October 3, 2005
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IMPACT PICTURES
Today, I had a meeting with Damon Chua, VP of Impact Pictures. He's also a Singaporean, where he and I both share a mutual friend. Actually, our mutual friend was the producer who me first saw my script in Microsoft Excel. Things have come a long way since then.
Our sunday lunch was mainly spent catching up on Singapore and the ol' what nots. We talked a bit about The Gene Generation, about Impact Pictures, and also about several other things like his previous projects, my previous projects, the typical thing you would hear when you put 2 filmmakers in the same room together.
It is nice to see that our industry is slowly making way for new talent and that hollywood is becoming more and more self accepting to the minority filmmakers. In fact, some actually see us as 'fresh eyes' and assets to the industry. That was an interesting thought, but the bottom line is, luck gets your foot in the industry, while talent helps keep your foot in the industry.
Damon also talked about a couple of his connections which was interesting because I brought up to him the idea of wanting to option an anime and turn it to a live action film. He agreed to get me in contact with the right people and nothing more. That's all I need! I'm excited to see what comes out of that. It may be nothing, because in this industry, nothing is guranteed. Hope is a killer in this industry, the best is always make sure you have more work than you have hope. That's just my point of view anyway.
Regardless, the meeting (to me) sprouted a friendship, with someone that I can relate to. We both come from a tiny country so that makes it easier as well. Well, the most important thing is, work can't always be about work, it's nice to have friends who are there to give you advice as well during their free time!
As far as The Gene Generation goes. The producer Keith Collea is making his cut of the film which would end up in the release version of the movie. Some of you may already know that the cut of the film which you see in release is the producer's cut not the director's cut. Very rare does a director get to have the final cut of the film. It's the way the industry goes. I don't like it. I just work with it.
So, I'm spending my time, twiddling my thumbs, catching up on movies while I wait for the cut to be done. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Comments (4)
Seriously - there's so much monotony in style in Hollywood. I recently watched part of Heroes in Love (a compilation of 3 short films from Hong Kong), and, granted, in school I watched a lot of non-Hollywood films, but it's been a while since I've had time to sit down and watch a film where I actually have to think, but it was so refreshing to not see the same ol' shot-reverse shot, linear narrative that seems to define so many typical Hollywood movies these days.
I was in S'pore a couple weeks ago.. had some good roti and chicken rice. It was stinkin humid and hot..
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can i work with you on your next project? take me under your wing. DO IT. haha.
i hope all is well and that you are having fun twiddling your thumbs. =P
robin leong is the best actor ever to grace the silver screen. ever