Khailas (China)
Director: Xiaoru Sun
Producer: Peter Shiao
Production: Ironpond, LLC (US)
Screenplay: Tashi Dawa, Xiaoru Sun
DOP: Xiaoqing Meng
Genre: Drama Shooting Material: 35mm Length: 90 min
Stage of script: finished
Language: Tibetan, Chinese Mandarin, English
Production Budget: 18,000,000 RMB
Finance in place: 5,000,000 RMB
Business Partner involved:
Mei Ah Great Wall Film and Television Consulting Ltd.(Beijing)
Sun XiaoRu Rainbow Studio
Seeking: Co-investor, Territory Buyer, Ads Sponsor
Synopsis:
Three young rock and roll musicians, a Tibetan, a Chinese and an American, meet in a chatroom and decide to visit a sacred mountain in Tibet to find a mythical Tibetan musician who disappeared over 50 years ago. The journey across the Tibetan landscape reveals to the three people a life promise of love.
Director's Statement :
I am a believer of reincarnation. I reckon that I have in my previous life left something in Tibet and thus need to get it back in this life. Between 1995 and 1999 I was living and traveling in Tibet for three years. One can be easily overwhelmed by the enormity and power of that land as well as the finiteness of human beings. This film will be a dream inspired by my sojourn there. It will be a journey of self-discovery where human beings and the nature echo with each other.
Director's Biography:
Xiaoru Sun graduated from Beijing Film Academy with MA degree. In 2001, her script Love in Tibet won the Excellence Award at the Hong Kong Network with Ang Lee as Jury President; in 2003, her script Khailas won the Ten Best Script, and was specially presented at Pitch & Catch of the Golden Horse Awards in 2007. In 2006, her feature film Tales of Rain and Magic was awarded the Best New Director Award and Best New Performer Award by the China University Film Festival.
Producer:
Peter Shiao
Producer Peter Shiao is the president of US and China based production/finance company, Ironpond Culture. He has been active as a producer and executive in both Hollywood and China, having chaired both the US-China Film Industry Conference on behalf of SARFT and the White House as well as producing RESTLESS, the first official US-China co-production. His other production credits outside of film include producing Earth Day LA, the musical event series, Love Lab, the museum exhibit Merging, and translating the Tibetan/Chinese book, Dancing on the Rooftop with Dragons, into English.
Contact:
Xiaoru Sun
Add:4/F Main Building,Beijing Film Studio,No.77 North SanHuanZhong Rd. Haidian District, Beijing China
Postcode:100088
Tel:010-82043417
Email:xiaorus@yahoo.cn
Ironpond, LLC (US)
Add:9100 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100W, Beverly Hills, CA
Postcode:90212
Tel:(310)365-1901
Email:ironpond@gmail.com
