HI filmmaker in ’48 Hour’ contest in Beijing
Jun 27, 2009
Think Chinese art is limited to calligraphy and Mao posters? Think again. This evening, I attended a film festival in the 798 District , a super-trendy art and cultural space in Beijing. A gallery there was showing films from The 48 Hour Film Project , an international city-by-city contest in which filmmakers have exactly 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film. The best films go to Cannes. I met up with Beijing resident and fellow Iolani grad Nelson Quan, who produced one