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Happy Holidays!
| December 24, 2008
From all of us at Arkeofilms – Margie, Monster, Joel, Tracy, Popo, Mildred, Rose, Vives and Jillian:
May the Holidays bring good cheer and the New Year a wealth of new blessings!
Happy Holidays!
Route Recalculation
| December 20, 2008
(PORTLAND, OREGON) Jennifer is the name of the beloved little lady patiently anchored to the dashboard of our rented car as we traveled 1,500 miles to go around the absolutely beautiful countryside of Oregon in nine days. The GPS my cousin borrowed from a friend for us became so indispensable and in fact absolutely necessary that we gave her a name. Before this trip to Oregon, I have never been to North America, and the idea of going around towns so small that the building where Arkeoâs former office was had more people living in it, was a little daunting.
Iâm in Oregon to shoot a documentary and find people who donât want to be found and locate obscure places. When I was able to track down one address, all I had to do was type it into Jennifer, and voila! I feel a little guilty because itâs so easy. In fact, if we made a wrong turn (usually when we were too engrossed listening to our cinematographerâs playlist and thus missing Jennyâs instructions) Jennifer would be prompt with a solution: âroute recalculation,â sheâd say. And then she starts talking about the new exit we have to take. Thereâs no blaming, no cursing, no stopping to ask the rare highway walker.
(The author just recently came back from Oredon, USA after filming portions of her first full-length documentary, Kano: An American and his women. Entry taken from the blog of Monster Jimenez )
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Joe in (P)Busan part 2. ě기 ě˛ěŹ premieres
| November 27, 2008
Day 3, 3 Oct 2008
In case youâre wondering: in 2000 Korea switched to a new Romanization system, altering the spelling of many towns and cities. As a result, Pusan became âBusanâ. By then the Pusan International Filmfest had grown in popularity, as did the acronym PIFF; that the PIFF people decided not to change the name of the festival to the less-catchy âBIFFâ.
Today is a big dayâthe international premiere of Baby Angelo, at 12:30 PM, followed by a question and answer session with me. Nervous again, as always. My fear is that no one would show up.
Me and Monster (who’s visibly hung-over)
So thankfully, Marge and Monster had already arrived. Monster apparently straight to the airport from drinking with the gang back home.
Met with the PIFF volunteers who seemed really excited to see me. Monster arrived just in time for the screening, and promptly fell asleep the minute the Arkeofilms logo lit up the screen. Margie snuck in a couple minutes late. The screening was full, which was a surprise; about 90% where local Koreans. After five minutes I couldnât take it anymore, so I left. Aside from a heart-stopping ten-second black (as they switched tapes), the screening went without a hitch.
Q&A
more Q&A
Afterwards was the Q&A, with a moderator and a translator, which meant it took a while to ask or reply. First off Iâm pleasantly surprised that the people here are so appreciative of different kinds of cinema. Hereâs an unknown film from a third world country, and itâs a full house. I wish weâd get that kind of response in Manila too. Generally it seems like the film was a hit. A lot of people noted the music and the songs, which I appreciated because Peach, Abi and I put a lot of work into it, and it went largely unnoticed in Manila. The big Bong and Lisa argument was also a high note, with people asking me if it was based on an actual argument I had. I said itâs based on many big fights Iâve had with T, which are about nothing and everything. I also got asked why I know women so well, to which I credited T and my Mom, whom they asked to stand up. And they applauded her. Hehe. Good work daw Mom.
me and the audience
more Korean friends
Me and my parents
They had to cut the Q and A short because we were running out of time, and afterwards it was a lot of pictures and autographs, which was funny and a liiiitle embarrassing because it took a while. In Manila theyâd hardly give us independent filmmakers the time of day, yet here, theyâre very appreciative. They even snapped photos of my parents, hehe.
(taken from Joel Ruiz’s blog whateverbakesyourcake.wordpress.com)
PROJECT IN FOCUS: CLEAN
| November 27, 2008
Our new friends in PR, Green Bulb, tapped Arkeo recently with a challenge: create a two minute video in record time, on a budget (of course), but still maintain the high quality look that the client Colgate-Palmolive is known for.
The video is for the press launch of Colgate Total Professional Clean toothpaste, a unique product which promises that dentist-clean feeling. I know I sound like the script we wrote. But here’s the truth: I did try it and I couldn’t stop licking my teeth. Heheh.
So the shoot was a breeze. We shot for one day, first at the art galleries Slab and Silverlens (standing in for the lead character’s living room) and at a dentist’s office in the afternoon. Two days after we came up with a video that was as clean and polished as the product itself.
The event was a few days after and I got a text from our client Val: “the event was GRREAT! Shining star ang AVP nyo!”
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