Edinburgh Taiwan Film Festival and updates
Life had been roller coaster ride for me since the last update, many things had happened, mostly good, let me break it down!
1. "Left Here/Right There" is now in post production!
We had wrapped the production of LHRT, the film is broken into two shooting block due to the actor's availability, I am really grateful that Pei-Chi, the lead actress who plays Yun in the film still commit to making the film a week before she leaves UK and go back to Taiwan! Also Nan-Wei, Liang-Ping and Norman who let me use their flat (my flat now actually) as the locations, and Jim who plays Yu, the lead actor in the film comes all the way from London to Edinburgh.
2. I had been working on a few really cool productions as Script Supervisor, including covering as the script supervisor on a low budget horror feature Outpost 3 in glasgow and also the "The Making of Us", a collaboration between three artist, Graham Eatough & Graham Fagen working with Michael McDonough (The D.P who shot Winter's Bone!) as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, where the audience witness us (the cast and crew) making a short film within 1.5 hour in Tramway Glasgow, the final film should be finished soon and looking forward to see it.
3. Film School Application
I went down to National Film and TV School on their open day for directing fiction, and got showed around the campus and talked to students, unlike london film school, the school is far from London city centre, 30 minutes train to Beaconsfield, then 20 minutes walking, the campus itself is not massive but really well equipped, they have 2 Alexas and 2 studio space, the school is run by professionals who are also working in the industry, and each department only take 8 students each year, its highly competitive and prestige to get in, the school also bridge the link between industry and school near the end, it feels like the place to be if you want to learn the craft as they have intensive workshop right from the very start, and the course is practical based and there are alot of times dedicated for making films. Call me simple minded, I had decided this is the place to be if I wants to learn, as I am no longer young, friends who graduates at the same time at Univ had all got steady job and life now, and yet I am still searching.
4. Taiwan Film Festival
We had also finished hosting the Edinburgh Taiwan Film Festival, this year the festival got bigger as we got fundings from Taiwan and gets to show 5 feature films plus a short programme too, really like "The Fourth Portrait".
5. Guardianship Project
I was commissioned to produce a promotional film for the Guardianship Service for the Scottish Refugee Council, who looks after children smuggled or trafficked into Scotland from unstable or war torn countries like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, the film is about the children voicing their own opinions about the service and their life in Scotland.
It is not a standard promo job but an incredible experience working with these children, they are all so positive about their life in UK, all of them wants to become policeman, nurses, accountants, and really appreciates whats in front of them, everyone who moans about their life should look at these children, who leaves their home and family to be in UK, they are independent and appreciative, working with them really motivate me to see the positive side of human nature.
6. Dance Films
Thinking about adapting 4.48 Psychosis into a short experimental dance film.
Left Here, Right There and other upcoming projects!
I had been privileged and lucky to work on both short films commissioned by DigiCult this year, Eva Riley's Sweetheart and Tom Chick's Death in a Nut, both films were professionally produced and I had learned so much as a script supervisor as well as a filmmaker.
Since then, I had been writing treatment and script for my next short film, "Left Here, Right There", which had evolved from the original romcom about the adventure of two Taiwanese tourist comes to Edinburgh to a personal film, a reflection/meditation on "First Love" explored by two Taiwanese in Edinburgh.
The style of the film will be a drastic departure from the style of all my previous films and will be pushing boundaries of cinema, so it should be fun to film!
Garry Torrance, who shot "Soup-er Times" and I had shot the trailer back in May and we will be shooting the 1st part of the film in early January.
Look like its gonna be an even busier year in 2012!
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Apart from that, my other current projects are:
1) Organising the 2nd Edinburgh Taiwanese Film Festival in March.
2) Producing "Unhomely", the 4th year graduation film with director/writer Robbie Jones.
3) A Music Video for a known folk artist, waiting to hear back from the label.
4) A Unique Dance Film exploring space, the script and treatment had been finished and I just need to find the location.
“Soup-er Times” had won the Third Place at MoFilm Competition BFI 2011!
Wohoooooo!
Our Campbell Commercial for Mofilm, "Soup-er Times" had won the third place!
To see the film, please go this link, and check out the video!
2011 MOFILM BFI London Winner Announced!
We had only a month to prepare everything, from cast, crew, location, costume, script, edit, composing, sound mix, it was really an intensive experience, and I can't do it without the great team we have, it was small, cozy, crazy and fun and will definitely do it again!
Credit:
Cast:
Mark - Jamie McInnes
Janice - Annabel Logan
Chauffeur - Alex Donald
Crew:
Producer:
Katie Crook / Blue Iris Films
Director/Writer:
Chih-Peng Lucas Kao
Cinematographer:
Garry Torrance
Editor:
Jonathan Ley
Composer:
David Hepburn Watson
Sound Recordist and Mixer:
Ross Buchanan
Camera Assistant:
Pete Harper
Siobhan Shields
Production Assistant:
Siobhan Shields
Costume and Props:
Lucas Kao
Olivia Gifford
Katie Crook
Campbell Man, character designed by:
Peter Greeves
Soup Make up by:
Garry Torrance
Special Thanks to:
Eva Riley, Hsin-Shao Chang, David Broadbent, Jane Green, Margiottas, Christ Church Morningside, Nan-Wei Wu, Liang-Ping Yen, Napier University St Margarets Arts Complex
“Like Fish in Sand” AudioVisual Installation – Sandpit
Hello all,
this is one of the video me and Rocio Jungenfeld edited together, now with the amazing soundscape added by Jessie Schmidt!
The video will be projected onto a sandpit, as part of the "Like Fish in Sand" audiovisual installation for Alchemy Moving Image and Film Festival at Hawick , 21-23/Oct/2011
Upcoming “LIKE FISH IN SAND” Installation for “Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival”
I had been collaborating with the artist, Rocio ?Jungenfeld in the last two months on her video installation, Like Fish in Sand, for the Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival which will materialise in Hawick, from 21-23/Oct/2011.
We went down to Hawick at the beginning of September and shoot abstract images of nature which we both think will resonate with the theme of Alchemy and the Four elements, Fire, Water, Earth and Air.
We had been sitting in the dark and edit the beautiful images into two short films that will be projected onto a fish tank and sandpit.
It had been a grand experience as my first time working with an artist who had a great eye and I had seen a whole new perspective and different way of thinking and seeing.
For more information about the installation, please go to:
http://www.alchemyfilmfest
Excerpt Synopsis of Like Fish in Sand by Rocio:
The work “Like Fish in Sand” is an audiovisual experiment that uses natural elements such as water, sand and paper as projection screens and reflection surfaces. A fish?tank and a sandpit are the main projectionsurfaces, and paper and walls are secondary projection screens.
The video projection consists of close?up moving images of natural elements and their interaction with the skin. These images will be projected onto the liquid and materials of the installation, and thereby will project the elements back to their media, back to their essence; skin, hair, eyes, hands, feetintervene on and blend with nature.
Test Campbell Commercial is Wrapped!
In the last three weeks, I had been working with the lovely people from Blue Iris Films, to develop a test commercial for Campbell Soup as part of the Mofilm Competition for BFI London, within a very short amount of time, we throw ideas around, wrote the script, made the props, as well as pulling together a professional team, its madness, a lot of stress as we had to get a lot done everyday, but at the same time, fun.
We were shooting for one and half day in 6 different locations, it was a stress test as we got a lot of shots to go through, a real challenge, but thank god we have a great team who were with me and support me all the time. We wrapped on time both days with a lot of amazing footages, the film is currently being assembled by the editor, and we hope to finish on Sunday.
This will marks my first come back as a director since the 48hr challenge film, Living the Dream (link) in May. I had been helping other people's film for almost 9 months now, its time to focus my energy on directing and making the film I want to make. My next project, "Left Here Right There", a film about two Taiwanese in Edinburgh will be in preproduction at beginning of October.
Drumderg Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund
A Short promotional film I produced to help promote the Community Fund Scottish and Southern Energy invested into the town of Alyth, which is used to host a youth hub and had created positive benefit in town.
For every windfarm sets up in Scotland, the energy company have to grant funding to the community nearby, but due to the uniqueness and different need of each community, the fund was organised by the Scottish Community Foundation, a charity that managed the application and selection of the grantee. In the case of Drumderg, the fund was used to build a youth hub in alyth as a place that offers free consultation to the youth, helping them in any way possible also a place for them to gather around.
The shooting takes us a day to the charming small town of alyth, and it was fun!
Credit:
Credit:
Producers
Beth Edberg
CP Lucas Kao
Hanna Wellish
Director, Editor & Copywriter
Hanna Wellish
Camera Operators
Pete Harper
CP Lucas Kao
Sound Recordist & Mixer
Phil Lee
Soundtrack
Gary West
Still Photography & Driver
Gillian Morrison
Runners
Charlie West
Gillian Morrison
Grounds by Nux
A dance video I shot for Future Shorts Edinburgh during their opening in May at InSpace, which I really enjoyed filming, to capture the fluidity and motion of the dance, and through editing make the piece exciting.
Capturing with 4 cameras, Panasonic GH1, Panasonic HMC151, Canon 7D and 5D2.
Synopsis:
Grounds takes us on an original journey as the soloist poetically portrays an inner struggle. The atmosphere created by the tension and resistance of her movement alongside the deep and resonant tones of the live musical accompaniment is emotional and captivating.
"I am looking for a knot in myself and I will never find it because I know that there isn't one. I had set my heart on remaking the chaos in me, on starting from scratch. Yet I'm afraid that upon reaching zero there would be nothing to restart. So I'm searching for myself, as the doctor says. It doesn't mean much, I'm alive. I don't know what one has to do when he is alive" The swallower swallowed
(Translation from French of L'avalée des avalés by Réjean Ducharme)
Videographers:
Charmaine Gilbert, Neil Hartop, Hadley Pearson, CP Lucas Kao
Editor: CP Lucas Kao
Special Thanks to Juanky Redondo (Carlos) from Future Shorts
Bespoken Cellar Web Animation Advert
This is the first animation web advert I produced with Peter Greeves, an talented ECA graduate animator, commissioned by Bespoken Cellar, the 35sec web advert demonstrate how the wine cellar is built in a humour and efficient way. The music is composed by David Hepburn Watson, who also compose the music for "A Lifetime"
Agency: Moxiedia Ltd
Client: Bespoken Cellar
Producer: CP Lucas Kao
Director/Animator: Peter Greeves
Composer: David Hepburn Watson
Videographer Work for Edinburgh International Film Festival TV 2011
I was given the opportunity to help in the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 as part of EIFF TV, which delivers new and fresh content online daily about the festival. I shot most of the following videos with either a Canon 7D or Panasonic HVX for the GVs and the sponsor shots.
The videos can be seen:
I also shot all the footages in the 2nd talent lab.
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/gallery/videos/eiff-tv/277
About
Name: Chih-Peng Lucas Kao
Bio: CP Lucas Kao is a professional Script Supervisor and award winning Short Filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Check my FilmCrew Pro profile at: http://bit.ly/f47T3u
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