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Chinese cellphone film festival online

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Youmeiti blog reports the opening of the First Cellphone Film Festival, put on by the daily Shanghai webzine Metroer.  The short films (20 sec. to 2 min.) had to be submitted by cellphone to the Metroer website.  They were produced using digital cameras, video cameras, and phone cameras –anything really, so long as it could be submitted…

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mighty mountain warriors take on geisha movie

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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If you’ve been following the anti-Japanese sentiments in China about how Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li should not have played at being Japanese geishas in Memoirs of a Geisha, then you have got to see one of the funniest pieces ever from the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, an…

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