We planned our world domination strategy with a Terracotta Festival 2012 debrief meeting. The Exec Team met over shanghai dumplings and prawns in salted egg yolk and japanese tofu with mushrooms (dumpling legends is just an awesome place to eat and talk) and mulled over this years proceedings and we already kicked off plans for next years festival.

No, we're not crazy, a year goes by really quickly.

So what next my friends? Arirang is getting a cinema release on June 8th nationwide, so if you missed it at Terracotta Festival, you have another chance.

Part black-comedy, part psychological thriller ENEMY AT THE DEAD END (a.k.a DESIRE TO KILL) is out on DVD in July and we will begin production on it soon. Amazing premise for a film - two guys in a adjacent hospital beds - one man's paralysed, the other killed the paralysed mans wife but has amnesia.

Also been working away on the Hansel & Gretel blu ray release (thanks everyone behind the scenes plugging away on that, you know who you are!). It's looking great with some new extra features as well.

More films from the festival will be getting releases - HIMIZU will be out 1st June via Third Window Films, and we are taking a look at some other titles from the festival to distribute as well.

It's been a busy and exciting edition of Terracotta Festival this year - here's a round up of what's happened:

MY WAY opened the festival with a spectacular epic WW2 story that stretched from Asia, to Russia, to the beaches of Normandy.

Director Guo Xiaolu (She, A Chinese) gave a wonderful Masterclass on directing films without a budget.

We tried out new Xinjiang restaurant on Lisle St - Wulumuchi - and were hooked on the lamb dumplings with spicy sauce! Wulumuchi was part of the 8 restaurant food pass that we introduced this year (8 meals for £60!).

POPPY HILL was sold out and there were long long queues to get in.

TERROR COTTA horror night was close to sell out and we laid on three Korean surprise short films in between our advertised programme, one of which was a Terracotta team effort with actress Kim Kkobbi! We also showed a trailer for our upcoming release FAIRY TALE KILLER.

We met the Taiwanese Ambassador with lead actor Da Ching before SEEDIQ BALE and people got free BUBBLE TEA! thanks to Bubbleology, and free mochi thanks to Taipec.

The party was rammed and we had food and drinks provided thanks to Taiwan Representatives Office.

More food the next day in the form of kimbap during our inaugural Breakfast Club - two gentle Korean comedies to ease you into Sunday.

Toshiaki Toyoda (Monsters Club, Blue Spring) held a Masterclass on directing.

HIMIZU won the Audience Award 2012 and legendary actor Denden was present to accept the award.

We packed up and went home, and already started thinking about next year....

If you have pictures or stories from the festival, or suggestions from next year, don't forget to either post comments here, or tag #terracotta12 @terracotta_dist on twitter or post to the Facebook group: /terracottafestival

This coming weekend, Terracotta Festival plays hosts to four guest stars:

* Japanese legendary actor, and national treasure, Denden for HIMIZU
* 'She, A Chinese' director and novelist Guo Xiaolu for UFO IN HER EYES
* Rising star Da Ching, actor from Taiwan, for SEEDIQ BALE
* Controversial director Toshiaki Toyoda for MONSTERS CLUB

The guests will host Q&A's after their films and also separate Masterclasses.

For more info on the guests: http://terracottafestival.com/guests

Our guests fly courtesy of KLM and AIR FRANCE, our Official Airlines Partner.

The excellent frightfest ezine this month features an article on what makes Asian Horror work and is a MUST READ for film students of the genre.
There is also a preview of Terracotta Festival 2012 and following the ezine going live, the surge in traffic to the Terracotta Fest site has caused us to crash for a bit too! Big up frightfest!

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/FrightFesteMagazine/emagizinegateway.html

There has been a huge surge in interest in Terracotta Festival 2012 and our website crashed this afternoon due to a huge jump in traffic - we attribute this partly due to the bank holiday meaning everyone was surfing the net on maundy Thursday afternoon and finally getting round to booking tickets; partly due to the issue of the Fright Fest ezine, who we are partnering with on the TERROR COTTA HORROR MOVIE MARATHON!
Don't be er... scared off, our site will be back online soon!

Off to our press screening of MY WAY, claimed to be the most expensive Korean film made to date. By the director of Taegukgi: Brotherhood, Kang Je-kyu.

Set across Asia and Europe during World War 2, it features a stellar cast: Jang Dong-gun, Joe Odagiri, Fan Bing Bing.

Note the festival screening time change from 18.20 to 20.35 start on Thursday 12th April.

http://terracottafestival.com/films/2012/my-way

check out our festival trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHVsfJy9GwE

Terracotta Festival 2012 full-line up is already on the website (www.TerracottaFestival.com) and this year we are pleased to introduce two new strands: the TERROR COTTA HORROR MOVIE MARATHON and the BREAKFAST CLUB.

The Horror Movie Marathon is an astounding triple bill of Asian Horror starting with The Grudge to ease you in gently. We then let lose with our selection of: short films, the Asian Movie Quiz, Costume Mayhem competition, and two premieres - the International Premiere of the Junji Ito anime adaption of GYO (fish grow legs and attack Okinawa) and the UK Premiere of ZOMBIE 108 (a special effects laden Taiwan zombie blockbuster).

The Breakfast Club on Sunday is the perfect antidote to a hard nights partying at our Official Party on Saturday night. Relax with two very appealing comedies from Korea, COUPLES and DANCING QUEEN and enjoy some Kimbap too!

For full details: www.TerracottaFestival.com

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Tickets are on sale now for Terracotta Festival 2012.

You can see the full-line up of this years festival here: http://terracottafestival.com/films/2012

New for this year - the Breakfast Club!
A Sunday morning double-bill is just what you need after partying hard the night before at our Official Party.
Come and watch a Korean double bill and ease gently into Sunday.

New for this year - the TERROR COTTA HORROR MOVIE MARATHON
We dare you to watch our Horror Triple Bill. and it's not just a film-athon. There's quizzes and a dressing up competition and lots of horrific prizes to be won!

Don't forget, Early Bird passes are only £55 for 13 films until Sunday 18th (prices go up on Monday 19th).

Early bird Terracotta Festival Passes are on sale now.

£55 for 13 films

Price goes up to £60 on Monday 19th.

With a festival pass you get your own reserved seat throughout the festival.

note: Festival Pass excludes TERROR COTTA HORROR NIGHT which is sold separately.

http://www.princecharlescinema.com/indexreview.php?display=1979