Today Dan will be on BBC Radio 1 on The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw and Scott Mills

A few photos have been posted so be sure to visit our gallery for it. 🙂

Scott Mills Podcast Download: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mills
Youtube Video for Nick Grimshaw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbR_S8wgBrY

Hey everyone! Katie Leung, who played Harry’s love interest in The Goblet of Fire, will be starring in the new short film Sun Never Sets. The short is currently in pre-production and filmmakers Daniel and Ateh Jewel are raising funds through Kickstarter. They are encouraging everyone to contribute and if you decide to participate you can receive props from the set, a copy of the script and/or tickets to a cast and crew screening. They are aiming to raise £25,000 by 1 September 2013 and production is planned to begin this autumn. I’ve included a synopsis below and links to the Kickstarter and Facebook pages:

Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/81903521/sun-never-sets-sci-fi-film-set-in-the-near-future?ref=live

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sun-Never-Sets/164270243752988

Synopsis:

Sun Never Sets is set in the near future where China has become the undisputed world power and the West is in disarray. Now, the tired and hungry people of Europe are fleeing to the great cities of China to seek a new life as economic migrants. Against this backdrop, a Chinese-born Englishman named HEDGES has decided to turn his back on the tide of history by taking his adopted daughter KATIE to a small abandoned island downstream from Shanghai, where his British ancestors used to trade to China from in the nineteenth century.

He has rebooted the abandoned island and staffed it with illegal English immigrants to China, creating his own world as if the British Empire had never fallen. The island is off the grid and has no electricity or running water. The small community living under Hedges use gas lamps, so it’s as if they are living a British version of an Amish village. One day a wealthy English family, who have started a successful new life in Shanghai, crash their boat on the shores of the island. Hedges and Katie are forced to take them into their community. The arrival of the family sparks off something in Katie – who has always wondered what life might be like away from the island. She spends her evenings gazing at the neon haze of Shanghai, which she can see through her grimy bedroom window. Katie can see how at ease the family are with life in Shanghai; they speak fluent Mandarin and are fully accepted into Chinese society, and this leads her to question everything Hedges has told her about the modern world. This brings her into conflict with Hedges, especially when the young son of the family, TOM, offers to take her back to Shanghai with them. In the climax of the film, Katie is pressured to make life-changing choices, which ultimately reveal the dark history of the British Empire in China and Hedges’s ancestors involvement in the Opium Wars.

We’ve been asked to help with a fundraiser for a Sun Never Sets. Daniel Jewel, who is directing a new short film starring Katie Leung (Cho Chang) this autumn.

Here’s what the film is about:

Sun Never Sets is set in the near future where China has become the undisputed world power and the West is in disarray. Now, the tired and hungry people of Europe are fleeing to the great cities of China to seek a new life as economic migrants. Against this backdrop, a Chinese-born Englishman named HEDGES has decided to turn his back on the tide of history by taking his adopted daughter KATIE to a small abandoned island downstream from Shanghai, where his British ancestors used to trade to China from in the nineteenth century.

He has rebooted the abandoned island and staffed it with illegal English immigrants to China, creating his own world as if the British Empire had never fallen. The island is off the grid and has no electricity or running water. The small community living under Hedges use gas lamps, so it’s as if they are living a British version of an Amish village. One day a wealthy English family, who have started a successful new life in Shanghai, crash their boat on the shores of the island. Hedges and Katie are forced to take them into their community. The arrival of the family sparks off something in Katie – who has always wondered what life might be like away from the island. She spends her evenings gazing at the neon haze of Shanghai, which she can see through her grimy bedroom window. Katie can see how at ease the family are with life in Shanghai; they speak fluent Mandarin and are fully accepted into Chinese society, and this leads her to question everything Hedges has told her about the modern world. This brings her into conflict with Hedges, especially when the young son of the family, TOM, offers to take her back to Shanghai with them. In the climax of the film, Katie is pressured to make life-changing choices, which ultimately reveal the dark history of the British Empire in China and Hedges’s ancestors involvement in the Opium Wars.

To read more about the fundraiser go here: kickstarter.com

Thanks to a friend of mine in Italy she told me the following info on KYD.

Yesterday, in Riccione  there was a Film Festival, and they presented the KYD Trailer (I saw you have a screencap on Facebook). Here’s everything that was explained by Italian Distributor Notorious Pictures

KYD will be out in Italy with the title “Giovani Ribelli” on September the 26th, three weeks before the USA. It will also been screened at the Giffoni Film Festival over the summer AND more importantly … they can’t confirm it 100 %, but they basically hinted a Venice Film Festival Premiere. I SO hope Dan will be able to attend that Festival, Venice is HUGE and here we talk about it a lot, as you can imagine. Best. Wake. Up. Ever.

The Notorius Pictures representative is quoted in the article as saying: “It’ll be at an important Film Festival between the end of August and the beginning of September …” which for us equals Venice, but it’s early for confirmation.

We got one week till deadline for the Daniel Radcliffe Birthday Project.I made a sort of sample that will be in the actual video we are gonna do. As a reminder, each person that participates will receive their own quote and or poem with graphics designed by me. But you will only receive them after the project is done. I used mine as a sample each design is designed differently.