BC film
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 [...]
Penticton: Filmmakers focus on First Voices
Two graduates from the En’owkin Centre are part of a major documentary film project, exploring the creative efforts B.C. First Nations communities are making to preserve their languages for the future. Megan Fortier and Bracken Hanuse Corlett helped produce the first segment for a new series on the Knowledge Network. Our First Voices is a [...]
Project questions Castlegar connections
Exploring community identity in Castlegar is the subject of a local filmmaker’s latest project. Using both photography and dubbing sounds over the film, Rachel Schmidt is planning to talk to residents and put together a piece that will hopefully provide some answers. “Castlegar seems to be a bit spread out,” said Schmidt who completed high [...]
HST to benefit B.C. film industry
While the negative impacts of the HST have garnered much attention, Ken Ghag, executive director for commodity tax at Ernst & Young, told the Straight that the film and television industries will benefit from the taxation change. Ghag, who has conducted three HST seminars for the film industry, explained by phone that film-production companies—as well [...]
Vancouver: Festival goes beyond Bollywood: Organizers want mainstream audiences to dig South Asian filmmaking
Actors Agam Darshi and Patricia Isaac want to broaden the mainstream view of South Asian film artists, and they’re putting their own money behind that aim. The pair, who became friends on film sets over the years, spent the past two years working to establish the one-day Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival. “It’s finally [...]
Williams Lake: Arts Wells film launched in lakecity
The first public showing of the new documentary Arts Wells – The Festival of All Things Art was held in the Gibraltar Room Friday evening. There were two opening acts performing before the film and a bit of an introduction with director Dan Williams and interviewer Carmen Mutschele. The event was sponsored by the Williams [...]
Kelowna: More screenings than ever at Okanagan Film Festival
The Okanagan Film Festival found itself in an unusual position in this its 13th year. When the calls for submissions went out, the festival organizers were inundated with responses and a record number of submissions. “We are definitely on the international scene,” said Jason Woodford, the festival president. Of the 200 to 300 submissions received, [...]
Tofino’s for the birds: Movie could put surfers’ haven on ornithological tourism map
Greg Miller blurts out a classic movie line — “I’ll be back!” — as he saunters down the Fourth Street dock as another sunny day of filming The Big Year gets underway. “I’ve never been on a movie set before,” the jovial birding guide from Sugarcreek, Ohio, says. “This place is fabulous.” Miller was hired [...]
Project development fund and New digital media development fund now open for applications
The British Columbia Film Project Development Fund provides ‘market triggered’ development financing for individual projects. A non-recoupable advance, matching up to 50% of the eligible triggering agent commitment is available. Applicants must be British Columbia owned and controlled production companies. International treaty or interprovincial co-productions are eligible under this program. For more information, please visit [...]
Leo Awards honour those behind-the-scenes
On Friday night, 41 Leo Awards were handed out to the technicians and craftspeople behind the top film and television productions in our province. While lacking the botox-injected glamour of the red carpet Gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday (June 5), the Celebration Awards Ceremony was a laidback affair befitting the people whose keen eyes and [...]
B.C. film industry readies for 2010 Leos
B.C. actors, producers and directors should make the most of networking opportunities at the annual Leo Awards this week, according to the event’s associate producer. The Leos honour the best in B.C. television and film production with 76 award categories that range from best feature length drama to best sound editing to best costume design. [...]
