originally posted at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/21/c_131204984.htm
Editor: Wang Guanqun
HEFEI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — China’s film industry, the world’s third largest in terms of production, has been criticized for its over-commercialization and a lack of cultural depth amid expectations that the fast-growing sector will help enhance the nation’s s...Read more
By Richard Trombly
September 2, 2011 Beijing - Cultures of Resistance is one of the many great indie films coming to Beijing for the first time thanks to the Beijing International Movie Festival, now in its 5th year. The festival will run from October 9-11 with screenings at YuGong YiShan, one of Beijing’s most welcoming venues for independent music and film events.
For Immediate Release
27 August 2011, Beijing
— The Beijing International (Independent) Movie Festival 2011 has unveiled its 2011 lineup for its fifth installment of the annual festival. It is schedules to run from Sunday October 9 – Tuesday October 11 culminating with a Friday October 14
Beijing Movie Industry Party hosted by 7 Horns (HK) at the Marriott Northeast, 霄云路和天择路,海航大厦万豪酒店.
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Shanghai, China
AUDITION DATE
CONTACT:
the contact email: 3rdculture.theatre@gmail.com
Wednesday 31 August
6pm onwards
Venue to be confirmed.
PRODUCTION BACKGROUND
This is a paid job. The salary will be commensurate with actor’s qualifications and experience.
We require that the actor must have a lot of formal performance experience.
DEscrīptION
The show is a one-off per...Read more
Movie revue – 钢的琴 [The Piano in a Factory]
by Richard Trombly
31 July 2011
What to do when you are out of work, out of money and out of luck in Dongbei (China’s Northeast) and you need a piano? You call on all of your friends, who are just as down and out as you are and you make one yourselves. How hard could that be?
Zhang Meng followed up his first film Lucky Dog with another heartwarming and bittersweet comedy film about small town life in Northeastern China, where once thriving communist steelworks ...Read more
Kung fu propaganda
Jul 14th 2011 & HONG KONG & from the print edition
http://www.economist.com/node/18959042
Buy a ticket, or else
THERE are two ways to make a box-office smash. One is to take an exciting scrīpt, hire famous actors...Read more
China
Contemporary melodrama
Directed by Zheng Zheng (鄭正), Chen Fu (陳富)
http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/lovers-in-the-water
B...Read more
paid theater acting job – open audition
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_61e725b60100vlcd.html
1 About the play
The production is Six Characters In Search of Author, which is written by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello who won Nobel Prize in 1934. The adapted version has 13 characters, which mixes Chinese and American – Europe actors, including a little girl and boy (non-speaking). All actors h...Read more
By Liam Singleton & 2011-4-14 & NEWSPAPER EDITION
The story appears onPage B2
Apr 14, 2011
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Feature/2011/04/14/Worthy%2Bpiece%2Bby%2BEast%2BWest%2BTheater/
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Absurdly Amazing: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in Shanghai
by mengsta & Posted on Apr 07 2011 http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/showtime/absurdly-amazing-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead-in-shanghai/
Richard Trombly richard@trombly.com www.obscure-productions.com is an American writer, journalist and filmmaker who has been living in China since 2003 and has