bc filmakers
Kickstarter’ Gives You a Way to Invest in Arts Projects: Chris Cannon wants to make a mockumentary, so he’s pitching the idea online to potential backers.
Chris Cannon wants to make a hit series, and who doesn’t? But unlike you and me, he’s tapped into a major source of potential funding — you and me. It’s called Kickstarter, an online platform for pitching your arts project idea and, if people respond generously, rounding up the cash needed to get it going. [...]
Terry Fox, Emily Carr films at VIFF
Canadian filmmakers have turned the lens on local heroes in the 2010 lineup for the Vancouver International Film Festival, opening Thursday. Steve Nash, in his first film outing, spotlights Terry Fox in his documentary, Michael Ostroff focuses on artist Emily Carr and Douglas Arrowsmith examines singer Ron Sexsmith. “It’s really a year where a lot [...]
At the Vancouver film fest, even the trailers are art
In a world (continue in deep, breathy big-screen voice-over) where trailers are more than introductions to movies, where intelligent, engaged filmgoers demand more from their pre-film cinema experience than your average 60-second promotional spot, one festival stands alone. This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival promises innovation not just in the features, documentaries and shorts it [...]
Two Metro Vancouver residents shortlisted for YouTube exhibit in New York
Two Metro Vancouver residents have beat out more than 23,000 other applicants to be shortlisted for a coming video exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Submissions by Nicole Duquette of Richmond and Sterling Pache of Vancouver are among the 125 shortlisted videos for the YouTube Play exhibit on Oct. 21. Duquette’s video [...]
Vancouver festival to show 30 B.C. films
The Vancouver International Film Festival has released its showcase of Canadian film, including 30 titles made in British Columbia. VIFF opens Sept. 30 with Barney’s Version, the film based on the Mordecai Richler novel of the same name about a lovable curmudgeon played by Paul Giamatti. Score: A Hockey Musical also gets the gala treatment along [...]
Port Alberni: After 10 years, Alberni film fest fades to black
After 10 years and more than 100 films—one-third of them Canadian-made—the Alberni Valley’s film fest series has wrapped up for good. But not by choice. Landmark Cinemas, which leases the Paramount Theatre where film fest movies are screened has pulled the festival’s show time—traditionally the third Wednesday of the month, at 7 p.m. Instead, they’ve [...]
Nanaimo: Brugge’s talents behind the camera putting him in spotlight
Before Devyn Brugge could write, he was making mock radio broadcasts on a Playskool tape deck. Flash forward several years and he was making home videos on the family video camera. Then the Wellington Secondary School graduate took a video production class in Grade 9 and his interest in film soared to new heights. Brugge [...]
Vancouver: Documentary Filmmakers Turn to Community to Complete the Story
Vancouver-based documentary filmmakers are harnessing the power of the crowd to engage people and communities in completing With Glowing Hearts; a film about how social media enables people to create positive social change. -wghthemovie.ca The film’s four interwoven storylines document the challenges and triumphs of people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the lead up and [...]
Vancouver: Screenwriting guru shares his wisdom, Syd Field offers advice culled from over four decades in Hollywood
The Screenwriters Summit Where: Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Hotel, 655 Burrard St. When: Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $395, call 1-800-814-0544 Info: www.ScreenwritersSummit.com Everybody seems to have written a screenplay. And odds are they’ve picked up Syd Field’s book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, to find out just exactly how it’s done. [...]
Pixar Artists Masterclass Coming to Vancouver: Unique workshop teaches insider tips & tricks
Artists from Pixar Animation Studios will be presenting a unique Masterclass in Animation & Story Development on September 24/25th in Vancouver, Canada. This exceptional 2-day event takes place at the Simon Fraser University, with instructors Animator Andrew Gordon and Story Artist Matthew Luhn, both of Pixar. This masterclass has toured the world, this being one [...]
Surrey: Sanghera’s Music Waves expands into movies
For the past two decades, Kulwinder Sanghera has been a cultural icon in the Metro Vancouver Punjabi community. His company, Music Waves, records, manages and distributes Punjabi-language music artists. Since beginning operation in early 2006, Red FM, the radio station he runs out of a Surrey industrial park, has grown from 15 to 39 employees. [...]
Vancouver: The skinny on shorts
In Paul Armstrong’s utopia, short films would be projected on the screens of main theatres. People would be jostling to see them and the majority of Vancouverites could name their three favourites. Reality is a bit different, but it’s something the short film producer has been working to change for more than 10 years. “I [...]
