Posted on 12:20pm 10/30/2008 by admin in
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Addicted to Love has been selected to participate in the Produire Au Sud from 26 November to 2 December 2008 in Nantes, France, in which Director Liu Hao and Producer Teresa Kwong will have the opportunities of meeting European film-making professionals and masters, presenting the project and joining the Cannes Producer’s Network 
or other festivals. This is definitely a great chance to build up network for the film distribution in the European market.
Posted on 12:47pm 8/26/2008 by admin in
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We are happy to learn that Addicted to Love has just been selected to be one of the funded film productions by the Swiss fund visions sud est out of other near 80 projects. visions sud est was initiated by the Foundation trigon-film Baden and the Fribourg International Film Festival, with the collaboration of Nyon’s Visions du Réel and the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It supports film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, aims at making them visible worldwide and guarantees their distribution in Switzerland.
So, watch out for the film in Europe!
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Ten Projects Awarded Funds by The Global Film Initiative
Previous Grantees Receive Awards from Tribeca and Sundance/NHK
San Francisco, CA - July 1, 2008 - The Global Film Initiative announced today that ten filmmakers have been awarded completion funding for their film projects during the Initiative’s Spring 2008 granting-cycle.
“Our Spring grant-recipients represent some of the best filmmaking from around the world,” says Santhosh Daniel, Director of Programs. “The creativity and depth expressed by these filmmakers reflects an obvious talent that deserves to be recognized and supported.”
The ten projects were selected from a group of fifty-two applications, from twenty-eight different countries, for their artistic excellence, accomplished storytelling, and cultural perspective on daily life around the world. Funds received from grants are used to subsidize post-production costs, such as laboratory and sound mixing fees, and access to advanced editing systems.
Since its founding in 2002, the Initiative has awarded more than sixty grants to film projects from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. These grants have supported the works of both emerging and established filmmakers, and are part of the Initiative’s continuing effort to promote narrative storytelling traditions and filmmaking from around the world.
The Spring 2008 grant recipients are:
ADDICTED TO LOVE, Liu Hao (China) Despite social conventions and disapproving families, two elderly friends struggle with Alzheimer’s and a growing attraction for one another.
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“I found the story to be romantic and wry, beautiful and heartfelt. The characters are all real people we relate to from whatever culture we’re from. I can’t wait to see the movie. And I know it WILL be a movie.”
- Frank Scott (Screenwriter of “Out of Sight”, “Minority Report”)
“I think Addicted To Love will make a powerful and deeply moving love story.”
- Rodrigo Garcia (Adviser, the Locarno Film Festival 2005 winner - “Nine Lives” and the director of “Six Feet Under”)
“Addicted To Love is a shrewdly observed comedy about family life, secret love, and passion that does not fade with age. In style, it reminds me of the great late comedies of Ozu. The story is rooted in modern Beijing, where its lovers sneak off to KFC for dinner (always seeking out the oldest one to get the most authentic flavor), but its meaning is timeless and universal. Under LIU Hao’s direction, this will be a beautiful film.”
- Dan Kleinman (Chair, Film Division, Columbia University New York)
“LIU Hao is an accomplished filmmaker whose work moves e a great deal. His latest script, Addicted To Love, is no exception. It deals with human emotion and frailty in an unusual and funny way. As good as the script is I know that the film, when complete, will be even better.”
- John Lee Hancock (Sundance Screenwriter Lab Adviser)
“What a wonderful film this will be. Funny. Moving. Redemptive. And a testament to the fact that one can fall in love at any age. I look forward to seeing it on the screen.”
- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (Golden Globe Award winner – “Running on Empty”)
Posted on 1:34pm 12/18/2007 by admin in
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Sundance Institute has selected thirteen projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab, to be held January 11-16, 2008 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The ScreenwritersLab is a five-day writer’s workshop that gives independent screenwriters the opportunity to work intensively on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. This year’s Fellows are a varied and diverse group who truly represent independent storytelling. They include a Native American playwright, two novelists, a multimedia/Fine artist and filmmakers from China, Morocco, Brazil and Israel.
*As the only selected fellow from China, Liu Hao will work on Addicted to Love with an extraordinary group of creative advisors in the 2008 January Screenwriters Lab.
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Posted on 4:58pm 11/29/2007 by admin in
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LIU Hao’s new project Addicted to Love received support from Pusan International Film Festival’s newly launched Asian Cinema Fund. The project will receive US$10,000 for Script and Project Development.
ChenMo and Meiting and Two Great Sheep have been shown in the previous Pusan International Film Festival. Addicted to Love will be his fourth feature film.
Selection cause written by the Asian Cinema Fund:
‘The life of elderly people, their love and their illness are told from a new point of view. The “dignity” becomes the center point of the story where the relationships between parents, children, and neighbors are inflicted. The story is told with a sense of humor rather than a serious tone, and it has the force that reaches with a sympathetic formation universally, If the director tells this story with the same subtle sense of humor portrayed in then it will be an appealing film.’
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