You forgot to mention Harrison Ford, Gordon Brown, etc. You are the celebrity videoblogger.
I have questions: 1) I'm interested why after a)the success of The Fast Runner and b) Kapadia's own films in which he cast Indians as Indians, he cast Michelle Yeoh as an Inuit woman in Svalbard. Surely this was a great opportunity for an unknown Inuit actress? 2) Why did they change the name of the original short story from True North (a much better name) to Far North which doesn't mean anything? 3) Kapadia seems pretty cool - he started out making documentary shorts by himself about the world around him, then went to the Royal College of Art and made bigger shorts - and now he's still making shorts (though I haven't seen them) even though he's a working feature film director. Why does he do it? To keep practicing his art when he's not working on features? If so, why not use little cameras and work on his own like he used to, rather than spend lots of money on a crew - share the films online as part of an ongoing body of work, and have a direct connection with his audience? There's a whole new generation of filmmakers here who are making ongoing documentaries about the world around them and connecting directly. Or does he feel that as a well-known director, he doesn't have an interest in sharing his work this way? 4) Sean Bean. Why? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 5:20 AM, mikeysizemore wrote: Hi all, So I mess around with pointing video cameras at interesting people from time to time (for my sins I was the idiot who got Spielberg & Lucas on Seesmic earlier in the year). Later today I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh and director Asif Kapadia - I'll be pointing my trusty HG10 at them, but we're sourcing questions via Twitter. As usual with these things it was all very last minute, but if anyone on this list wants to pose a question in the next three hours or so just ask it on Twitter and add the hashtag #FarN at the end so we can track it. More info here: http://www.farnorththefilm.com/2008/12/help-us-interview-michelle-asif/ I hope this isn't spam. I'm hoping to cut the footage with questions from the Twitter stream and Seemic & Phreadz etc. No idea how it'll turn out, but fun to play with this stuff. Cheers Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
