By Iain Blair 

Went to meet Chinese-American director Wayne Wang who has two new films coming out - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, winner of four prizes at the San Sebastian Film Festival, including a Golden Shell for Best Film for Wang and a Silver Shell for Best Actor for star Henry O, and Princess of Nebraska. After some big studio films like Last Holiday, Because of Winn-Dixie, and Maid in Manhattan (which starred Jlo), he’s gone back to lower budget films and more personal, intimate filmmaking. And echoing the YouTube release of No End In Sight, Wang’s Princess of Nebraska will be released exclusively on line, he told me.

“It’s very exciting and also perfect for the film as we shot it with a small digital camera. I used a Panasonic DVR consumer camera and it’s the most popular camera used in Iraq as it’s very high quality, small and very flexible. We even shot inside a very popular, crowded mall, and we didn’t have permission or permits, but it wasn’t a problem as the camera’s so small.” Wang told me that online releasing “will probably be the next big thing – for all kinds of movies. It’s really the future now.”

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