The Real Shaolin, a documentary by a fellow russboian and good friend of mine, Alexander Lee, has been accepted by the Toronto Film Festival.
He had urged me for a year or two, to be part of this. I declined, though he did film Shi De Cheng in, of all places, my bedroom at the doc house in Vegas. It was an interview (you filthy pigs..)
Well, I'm not heading to Toronto to see this, as it would screw up my girlfriend's US visa, but if anyone does head up, let us know how it is.
It's not as revealing as I would have liked it to be, which is why I"m happy I decided not to appear in it, but Alex, from the parts that I have seen, did a bang up job on it. It should be, well, let's say, informative...
He had urged me for a year or two, to be part of this. I declined, though he did film Shi De Cheng in, of all places, my bedroom at the doc house in Vegas. It was an interview (you filthy pigs..)
Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival announces 26 documentaries to screen in various programmes as part of TIFF08. One documentary will screen in Mavericks, two will screen as Special Presentations, one as a Masters title, and 22 as part of Real to Reel, showcasing the finest in non-fiction cinema from around the world. Highlights include a look at a fashion master in Valentino: The Last Emperor and a self-portrait of French auteur Agnès Varda in Les Plages d'Agnès. Guitar heroes Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White are profiled in It Might Get Loud. Two films, Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love and Soul Power, explore the musical exchange between Africa and abroad. Three films examine crusading eco-warriors - controversial Canadian activist Paul Watson in At the Edge of the World, authors Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan in Food, Inc. and Native Americans of the Hoopa tribe in Upstream Battle. Two films revisit cases of injustice - from the courtrooms of California in Witch Hunt to a tarnished legacy in Israel in Killing Kasztner. Several films intersect with various sports, including kung fu masters in The Real Shaolin and LeBron James's high school basketball team in More Than a Game. Two films have the backdrop of Ivy League schools in the tumultuous year of 1968, with Tommy Lee Jones playing college football in Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 and student strikers at Columbia University in A Time to Stir. Not to mention the sexual revolution uncovered in American Swing.
It's not as revealing as I would have liked it to be, which is why I"m happy I decided not to appear in it, but Alex, from the parts that I have seen, did a bang up job on it. It should be, well, let's say, informative...
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