Our short film BURNING HEARTS is playing at the Cannes Film Festival in the short film corner, in a selection of other UNIJAPAN shorts.
If you’re going, check out the best of young Japanese cinema.
Program here.
Our short film Burning Hearts has been selected for the Sydney Film Festival short program.
It will screen on the 6th and 9th of June at Dendy Opera Quays as a companion piece to Tatsumi.
Tatsumi was Singapore’s official submission for the Best Foreign Film at the 2011 Oscars.
Book tickets online or get in touch with us and join the posse.
http://www.sff.org.au/public/films/program/short-films/
Here’s the balcony where the idea for the film took seed and was later shot. Now Tokyo Tower is open to the public and so is our film.
Photograph by Jon Attenborough for Beaufort.
Makeup by Lisey Curtis.
With Zorana Adzic, Jerome Alarie, Julia Bijoch, Remi Hii, Rebecca Victoria and James McFay.
Art direction and styling by James McFay and Julia Bijoch.
Copyright Beaufort and James McFay 2012.
We were gonna shoot a music video for Muscles – ‘I’ll Follow You’ – last year in New York.
Then a hurricane came along. It would have looked something like the concept art below:
Beaufort was in the studio last month doing a little promo shoot for the music.
The photographer was Jon Attenborough.
Makeup and hair was Lisey Curtis.
The shoot was with Jerome Alarie, Remy Hii and James McFay along with previous Beaufort collaborators Rebecca Victoria (Tiger), Zorana Adzic (Girl Crazy Go!) and Julia Bijoch (Tiger t-shirt). Styling by McFay and Bijoch.
Here are some of the polaroid transfers till the real-deal is finished.
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.
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