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The Higgins, “Free Like Love”

Factoring in 41 years of inflation since Woodstock ’69 LOVE has somehow managed to stay free in Canada suggests, The Higgins, in their first single from their second album, Dreamers Like us, which is scheduled for release in Spring 2010. Official music video for “Free Like Love” by The Higgin....

Steadycam: Brandon Paris Band, “Can’t Hate You”

Beach fun at Burnaby Lake — Director Mitch Bax of Monument Pictures completes a choreographed music video for Brandon Paris Band. The song ‘Can’t Hate You,’ plays out entirely in four steadycam takes operated by Pieter Stathis with cinematography by Randy Che. We rigged the house with MSE (modern) pipe spreaders to keep our movie lights...

New design maintains indy filmmaking spirit

In an effort to gain more clients we are in the process of developing our website into a blog format. This will allow us to have more fun with the site and post announcements, tidbits of media surrounding our projects, or other press releases. The world of internet technology is changing so rapidly that...

LARGE or SMALL? TALCO adapts

We have taken on projects with first time filmmakers & academy award winning directors alike, on all size productions ranging from self-funded “passion projects” and music videos, to high-end commercials and feature length films supported by investors and distribution.

The Higgins “Second Hand Car” posted

Award winning director Stephano Barberis posts  facebook notes on several music videos, including one we did with his production company Arkadia Pictures, for a country music video artist trio – The Higgins. UPDATE 2009:  The video has been disabled for embedding (probably by the label) UPDATE 2010:  It’s been reposted in HD and can be embedded...

TALCO learns from EUROPE/COMMERCIALS

Taking a streamlined approach from the commercials world and utilizing small crews of highy skilled technicians we combine lighting and gripping as the Europeans do, allowing us to create the hollywood result in North America at a fraction of the expense and without the usual bloated heirarchy, accounting, and other complications of a typical...