All films are about ways of seeing. In other words, points of view. Hopefully a POV that is unique and useful for the rest of the world.
Hence, a film’s website is an opportunity to create a rich and multi-layered context that helps the audience appreciate that unique point of view.
Unfortunately, that is not what [...]
My Beijing Olympics documentary website
Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know about the film “Boomtown Beijing”
10) This documentary about the Beijing Olympics grew out of a module on “International Documentary Production” that the director, Tan Siok Siok, taught at the Beijing Film Academy, China’s famous film school.
9) 4 of the producers on the project are current undergraduate students from the Management Faculty of the Beijing Film Academy. They are led [...]
My First Film Festival Poster
I recently presented my documentary about the Beijing Olympics at the Guangzhou International Documentary Festival.
Boomtown Beijing is my first independent film and making the festival posters was a big thrill. Mainly because I did it at the last minute — the day I arrived in Guangzhou. I got them printed at a little shop [...]
Iranian director Majid Majidi makes Beijing Olympics documentary
Fascinating piece of news, Iranian director, Majid Majidi is making a short documentary about the Beijing Olympics.
Iranian director makes documentary on Beijing —-穆民先驅
Known for his sensitive portrayal of children in films such as Children of Heaven and Colour of Paradise, Majidi will explore the 2008 games from the perspective of children.
I am curious to find [...]
Sounds of Beijing
I have worked in TV my entire career. But secretly, I enjoy radio more. By that, I mean really well-produced radio features that use sound to trigger the listener’s imagination.
I am into the final stages of post production for my documentary about the Beijing Olympics and I have been hunting obsessively for sound [...]
