This Is Sanlitun Now Available for Rent and Purchase on Vimeo
Robert Douglas's This Is Sanlitun will be available internationally to buy (USD 9.99) or rent (USD 4.99) with Vimeo On Demand, on Wednesday July 2.
In Beijing you will find two types of people, those that tolerate Sanlitun and those that can't stand it. Both should check out this funny independent production starring a couple local faces that you might know. Currently on IQIYI, their page has already amassed over 400,000 hits. Not too shaby.
Based loosely on the Beijing experiences of Robert Ingi Douglas and the people he's met since living here, the film is filled with your typical tropes of personal failure and redemption hilariously enacted by Carlos Ottery and Chris Loton. Spread the word to your friends and family so that everyone get can get a small taste of the insanity that is Beijing, that is unless you don't want them to know what mischief you get up to.
Check out photos from the This Is Sanlitun Beijing launch and screening here.
UPDATE 7/7/2014: Robert Ingi Douglas, Carlos Ottery, and Chris Loton, creators of This is Sanlitun, sat in on Reddit for an AMA. Click through to learn more about how the film was made.
Photos: theworldofchinese.com, timeoutbeijing.com
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jadarite Submitted by Guest on Tue, 07/01/2014 - 16:39 Permalink
Re: This Is Sanlitun Now Available for Rent and Purchase on...
Why does the Beijinger fester on small in group cliques and put pictures, make videos, or provide information about Beijing in a way which makes someone who obsesses over wanting to become the next ESL Kim Kardashian/Pamela Anderson with fake boobs jealous?
Heads up artificial popular people (in dream theory),
1) NO ONE cares that you have eaten noodles and drunk beer for 10 years.
2) NO ONE cares you can get a cameo shot with half naked ugly Chinese girls. Even the half decent looking ones are doing it because they get paid. If they actually wanted you, then you wouldn't need to make a stupid video with them.
3) NO ONE cares that you think you are an expert in Haidian, Sanlitun, or the "hot spots" of Beijing.
4) NO ONE cares you are trying to get a few bucks instead of paying us a few bucks for a few minutes of dull, repetitive, trite comments to make up for the lack of whatever fame you feel you deserve.
At the end of the day, anyone can come here and experience China and its various cities. Try introducing something more with sustenance next time. Here are some suggestions:
A. Make a 4-5 part series on something that actually interests you besides beer and boobies or skin.
B. Interview other people instead of making yourself look like a Youtube reject clown. That's right, actually go into the very city you are trying to introduce and get people who were born there. Have them tell "us", the viewers, what life is really like.
C. Since communication is a huge barrier, even with people who have studied a second language in college, you could provide scenarios you have faced in Beijing or another city where your idea of expression was different than the mainstream Chinese way of thinking. This would help foreigners more to adapt to living in a foreign country instead of telling them, "Hey just get drunk and look at the flesh of Chinese women while trying to deal with the air pollution in Beijing."
D. And this final one seems to escape many people's realm of thought. How about letting us know events in advance. I know we can click through the front page of current events today or in a few hours, but if we plan ahead we will more likely be busy. Going to the front page of the site to see tomorrow or next week's event without having to click through would be more effective in getting people to attend the event. They would have time to plan it. People are less likely to go to events when it is seen advertised for the first time on the same day.
As a bonus, how about putting a request list of possible events? Categorize them. For example, three could be restaurants, concerts, or activity/trip. A person would visit the site, check one of the options and then get an itinerary of events only associated with that particular event. This would be recorded and in the future, all events in this category would be seen on the front page instead of sifting through 2 categories. For example, who needs to see ads for a bar event if you just want to go to a coffee shop or restaurant? Who needs to see ads for a soccer viewing when you want to visit an art gallery or museum to see the latest exhibits? You could present more events of actual interest to the viewer. It's either that or the needle in the haystack approach which is currently used. Personally, I don't click through. I see a few on the front page and that is it. Most of the time they are irrelevant and don't matter to me. However, I do see that some events have already occurred and I would have gone if I had known about them.
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