mkpmedia films

So we [Me, Ben Wright, Daniel Cryderman, Shyam Valera] had our first writing session today for our upcoming online TV show [coming this february!]. It’s generally comedy, with hints of seriousness. If it takes off, the series, end-to-end will take place between second semester Grade 11 and secondary school graduation. The question, however, is what to call it. Ben came up with School Daze, but that takes too long to grow on you, this needs to be immediately intriguing.

Leave suggestions in the comments, please!!!

Taking a post off from the film schtuff, I just got a pretty important email from the great folks over at Avaaz.org.

Basically, follow this link, and read more details in the full article.

The people of Gaza are being squeezed to death. This week’s blackouts have finally reached the attention of the world — and the international community could help end the blockade. Our obligation is clear. This isn’t about Israel vs Palestine or Hamas vs Fatah: this is about 1.5 million human beings locked up in the biggest prison on earth. The siege of Gaza is a collective punishment violating international law, and far from ensuring Israel’s security, it is only stoking rage and desperation.

Incredibly, the UN, European Union and Arab League have so far failed to act. We must seize this moment with an emergency campaign: demanding that the international community step in to end this blockade, ensure the free flow of supplies, and help broker the ceasefire which civilians on all sides desperately need. Please click below to sign the emergency petition — we’ll deliver it to the UN, EU and Arab League when we reach 100,000 signatures, so sign and tell everyone you know:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_end_the_siege/8.php?cl=51703716

The humanitarian crisis of sealed-off Gaza is only getting worse, and a rain of missiles is falling. No genuine peace talks will be possible while the siege continues. In the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006, we saw how global pressure and assistance can help stop a crisis and protect civilians from harm — we cannot stay silent about the crisis in Gaza. Please add your name now at the link above, and forward this message widely.

With hope and determination,

Ricken, Paul, Galit, Esra’a, Pascal, Ben and the whole Avaaz team

PS For more about the crisis:

Associated Press article including Red Cross report:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNIUuovp8Buyld1S6EFTSWfznQZwD8UB050G0

Former Clinton official calls for ceasefire, ending siege:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/21/opinion/edmalley.php

UN reports on the humanitarian crisis, including background to the blackouts:
http://www.ochaopt.org/?module=displaysection&section_id=11&static=0&format=html

Deepening medical crisis in Gaza (UN):
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75693

PSS In a global interactive poll, tens of thousands of Avaaz members helped to set our direction for campaigning on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and achieving a reciprocal ceasefire were both supported by over 90% of respondents:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/annapolis_results_2

ThinkFilm [or TH!NKFILM, I guess…] just got two great looking trailers up on Apple.com. The first is entitled ‘The Air I Breathe’, which looks a lot like ‘Crash’, but a sort of bigger picture view, steadier camerawork, an awesomer cast, and just general betterness. It stars Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Brendan Fraser. Looks like a movie I’ll really dig, but I’m also pretty sure it won’t make too much bank, though the star cast might take it far.

Catch the trailer at Apple Trailers now.

Film #2 is the decidedly more important b>’Taxi to the Dark Side’, a documentary from the director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, this one you just need to see for yourself. Really.

Well enjoy that as I go study for final exams, etc…

If you are into filmmaking and this here interview doesn’t inspire you, then you must REALLY hate Mexicans.

It’s an hour long conversation with Charlie Rose, one of the best interviewers ever in my opinion, and ‘The Three Amigos’: directors Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Prizoner of Azkaban, Children of Men), Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel), and Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth). They talk about their latest films (which combined got about 16 Oscar nominations last year) and their past experiences, including how they work together to make each other’s films the best they can be.

Check It:

Preface: Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) should direct the film version of the last Harry Potter book. Fact.



Actual story: So pretty much everyone who has thought about the Deathly Hallows movie has probably wondered how the density and epicness of the book could be packed into a film even 3 hours long. Well, in the interests of telling the story properly (read: milking this franchise to the bitter end + double the cash), word is that Warner Brothers is readying for a two part flick a la Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. Personally, that seems like a good idea, especially if del Toro does it. Just saying. (Fact.)

source: The Mail on Sunday

I love me some movie trailers. They’re really like their own short films that I see as trying to tell a story more than just advertising a picture. TV spots are ads. Theatrical trailers are more of an art. Sometimes they can make terrible movies look great and vice versa, but every once in a while I come a cross one that i have to watch over and over again. Little Chenier is one of those.

There’s just something about people speaking English…unconventionally that gets me. Same deal with the trailer for ‘No Country For Old Men’ and Leonardo de Caprio in ‘Blood Diamond’ Anyways, watch the trailer for Little Chenier below:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/littlechenier/trailer/

I’ve been going about the past few weeks with a new take on life 

I’ve been seeing things in a whole new perspective. I question things in life that are normally taken for granted(i.e. why does Christmas fall on the 25th if the new year starts on the 1st of January and where did the 6 days go between bc and ad). Voicing these ponderings has not really gotten me any answers other then my own theories. Usually when I ask my questions about life’s not so great mysteries I’ll usually be: 

a) Told I’m stupid
b) asked if I’ve been using recreational drugs
c) laughed at because what I said is funny
d) laughed at because they think I’m an idiot 

 After about a month and a half of this new enlightened state I began discovering things about myself. Such as my “moral line”. Eventually I questioned what had caused this change in my personality, and overall self-being 

There’s only one answer to that however
and that is this answer is right here 

KARL PILKINGTON
QOTD: i don’t see why we need to bring the wooly mammoth back. We already have elephants and they carry stuff about and all that. theres no need for somthing else to do that- Karl Pilkington

FIRST!!!