FAFFing around

Currently helping out on an upcoming Melbourne film festival called the Fantastic Asian Film Festival but you can call me FAFF. It is being put together by the people at Monster Pictures and will be twenty or so genre films sourced from Asia to be screened at Cinema Nova (Carlton) in mid- November. Top of the list for me is Sion Sono's Guilty of Romance (see past blog post) but that is just the start. The Yellow Sea from Korea is an absolute cracker, it's about a cab driver but it is so much more than taxis. There are some whacky ones like Helldriver (trailer) and Yakuza Weapon (trailer) and some pink ones like Erotibot and Sex & Zen 3-D (trailer). The films are coming from China, Japan, Korea and even a couple from the Philippines, the majority of the films are yet to be released in Australia. Check the FAFF website for programing details (although at the time of posting the website was still work in progress.)

So my involvement to date has been on the cinema trailer front. This is a multi pronged affair, we pumped out a quick one that was completely graphic based in vein of Gasper Noe's Enter the Void opening title sequence. Maybe a rip off, surely a homage and definitely appropriation.
Check it here FAFF Trailer 1

The second front of attack is to cut a live action trailer or trailers. This is a little more challenging because of the wealth of material that is to be condensed into 15 and 30sec slots. Shit!
They are currently being cut as we speak.

The third prong is to shoot some vignettes/promo's/trailers, again they will be 15 & 30sec but with real live people shot by ourselves. This is probably the most exciting. theshoot is planned for next thursday and a small team of production people is being amassed along with a number of actors/models. We are going to shoot down at the Docklands (my Spiritual home :P ) and we are going to employ some in-camera special effects techniques. It should be a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to the results.
Will keep you posted.

This won't be shown, but Guilty of Romance will be