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My first major production film that I worked on with full responsibility. This film is the first film that I have entered into film festival contention and has fared well among critics.
Here are some quick facts about my film submission process thus far:
Officially Selected to 28 International Film Festivals.
Awarded 9 Awards including winning the Jury and Audience Award at the same time, twice (Moondance and FAIF Film Festival).
Youngest recipient of the Heartland Film Festival Crystal Heart Award. Heartland has given awards to many acclaimed filmmakers and actors such as Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, and Russell Crowe.
Named "Most Promising Student Filmmaker of 2005" by Foundation for Advancement of Independent Films.
Has screened at the world famous Mann's Chinese Theater and the DGA (Director's Guild of America) Theater.
This film turned out to be a compilation piece. I was appointed by my school to direct this film in collaboration with three other individuals. Through innovative techniques, digital video technology, and sparking ideas, this IB Senior Video remains a template for future classes. The sale of this DVD has sold more than twice the amount of any previous year.
Click Here to View: "Mua Dong Mong Manh" Music Video (Needs Windows Media Player)
Click Here to View: Behind the Scenes of "Mua Dong Mong Manh" Music Video (Needs Windows Media Player)
Through the expertise I have gained in working with claymation and film, I was appointed during my stay in Viet Nam to use animation in a hit song by a major Vietnamese group entitled Trio 666. The video has been broadcast to millions of television sets and has won awards for the use of breakthrough animation in Vietnamese media.
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This animation short was the first opportunity that I was able to break down scenes and maneuver the camera at my every desire. Since the picture was a claymation film, I had no problem with conducting my cinematography to my definition of perfection. This film was made for a very young audience as a sort of a clay cartoon.
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In this short documentary, I was able to use my philosophy and morals to demonstrate to an audience the injustices of the world through a visual medium. I used this picture to show my high school that through history many forms of hate have demolished our individual cultures as well as our nation.
This film was made as a fulfillment of a Theory of Knowledge class required by International Baccalaureate Candidates. It is meant to demonstrate the understanding of the egocentric individual.
*I honestly think that this claymation short is quite possibly one of the best that I have ever made. The concept and design was so good for what I had at the time. However, at the time, only one copy was ever made and it was submitted as a project for my International Baccalaureate studies. So it is seriously forever lost, but I truly do rank it as the best of all the claymation pieces. The early works are usually always lost!
By modernizing the philosophy of the Buddhist Zen self, I wanted to make people of all religions and backgrounds open to the beliefs of other cultures. Many times people become too arrogant of their own beliefs that they negate whatever opposes their viewpoints. This is my first motivational film that I have created to make people more open minded through logic and rationale.
Over the years I have used my maturing skills as a filmmaker in being hired as a cameraman for weddings, quinceneras, parties, lectures, and other memorable events. Apart from getting paid for my work, I have used my love for film in helping the community by volunteering my work in constructing highlights for the elderly, church events, good-bye wishes, and those who can not afford to keep their memories in the film medium.
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I was cast as an extra when I visited Viet Nam (1997) on the set major film series that has today been compared to the works of Charles Dickens. It was here that I my love of filmmaking began. I heard one man shout to the other to cue lights, make up, boom, dolly, and action. The collective unit that the production created was so harmonious in working together to achieve a spectacular scene. The sweat draining down my back, the mosquitoes biting on my skin, and the hours running past my bedtime were of no hindrance to my fascination of being a part of a film production.