Camerado @ Posterous

1) virtual project manager and

2) online researcher 

Get more info at the Camerado page at Volunteermatch

@ http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org98458.jsp

The Japanese dubbed version of Camerado's first award winning documentary, 'BookWars' 

Find our more and get the DVD/VOD @ http://www.bookwarsmovie.com

"I'm Sorry I Forgot"

...ultra short documentary* made in Cambodia by Camerado (www.camerado.com)

* hybrid actually: the movie was programmed as fiction for its first screening

Official Selection at the 2011 Florida Film Festival

Film is available for additional festival screenings; contact camerado@camerado.com with inquiries

The world’s longest red carpet, measuring 26.5 kilometers, will unroll at the upcoming CamboFest Cambodia Film Festival (March 1-9, http://www.cambofest.com), linking the French colonial venue town of Kampot with the seaside coastal town of Kep while shattering existing records for a red carpet event.

The lengthy carpet, donated by the Zhejiang Da Guanyuan carpet company of Zhejiang Province, China, is currently on its way to the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, to then be transported by road in time for the festival.

“This long carpet is a symbol of regional friendship’ said Zhejiang Carpet Company owner Jiang Jiansheng at a recent Phnom Penh press conference. ‘It’s a grand scale and powerful enterprise which has possessed many high technical manpower who are specialized in the designs of all kind of hand-woven, weaving art and wall-to-wall carpets.’

CamboFest founder and co-organizer Jason Rosette welcomes the carpet, but has expressed concerns about the festival’s ability to handle the rug while housing and feeding the 35 person crew who will be involved in its installation.

‘The carpet is monumental, and we welcome any support for our grass roots, indie festival here in the developing world’ said Rosette. ‘And of course, at more than twenty six kilometers, it beats the world record hands-down.’

He added, ‘After the event, the rug can be cut into sections and donated to schools and homes and any other folks who can use it here in Cambodia’.

‘But what we really need is a decent large venue projector that our youth group can operate for this year’s event, running March first through the ninth’, Rosette conceded.

‘Funding has been extremely limited this year, with the US Embassy in Phnom Penh, the Arts Network Asia, UNESCO, the Jan Vrijman Fund, the Asia Foundation, and others turning us down for funding.

Rosette estimates that funders this year may still be nervous due to attacks on the CamboFest Film Festival at the 3rd edition in 2009 by Phnom Penh based foreign movie pirates. (*see http://cameradomoviesandmedia.blogspot.com)

Such interference, though not the fault of the festival itself, may nonetheless leave donor and funding agencies reluctant to sustain any further perceived risk in the Cambodian environment, despite the value of the CamboFest mission.

Rosette added that this year the Deutsche Welle | DW-AKADEMIE has, however, invited CamboFest co-organizer Phun Sokunthearith to a film festival training workshop in Berlin, highlighting a proactive, courageous leadership role that development  agencies might assume in atypical, and sometimes hazardous, developing world media environments.

Despite the lack of funding, hardware, venues, and skilled festival staff in Cambodia (with most of the country’s artists being killed off during the Khmer Rouge regime) other exciting developments –besides the red carpet – are unrolling at this year’s CamboFest Cambodian film event.

A Cambodian youth group, Youth Association for Human Resource Development (YAHRD) will be trained to operate many of the festival’s functions to ensure the event’s future sustainability, while CamboFest staff will again revive the once-majestic ‘Royal’ cinema house, which was destroyed during the civil war and subsequent Khmer Rouge regime, as a venue for this year’s festival event.

‘We hope that many guests and movie buffs will come to take a walk on the magnificent, imaginary, world-record breaking red carpet supplied by our supporters at the Zhejiang Carpet Company’, said Rosette.

‘But, we sure could use additional financial support to feed our staff, to buy fuel for the generator, to pay for housing for any visiting filmmakers, and to upgrade our projector to a better large venue model’, he added.

And then, truly, the red carpet can be unrolled!

Purchase Tickets HERE @ Eventbrite ('Pay What You Wish' / Donation)

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The CamboFest, Cambodia Film Festival runs from March 1-9 in the colonial coastal town of Kampot, Cambodia.

Visit the CamboFest website (http://www.cambofest.com) to download a sponsorship proposal or to send any inquiries.

Advance E-tickets now available for...

CAMBOFEST Cambodia Film Festival, Cambodia's independent movie festival  - now in our 4th Edition!

(Can't make it to Cambodia? Become a 'virtual' attendee and receive a selection of movies featured at the festival and other great items - also available at our TicketLeap portal)

March 1-9, 2011 in Kampot, Cambodia (on the glorious South Coast), in the vintage Cambodian movie hall, the 'Royal'

Buy individual session or festival passes @ http://camerado.ticketleap.com/cambofest-4/

*** Any funds after operational costs (i.e., 'profits') are shared with the Kampot, Cambodia youth group helping at the event, Youth Association for Human Resource Development (YAHRD) ***

See schedules, film lineup, and pix and video on our website at:

http://www.cambofest.com

Selections for CAMBOFEST, Cambodia film festival's 4th edition (March 1-9) are now online at:

=> http://www.scribd.com/doc/46573815/Public-Lineup-Ongoing-CFEST-4-0 

Note: selections and lineup being updated on an ongoing basis...check back for final lineup and schedule (More details at the CamboFest website-> http://www.cambofest.com)

ABOUT CAMBOFEST:

CAMBOFEST is Cambodia's first international movie event since the end of the Khmer Rouge era, and is Cambodia's only independent film festival (now entering our 4th year edition)

Our goal is to help restore a viable cinema industry in Cambodia by showcasing the new independent work of international and Cambodian filmmakers.

Without many functional cinemas remaining in Cambodia, CamboFest strives to seek out and restore to a working order vintage Cambodian cinema houses as venues for our event

(see pix from our previous event at http://cambofest.blogspot.com/2009/12/initial-pix-content-from-cambofest-2009.html )

This year, CamboFest teams up with the Cambodia-based youth group, Youth Association for Human Resource Development (YAHRD), in order to train Cambodian youth to participate in many of the festival's operations - this helps ensure CamboFest's ongoing future sustainability.

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SPONSOR: 

We're still seeking financial and in-kind / AV / hardware sponsors for this year's event!  

Take a look at our Sponsor Info Sheet [PDF] and become a Sponsor or Contributor of one of the most unique film festivals *anywhere in the world*!:

http://www.camerado.com/cambofest_assets/CAMBOFEST_Cambodia_sponsor_package_1... 

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CONTRIBUTE:  

 [Hear an appeal from CamboFest founder and co-organizer J Rosette, via Youtube-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exAwk4pchTQ]

- Philippe Delanghe Culture Programme Specialist UNESCO Office Phnom Penh 

We're a little more than a third of the way to our fundraising goals for this season - please make a tax deductible contribution through our fundraising portal at CROWDRISE and help restore a living cinema to Cambodia:

http://www.crowdrise.com/cambofest/fundraiser/camerado 

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For more information about CAMBOFEST Cambodia Film Festival, visit our website at:

http://www.cambofest.com

Holiday Deals on these Original Movies by CAMERADO!

BOOKWARS

LOST IN NEW MEXICO: the strange tale of Susan Hero

VUTH LEARNS TO ROCK (& Other movies)