If you’re not familiar with the story of Hatsune Miku, the short version is that the character was created as a “vocaloid” back in 2007 for use in the music industry. Musicians would load up their synthesizer or tracking software with the Hatsune Miku voice and be able to create vocal lines for their songs without needing a real singer present. Many other vocaloids are also available, but Hatsune Miku caught fire. There was even a much-publicized live concert with a holographic version of the character. Naturally, the character translates well to rhythm gaming, so Sega got busy with a series of rhythm/idolmaker hybrid titles based on Miku and some of her digital friends.
Gameplay progresses along relatively simple and repetitive lines in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Your goal is to guide Miku and co. as they sing songs in...
Gameplay progresses along relatively simple and repetitive lines in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Your goal is to guide Miku and co. as they sing songs in...
- 8/29/2016
- by Ken Barnes
- We Got This Covered
Documentary from Australian war artist George Gittoes centres on street kids in Afghanistan.
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired the worldwide right to George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey ahead of its international premiere in competition at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) (Nov 18-29).
The film is a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films - vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
Gittoes will return to Idfa, which runs Nov 18-29, having previously screened Miscreants of Taliwood, shot in Peshawar with Taliban-besieged filmmakers, some of which have helped create Snow Monkey.
Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky negotiated the deal with producers Gittoes and Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films.
Executive producers are Norway’s Torstein Grude and Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Piraya Film.
Kowarsky said the film “offers an unprecedented understanding of the lives of the people of Jalalabad...
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired the worldwide right to George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey ahead of its international premiere in competition at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) (Nov 18-29).
The film is a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films - vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
Gittoes will return to Idfa, which runs Nov 18-29, having previously screened Miscreants of Taliwood, shot in Peshawar with Taliban-besieged filmmakers, some of which have helped create Snow Monkey.
Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky negotiated the deal with producers Gittoes and Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films.
Executive producers are Norway’s Torstein Grude and Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Piraya Film.
Kowarsky said the film “offers an unprecedented understanding of the lives of the people of Jalalabad...
- 11/10/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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Afghanistan-based Australian Filmmaker George Gittoes has revealed the trials and training involved in the making of his latest documentary, Snow Monkey.
Gittoes, who has lived in Afghanistan since 2011, teaches filmmaking to a gang of streetkids called the snow monkeys from an arts and community hub called Yellow House.
Sounds like a band right. But the name of the gang comes from the fact the kids earn their living by selling ice blocks from small refrigerated carts, which they drag along the streets of Jalabad, in eastern Afghanistan. ..
Gittoes said Snow Monkey was the last in a trilogy of three films, starting with Miscreants of Taliwood.
Working on the trilogy of the three movies required Gittoes to train Afghan-Pashtuns to use all his equipment..
."It is fantastic to know viewers will be getting the full detail of the amazing medieval world of Jalalabad with its many characters in their exotic cloths and environments.
Afghanistan-based Australian Filmmaker George Gittoes has revealed the trials and training involved in the making of his latest documentary, Snow Monkey.
Gittoes, who has lived in Afghanistan since 2011, teaches filmmaking to a gang of streetkids called the snow monkeys from an arts and community hub called Yellow House.
Sounds like a band right. But the name of the gang comes from the fact the kids earn their living by selling ice blocks from small refrigerated carts, which they drag along the streets of Jalabad, in eastern Afghanistan. ..
Gittoes said Snow Monkey was the last in a trilogy of three films, starting with Miscreants of Taliwood.
Working on the trilogy of the three movies required Gittoes to train Afghan-Pashtuns to use all his equipment..
."It is fantastic to know viewers will be getting the full detail of the amazing medieval world of Jalalabad with its many characters in their exotic cloths and environments.
- 8/5/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
- Official Festival Site October 18th to the 28th, 2007Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('October 18, 2006'); Today begins the oldest film festival in Canada, and yet at age 35 the fest shows no signs of aging. Young, hip and avant-garde this yearâ.s selection gathers the more challenging titles from Cannes and Toronto with a pinch of picks from Sundance and Berlin. In a city with an haute reputation for its fests, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is a gathering place for up-and-coming talents. From October 18th to 28th, there are a good chunk of films worth checking out (let us not forget the shorts, tributes, retrospectives, professional gatherings and events), below youâ.ll find the complete listing plus for the sake of sanity we also posted on a seperate page a top 10 suggestion list of films that are worth the price of admission. International Selection: Louve dâ.Or The International Selection includes first,
- 10/18/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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