Date: Saturday 4 September, 2010Time: 9am-12pm
Location: Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre, 120 Main St, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane
MEDIA RELEASE Chan Fan Fest Downunder!
Get ready as Australia is about to be captivated by guerrilla Sydney-based filmmaker Maria Tran who is revving up for her reality documentary “Quest for Jackie Chan!” to hit Brisbane!
Quest for Jackie Chan! is Australia’s first transmedia explosion that follows the trials and tribulations of young filmmaker Maria Tran, who after finishing grassroot Kung Fu movie “Maximum Choppage: Round 2” and ABC/ TV micro-series “Downtown Rumble”, her next project is in one of global collaboration and a response to the explosion of young filmmakers and their DIY guerrilla attitude of You Tube and Facebook generation.
After launching in Sydney featuring special guest, Hong Kong Action director Antony Szeto, she will be making her way around Australia, with Brisbane as her first destination.
Antony Szeto is the director for Jackie Chan produced film "Wushu" starring Samo Hung. Check our the trailer here.
In partnership with Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre (BEMAC), she will run a workshop session on 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 your once in a lifetime chance to send your personal video messages to him!
Quest for Jackie Chan! “Ideas to Realities Workshop” will be held at Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre, 120 Main St, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane on Saturday 4th September at 9am. Spaces for this event is strictly limited so to be sure not to miss out, please RSVP to BEMAC on (07) 3391
4433 or email admin@bemac.org.au.Then she will nation trot to Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne & Canberra. By mid-November she intends to hit Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong office in the bid to score a one-on-one meet.
Quest for Jackie Chan! offers people from all walks of life from Australia’s major capital cities of Australia to showcase their self-initiated projects and groups and how that relates to Jackie Chan.
Quest for Jackie Chan! “Ideas to Realities” has been proudly supported by Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), Fairfield City Council and Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre.
Check out the trailer at http://www.questforjackiechan.com/
MARIA TRAN'SMEDIA RELEASE The less formal....
So I can't wait to hit Brisbane as the first destination for the Chan Oz-style tour. Mine you, I'm a proud Bris-Vegas, born and bred and recall going to school at Camira State Primary School, Dinmore State School, and for 11 months in 2001 at Sunnybank High School so I would definitely be reminescening back to these days.
Not to mention, all my family and extended families live here so it will definitely be a great trip to reconnect.
But I've done other things in Brisbane before with BEMAC. A few years ago the Rumble Pictures group and myself ran a workshop on something a long the lines of "Guerrilla filmmaking and social change". Ah... the good times. I love workshop facilitating and shedding light to the other passionate emerging creative producers of this country. So much to learn and share! Here's some happy snaps back then.
At Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre (BEMAC) and having a community screening on "Maximum Choppage: Round 2" 
And for the shoot of ABC/ JTV TV micro series "Downtown Rumble", we had Brisbane-nite Laurent Boiteux and Bill Giang on set.
Okies...back to my waffly point. I'm still keen to find out more people who have some "Jackie Chan" linkages or even interesting projects to showcase. I'm still in the midst of organising an open ended "vox pops" of Jackie Chan fans so do stay tune for more details.
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