Tag: “Environmental Pressures & Species Adaptation”

Brutal Rice Films—Out and Coming Soon!

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This entry is part 15 of 15 in the series Making "The Music of Jo Hyeja"

I’ve mentioned this on Facebook and Twitter, but my wife has been releasing the films she’s made so far on Youtube, every ten days in July. They’re Korean-language films, but with English (and sometimes other) subtitles. On July 10th, she posted her award-winning debut short “The Music of Jo Hyeja”, which regular readers will know is our Korean modernization of Lovecraft’s classic story “The Music of Erich Zann”: https://youtu.be/lUTjXyR0T50 On the 20th, she posted her second film, another award-winner; this time, it’s a Korean zombie apocalypse, “Environmental Pressures & Species Adaptation”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cd9jfJhMXY There’s one more film coming: the long-awaited “Daerijeon: The Proxy War”, based on the …

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My Wife, and Her Ass-Kicking Ways…

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Yeah, she got another award: this time, it’s the Abby Normal Award for Innovation, awarded by the Zompire Undead Film Festival in Portland. (See the post on Brutal Rice Productions’ site.) (I’m not quite sure why my name is on there, since I didn’t co-direct. Maybe they felt that the “innovation” was related to the script, or something, I’m not sure… but in this case, I really wasn’t very involved in the making of the movie… just the story and one draft of the script, soundtrack, and a little scattered foley, none of which are things that give one “collaborator” …

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“Natural Selection” Trailer

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UPDATE (18 August 2013): I forgot to mention, this short film will be screening in Portland early this October at Zompire: The Undead Film Festival. In fact, it was the first film mentioned among those that got “early selection” for the festival, and I couldn’t be prouder of Mrs. Jiwaku, who directed the film. Original Post: The Korean title is “Natural Selection” (well, the Korean equivalent: <자연선택설>) but the English title isn’t, though Mrs. Jiwaku and I both call the film by that working title. (The English title is “Environmental Pressures & Species Adaptation” which, okay, whatever…) Anyway, we finally …

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