Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cinemashup kicks off a new season at Dada bar

Happy New Year!
Cinemash up starts 2011 with a bang- great new short films, animations and documentaries from around the world. Obscure visual delights, hand picked by Tina Sparkles and Laura Ingalls. Come down to Dada this Wednesday 12th January for a fantastic night of film, it's free and good for the soul!
Doors open at 8.30pm, films start at 9pm, finish up around 11.30
Dada Bar 115 xingfu lu near Fahuazen Lu.



Below is the preliminary program, we will have a few more surprises on the night


Cinemash up program Jan 12 (more great surprises on the night!)
Angry Man- Josh Gorden, Will Speck, 5 mins- Going to the cinema is not always a pleasurable experience. Especially when you can’t choose who you sit next to.
Ozzat- Darren Walsh- 5 mins. A night at the pub, illustrating a whole new version of beer goggles.
Abductees- Irene Kotlarz- 11 mins- An alien abductee is hypnotized and recounts her other worldly experience, illustrated through various styles of animation.
A is for autism- Tim Webb- 1992-11 mins -England- A variety of animations and drawings from people with autism explaining their interpretation of the condition. A multi award winning film giving incredible insight and explanation about autism.
Sandman- Paul Berry, 1992, 10mins- Stop motion animation about what happens when Mr Sandman spins nightmares instead of dreams.
Manipulation- Daniel Greaves,6 mins. An animator and his creation have a power struggle.
Little wolf- An Vrombaut 6 mins, an adorable hand drawn animation of a little wolf trying to catch a very stupid sheep.
The light of Darkness- Michael Cargile, 10 mins- It is a dark, deserted highway. A woman is driving down a deserted road, lost and confused. She stops to sleep for the night. A dark stranger appears- the results are not what you may first expect.
Dessert- Jill Roberston- 4mins- A very young Ewan Mcgregor strolls along a beach and finds a perfect chocolate éclair at the waters edge- where could it have come from? Dare he find out?
78- Noah Edleson, 4mins. Its early morning, a child stands on a man hole in a suburban street repeating a number constantly. A man waiting for the bus watches on, confused and somewhat annoyed decides to investigate- a dark twist on talking to strangers.
Light is Calling, Bill Morrison, 7 mins. Hauntingly beautiful reconstructed old silent film. The film is deliberately burnt and dystroyed to produce beauty out of decay.
La Jette- Chris Marker,20 mins. Post apocalyptic world is illustrated by stunning still photos from Chris Marker. An incredibly powerful film.

Friday, January 7, 2011

LaoBans gears up for production

Shanghai Jan 7, 2011 -- No budget feature film LaoBans announces a second round of casting for this community film production.




 A Treatment: LaoBans – The Movie



A college graduate yet unable to find a “real job” then dumped by his wealthy girlfriend, Dennis is introduced to Jamie by her grandmother, the ‘box rice lunch” lady that feeds Dennis and his fellow fast food franchise employees. Circumventing Jamie’s parents’ recent arranged-marriage attempts, “love at first” sight fuels a failed pawning to a successful series of thefts to an underestimated loss to “quirk of fate” return of a rare, culturally significant and valuable “China Stone” as given to Dennis at his grandfather’s deathbed.

Two star-crossed young lovers seeking to find a  new life within an old world of money and power; the Shanghai Boss flanked by his foreman and mistress; the “Three Dragons” are American, Japanese, and Hong Kong laobans move $100’s millions while gaming to see who can best the other; Texas Dave and Donny Bronx at the “hand-off” in a sex club of Hong Kong; the Japanese Hit Girl in Macau; two Korean Bookends bested by the black-belt “Ingresh” teacher; prurient interests of the American-Playboy-Shanghai-Boss-Mistress-Roommate’s Boyfriend:this collage of characters is the conception of a foreign English teacher and a Chinese film student found during a university intra-campus bus ride.


“Laobans” draws upon an emerging focus of interest in the East/West juxtaposition of a famed dragon motif: Asian (water) auspicious or European (fire) evil are triangulated among the movie’s “Three Dragons” who portray just how personal business is among laobans. A remembrance of Homer’s “Odyssey” and “Iliad” is referenced to old/new orders relative to what may be considered “traditional” in society. Lookdown/Lookup scenes (open/close) reference the metacircularity of life, while “door opening/door closing” scenes reference to “switching tracks of time” which draw out…

The “Half-Guess/Half-Know” human contrasts and commercialism
of the daily life that may be found in any city, anywhere
in our increasingly smaller, globalized world of
push-button-money and fast-food-love-stories.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Update from Shanghai's Lemontree Productions

LemonTree Production House Shanghai
  
                                    LemonTree Production House updates 2010

Synopsis of Wisehit:
Wisehit is based on comedian martial arts person named Wiseguy who's just quit his job as a hitman. He wants to open up a matchmaking agency after all, he has a sensitive side, but he has only one problem he's working for a Shanghai bossman named Carlos, who thinks that Wiseguy knows too much about his personal affairs with sheep. There is only one more package to pick up before he leaves Shanghai, China and return back to New York, USA but he has to encounter strange and wacky people that try to prevent him from quitting.
 “Mel Brooks meets pulp fiction set in contemporary Shanghai”
 Will he succeed? What is the package?
 Release of Wisehit development Trailer.
Comedy has never been this dangerous!!!

Wisehit English
Wise Hit trailer in competition for best comedy Kick the link!
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    Wisehit with Chinese subtitles
This is a development movie for purpose of web/television series/feature film and we are seeking investors, more information is also available upon request via e-mail atLemonTreeproduction@gmail.com
Upcoming projects

In development
LemonTree Production House has received a letter of intent from Lyoto Carvalho Machidahttp://lyotomachida.net/   for the upcoming SON RISE Movie as the main character.We have also received a letter of intent from Zack Ward http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911933/  who is a established well-recognized actor and a martial artist, and has appeared in transformer and many other films.
Synopsis of SonRise:
The film explores themes such as family values, loyalty, friendship and responsibility.  Thrown in strong female characters, nail biting escape  realistic fight sequences, heartbreaking relationship between father and son, mixed martial artist fighters on payroll, quite a few different street characters such as a Chinese detective who is on their trail has a strong exterior, but a kind heart, and the relationship with his own boy
leaves a touching snapshot of urban life not caught on camera before and an unexpected twists that will leave the audience breathless.
More information is also available upon request via e-mail at LemonTreeproduction@gmail.com

Shanghai finest production team members.
 Leo Fuellas: director of photography and film editor.
Maya Meng: production assistant.
Jonathan Browning: photographer
Jeremy Johnson: co-producer Wise Hit
Thanks to the rest of the team for making the best video projects possible and lifting up the standard in China (see the team on LemonTree website http://lemontreefilm.com/index_en.html )
Drago

Drago just finished directing a reality TV show similar to Amazing Race and Apprentice where He traveled throughout mainland China. It was called GM 2030 go for Dragon TV and the Chinese market.

 Previous Videos
This 2 1/2 minutes director’s cut video was shot in the countryside of the Hunan province in China. 900 million live like this in China. No professional actors were used; the mother and son were from the village. The video was produced by Ogilvy for Unilever, who support the charity for handicapped widows since 15 years...
 OMO - Comfort directors cut 15 Second Teaser http://www.shanghaistuff.com/video/omo-comfort-drago-directors
 The adventure of being a Western director and actor In China An award-winning documentary short http://vimeo.com/13386722   directed by Ms. Faye Liang


Here is a short film called ‘The Waiting’ directed By Richard Trombly and co-produced by “The Tree” http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/fNBvU-1_M28/ a Chinese language film that takes a look and the modern meaning of family in Shanghai through the eyes of a 9-year-old Chinese girl.
Here is the short film never publicly release short artsy film called Mohammed   http://vimeo.com/4594728 shot in 3 day.
 For your consideration remember LemonTree independent production House for all film and video works. LemonTree combines Los Angeles creativity and work pride with Shanghai prices. A winning combination.
Please take a look at our site www.lemontreefilm.com
Also our viral videos
City image for Hangzhou Government http://www.vimeo.com/5211613

Sincerely yours
Drago Lazetich
Director/producer/actor
LemonTree Independent Production Shanghai
M: 86 138 1782 7962

Drago Lazetich 
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