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CAUSEWAY BAY EVENT A BIG HIT!

At 2:45, a large crowd of media, onlookers and kids gathered in front of the video screen at Sogo to witness the unveiling of a 2-minute video about air pollution. The video, which went live at 3 pm sharp, contained highlights from the footage created by 200 secondary school students from 13 schools throughout Hong Kong . These students were exposed to filmmaking for the first time during the last half of 2009 on a program created and implemented by FOCUS ON FILM.

Shortly before 3 pm, FoF Artistic Director, Elisa Rosati ascended the podium to congratulate the kids on successful completion of the One, Two GO! video mosaic.  CAN campaign manager, Sum Kwong, and celebrity duo, 2R, Race and Roseanne Wong, ascended the podium to congratulate the kids as well and to say a few words about the desperate state of Hong Kong's air.

After the banner-signing and photo-taking in front of Sogo, 60 students and teachers gathered at Times Square restaurant, SML, to meet each other and journalists.

There were a lot of media at yesterday's event, including Apple Daily, Oriental Daily, TVB and the SCMP, so expect to see coverage in your favorite publication this week.

The videos will be playing twice an hour 24/7 for the next month at both the Sogo screen and Times Square.  If you are in the neighborhood, don't forget to look up!

 

 

Jan 2010

Mark it on your calendars!  The date is FEBRUARY 6, 2010.  2:30PM

Hong Kong Mansion - at Yee Wo St and Great George St.  Causeway Bay.  See Map.

The unveiling of the work from the CLEAN-AIR-ONE-TWO-GO! campaign.  200 participants, 10 schools, one issue.  The students interviewed hundreds of Hong Kongers about their feelings on air quality.  Join us for speakers, videos, and a tea party afterwards.  Support the clean air initiative!

December 2009:

Latest News: FOF/CAN program Video Tapestry Screening:  Jan to Feb in Times Square CWB

The Clean Air Network Program has finished with a dozen participating schools learning the craft of film production over a three month period.  The participating students produced hundreds of video bytes that represent what young people in Hong Kong feel about the quality of the air they breathe. 

Focus On Film will weave these videos into a mosaic of images which will be screened repeatedly in Times Square over a two month period. 

Stay tuned for more information about the unveiling of the final work.

 

 

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October 2009: 

 

Workshop:  "ScreenPlay"  a collaborative effort between Focus On Film and JETS will run as a holiday camp for 9 to 15 year olds.  For more information see our quick links menu under:  Holiday Camps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 12, 2009

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Help us continue to give YOUTH a VOICE and the power to USE IT

 

Sept 2009,

Focus On Film participated in the production of this promotional video by Filmages about the Clean Air Network and its effort to secure signatures for a campaign to lobby the government in Hong Kong for better air quality.  Focus On Film currently is running a program in over a dozen local schools in Hong Kong to produce video bytes with kids on the topic of air quality.  The work will be 'woven' into a video tapestry and publicly displayed at the end of the year.  

 

 

 

June 26, 2009

Recruitment for CLEAN-AIR-ONE-TWO-GO! will begin in a few days, the videos are up. Check them out here. Thanks for all the participants at Chinese International School for making them over only one weekend!

June 1, 2009

FOCUS ON FILM launches "CLEAN AIR ONE-TWO-GO!" with the CLEAN AIR NETWORK.

The program is already underway with the production of recruitment videos at Chinese International School this coming weekend! Click here to read more and contact us if you want to participate!

Wait to see what we have lined up! This is our biggest campaign ever! Wooooo hooooo!

May 19, 2009

  • Hot off the press!

May 9, 2009

May 2, 2009

  • What a week! Thanks to our apprentices who came out this past weekend. Vanessa, Issac, and Ryosuke did a fabulous job. We hope you enjoyed yourselves and that we did not work you too hard. There will be lots more to come, and one day we want to see trainees on your own shoots.
  • Focus on Film in Cannes Short Film Corner!!! Unbelievable! Elissa is leaving for France on Tuesday and will be representing FOF at one of the biggest industry festivals in the world. 7, count them, SEVEN of our films will be screened in sunny Southern France.
  • Registrations are coming in for the summer camps. Sign up soon to make sure you get in!

April, 2009

  • Last week was a blast meeting all these people at Filmart and all these other wonderful events. Thanks to Digital Magic for their 3D talk, the New Zealand Trade Council for an eye-opening luncheon on cutting edge digital technology from King Kong and Lord of the Rings, and Shaw Studios with RED camera and APPLE for a wonderful workflow presentation.

  • A new base of operations from Base Productions! Focus On Film moves into the hip industrial area of Kwun Tong, home to many production houses. The furniture has not even arrived yet and already our advanced students were editing late into the night!

Thank you to the Womens Foundation and all our participants for making the closing event for the Girl's Life Program so successful. Two hundred people attended the screening and the feedback was amazing. We are all so proud of all of you!