http://www.cinemareloaded.comCinema Reloaded RSS FeedCinema ReloadedMon, 28 May 2012 00:31:40 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/no-one-is-illegal/hi guys!the 15 sec trailer for the reloaded project. see you soon!yuhangWed, 19 Jan 2011 13:06:24 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/no-one-is-illegal/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/leader-of-the-pack/So I finally met the leader of the pack. Adian Napitupulu was a student leader who participated in bringing down Suharto, Indonesia's ex-President. And now he's hell bent on many social issues and causes. What brought me to him was his hatred toward his neighbor - my country. And with some love and help from my Indonesian friends, I got to meet and film him. He tears my country down with nationalistic spiel, while my Indonesian friends help me stitch this film togetherWed, 29 Dec 2010 10:43:49 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/leader-of-the-pack/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/perfect/I'm in Taiwan to find funding for my new horror film. The county governments support filmmaking and are extremely helpful to film people. I tell one of the officers about my story. He thinks about it for a while and then something clicks. He knows a secret landscape that's a little out of the way. That deserted area has become a favorite body dumping ground. Missing persons would likely end up there dead, in whole or in pieces. A temple was built to calm the vengeful ghosts down. He asks if that's what I'm after. I say yes, perfect.Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:41:42 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/perfect/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/update/The leader of the destroy-Malaysia vigilante group has just agreed to be interviewed. I'm on my way to Jakarta.Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:35:05 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/update/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/working-working/I'm going to shoot this project in Jakarta. Guess I have an itchy ass and can't stay put so I cooked this up to be shot far from home. Not as easy as I thought, but I have some great friends helping out with the production. We're aware that the subject may turn our interview request down. 'You're a Malaysian, they hate you and it could be dangerous.' So very comforting. I dig that. 'Do you have a fallback plan?' I haven't the faintest idea.Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:35:56 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/working-working/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/vladivostok-football-match/The festival guests were invited to a football match against the Vladivostok governor's team. We practiced twice. Our Peruvian striker Daniel Vega and I got injured during the practice. We're so pissed off that we decided fuck it, we're still going to play the match if it meant breaking our legs. I had to do a Q&A after my screening when the match started. Then my producer Lorna Tee and I rushed to the stadium right after. We were surprised to see that the stadium was filled with people. They gave me a pair of boots (my dream Nike Mercurial boots!), I changed and joined the second-half kick-off. The governor's team already scored a goal. And then a foul allowed us a free kick. The goalkeeper fumbled and the ball went to our player and the touch was effortless. We got even. It got more dramatic when our African player Louis (we nicknamed him 'Makélelé') headed a corner ball in. Uproarious cheers in the stadium. We went wild. 'Makélelé then single-leggedly went past three players to score another for himself. 3-1! We were getting ready to destroy the stadium. The last 8 minutes our energy sapped and the governor's team bagged two goals and got even with us. Penalty shoot-out was a real bitch to endure. And when our goalkeeper saved one and another shot past the post, we made history. Since the festival's inauguration eight years ago the festival team has never won, until now. We are The Stray Dogs, from all over the world.Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:46:18 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/vladivostok-football-match/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/citizen-kane/I've never seen orson welles' films on big screen. The festival is showing five of his films so I'd like to see them all. The film started with the opening credit 'A Mercury Production" read out in Russian. I thought, oh no... Turned out that there's an overwhelming Russian voice on top of the original English dialogue. The translation was always uttered in an emotional fashion that went with the lines. The male voice would assume all the male characters (including Kane as a boy) and a female voice would come in when there's a female character. Many are used to watching films that way. Films are dictated to them.Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:14:20 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/citizen-kane/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/what-the/Recently I finally got around shooting a short story that I wrote last year. I shot it over two evenings with three other crews and three actors. The Chinese title has something to do with a bird and it literally means: what the fuck are you looking at?Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:10:01 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/what-the/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/everything-that-rises-must-converge/Reported during the World Cup match between Holland and Uruguay. (Better late...)Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:58:22 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/everything-that-rises-must-converge/http://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/the-accident/Dear all,Here's something I captured in Jakarta when I was last there. A strange slice of reality. I thougt you might be interested.Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:12:37 GMThttp://www.cinemareloaded.com/en/weblogs/the-accident/