A 15-year-old Chinese boy has survived being stabbed in the head with a sword. Zhang Bin was rushed to hospital last week after the blade pierced his skull by 5cm. Bin had been playing with weapons with friends when the accident happened, following which he had to endure a 250-mile drive to see a specialist surgeon. "Three classmates came to visit me at home and one of them brought a sword," he said, according to The Mirror. "He stood three to four metres away from me. I don't know (more)...
- 7/31/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
San Diego’s annual Comic-Con is mostly known for its major media spectacles, displays and panel discussions by major mainstream Hollywood studios and distributors. Lesser known is the Independent Film Festival that is hosted by and runs concurrently with the larger convention on July 21-24.
The film festival runs in a large meeting room at the Marriott Marquis Hotel and Marina, located right next door to the convention center. Each day kicks off with a “Film School” panel discussion at 10:00 a.m., then packs the late morning, all afternoon and night with independent films from all over the world.
Screenings are blocked by genre, such as Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror, Animation and Documentary. There’s also an awards presentation on the 24th, with repeat screenings of the winning films.
One of the highlights of this year’s Cci-iff is the screening of Waylon Bacon‘s fantastic and disturbing short film Help Wanted,...
The film festival runs in a large meeting room at the Marriott Marquis Hotel and Marina, located right next door to the convention center. Each day kicks off with a “Film School” panel discussion at 10:00 a.m., then packs the late morning, all afternoon and night with independent films from all over the world.
Screenings are blocked by genre, such as Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror, Animation and Documentary. There’s also an awards presentation on the 24th, with repeat screenings of the winning films.
One of the highlights of this year’s Cci-iff is the screening of Waylon Bacon‘s fantastic and disturbing short film Help Wanted,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
NEW YORK -- A marital dispute captured on video and posted to YouTube interrupted the renaming of China Central Television's sports channel -- CCTV5 -- the Olympics Channel.
Hu Ziwei, the wife of top CCTV5 announcer and sports news department head Zhang Bin -- who late Friday was to introduce Olympic Ping Pong player Wang Nan -- suddenly appeared onstage and grabbed the microphone, accusing Zhang of having had an affair as well as of smearing the name of both China and next year's summer Olympics, reported John Kennedy of the blog Global Voices Online.
Hu is a host of an Olympics-themed program at rival Beijing TV.
The whole episode was captured by a studio guest's cell phone camera, and the video was posted on YouTube and its homegrown Chinese counterpart, Tudou.com. (See video below)
"It just goes to show what a lovely target those gleaming rings make. It also demonstrates nicely that, no matter how China tries to control Olympic related news and imagery, anyone with a cell phone will be a journalist come August," said a Beijing-based public relations industry insider who blogs under the name Imagethief.
Hu Ziwei, the wife of top CCTV5 announcer and sports news department head Zhang Bin -- who late Friday was to introduce Olympic Ping Pong player Wang Nan -- suddenly appeared onstage and grabbed the microphone, accusing Zhang of having had an affair as well as of smearing the name of both China and next year's summer Olympics, reported John Kennedy of the blog Global Voices Online.
Hu is a host of an Olympics-themed program at rival Beijing TV.
The whole episode was captured by a studio guest's cell phone camera, and the video was posted on YouTube and its homegrown Chinese counterpart, Tudou.com. (See video below)
"It just goes to show what a lovely target those gleaming rings make. It also demonstrates nicely that, no matter how China tries to control Olympic related news and imagery, anyone with a cell phone will be a journalist come August," said a Beijing-based public relations industry insider who blogs under the name Imagethief.
- 12/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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