SPOTLIGHT ON...... Vancouver Island Events,
Festivals
and Opportunities for YEAR 2002-2003
New
studio opens in Sooke: Bluescreen Studio
has produced their first Internet video. It is a promotional video for a Water's
Edge B&B, a local waterfront resort. Other productions are a VHS broadcast
quality documentary on water quality monitoring for the Ministry of Environment,
and . Adam Dobres (at left) recorded the choir from Belmont Highschool at the
studio in June 2001.
Sooke Film Society: "TALENT 2001" was a great success! The winner of the demo video recording session was Nick Rees for his original drum solo. Criteria for selection was:
1. Original performance
or composition
2. Professionalism in movement and stage presence
3. Desire
to pursue a career in performing
Congratulations Nick! Look for
a streaming video of Nick on this site soon.
Second
Annual Film, Video & New Media Festival: Victoria
"Bread", winning entry at last years' Filmfest 2000 is announcing another web premiere for "Bread", created by Annahid Dashtgard, Angela Hemming, Kate Hennessy and Roger Howard at the Gulf Islands Film and TV School. Check it out and give us a rating. Thanks! It can be found at: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/skeletons/film_detail/0,1263,422216,00.html warning: may induce pangs of hunger and sudden urges for homemade bread....
At left, Linda Gordon at the information booth at the Flower & Garden Show at Royal Roads in June. Posters for the August Filmfest, Comic Book and Fantasy Convention were handed out.
British Columbia Film has announced the following
information:
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL MARKET CALL FOR APPLICATIONS British Columbia
Film will provide support for up to four producers to attend the Cannes Film Festival
Market in Cannes, France from May 9-19, 2001. For more information, guidelines
and application forms, please go to http://www.bcfilm.bc.ca/programs/market/passport.html
BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASES:
2001-2002 PASSPORT TO MARKETS GUIDELINES AND SITE LIST RELEASED British Columbia Film has released the 2001-2002 Passport to Markets Guidelines and Site List. Changes this year include an increase in the number of overall sites, including a limited number of film festivals. For more information, or to download the guidelines, application form or complete site list, please go to http://www.bcfilm.bc.ca/programs/market/passport.html
Locations Photo
Contest
LOCATION REQUEST... do you have this
property?
We are a production company in advertising and we are seeking for locations to shoot a commercial. Our location should be a very beautiful, old and wild, almost subtropical forest, with big trees (a combination of pine and leaf trees can be perfect), very green and very mossy, rich and lively. The shooting shoot be the 7th and the 8th of June. We should shoot 1 day in the forest and 1 day on a location with an industrial-business city/harbour (?) on the background. So the forest can not be to far away from a possible second location. It would be an excellent idea to send us some photos to give us an impression of the possibilities before starting precise location hunting. Can we ask you to specify the area where the photos are shot, the name of the forest or the city in the neighbourhood, so here in Brussels, we can follow on a map which place these fabulous pictures are coming from. In attachment i send you some visual references that give an idea of the atmosphere and the feeling we are searching for in the commercial. hope to hear you soon and thanks a lot, pieter verhoeven PRODUCER
Or, this one: We are scouting locations for
a movie to be shot in the next 18 months. Please send your Film Production Guide
information to the following addresses Karalee Dawn C/O B/BB 150 West 46th Street
Suite 700 New York, NY 10036
Julian Stone Grapple Films 12739 Deon Place
Granada Hills, CA 91344
Find
out what media is in production:
Listing of
IATSE Union Productions from
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 891
COMMUNITY EVENTS
The year 2002
has been declared "The International
Year of Ecotourism" by the United Nations. In recognition
of this, the Sooke Film Society is co-sponsoring a Eco-Tourism video to feature
Vancouver Island as a world class destination. Videographers wishing to submit
footage in DV format, contact the
Juan de Fuca Community Futures office at 250 642-1510.
Location Request:
Looking
for a location? Perfect "Haunted House" Miramax Mini-Series!!
Need romantic
Victorian Style 2 or 3 story Farmhouse. Needs to look deserted ( no visible neighbors),
not urban, room to land helicopter in yard. Lots of trees around, hill or large
rock bluff behind for star viewing, should be able to look down on house. Rooms
in house need to be large with high ceilings in order to play scenes plus room
for camera & crew. In addition to the actual size - rooms that open on one another
visually - to provide both physical shooting space and visual openness. Wide passages
between rooms - living rooms opening widely to dinning rooms etc. Space to swing
lots of cats. Good square-walled roof for better lighting and space. ( not sloping
roof ) Contact Vancouver Island Film Association rep: Mel Dobres mel@film.bc.ca
Props: for crystal balls, wizard and chakra balls, prisms and other mystical props, contact: Cosmic Canada
Movie Mondays
and the The REEL MADNESS FILM FESTIVAL
I thought this might be an opportunity for you and your membership. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Kamala and I am the founder of NuReel.com. We are hosting our first online contest for current and aspiring film professionals. I would like to encourage those of you who are interested in pitching a project to our panel of judges, to enter the Big Tease Contest. All of our judges are accomplished professionals in the film and television industries who are in positions to assist people in moving to the next stage with their proposed project, whatever stage that may be. We have a director, a writer, an editor, a development executive, an agent, and a film funder who are committed to reviewing the entries. (Some of their current and former employers include Norman Lear, Aaron Spelling, Fox, CBS, CAA, and NYU Film School.) It does not matter if you are at the idea stage or ready to go to market. I cannot guarantee that the judge will love your pitch, but I will guarantee that at least one of them will review your pitch, IF YOU ENTER. We are accepting open entries through February 14, 2001. If you need assistance polishing your entry, we have a team of seasoned editors and writers, who have been working successfully in the Biz for over 10 years, who are available to assist you in perfecting your presentation. The first round of entries will be written, then semifinalists will have the opportunity to publish a synopsis or video teaser on the NuReel.com web site. Contestants will be judged by the level of INNOVATION, INTRIGUE, or HIGH EMOTIONAL IMPACT. The winners will be highlighted in our marketing campaign to include off-line theatrical screening and print advertisements. There is an entry fee to cover administrative costs, but the return on investment will make it worthwhile. After all, how much would it cost you to get in front of someone with influence and/or launch a marketing campaign on your own? check out NuReel.com’s Big Tease Contest. http://www.nureel.com To find out more about the contest go to: http://www.keaproductions.com/bigtease2/conover.cfm OR go directly to the entry form at: http://www.keaproductions.com/bigtease2/btstart.cfm If you have any questions or need any assistance, please feel free to email me at kamala@nureel.com. Good luck! Kamala Appel kamala@nureel.com http://www.nureel.com fax 510.836.8987
.... and now for a LOOK BACK at some recent events:
Locations and props photocontest!
Movies
come to Sooke!
A look at Robbie
Burns Night Feb2001
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NON -FLASH
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And If
you have the FLASH "Shockwave" plug in and a quick connection, have
a look at this!
These
guys are the PROS, and show how it GOES!!
YES!
SOOKEFEST rocked!
Adam Dobres
is perfoming around Vancouver Island.. call for details: 642-6142
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Register YOUR property as a film or video location!
The British Columbia Film Commission is now accepting photofiles
of property suitable for media locations. The Sooke Film Society is making selected
locations available on the Internet, as well as advising on how to compile a photofile
for submission. Email SFS for
more info
If you are using a public internet terminal, your email option may
not work. If this is the case, phone: 642-6745
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