58 synopsis: To explore the topic of gender stereotyping and what it means, this group of film makers chose to interview the transgender Wee Wee. With a leading question of ‘why don’t men wear makeup’ the piece goes deeply into how we define men and women in today’s society with interviews of people of all ages, races and genders.
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From the 11 to 13 year olds: "The Life of a Girl" - Director: Grace Yau, Producer: Hugo Chan
genre: Narrative, running time: 9 min, synopsis: A young girl who grows up with no mother marries a boy who grows up with no father. She works and he is a stay at home husband. The couple face ridicule from the people around them but decide to remain as they are.
April, 2009
- Last week was a blast meeting all these people at Filmart and all these other wonderful events. Thanks to Digital Magic for their 3D talk, the New Zealand Trade Council for an eye-opening luncheon on cutting edge digital technology from King Kong and Lord of the Rings, and Shaw Studios with RED camera and APPLE for a wonderful workflow presentation.
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A new base of operations from Base Productions! Focus On Film moves into the hip industrial area of Kwun Tong, home to many production houses. The furniture has not even arrived yet and already our advanced students were editing late into the night!
Thank you to the Womens Foundation and all our participants for making the closing event for the Girl's Life Program so successful. Two hundred people attended the screening and the feedback was amazing. We are all so proud of all of you!
stay tuned for more achival footage from events in:
2008
2007
2006