WING CHUN A Documentary Release Date…
We are happy to report that our latest film, WING CHUN A Documentary has a new release date… 1st June. This is a much improved date and we are very excited about a documentary on Wing Chun, a martial art that has really come into its own golden age recently. We do not want to [...]
WING CHUN A Documentary… An update
We are in post production on our latest film release, Wing Chun a documentary (unique title heh!). We have been receiving an avalanche of emails asking about a possible release date. Our best guess is end of July at this moment. It will be a full length feature documentary of about 80 minutes length with [...]
Watch A Boy in China Documentary Online
We have just released our new full length feature documentary, A Boy in China for streaming rental and download. You have a choice of renting the movie and watching this over the next 30 days at your leisure – you can pause the movie and resume during that time. You can also purchase the movie to own and download the digital file…
Buddha Pilgrimage Journey…
Unfortunately due to very slow connections (if at all) our blogs are short here in india. Also we are on Buddhist monks timetable so it’s awake and out by 5am and in bed exhasuted by 8pm… not much time for blogging I am afraid. Today we are in Kushinagar visiting many monasteries and temples and [...]
Martial Arts for the Disabled… a worthy cause.
We have just formed an alliance with ABCD Budokai Sweden – for promoting martial arts for the disabled. It is a great cause and we should all try to give back more – please read below: The first thoughts about the phenomenon we hope MAFDIR to be started in the early 80s when Pontus Johansson [...]
To understand the World Visit Asia… NY Times Story
This is good story printed in the Sunday 8th January New York Times edition…. here is the story and needs no further explanation except to say we have been saying this for many years…. Where to Go to Understand the World in 2012 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF If you want to understand the world, you [...]
A Boy in China by Black Belt Magazine
Black Belt Magazine background story on Empty Mind Films new film release, A Boy in China. About a young american boy who gets the chance to live in China and become a Kungfy master.
A Film Forum…
We have been attending the US-China Forum on Arts and Film at the Performing Arts hall in Beijing (the egg-shape building near Tiananmen square). It was an impressive turnout of film making talent from both America and China. The documentary producer David Fanning moderated a forum on documentary and journalism in the media. He produces [...]
Great Masters of Martial Arts
Yesterday I had the rare honor of meeting a great master of martial arts and interviewing him. Master Lun Kai is a master of Wing Chun and one of the earliest students with Ip Man in Foshan. Lun Kai was born in 1927 and became Ip man’s student in 1941 – he became what is known [...]
Typhoon 8 in Hong Kong…
Hong Kong Typhoon A timelapse video clip of the morning after the Typhoon hit Hong Kong. We arrived a few hours before the storm (the airport closed for a short while) to start filming our Wing Chun movie. Although the terrible weather makes for some nice images, it does cause problems for our new movie. [...]
The Way of Wing Chun
As we arrived in Hong Kong this week to begin filming for a new documentary on Wing Chun, there were no signs of the impending storm ahead. It was hot and very humid – well this is Hong Kong after all, even in the autumn you know it is to be expected. But in the [...]
Become a Partner…
Go from subscriber to partner in four easy steps and we pay you! Just place our movie on your website or facebook page and each time a visitor watches a movie you earn money! This provides a new exciting way to entertain your visitors while reaping rewards. The visitor watches the movie directly from your [...]
Chen Village Magazine Review
The Journal of Asian Martial Arts Magazine has long been regarded as the most intelligent publication on the traditional arts of Asia. It also attracts some of the most knowledgeable writers in the martial arts that set very high academic standards. The articles and writing are very well researched. We are pleased therefore whenever Empty Mind [...]
Online Streaming of Movies…. Watch Now!
We have important news on how you can watch our movies. By the end of July all of our titles will be available for watching instantly streamed online or to buy and download to your computer and watch later … anytime and anywhere! This new service will be available on almost any platform and across [...]
How much is that Hutong?
We have been hearing quite a lot recently about China’s rampant run-away economy and especially the Beijing and Shanghai property bubbles. I have seen this first hand in the last twenty years of travelling to China. Beijing is now surrounded by huge apartment buildings which seem to form a wall on the outer third and [...]
New Release… A Natural Way
Our new film release for 2011 is A Natural Way, release date March 1st. This is a well researched exploration across China, Tibet and India on the traditional healthcare systems. This was filmed over quite a long but intensive period in 2009. The film begins in India where most things seem to begin on our [...]
