In Full Bloom (dir. Maegan Houang) from Maegan Houang on Vimeo.
A project by VSCO Voices starring Kieu Chinh
Write-up in Short of the Week: shortoftheweek.com/2019/06/26/in-full-bloom/
Intriguing Female Characters Highlight these 8 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Shorts: io9.gizmodo.com/intriguing-female-characters-highlight-these-8-new-sci-1836894263
Featured in No Budge: nobudge.com/main/in-full-bloom
Interview in Directors' Notes: directorsnotes.com/2019/06/27/maegan-houang-in-full-bloom/
Featured in First Showing: firstshowing.net/2019/watch-maegan-houangs-surrealist-fairytale-short-film-in-full-bloom/
Featured in Film Shortage: filmshortage.com/shorts/in-full-bloom/
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
2019 Atlanta Film Festival
2019 LAAPFF
2019 CAAMFest
Runner up AT&T 2019 Film Awards Futuristic Category
2019 Twister Alley Film Festival
2019 Breakthroughs Film Festival
2019 Oak Cliff Film Festival
Best Fiction Film 2019 Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival
2019 42nd Asian American International Film Festival
2019 Traverse City Film Festival
2019 Hollyshorts Film Festival
2019 Horrible Imaginings Film Festival
2019 DC Shorts Film Festival
2019 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
2019 Sidewalk Film Festival
2019 New Orleans Film Festival
2019 Fantastic Fest
2019 Indie Memphis
2019 Nitehawk Film Festival
2019 San Diego Asian American Film Festival
2020 London Short Film Festival
2020 MoPop SFFSFF
For more information about screenings go here: ifbfilm.com/screenings
Director: Maegan Houang (maegahouang.com)
Producer: John J. Lozada, Vanessa Elliott
Cinematographer: Christopher Ripley (christopherripley.com)
Production Designer: Emmy Eves
Editor: Gus Spelman
Stop Motion Animator: Jason Whetzell
VFX Supervisor: Matthew Waukhonen
Score: Robert Ouyang Rusli
Sound Design: Grant Meuers
Costume Design: Anne Valiant
Casting by: Liz Lewis Casting Partners
Cecile's Husband: Long Dinh
Co-Producer: David Miller, Adele Pham
Hair & Make-up: Kelly Park
Assistant Director: Ted Keffer
Gaffer: Jake Kaster
1st AC: Megan Johnson, Kyle Frank, Shaw Fisher
2nd AC: Isue Shin
Still Photographers: Michelle Tsaikaros, Taylor Johnson
Art Director: Teagan Morin
Set Decorator: Megan Bartley-Matthews
Set Dresser: Jamie Kim
Prop Master: Cynthia Wu
Pupper Flower: Josh Spooner
Storyboard Artist: Joy Sun
Art Coordinator: Alyssa Forstmann
Art PA: Zoe Baxter, Elijah Beckner, Leah Khambata, Ruby Lanet, Pernell Langhorne, Ben Mendina
SPFX Coordinator: Michael Valenzuela
FX Foreman: Chip Mefford
FX Technician: Richard Valenzuela
Title Design: Tiffany Liang
Music Supervisor: Dylan Bostick
Visual Effects Artists: Sevan Najarian, Matthew Waukhonen, Austin Piko
Color: Christopher Ripley
Truck Drivers: Marc Kaplan, Harry Kemp
Key Grip: Marlon O'Brien, Andrew Robes, Anthony Christ, Sean Hunt
BBE: Ryan Johnson, Mohamed Samra
Swing Grip: Barrie Brown, Noah Sellman, Andrew McWilliams
PA: Josh Gordon, Genki Hall, Taylor Johnston, Brooke Kushwaha, Josh Palmer, Charlotte Rand
Production Company: Imposter
Executive Producer: Alex Brinkman, Avtar Khalsa
Head of Production: Alexis Celic
Copyright Maegan Houang
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Blog #3 - Fan Ho: Street Photographer Prodigy
One thing that really interested me about street photography was the documentary style of taking photographs. Many of the images you take might not be interesting now, but in 20 years’ time…
In the 21st century, everything is all about speed. Photographers get reach through social media sites like Instagram and VSCO, where you only a have a few milliseconds to capture the attention of your audience. Fan Ho’s photographs take place in a time where people analyzed photographs for their composition, meaning, and emotion; nothing like today’s candy-colored heavy-photoshopped images that are product of our current click-bait society.
Art today has no soul.
Fan Ho was an Asian American photographer famous for his street photography of 50s and 60s Hong Kong. Born in Shanghai on October 8, 1937, he immigrated into Hong Kong at an early age and started taking photographs with his father’s Rolleiflex of random people and street scenes, fascinated by the individual lifestyles of people in urban life.
Like many other famous photographers of his time such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Garry Winogrand, Fan Ho was known to be meticulous with his photographs and go back to spots multiple times in order to get the perfect shot.
In 1961, Fan Ho advanced his career from photography to cinematography by joining the Shaw Brothers in 1961, assisting and even acting in many of the films directed by Shaw. At this time he started getting noticed by many for his work, especially for a series of independent short films he produced in the early 1960s. By 1969, he decided to leave the Shaw Brothers as he felt that he had fallen into a creative rut working with Shaw’s revenue driven formula.
In 1979, Fan Ho and his family emigrated into the U.S. to seek better education for his children. Retiring in cinema in 1995, Fan Ho went back to his photography roots, publishing his favorite works that he had taken of Hong Kong when he was younger.
Fan Ho passed away peacefully on June 19, 2016, leaving a legacy in the award-winning street photographs and visual work. While most photographs at the time document the white European culture and society, Fan Ho was one of few that captured purely Asia. His photographs provide a large visual insight of what Hong Kong was like in the 20th century, within a small fragment of Asian history.
- Paul
https://www.thepottinger.com/en/about-us/the-story-of-fan-ho/
http://monovisions.com/fan-ho/
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=2244
https://fanho-forgetmenot.com/
https://petapixel.com/2016/06/21/photographer-fan-ho-dies-age-84/
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