Geek appeal - Interview with Charlie Custer – Arts & Entertainment

Nearly a year ago I posted about a documentary film being made by ChinaGeek's founder (and HHR community member), Charlie Custer. The film, now titled Living With Dead Hearts, explores the issue of kidnapped children in China and how it affects the parents, the children and the whole community. And it needs your help to finish being made.

Here's an interview with Charlie.

The world needs another Nanjing Massacre film like it needs another Christian Bale film -- and that's just what it's getting from big-name directory Zhang Yimou.

Christian Bale will star in Zhang Yimou's upcoming 600 million yuan ($90.2 million) Nanjing Heroes about the Nanjing Massacre, China's most famous director said at a press conference Wednesday.

One Beijing International Film Festival highlight should be director James Cameron – here for the release of the 3D version of Titanic (in 2D; out from Tuesday 10 April). As much as we look forward to watching Leo spit right in our faces, Cameron was unavailable for comment; a Fox International representative said it was because he was ‘on a submarine’. Best excuse for dodging an interview ever!

This week, propaganda-heavy China Central Television (CCTV) launched programming for American viewers produced out of a new office building steps away from the White House. Meanwhile, a determined and growing band of independent filmmakers documents the complex, often uncomfortable realities of China's past and present.