For the source, click here.Maria Tran is on a quest for Jackie Chan. The filmmaker and actor has a love of the martial arts action adventure film genre and is journeying around Australia and Hong Kong in a bid to meet Jackie Chan. Maria’s odyssey will be captured and reflected as a reality documentary, in a multimedia project which also unearths and celebrates other fans of the martial arts cult hero.
Employing “all things creative and guerrilla with the power of web 2.0 and social media”, Maria has honed and developed her skills through her involvement with ICE, gaining valuable experience and training in her role as the Youth Digital Cultures Coordinator. Before immersing herself in this world, Maria always showed creative flair but her output was more firmly grounded in old-school diary writing and reflection. Film and multimedia provided an outlet for Maria’s imagination and her fantasy worlds were given a platform on which to take shape.
The Fairfield local is inspired by storytelling and “people from all walks of life who are passionate about life, people, and have an active mind in social change”. She is passionate herself, and a keen advocate for young people from culturally diverse backgrounds. A lot of Maria's work considers the energies and vitalities of young people, and the way these strong feelings are often questioned by adults or those in higher positions, warning “young people may feel disempowered about realizing their dreams.”
Demonstrating a way through, showing that dreams can become a reality, with Quest for Jackie Chan! Maria will showcase her own journey as a young aspiring filmmaker taking her message, and that of her comrades to Jackie Chan. In doing so, she aims to “invigorate young people’s minds in being able to achieve their aspirations, becoming more self-aware and take charge in creating opportunities.”
Quest for Jackie Chan! isn’t Maria’s only bold project. After building her guerrilla filmmaking skills she went on to be an integral part of Australia’s first urban action comedy Maximum Choppage: Round 2, which was screened around Australia and in Hollywood. This led to the Ninja micro TV series Downtown Rumble. She also made the award winning short film Happy Dent – a true story about a young street kid and his day-to-day work selling chewing gum.
Having people to guide her along the way has been important to Maria, who, at 25, is off to a flying start: “Having mentors such as Antony Szeto (director of Jackie Chan film “Wushu”), Khoa Do, Mike Leeder (Hong Kong Action Cinema Critic) has helped me define my path in filmmaking”. And in a way Maria completes the loop by creating projects - particularly Quest for Jackie Chan! - which are both pioneering and motivating, demonstrating that ambitious projects can be achievable, empowering and fun.
Maria’s audiences often include many young people from culturally diverse backgrounds who are frequently disadvantaged. “My work aims at empowering them with thought, concept and ‘thinking outside the box’”. She believes that creativity “is accessible in everyone and to not take the risk and use it is not living life to the fullest.”, and she strives to not just bring this out in others, but takes it one step further and makes it happen. The Quest for Jackie Chan! project includes profiles and stories of hundreds of Jackie Chan fans around Australia, and as part of its next stage Maria will be touring with the project around Australia through most of September.
The Quest for Jackie Chan! reality documentary transmedia project will tour Australia (Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart) from 1-19 this September. As part of the tour, Maria will be running “Ideas to Realities” workshops for the local communities there.
These workshop sessions are all about the new revolution of D.I.Y guerrilla filmmaking, how to engage global audiences, reveal marketing strategies, the art of pitching and ways to get your project off the ground.
And for those who are Jackie Chan fans and action film fanatics, this is will be a chance to send your personal video messages to him!
Creativity is a simple process of plucking ideas from the mind and finding ways to make things a reality. I think it’s important that at a young age people invest in giving their creative potential the most attention to develop. - Maria Tran
For more info, check out http://www.questforjackiechan.com/
Employing “all things creative and guerrilla with the power of web 2.0 and social media”, Maria has honed and developed her skills through her involvement with ICE, gaining valuable experience and training in her role as the Youth Digital Cultures Coordinator. Before immersing herself in this world, Maria always showed creative flair but her output was more firmly grounded in old-school diary writing and reflection. Film and multimedia provided an outlet for Maria’s imagination and her fantasy worlds were given a platform on which to take shape.
The Fairfield local is inspired by storytelling and “people from all walks of life who are passionate about life, people, and have an active mind in social change”. She is passionate herself, and a keen advocate for young people from culturally diverse backgrounds. A lot of Maria's work considers the energies and vitalities of young people, and the way these strong feelings are often questioned by adults or those in higher positions, warning “young people may feel disempowered about realizing their dreams.”
Demonstrating a way through, showing that dreams can become a reality, with Quest for Jackie Chan! Maria will showcase her own journey as a young aspiring filmmaker taking her message, and that of her comrades to Jackie Chan. In doing so, she aims to “invigorate young people’s minds in being able to achieve their aspirations, becoming more self-aware and take charge in creating opportunities.”
Quest for Jackie Chan! isn’t Maria’s only bold project. After building her guerrilla filmmaking skills she went on to be an integral part of Australia’s first urban action comedy Maximum Choppage: Round 2, which was screened around Australia and in Hollywood. This led to the Ninja micro TV series Downtown Rumble. She also made the award winning short film Happy Dent – a true story about a young street kid and his day-to-day work selling chewing gum.
Having people to guide her along the way has been important to Maria, who, at 25, is off to a flying start: “Having mentors such as Antony Szeto (director of Jackie Chan film “Wushu”), Khoa Do, Mike Leeder (Hong Kong Action Cinema Critic) has helped me define my path in filmmaking”. And in a way Maria completes the loop by creating projects - particularly Quest for Jackie Chan! - which are both pioneering and motivating, demonstrating that ambitious projects can be achievable, empowering and fun.
Maria’s audiences often include many young people from culturally diverse backgrounds who are frequently disadvantaged. “My work aims at empowering them with thought, concept and ‘thinking outside the box’”. She believes that creativity “is accessible in everyone and to not take the risk and use it is not living life to the fullest.”, and she strives to not just bring this out in others, but takes it one step further and makes it happen. The Quest for Jackie Chan! project includes profiles and stories of hundreds of Jackie Chan fans around Australia, and as part of its next stage Maria will be touring with the project around Australia through most of September.
The Quest for Jackie Chan! reality documentary transmedia project will tour Australia (Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart) from 1-19 this September. As part of the tour, Maria will be running “Ideas to Realities” workshops for the local communities there.
These workshop sessions are all about the new revolution of D.I.Y guerrilla filmmaking, how to engage global audiences, reveal marketing strategies, the art of pitching and ways to get your project off the ground.
And for those who are Jackie Chan fans and action film fanatics, this is will be a chance to send your personal video messages to him!
Creativity is a simple process of plucking ideas from the mind and finding ways to make things a reality. I think it’s important that at a young age people invest in giving their creative potential the most attention to develop. - Maria Tran
For more info, check out http://www.questforjackiechan.com/
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