In what has become a media battle between the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) who shot a suspected car thief in the Strathcona parking lot across from our film set, and a photographer for The Province, Jason Payne, who was subsequently beat up by police in front of our best boy for photographing the “clean up” operation, we...
Noticed something new on the TALCO front page? Graphic Designer, Photographer, and Fashion Photo Retoucher Christopher Wallace from NYC has released motion graphics for Trounce Alley Lighting Company. In addition to the front splash page, he made a webpage teaser for promotion: If you would like to place the TALCO teaser clip on your...
Yesterday to our great delight, Tony Dean of RED Rad introduced us to veteran key grip — Peter Reynolds — the mastermind behind their RAD Cam. Peter showed us his light-weight aluminum fabricated towers which can suspend the rig overhead in no time to fly a camera affordably. He also offered us use of his...
EMI recording artist Rumi of Clairvoyant Pictures has posted his new music video for the song, “Nevermind” — about an Isreali and a Palestinian romance not to be (until the end of course). The artist wanted a Brooklyn loft style theme to the video so we filmed at the Ironworks building in Gastown which hosts...
As the SAG situation and economy combine to create a slow start to the new year for us in Vancouver, we look towards our next projects…Any takers? At the moment we are passing our time collaborating with Brant McIlroy and Martin Testa of the innovative Brant FX company (their website is being redesigned) on a...
In the vein of the extraordinary NYC documentary Dark Days by Marc Singer with music by DJ Shadow about an entire sub-culture living below the city in abandoned tunnels, I have discovered a local Vancouver documentary by wheel-chair bound director Murray Siple. It’s about homeless men running the gauntlet in shopping carts and presented to us by the NFB. We’re...
We await the second phase of filming Under the Apple Box, a story about a non-muslim photographer who has left a troubled past behind and fled her birthplace of Iran to try to make something of herself in the west — the film appears to be distantly reminiscent of the life story of the director, Ellie...