Kaohsiung Film Festival-bound!!!

According to the assistant to the events co-ordinator of The Kaohsiung Film Festival , who contacted me late Friday night, Voices From The South has been accepted to be a part of this year's festival!!! The event co-ordinator herself was at the Music Orgy show to see the preliminary clips/trailer, and asked that we provide her with actual material from the film. This is the end result!

By the time the public gets to view it late next month, it will be almost exactly one year to the date that this project was conceived. Further details are not yet to be disclosed at the request of the film festival organizers, but it can be mentioned that the screening will definitely be coupled with live performances from some, if not all of, the artists in the film (this is currently being discussed with said bands).

In the meantime, here's another video of Orange Doll from their brilliant Spring Scream show earlier this year. The song is "水果糖“ (Fruit Candy). Advice: It's preferable to watch it in high quality, not the compressed crap that appears when you embed clips into your website. Use the Youtube link to the right of this page, choose this video and click the "Watch in high quality" link that appears to the lower right of the screen. Dig!

Video of teh week!

Ok, this vid has absolutely squat to do with Kaohsiung's music scene, but I felt compelled to post it here anyways, maybe introduce some folks in this town to the best American band of the last few years. They're pretty much what you would get if My Morning Jacket and Built To Spill decided to meld into one uber-group. Oh, yeah, the guys in the video are called Band Of Horses.

60+ hours of amassed footage...and counting

The toughest part of a documentary is getting all the pieces of the puzzle together, and then editing it into a cohesive story. After about two weeks of getting bogged down (editing video until sun-up every day of the week is not fun), this project has returned to its former state of being a fun task, as opposed to the agonizing chore into which it had morphed. Numerous factors come into play, the first one being optimistic words from A-Chang, who is in cahoots with the organizers of the Kaohsiung Film Festival. The second is the generous donation of hours and hours of Kaohsiung indie-rock footage from years past, which was the final piece of the puzzle that was missing until now. The third factor has been the until-recently un-vocalized support and encouragement from the bands themselves. It couldn't have come at a better time. All the artists have been unconditionally co-operative in the making of this film, allowing our cameras into their band rehearsals, their private backstage areas, their homes, their workplaces, and their lives. On one hand, their words are very inspiring, but on the other hand, it puts a little more pressure on us to make sure we don't let them down-that we make this film the best representation of their music that it can possibly be.

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謝謝！！

On Youtube Also!

The trailer is available on Youtube now, check it!

Here It Is!

For all you cheap bastards who didn't come to the Music Orgy on Saturday (just kidding), we present the film trailer here for your perusal. The show went well, with each and every band putting on a great performance. 88 Balaz lived up to expectations, and Hot Pink rocked the house as well. Good times!

Voices From The South- The Trailer

Those who will be attending this coming Saturday's Music Orgy will be among the first to see the official trailer for our documentary film "Voices From The South: Kaohsiung's Independent Music Scene". We will be showing it throughout the whole day (in between each band's sets), and will also be showing a specially prepared movie of performance videos not featured in the actual film. The organizers of Music Orgy have asked us to prepare a half an hour's worth of music vids from each of the bands in the movie, and we are more than happy to oblige. The screening of these outtakes will be at 3:30 PM, as the actual live show doesn't officially start until 4 PM.