Monday, April 30, 2012

Thank you all!

We are only about $1,200 short. its getting close with only 4 days left! Thank you Matthew Marotta, Tim Lonsdale, William Quirmbach and AnnMarie Swawkins Ph.D. for your kind donations!

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Message from Bai Ling:

Bai Ling has her own blog page that you can find at: http://www.officialbailing.com This is what she posted this morning:
I am posting a message from a facebook friend, so he then knows he is not just talking to himself:)
ThursdayBryan McGowan to Bai Ling
I watched an interview of you on Youtube today. You really are an amazing and funny woman. It was very enjoyable. You have a great attitude to things and made a lot of common sense. Maybe you should be governor of California!
It's when i see interviews like that i wish i could have even just a coffee with you one day. If that ever happened, i would die a happy man and would man God crazy by telling him all the time about the day i had coffee with Ling.
Oh well, such are my dreams
Oh yeah, i know you've been very busy recently with filming, but any idea when you will record a new song?
FridayBryan McGowan
I donated $10 to Yellow Hill. Next payday i will donate more. For $50 i get a cast autographs......How about one just from you for $100??? :)))
Sincerely from my heart and all the Yellow Hill team want to thank all of you so much our friends for your kind donation to our film " Yellow Hill ", indeed because of you will make this film possible. it is a film that close to our heart, and its a story need to be told, its so meaningful because so many people had contributed and served and died and suffered during that time when the Chinese came to the west to build the railroad, yes till today there is no film about that part of history, we are telling the story from a perspective of how a young woman travel from the east who's life doomed in her youth, and then when she grow into a beautiful woman and then come back to fight with all the powerful men wrongly treated her and her fellow sisters. its a story about Revenge... hash hard lot of action, watch us kick ass! yes it will be made as a contemporary film with a thriller and massive action in a modern style.
Because I am so grateful here I want to list all my friends whom donated to our film and now are part of ouR family:
Cheryl Roloff
tsheedlo
Glen Popple
Damon J. Tutko
Daniel FLY
Sigmund Seignious
moonpunter17
narncommander1
Leslie Maj
crazymelin
gniebuhr
Greg Robertson
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Mark G.E.
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Krystal Hardy
Joel Kopischke
Eric Valverde
Katherine Balsley
Richard Grunert
bkmcgowan
Brooke Maroldi
Kathy Hwang
Bo winther

Thank you so much! and I guarantee you all the money will spend to make this brilliant movie. YES we still need a little more with 6 days left, please help, does not matter how much

http://www.indiegogo.com/YellowHill

Cookie: Life is about taking chances, you might just stepped into a very impoRtant history of film making by supporting us.

Thank you!

Thank you Cary Chan for your kind donation!

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Thank you all!

Thank you Phil Koch, Bo Winther and MikkoTervonen for your kind donations! Your help gets us closer to our goal!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Thank you all!

Wow! A great morning in donations! Thank you Bryan McGowan, Brooke Maroldi and Kathy Hwang! We are getting closer to the amount we need to shoot!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Thank you all!

Man, another great day raising funds! It's looking more and more that we will be doing this film! A big thank you to: Eric Valverde, Katherine Balsley, Krystal Hardy and Joel Kopischke!

Thank you!

Thank you Krystal Hardy for your kind donation!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Monday, April 23, 2012

Thank you!

Today we got in some donations from Mark G.E., Michael Morrow and Greg Robertson. Thank you all for helping make this film happen!

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Thank you!

Thank you Gary Warren Niebuhr for your kind donation!

Thank you!

Thank you Timothy Jamison for your kind donation!

Friday, April 20, 2012

Bai Ling -bio

"Bai Ling" in Chinese means "White Spirit". Bai Ling was born in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province of the Republic of China, on October 10, 1966. Her father was a music teacher, and her mother was a dancer and stage actress, but she was primarily raised by her grandmother after Ling's parents ran afoul of Chinese authorities during the Cultural Revolution.

Bai Ling sang in her school choir as a child. At the age of 14, she was enlisted in the People's Liberation Army to served as an entertainer, singing and dancing for the troops for three years. She also served shortly as an Army nurse. Three years later, she clashed with authority and she was accused of insubordination for using tobacco and alcohol and was hospitalized for depression.

Bai Ling found that she could express herself through acting so after her recovery she joined a theater group in Beijing, where she appeared in traditional Chinese plays as well as dramas from the West. Soon she caught the eye of a number of progressive and traditional Chinese director and began receiving small roles in Chinese films. In 1988, Ling starred in Hu Guang (a.k.a. Arc Light), where she played a woman suffering from mental illness. The next year, she took part in the infamous Tiananmen Square protests, which further alienated her from the Chinese government. When she attended the film's screening at the Moscow Film Festival she was warned not to discuss political matters.

At age 21 Ling traveled to New York City to study at New York University's Department of Film and took classes at the Strasberg Institute. Bai Ling arrived in New York not knowing a word of English, but soon mastered the language through daily immersion. She was issued a special visa and allowed to stay in the United States due to her actions at Tiananmen Square. She mad her American film debut as the villainous Myca in the dark fantasy The Crow (1994). The following year she played a Chinese interpreter in Oliver Stone's Nixon. In 1997 she appeared in Red Corner as a lawyer defending an American journalist (Richard Gere) on assignment in China, although she knew she would suffer repercussions from her participation in the film. Red Corner was banned in China and North Korea, her contracts in upcoming Chinese films canceled, and her passport was revoked. However, the National Board of Review gave her a Breakthrough Performance award; and recieved U.S. citizenship in 1999.

In that same year Bai Ling appeared in Wild Wild West and Anna and the King. She's also been seen in The Beautiful Country (2004), My Baby's Daddy (2004), and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). In 2007 she produced and starred in Shanghai Baby, and closed out the decade by appearing in The Gene Generation (2007), Dim Sum Funeral (2008), Crank:High Voltage (2009), Love Ranch (2010) and Petty Cash. Bai's proudest achievement as an actor was winning the Best Actress award at the Chinese equivalent of the Oscars for the film Dumplings (2004).

Thank you!

Thank you to Leslie Maj for her kind donation!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Thank you!

Thank you to Dennis Fletcher for his kind donation!

Thank you!

Thank you to Patrick Dilloway for his kind donation!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Thank you!

Thank you to Sigmund Seigniou for his kind donation!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Thank you!

A big thank you to piquigny02 for your very kind donation!

Thank you!

A big thank you to Damon J. Tutko for his kind donation!

You can support us to at:
http://www.indiegogo.com/YellowHill?c=home

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Thank you!

A big thank you to Glen Popple for his kind donation!

Thank you!

A big thank you to Todd Sheedlo for his kind donation!

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Thank you!

A big thank you to Cheryl Roloff for her kind donation!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Cast Members - Dan Katula

Dan Katula is scheduled to play Dutch Dalton in the short film.



Dan is a favorite on the Milwaukee stage, an equity actor that has also appeared in the films, Petty Cash and Missed Connections. He is also a member of the comedy group Third Choice Ensemble with director Ross Bigley.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Cast Members - Cyn Dulay

Over the next few days we'll post cast members for the short film, the first one we're announcing is Cyn Dulay who'll portray Mei. Through her production company Stormynight Cyn will serve as one of the Executive Producers for the project.



Cyn's previous credits include: Petty Cash, Stork, Holiday Baggage, Not Another B Movie

Welcome!

This blog was created so that everyone can keep up to date on all the latest news on everything that is Yellow Hill. So, what is Yellow Hill?

Yellow Hill is actually two films: A short film, Yellow Hill: The Stranger's Tale is the first one and introduces Bai Ling's character as she discovers the fate of her father from whom she was separated a decade earlier. The second is a feature film with a epic feel, as Bai Ling protects a group of Chinese settlers from a mob of desperadoes forcing them off their land. Both are a homage to the films of Sergio Leone, but with a modern twist.



To get these films made International film star Bai Ling and writer/director Ross Bigley reteam after working together on the film Petty Cash to form a production company (Yellow Hill Investments LLC) with filmmaker, Glen Popple.

The short film will be executive produced by Stormynight, a Chicago based production company formed by Cyn Dulay and Robert L. Parsons.