Graduate student Gary Yong, FMA, has been selected to participate in the 10th Berlinale Talent Campus, held during the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival, Feb. 9-19, 2012. The Berlinale Talent Campus is a prestigious six-day creative summit and networking event for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers, selected from more than 4,300 applicants from 137 countries. Every February, the Talent Campus brings together young filmmakers, writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, actors, editors, distributors, production designers, composers, sound designers and film journalists to meet with professionals from the international film industry.
Yong left Philadelphia in 2010 on an invitation to shoot a short film in Thailand for the Film Expo Asia, sponsored by the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand. The resulting work, Canopy Crossings, premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in February 2011 and has screened at 17 international film festivals worldwide, including the Oberhausen (Germany), Tampere (Finland), Uruguay, Zinebi Bilbao (Spain), Interfilm Berlin, Cine de Huesca (Spain), Hamburg Short, Istanbul Short, and Asian American film festivals. The film will be premiered online on the Impakt Channel (http://impakt.nl/) in the Netherlands, and distributed by IndieFlix (http://indieflix.com/) in the spring of 2012.
In October, Yong was one of 10 international directors nominated for the Uppsala Award, a prize dedicated to the memory of Ingmar Bergman, at the 30th Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden. Canopy Crossings played in the International Competition of the festival.
To find out more about Yong’s work, visit www.fluidrace.com.
