Beaufort is now on Triple J Unearthed, Australia’s premier digital radio station for unearthing home-grown music:
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Beaufort
Go there for free download of She Don’t Care, Marathon and I Don’t Wanna Die.
The trailer for our new short film BURNING HEARTS is out.
“In December 1989, the Nikkei index peaked, signalling the start of Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’. That same month, ‘Final Fight’ was released for the Super Nintendo – designed by the Japanese, influenced by American cinema.
Now, as the ‘Lost Decade’ enters it’s third cycle and the world looks to China, the lost lambs come together to burn their hearts.
Funded by UNIJAPAN and The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.”
Watch it on Youtube here.
The best Beaufort music from the last five years is now available online to buy as a set.
Download a few of your favourites, or buy the whole bunch through Ganxy (there’s a link above the player).
Includes: Check Out, Kraken, Fuck The Google, We Are Moving On, Oh! Sister, Marathon, I Don’t Wanna Die, Galliano 96 and She Don’t Care (Tiger Version).
New/old track ‘Check Out’ now on Soundcloud.
Our whole set for sale shortly.
Burning Hearts currently playing in Eurospace, Shibuya, Tokyo as part of the No Name Film Festival:
Contact us if you’re in Tokyo and want tickets. There’ll be a special Beaufort presentation on the 25th.
Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat, or Kero, served as line producer/production manager on two music videos we have made, one for Pomomofo’s Island and the other for Bag Raider’s Fun Punch.
Fun Punch, completely self-funded and made on a shoestring budget with a cinematographer we met on MySpace, seems to have been a rubicon for all involved.
Four years later director James McFay is still collaborating Japan-side with B.O.S. Stunt Action Team, Bag Raiders are a household name, VFX master and co-producer Darryl Mascarenhas is heading up design at MPC in NY and Kero bursts out with this brilliant tableau:
Go to his blog mightandwonder.com to see more of his graphical genius.
There’s a new film out called Girl Model that explores the Tokyo – Euro modelling exchange. We just saw it at a press screening in New York and it is a very, very well-made documentary about a topic long overdue for exposure.
It follows young Siberian model Nadya and the American scout Ashley who finds her and sends her to Tokyo. Along the way we meet the Russian in charge of getting her there and her ambigiously-motivated Japanese agency.
I felt a compulsion to post about it here seeing as it shares some similar characters and locations to Beaufort’s fictional film about models in Tokyo – Tiger - and even features our lead actress, Rachel Blais, speaking candidly and intelligently about the sinister side of modelling in Japan.
It will play at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Like it on Facebook.
Congratulations David Redmon and A. Sabin for crafting such an intelligent, well-balanced piece.
Tiger is playing as part of the Action On Film Festival, in Pasadena, California.
July 28th, 10:30pm. Click on the link below for more info:
It has been nominated for Best Director, Best Produced Screenplay, Best Drama Feature, Best Dialogue: Feature and Best Score: Feature.
Burning Hearts will be a closing film at the Yasujiro Ozu short film festival in Sassuolo, Italy in October. More info on that to come.
The Tiger t-shirt is now available in the Beaufort store with a very limited run.
It is modelled below by rising Polish star Julia Bijoch, who was in Tokyo during Tiger’s Pia Film Festival Screening.
Two new songs up on Soundcloud, about 50 gazillion years in the making.
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