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The Fresh Wave 2013 - International Short Film Festival
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Organized by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), the aim of the Fresh Wave – International Short Film Festival (Festival) is to discover and nurture young filmmakers with potentials through training, production, competition and screening. The Festival also provides them a platform to create and exchange their ideas.
The Hong Kong 48 Hour Film Project is returning in 2013
The 48 Hour Film Project will return to Hong Kong in 2013, probably around October. Filmmakers from all over the Hong Kong area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world for the title "Best 48 Hour Film of 2013".
Julianne Block
Juliane's film making career started in Germany as special FX make-up artist on an underground Zombie flick ("Mutation", released on DVD in 1999) followed by producer & screenwriter credits on several other shorts (e.g. "Killerbus", released on DVD in 2004). Even though she had a design masters from the university of art in Braunschweig, she continued with film making.
In 2005 she migrated to Asia to pursue Asian cinema and has directed a low budget feature in 2008 ("Emperor", shot for US$ 2000), more than 10 shorts (as of January 2011) which have been screened at film festivals around the world and her 2nd feature ("Kinks") is in post.
Juliane has lived in Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysian and Indonesia.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
CCHR: Big Pharma - Define 'Better' MV
Watch MV Featuring Chill EB - Psycho/pharma spends billions of dollars a year marketing mental 'disorders' & drugs for kids -- yet these drugs are documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause mania, psychosis, hallucinations, suicide, violence, homicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke and death. What's more, they are being prescribed for psychiatric disorders that are simply a checklist of behaviors. Get the facts here www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/
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Invisible Empire - A New World Order Defined Full
This film documents very clearly that some of America’s most powerful elected officials, including all recent presidents, have been part of an international cabal to establish a socialist New World Order that would eradicate national sovereignty and many of the God-given freedoms vouchsafed in the Constitution of the United States, making all citizens mere slaves of the state.
William C. Martell
On one weekend in May 2010 (Saturday and Sunday 9am to 6pm) William C. Martell brings his acclaimed, celebrated screenwriting seminar from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. unlike some gurus Martell is a working professinal writer who earns his living writing scripts that sell and are made into films. For details of the seminar please check our website www.filmschool.hk
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Making A Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure.
Robert Mckee's STORY SEMINAR
For over 25 years, Robert McKee's Story Seminar has been the world's ultimate writing class for over 50,000 screenwriters, filmmakers, TV writers, novelists, industry executives, actors, producers, directors and playwrights.
The Internet Movie Data Base
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games, including actors, production crew personnel and fictional characters featured in these three visual entertainment media.
It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million unique users each month and a solid and rapidly growing mobile presence.[2] IMDb was launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com. As of January 7, 2013, IMDb had 2,393,341 titles and 5,010,177 personalities in its database.[3] As of January 17 2013 IMDb had 40,000,000 Registered Users