Killer questions from both you and Jackson. I'll try and get screeners to you guys. Far North is a great movie :)
Celebrity smeblity - I'm just a hack and you know it. Mike On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Rupert <[email protected]> wrote: > You forgot to mention Harrison Ford, Gordon Brown, etc. You are the > celebrity videoblogger. > > I have questions: > 1) I'm interested why after a)the success of The Fast Runner and b) > Kapadia's own films in which he cast Indians as Indians, he cast > Michelle Yeoh as an Inuit woman in Svalbard. Surely this was a great > opportunity for an unknown Inuit actress? > 2) Why did they change the name of the original short story from True > North (a much better name) to Far North which doesn't mean anything? > 3) Kapadia seems pretty cool - he started out making documentary > shorts by himself about the world around him, then went to the Royal > College of Art and made bigger shorts - and now he's still making > shorts (though I haven't seen them) even though he's a working > feature film director. Why does he do it? To keep practicing his > art when he's not working on features? If so, why not use little > cameras and work on his own like he used to, rather than spend lots > of money on a crew - share the films online as part of an ongoing > body of work, and have a direct connection with his audience? > There's a whole new generation of filmmakers here who are making > ongoing documentaries about the world around them and connecting > directly. Or does he feel that as a well-known director, he doesn't > have an interest in sharing his work this way? > 4) Sean Bean. Why? > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 18-Dec-08, at 5:20 AM, mikeysizemore wrote: > > Hi all, > > So I mess around with pointing video cameras at interesting people > from time to time (for my sins I was the idiot who got Spielberg & > Lucas on Seesmic earlier in the year). Later today I'm interviewing > Michelle Yeoh and director Asif Kapadia - I'll be pointing my trusty > HG10 at them, but we're sourcing questions via Twitter. As usual with > these things it was all very last minute, but if anyone on this list > wants to pose a question in the next three hours or so just ask it on > Twitter and add the hashtag #FarN at the end so we can track it. More > info here: > > http://www.farnorththefilm.com/2008/12/help-us-interview-michelle-asif/ > > I hope this isn't spam. > > I'm hoping to cut the footage with questions from the Twitter stream > and Seemic & Phreadz etc. No idea how it'll turn out, but fun to play > with this stuff. > > Cheers > > Mike > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- Mike Atherton Saying the wrong thing since 1972 Writer | Tech Hipster | 9 Kinds of Wrong http://www.sizemore.co.uk http://twitter.com/sizemore
