For many years, I have attended the Singapore International Film Festival as a movie-goer. This year, for the first time, I will be attending the festival as a filmmaker. My documentary about the Beijing Olympics, Boomtown Beijing, will be screening at in the Singapore Panorama section on Wed April 9th at 9:15pm and Sat April [...]
February 10, 2008
Being at the Berlin Film Festival helps me appreciate the difference that a film-literate audience can make to the film making experience Here is a city where people have attended the festival year after year and over time they have developed the ability to articulate their analyses and insights about film. Even films from little known places [...]
February 7, 2008
I will be attending the Berlin Film Festival 2008 (7th — 17th February 2008) There are two big reasons why I am going. Invisible City, a film I worked on, is screening in the Forum section of the Berlinale. I will also take the opportunity to market and promote my own film about the Beijing Olympics, Boomtown [...]
January 22, 2008
I have never given an interview about a film on a business show before. Well, there is always a first time. The China Business Show is a weekly show on WSR Radio that sheds cross-cultural insight on doing business in China. I am impressed by the range of issues that the show covers, from [...]
November 16, 2007
Whenever I tell people I am making a documentary about the Olympics, one of the first questions they ask me is: “Are you featuring athletes?” When I say that I am making a film about ordinary people and their Olympics dreams, the response I often get is one of surprise, even of incredulity. But I can point [...]
March 18, 2008