New commercial for Chereine Royal will be aired in Hong Kong
"Color Confused" Android Game Release
Color Confused by Sticky Apps will be released in May 2015
"No Extras" @ Toronto Beach Film Festival and Palm Springs Short Film Festival
No Extras has been selected and will be screened at Toronto Beach Film Festival and Palm Springs Short Film Festival
"Bicycle Dreams" @ 55th ZLÍN FEST and Filem'ON 2015
Bicycle Dreams will be screened at the 55th International Zlín Film Festival for Children and Youth at Zlín, Czech Republic, and the 2015 Filem'On International Film Fest for Young Audiences at Brussels, Belgium.
"Full-Windsor" @ Festivals
FULL-WINDSOR has been selected to screen at the following national and international film festivals:
Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, QC Canada) - Aug. 21 - Sep. 1, 2014
Urbanworld Film Festival (New York, NY) - Sep. 17 - 21, 2014
Chicago International Film Festival (Chicago, IL) - Oct. 9 - 23, 2014
Tallgrass Film Festival (Wichita, KS) - Oct. 18 - 21, 2014
Austin Film Festival (Austin, TX) - Oct. 23 - 30, 2014
Anchorage International Film Festival (Anchorage, AK) - Dec. 5 - 14, 2014
Cleveland International Film Festival (Cleveland, OH) - March 18 - 29, 2015
Vail Film Festival (Vail, CO) - March 26 - 29, 2015
Athens International Film Festival (Athens, OH) - April 3 - 9, 2015
Sarasota Film Festival (Sarasota, FL) - April 10 - 19, 2015
Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD) - May 6 - 10, 2015
Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, WA) May 14 - June 7, 2015
Los Angeles Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) June 10 - June 22, 2015
Runner-up @ Scorbit Game Scoring Contest
Ian's submission was selected as runner-up at Scorbit's 2014 Game Scoring Contest.
"Time Square Suite" Top 5 @ MOFILM: Barcelona 2014
TIME SQUARE SUITE commercial for PS4's new game inFAMOUS Second Son was given 4th place at the 2014 MOFILM Barcelona competition.
“Blue Room” Reviewed in The New York Times
“...He later returned with Ms. Demyanenko for the first half of “Blue Room.” Mr.O’Connor’s lighting transformed the stage to a fiery orange-red. But even so, the temperature of “Blue Room,” set to spare music by Nick Brooke and Ian Chen, remained coolly minimal...”
Blue Room had a successful world premiere at New York Live Arts on Feb. 13-15, 2014. Here’s a review article written by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/arts/dance/elena-demyanenko-and-dai-jian-collaborate.html
A version of this review appears in print on February 17, 2014, on page C2 of the New York edition with the headline: Disparate Backgrounds but a Common Thread.
“Blue Room” US Premiere @ New York Live Arts
February 13-15, 2013, 7:30pm
New York Live Arts
219 W 19th Street
New York, NY
$20 general admission
A multi-media duet exploring relationship, Blue Room is a collaboration between Chinese artist Dai Jian and Russian-born Elena Demyanenko, recent alumni of Trisha Brown Dance Company. This evening of individual and paired works will unfold as a dialogue through myriad possible intricate and detailed existences. Two independent mind-bodies with different backgrounds, behaviors, languages and cultures suture together, provoking a third presence unique to each performance.
Sound Score: Ian Chen
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“The Trail From Xinjiang” @ Big Sky, The Phoenix Video Documentary Award
THE TRAIL FROM XINJIANG just finished screenings at The 2nd Phoenix Video Documentary Award. The film will be screened at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on February 16, 2014 at 3pm.
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