I have a production company called Idol Films Ltd. We've got a film in development in the US, with James Keach who produced the Oscar winning movie "Walk The Line". And we have a movie in India that we appear to have found the cash to make. That's me in the photo with one of our backers in Mumbai. My partner Asad Sultan is also a Mumbaiker and the company is split between him in Mumbai and me in Hong Kong. Which means that between us we control the whole world.
If you are looking for work as an actor in Hong Kong, you might also like to call in at Casting Call Hong Kong a new talent agency that Aaron Palermo, another Idol Filmer, is running under the Idol Films banner. This is a new venture and is predicated upon the number of movie companies and advertising agencies that turn up in Hong Kong to film and discover that they cannot find any local actors who speak English! They appear to have forgotten that this is China.
I am also the chairman of the Hong Kong Writers Circle and have been for sixteen years! I try to pull away but they keep dragging me back in. We hold workshops and publish members' works in Asia. We have a huge membership nowadays and we like to think that without us, there would be no creative writing in Hong Kong. This is possibly not entirely true but we stirred things up a bit and have put the place on the Literary Festival circuit if nothing else. Many of the members have gone on to publish works all around the world, as well as bringing out many books locally. There is no money in it, I mutter despondently, but despite my frequent de-motivational talks, it does not seem to stop people wanting to try their luck.
So feel free to drop in now and then. I shall add more to the site as I go along, especially bits of interest to other writers and in particularly screenwriters and film makers in the Asia region.