When I founded #Cambodia‘s first international #film festival, CamboFest (www.cambofest.com) back in 2007/2550 while studying for my MA in Development Studies at Royal University of Phnom Penh, I had no idea we would be paving the way for so many new younger brother and sister fests in the region which would come along after us: the Luang Phrabang Film Festival, the Cambodia International Film Festival, the Chaktumak Short Film Festival, the Phnom Penh International film Festival, and several others. Thanks to all Cambodian colleagues who helped develop the cinema sector in Cambodia and the region – the King Father thanks you from high…
Now on the Steam platform: new 360 immersive VR documentary, ‘BrickWorks’ by producer-filmmaker Jason Rosette BrickWorks is a hypnotic and immersive 360 VR documentary video portrait of an ‘Old Skool’ brick factory in Cambodia, Southeast Asia. Directed by award winning filmmaker and 360 journalist Jason Rosette of Camerado Media, this is part one in an anticipated 4 part series of factories and brickworks in developing areas of the Asia-Pacific and ASEAN region of Asia. Rent or Buy BrickWorks on Steam at: http://store.steampowered.com/app/716830/BrickWorks_360/
Filmmaker and Writer-Director Jason Rosette has just wrapped a multi-day video shoot for Microsoft Philanthropy in the ASEAN-APAC region of Asia, featuring and promoting their software infrastructure support of the Child Protection Unit in Cambodia. The shoot, which covered locations in Phnom Penh and rural Kampong Cham, covered more than 8 interviews and associated B-Roll in 2 days, yielding robust and compelling content in service of Microsoft’s philanthropic mission. Contact Jason Rosette for ASEAN-APAC and USA based directing projects.
Underwater music video ‘GO ON’ I produced and shot in a series of underwater lagoons off the coast of Cambodia for neopsych alt-rocker, Gone Marshall. I hold an advanced open water diving certification, although this was quite shallow water (though at times the tides were tricky). The video features some trippy VR-like textures and scenes…enjoy! Contact me (Jason Rosette) for shooting, editing, and producing film and video in the ASEAN-APAC region.
Writer-Director, filmmaker and educator Jason Rosette’s first feature movie, the New York film ‘BookWars‘, is now being distributed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As the movie continues to circulate after more than 15 years, occupying additional platforms including iTunes and Amazon Video, the edgy street-side #documentary portraying the lives of New York sidewalk booksellers in 1990’s New York is now considered an important indie New York classic. Read the illuminating story behind the making of ‘BookWars’ and other #films by Jason ‘Camerado’ Rosette in the filmmaking #ebook, ‘10,000 Miles to Go: An American Filmmaking Odyssey’…