Just wanted to write myself an artist profile on
www.alivenotdead.com. An online community targeted at networking artists in the creative field.
Oh, and btw, I'm in Hong Kong now. No more New York for a while.
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Unlike many directors, Bernard did not grow up with a Super 8mm in the
basement and filming cheesy C-grade horror flicks at the backyard with
his younger brothers. Instead, he grew up holding inanimate objects and
pretend to be in fantasy worlds in the living room as his parents
thought he had Attention Deficit.
But once during the running of the Original Star Wars trilogy on TV in
celebration of the 20th Anniversary, this young Chinese boy realized
that he wanted to make movies.
It was not until high school that he got a taste of what acting would
be in drama class. And it was not until he chose videography as his
Drama major that he wrote and filmed his first short. Shooting in
miniDV and editing on two SuperVHS decks... linear editing! The film
was about a homeless man and the tragic loss of his best friend.
Time went by and Bernard lay his dreams of becoming a filmmaker to
pursue a more stable career in computing. Though, once he finished his
Computer Science degree and told himself he didn't want to see numbers
and parameters for a job, he opted to enroll at the Sydney College of
the Arts with their Masters of Film and Digital Image course. After
graduation, he worked at several Sydney production companies as editor
or technical analyst.
Still lacking the taste of film creativeness, it was not until a chance
encounter with Hong Kong director, Ronny Yu, that he was pushed once
again into the dreams he so thought of walking since that night in his
parent's room, seeing Luke Skywalker with his trusty saber.
He enrolled himself into the New York Film Academy to spruce up his
writing. Currently, he's traveling the world, writing and by the end of
2008, he will have several self written and directed short films to
showcase his talents.
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Damn, I wrote quite a bit...
Comments (4)
nice!
u should post this on wikipedia and add to it as u grow more successful. =D
@moonbeam121 - I wrote it in 3rd person, which is sad enough. I don't want to write my own Wikipedia profile. Haha.
bernie, you wrote good. i wish i had the courage and heart as you. one day, one day i'm going to make it big and do something i love. but before that, i have to find out what i love first. haha
its nice to read that. good on you for following your dreams!! it takes a lot guts to follow what you believe in!