Friday, January 26, 2007

The meetings begin!

Earlier today, for the very first time, the entire Kyoko crew assembled themselves and got together for a concept meeting. With Cole Bayford (the 1st AD) and working director Charles Wilkinson presiding over the session, Brett and co-producers Ian and Dani walked us all through the script, giving us a general overview of what we should expect during production.

Note: Click pictures for a full view!

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(Dani, Ian, Brett and Cole.)


For those of you who don't know, Kyoko is an action-drama in the same vein as Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita. Charting the character arc of a deadly Japanese female assassin, it promises high-end production values and many a bloody gangland execution. I have been personally asked by the creative team to not give anything away at this point as we are still in the larval stages of figuring this all out but rest assured, any concept meeting in which consideration is given to hiring 80+ extras to fill out the opening scene can only mean the Kyoko team is aiming for the top.

As always, I promise to bring you the very latest in news updates and if you feel the need to contact me directly, I can be reached at kyokomoviepublicity@hotmail.com so fire me some mail.

A further note to the creative heads of the Kyoko crew: I am now accepting bios at the e-mail address above for key creatives, preferably in a Word doc, roughly 200-250 words long. Feel free to submit your own bio picture if you want to, but if you would rather have your picture taken either by me or by my second photographer Shannon Mackay, just let us know on set. Make sure I have your picture at the end of all this! (Otherwise, I'll be a dick and go through my archives looking for the worst possible one.)

Also, a big warm welcome to our three new costumers: Kaeleigh Rettie, Melissa Benson and Jaclyn Deacon!

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(The obligatory team photo.)


I can already tell that this shoot is going to be a blast.

Good thing we're all such professionals. Ahem.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Welcome to the Kyoko Blog!

It is my pleasure to invite you all to the new blog for Kyoko, a short film soon to be directed by Brett Nielsen and produced by Ian Robinson and Dani Giammaria. The show is currently in preproduction but I plan to keep you all updated every step of the way through this blog right here. You can contact us at our new e-mail address at kyokomovie@hotmail.com and as soon as we get closer to shooting, we'll have much more to post. So bookmark us.

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We want you along for the ride.