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Once again, like every year, I’ll fly to Hong Kong to attend the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market ( FILMART); I’ll be there as usual as press (journalist for a French magazine + cameraman / photographer etc...) and filmmaker (will promote my new documentary “ FICA: From the Near East” and have some meetings for an upcoming project) but I’ll be there also as a sales person for a couple of indie foreign compagnies, one from the USA ( Left Hand Films) and the other one from Lebanon ( Collection d’Artiste, owned by writer/director/producer Jocelyne Saab). I’ll stay only two weeks in Hong Kong, but I hope I’ll have the time to do everything during my stay!
Here are some informations about the movies that I’m selling:
TEEN A-GO-GO: A little film about rock and roll history(2010)
Directed
by Melissa Kirkendall. Genre: documentery / musical
Synopsis: On February 9, 1964 Rock and Roll changed forever when the Beatles premiered live on the Ed Sullivan show. An estimated 73 million viewers (over forty percent of the entire U.S. population at the time) was tuned in. Teens all across America were glued to their TV sets as they witnessed a true turning point in Rock history.
On February 10, 1964, it would seem that 10
million teens had something new to do. With their jaws still on the floor and
inspiration stirring within, thousands of youngsters knew that their destiny
lay in rock and roll. From that point on, every meaningful change that rock and
roll has gone through started with some teenagers, alone in a garage, banging
away at three chords. The Teen Scene was born.
What were the teen scenes like?
What happened to these bands?
Who made it big, who didn’t and why? Why is
this music still influencing young rock and rollers today?
“
Teen A-Go-Go” explores these questions
and answers them through the eyes and hearts of musicians across the country
and one particularly unique and influential community in Texas. The
musicianship and influence this community contributed to rock and roll is both
unprecedented and impressive in it’s almost “kept secret” state.
Music that these teens made in “one take”
recordings in 1965 through 1968 has become highly collectable and in some cases
continues to receive radio play.
Through a series of interviews with the musicians themselves, industry experts, super 8 footage, archival TV footage and photographs, “ Teen A-Go-Go” takes the viewer on an entertaining, nostalgic ride into the teen scenes and into the lives of the people who lived it.
Featuring:Lenny Kaye(critic, musician, compiler, and producer), Ira Robbins (co-founder of Trouser Press), Billy Miller (Founder of Norton Records), the 5,6,7,8’s (featured in ), King Coffee (Butthole Surfers), Bruce Channel (‘Hey Baby’ and Rockabilly HOF), Johnny Reno (Stevie Ray Vaughan's Triple Threat Revue, Lounge Kings), Joe Nick Patoski(writer, contributor, editor, biographer, Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly), Ron Chapman (TV’s "Sump'N Else", Texas Radio HOF), Bobbie Wygant (TV critic, personality and host), John Nitzinger (Guitrist, Songwriter), Bugs Henderson (Mouse and the Traps), Rusty Burns (Point Blank), ThElite,
Larry and the Blue Notes, The Barons, The Cynics, The Mods, Jack and the Rippers, The Novas, Kandy Kanes, The Excels (Rockabilly HOF), Major Bill Smith (Record Producer, ‘Hey, Hey Paula’, ‘Hey Baby’).
DUNIA – KISS ME NOT ON THE YES (2005)
Directed
by Jocelyne Saab. Genre: Erotic drama.
Synopsis:
The graceful curve of a woman's neck. The seductive jangle of bent gold
bracelets sliding onto an arm. Welcome to the world of
Dunia, a student
of poetry and belly dancing, whose artistic expression is inhibited because she
cannot experience desire.
Mentored by the ardent public intellectual
Dr.
Beshir (played by Egyptian superstar singer
Mohammad Mounir), Dunia
begins an all-consuming search for ecstasy in poetry, dance, and music–taking
us into the world of women in a society that both fetishizes and oppresses
female sexuality. Ultimately,
Dunia must confront the traditions that
have destroyed her capacity for pleasure before she can experience it.
Context:
The story unfolds in Egypt, the moment "The Thousand and one Night"
are prohibited for accusations of pornography. The film references poetry,
dance and music that are at the root of the Arab nation, and that precedes its
states.
It is a coming of age story, an affirmation of identity, of the place the individual and his values hold in a society of pre-modernity.
These are experiences shared across the Arab
world, and across its social strata. The film's dramatic highpoint is centered
on Female Genital Mutilation, in as much of an effort to denounce it
literally,as well as use it as a platform to refer to the notion of a cultural
and intellectual excision.
FGM is an African reality and drama, that is
practiced in two Arab countries only: Egypt and Sudan.
WHAT’S GOING ON? (2010)
Directed
by Jocelyne Saab. Genre: Drama Romance Fantasy
Plot:
“What’s Going On?” at bottom is a tale of exploring the imagination of a
writer
plus a tale of exploring the city
of Beirut. The film deals with the initiation to love and the female soul. Will
Jalal the writer succeed in writing his book? What will he do with this heart
he steals? So the title of the film—“What’s Going On?” takes on new meaning
Short synopsis:
Beirut 2010. A writer, who regrets not keeping his promise to his dressmaker
father to follow in his footsteps,designs, cuts sews and pins the “body” of his
own text. His imagination is inspired by real people, for example, Khouloud a
woman who dances in parking lots which are full of the city’s memories , and
whose loving heart he wishes to steal.
Thus the metaphor of imagination introduced through scissors, patterns
and fabric that the writer drapes over a dressmaker’s dummy.
From the very first shot is not clear what is going on. What is true? What is false? Who are the characters and are the situations real or is the writer once again diverting the lives of his models for his own creative purposes, a new
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