Kaoru Tozaki WangDirector.Producer.Writer

Been studying up on John Trubby’s Anatomy of Story Telling. He’s anti Syd Field and believes the 3-Act Structure of storytelling is for amateurs.

I’m in East Berlin till the 26th and have lots to update. Having tons of fun here. An amazing culture has arisen after the infamous fall of the Berlin wall. After its fall the city was abandoned, anarchy ensued and a new culture blossomed. Lots of creatives here doing their own thing. Yes, I’ve met my fair share of “entrepre-tenders”(another term I’ve heard is ego-preneur) but still- it’s bubbling with creativity. After shooting 3 months at the democratic school “Brooklyn Free School” (some would call it edu-punk), Berlin is sorta perfect.

Interview with Dr. Arist von Hehn, Co-founder of Teach First Deutchland

Have the privilege to experience George Lucas’ idyllic locale located in the rolling green hills of Lucas Valley. Thanks to my buddy, Lee Hirsch whose movie, “The Bully Project” is premiering at the end of the month at Tribeca, I get to experience some of their magic. Hoping to arrange the sound mix for “The Killer App” here.

FYI they have the most amazing blueberry muffins here and they have their own fire department! I set off the fire alarm on my first day here.  How embarrassing….

Teaching myself a new skill and hope to be able to figure out how to do something like this one day. The learning never stops…

TRI▲NGLE from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

The earthquake that hit Japan on Friday created tsunami waves ten meters high, washing away boats, cars and houses in coastal areas north of Tokyo. Scientists recorded the magnitude of the earthquake at 8.9 making it the fifth largest earthquake since nineteen hundred. The prime minister is quoted saying, “Japan is experiencing its biggest crisis since World War II.”

It’s feeling all to apocalyptic to me. Haiti felt like just yesterday. When I turn on the news, it’s like I can’t keep straight if the flooding is in Pakistan, Austraila, Brazil…. its all too much. Here’s what I do know- in face of such tragedy, I am so proud of the Japanese people. There are no reported murders or robberies. As wrecked as the grocery stores may be, people are lining up, waiting their turn, paying for their groceries- if they don’t have money they work it out…

3 million people have been displaced out of their homes in Japan and over 10,000 are still missing. People are out of food, water, oil, etc. My dear friend, Mayu Kawata set up a donation page. Please consider donating by clicking here or clicking here for donations of 1000 Yen ($12) or up. Thank you.

DAD,

Are you ok??? How’s everything look over there? What’s happening?

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Power just came back on.

Viola (our dog) and I are fine.

Books were flying off the shelves and Viola’s bucket of water spilled all over the kitchen.

Otherwise everything is alright.

Think they got emergency vehicles to the nuclear plant in Fukushima to work the cooling pumps in time, otherwise we’ll have a nuclear meltdown.

The main quake hit the northern part of Japan, but the fault stretched all the way to Chiba.

That’s why it was felt so hard all the way over here in Yokohama.

There were secondary quakes felt every 5 minutes for hours.

Needed to put Viola on the bed with me to keep her from howling.

So we’re fine; nothing to worry about.

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Yokatta ne~~ glad you’re alright…

You still shaking? All over?

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Well, I’m shaking only because the whole house is shaking.
It was quite during the night, but just a moment ago there was a earthquake alert issued in the Tokyo, Yokohama region as well.
In Japan, they have this emergency system which gives a 20-30 second warning before a big one hits, and that was just issued a few minutes ago.
Viola and I braced ourselves (dumped Viola’s bucket out) but nothing happened. Whew!

I think I’ll stay in bed with Viola until things settle down.
Ritsuko’s SECOM warning lamp went off early this morning and 2 cops came to investigate, but they found nothing wrong.

Whoops….another warning was just issued, not in our region but in Niigata.

Residents around the nuclear plant have been asked to evacuate, so we’re still not out of the woods there.
Brazil may find they have an unwanted reactor exported from Japan (“China syndrome”).

“I don’t believe the film or filmmaker is broker and needs to be fixed. That approach is disempowering to the filmmaker, and it would be quite arrogant of me to think I have the answer. I assume the film is what it needs to be at this very moment for the filmmaker to learn something and move on. All documentaries have the potential to be better than they were if the filmmaker is willing to dive in. Not every film will be great, but everyone- film and person- can be transformed.”

Touche.