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Eight Broken Fingers The noble abuse of power Winner: Best International Narrative Feature, Brilliant Light International Film Festival of Los Angeles, 2007. Winner: Best Foreign Film award at the L.A. FAIF International Film Festival, 2006 In competition: Tokatsu film festival, Tokyo, 2006 In competition: The Brilliant Light International Film Festival of Los Angeles, 2007 Featuring music from the new hit British band KOOPA www.koopatheband.com
A political writer living in South Korea, a New Zealander writing an allegory on British colonialism and U.S. imperialism, is stabbed and left to die in a dark Seoul alley. His mind flashes through the possible reasons to his first encounter with a successful Korean violinist he fell madly in love with as he sees the events and pressures that conspired to tear them apart and led to his brutal stabbing.
LENGTH: 75 minutes LANGUAGE: English GENRE: Romantic/political/drama
ACTORS: Yumi Bae, Michael Thorp
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT I find it an incredible and perverse state of affairs that the only people in the U.S. really benefiting from the hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars spent on the continuing 2003 Iraqi war and occupation is an elite group of U.S. oil, armament, and logistical support companies, many with past or present ties to the Whitehouse. The return to the U.S. public, who have been fed a fearful campaign of half-truths and outright lies about Iraq, is an ever-weakening U.S. economy, accelerated oil prices, over 100,000 Iraqi deaths, increasing terrorism, extremism, religious and racial stigmatism, and hatred towards the U.S. around the world, and the destabilization of the Middle East. The extent to which power remains unchecked and unaccountable, will be the extent to which it is open to abuse, as appears to be the case with the present G.W. Bush administration. Michael C. Thorp This film deals with the abuse of power politically, societially, in families, and interpersonally. It examines how power can be cynically abused at the expense of others and cloaked with seemingly noble motives.
PRODUCTION NOTES Eight Broken Fingers is the second self-funded feature written, produced, and directed by Michael for US$8,000 in Seoul, Korea.
PRODUCTION TEAM CAST: Jina: Yumi Bae Dan: Michael Thorp Rick: Michael Arnold Father: Sejin Lee Boy: Harry Lee Girl 6: Ria Girl 5: Hyona Kim G.I.: Spencer Korean subway fighter: Anthony E. Park Dan's friend: David Holady Girls in Starbucks: Michelle Yu Hyona Kim Youn Sun
CREW: Producer/director/writer/editor: Michael Thorp Camera operators: Peter Wilson Will Scanlon Michael Walker Michael Thorp Sound: Peter Wilson Michael Thorp Lighting Assistants: Cindy Lee Seun Yeon Lee
FILM MAKER'S BACKGROUND
1st feature film: THE LUNATICS' BALL (89 min.) Written, produced, directed, edited, and self-funded by Michael for US$25,000 before obtaining NZ Film Commission post production funding of NZ$400,000 in 1999.
2nd feature film: EIGHT BROKEN FINGERS (77 min.) Written, produced, directed, edited, and self-funded by Michael, completed in August, 2006 for US$8,000.
4 screenplays: Between 2000-2005 he wrote four feature film scripts in South Korea while teaching English. 1st novel: Between 2007-2009 he wrote and self-published: Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe - The Return of the Nephilim, a fantasy/adventure novel.
THE LUNATICS' BALL (89 min.) http://lunaticsball.freeservers.com 
EIGHT BROKEN FINGERS (79 min.) http://escapefilms2005.bravehost.com 
Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe - The Return of the Nephilim (fantasy/adventure novel) http://benbrownsadventure.bravehost.com  |
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