The Walled City @ New York City International Film Festival

My film, The Walled City will be shown at The New York City International Film Festival  

 

The Opening Gala (Black Tie) will be held on the Red Carpet at 

The HUDSON THEATRE

  145 W 44th Street, between 6th & Broadway

                                 Thursday August 18 

Reception: 6:00 - 8:00 pm  Open bar and hors d'oeuvres for 2 hours -  Premiere screening : 8:00 - 9:45 pm + Q&A : 10:00pm

The Walled City screens @ 7th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival Audience Choice Screenings

7th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival

Audience Choice Screenings

February 24-25-26  2011  8 PM

DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts Center

62 East 4th Street

East Village, NYC, USA

Tickets $12 at  https://www.smarttix.com

The Walled City screens @ NewFilmakers NY

 

http://www.newfilmmakers.com/

The Walled City @ Festivus Jan 15th, 2011 is coming!

http://festivus.slated.com/2011/films/twistedtalesshortfilms_festivus2011_festivus2011;jsessionid=A2E7C9442558FE27155172B345F8172D

Left4Dead:Tokyo The Guzzler

Hoarding fuel in anticipation of the zombie apocalypse, Zed never expected to become infected in his own fuel safe house.

In its normal state, The Guzzler is a slow lumbering mass of muscle and fuel-laden flesh, carrying a dangerous payload of highly flammable fuel. The Guzzler's explosion causes massive splash damage to adjacent zombies and survivors foolish enough to be in range. Adjacent zombies ignited by the Guzzler's flames gain a temporary frenzied attack rate and increased resistance to damage. Once engulfed in flames, the Guzzler also attacks in a frenzied state, until its flames are extinguished or is burnt to death by its own flames.Headshots, chainsaws, kitanas, and ranged weapons are highly recommended.

Part I of a series of Left4Dead:Tokyo characters. Inspired by the anime Highschool of the Dead, I figured I'd take a shot at making zombies vs. highschoolers in Japan. The zombies for Left4Dead:Tokyo have a more fantastical anime bent to it.

Happy New Year and NEXTV 2010 WEB SERIES/SHORT FILM COMPETITION

As I was getting ready for a New Year's Eve party, I was notified that The Walled City has made it to the finalists of NEXTV's  2010 WEB SERIES/SHORT FILM COMPETITION!

http://www.nextventertainment.com/blog/2010/11/congratulations-to-our-finalists-2010-web-seriesshort-film-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1096

From the link:

After an extremely intense and difficult process, we have finally chosen the FINALISTS for the 2010 NEXTV WEB SERIES & SHORT FILM COMPETITION.
In an effort to make this competition truly relevant to today’s entertainment industry we ask content-creators, “CAN YOUR WORK BE ADAPTED FOR TV?”
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FINALISTS:

Wolf, Yaniv	WHEN I AM KING
Richter, Karl	NOT THIS DIFFICULT
Tillman, Dempsey	THE COLLECTOR
Morgan, Larry	INDIE
Loxton, Dean	JACK MALCHANCE
Hakobyan, Vahram	POWER POISON
Deol, Kiran	WOMAN REBEL
Buffel, Carissa	GRAY EAGLES
Borie, Noella	THE FACE SHOP
Hereth, James	N.O.R.M.A.L
Hom, Roger	THE WALLED CITY
Husband, Jai	HOW WE GOT OVER
McCray, Blake	THE BUCK JOHNSON STORY
Livier, Ruth	YLSE.NET
Phillips, Will	MURDER SQUAD
Villanti, Joe	BAD TIMING

It was a good year for The Walled City. Can The Walled City be made into a tv show? Well , somebody certainly thinks so! =) Happy New Year and thanks for your support!

The Walled City screens @ FESTIVUS

 

http://www.festivusfilmfestival.com/

January 13 - 16, 2011 | denver, colorado

 

The Walled City oven fresh dvds

 

New DVD design and smaller eco-footprint.

The Walled City @ ShortNonStop

http://www.shortsnonstop.com/videos/watch/the-walled-city-/
Available on Canadian phones everywhere. =)

The Walled City @MOCA

The Walled City will play at The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) before Dana's performance. Very exciting.

FULL! Target Free Thursday Performance & Lecture: Up Close and Personal with Dana Leong

Thu, Nov 18 from 7pm – 9pm

THIS EVENT IS FULL. ALL RSVPS RECEIVED AFTER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 3PM WILL BE ON THE WAITLIST.


Featuring special guest MC Rabbi Darkside.

Cellist/Trombonist/Composer Dana Leong fuses hip-hop, jazz and digital music to create a signature infinite sound. Often referred to as a "hi-def Yo-Yo Ma," Dana has revolutionized the cello with his cutting edge amplification, lyrical melodies, and collage of jazz textures and improvisations.
As an official Yamaha sponsored artist ambassador, Dana's pioneering fusion of digital music and ethereal jazz sensualities has garnered critical acclaim and wowed audiences worldwide.
In this autobiographical lecture and performance, MOCA’s new Composer-in-Residence Dana Leong explores the ties between the different worlds of recording, performing, touring, and producing music in multiple genres, balance between business and art, and his recipe for success. Dana will also discuss the inner-workings of his life as a successful independent musician living and working in New York.
www.danaleong.com



This event is free and open to the public, courtesy of Target.
LIMITED CAPACITY; RSVP REQUIRED to education@mocanyc.org.

Walled City at Zero Film Festival

Check it out:
http://www.zerofilmfest.com/

Tickets:
http://www.zerofilmfest.com/nyc_opening_party.html

Brochure:
http://www.zerofilmfest.com/2010ny_program.pdf

Johnathan reviews Walled City for the Festivus Film Festival

7th Annual Big Apple Film Festival

THE WALLED CITY 
premieres on  Saturday Nov 6, 2010
http://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com/program_guide_sat.html

Tickets ONSALE 10.11.10
www.bigapplefilmfestival.com.


Big Fonts ...Big Deal. =)

The Walled City on suckerPUNCH

I made it on suckerPUNCH's front page today! Very exciting. This is one of my favorite websites for seeing the latest in design and architecture. Now I'm featured alongside of some of my favorite designers!

http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/

Walled City has also racked up invitations to two festivals: The Zero Film Festival and the 7th Annual Big Apple Film Festival.


http://www.zerofilmfest.com/
http://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com/

Redd Pose, concept art for Walled City

How would you say "The Walled City" comments on graffiti culture?

I was asked this question about my film from a  curator, and I wanted to be clear that graffiti wasn't being used to fulfill the necessity for trend in our commercial culture, nor promotion of grafitti culture, nor hip hop culture. It stands for something more important, which I think is often missed when looking at graffiti. Beyond the defacement of valuable public/private property, there is something much more primal at work here. It simple terms, it stands for resistance against our physical boundaries (real or imaginary) which are arbitrary and contrived.





 













How would you say "The Walled City" comments on graffiti culture?
Well, "The Walled City" is definitely inspired by graffiti, but it by no means attempts to define it. The Walled City of Kowloon in Hong Kong was a place of sustainable anarchy for the less privileged. In many ways it blurred political and social boundaries. On paper, it was a plot of land owned by China, but it existed inside a British colony. Graffiti to me is a form of blurring as well. In practice it is illegal and can be seen as defacement of public property. However, to some, it is a form of art and a way for the people to blur the boundaries set up by society and to make these spaces their own. In extreme cases, boundaries can manifest themselves as walls such as the Berlin wall, the Great Wall of China, (or its modern equivalent,  The Great Firewall of China) and The Kowloon Walled City. These walls also happen to be an ideal painting surface for street art. Ironically, there was no physical wall* that separated the contemporary Walled City from Hong Kong, other than a perceived one, which was created by politics and society.

*The original fortress walls were long dismantled by the Japanese occupation forces of WWII to create the foundation of Kai Tek airport
 
The Walled City

MFACA School of Visual Arts

Cuts from my film, "The Walled City" are featured prominently on SVA's MFACA "reel": http://mfaca.sva.edu/

























View the film here: http://genericlife.com/WalledCity.html