Newsletter Number 6 of Jean Jacques Velicitat Professional Actor January 2551 Hello , and Happy New Year 2008 ! It's Jean Jacques Velicitat professional actor based in Bangkok.. For most of you, You have been reading this Newsletter for one year already. For the new one, I hope you agree it is a good way to know me and my work better. Again, I invite you to have a look on my website: http://jj.velicitat.free.fr/ You will find my profile and all the pictures you need to help you during your work.

I hope everything is fine for you in the beginning of the new year, 2008. Unfortunately, the screenwriters strike in Hollywood at the end of last year has had repercussions on our work in Thailand too. As with other professionals, I have been directly affected.

Prior to the strike, I was in contact for an American movie named " Majik " with Living film production. For the moment this movie has been suspended. But in every situation, I try to see the good side of things. During this casting, I had a great time and I met a number of very nice people. For example, working with khun Vim from Tiger Monkey was a pleasure.

They have a very creative and professional casting crew . I was also very pleased to meet the American director Mark Hammond, and the producer Chris Lowenstein from Living film. I invite you to discover their site at : http://www.livingfilms.com/

I will let you know in the next Newsletter whether this project will be able to be made in the next few months.

You have been reading my Newsletter for one year now. I hope you agree it is a good way to know me and my work better. Again, I invite you to have a look on my website: http://jj.velicitat.free.fr/ You will find my profile and all the pictures you need to help you during your casting.

So let's have now a look at my work… The Professional News:

First, after shooting in three Thai TV series this year, including "Poussom Fao Sap", " Rak Tei Seiplai "and " Wen Dook May ", I will now play a teacher in " Ne Mit Man " Dream of a knife ghost directed by khun Noum for channel 3 .

It was a great challenge for me to work in Thai, and I was very pleased

to be able to do it after only one year of living in Bangkok. Although my Thai is still not perfect, I try to improve it every day. One of my professional goals for the year is a project to go back to school and learn how to read and write in Thai.

For the last three month I have done a number of TV commercials, including " Internet High Speed" for Hong Kong with Phenomena at : http://www.pheno.com/ " Coffee Mate" for Thailand with Matching Studio at : http://www.matchingstudio.com/ and "Camay Soap" for Libano with Taprod at : http://www.taprod.net

Finally, the movie " First Flight " directed by Khun Thanit Jitnukul will be on screen at the end of this month . I was pleased to participate on this movie, coaching the actors during the post production for the French pronunciation. Good luck for the premiere and I invite you to discover their website at : http://www.firstflightmovie.com/

You can find two of my other movies, "Muay Thai Chaiya" and "Crocs", available in the dvd rental shop now.

Thanks for reading my newsletter.

That's all for this time and "Enjoy the present day".

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