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Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles I’m writing for Life As A Human. Please check out the full article over there. In my last article I mentioned that I wrote the short film version of Curtains for an application to a film program. That program is called Film 5, and is put on through AFCOOP, a film co-operative in [...]
Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles I’m writing for Life As A Human. Please check out the full article over there. Creating something — whether it be art, music, literature, a new company, a product that you want to sell on the interweb to make your million — happens in two distinct phases. In the first you, and [...]
Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles I’m writing for Life As A Human. Please check out the full article over there. I’m making a movie. That’s something I never thought I’d say! Who am I to make a movie? Who do I think I am? I never attended film school. I don’t know anyone [...]
(View the full article at Life As A Human.) When the Day Breaks (9 min 40 s) by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, came out in 1999. After witnessing a horrible accident, Ruby struggles to find connections to the world around her. All of the characters in When the Day Breaks are animals, including a [...]
(View the full article at Life As A Human.) Mike Duff was a Canadian motorcycle racer in the 60s. He shattered his hip in Japan and had major surgery to repair it. His recovery and return to racing was captured by Robin Spry in the 1966 documentary Ride for Your Life (9 min 40 s). [...]
(You can view the full article at Life As A Human.) I’m currently doing a road trip across Canada (you can check out my adventures here). This is giving me lots of time to not only drive, but think about driving. And about some of the weird things people do when driving. I visited my [...]
(View the full article at Life As A Human.) Runaway is a short animated film set to music by Ben Charest (you may know him from Triplets of Belleville. And if you don’t, you should go rent it right now!), about a train ride that goes horribly wrong. Director Cordell Barker has done a few [...]
(View the full article at Life As A Human.) How do you all feel about gift cards? I have a love/hate relationship with them. On the one hand, they’re pretty handy to pick up as a present for people who you’re supposed to shop for but don’t know that well. New friends, coworkers, secret Santas. [...]
(View full article at Life As A Human) Okay, I admit it. I was really hungry when I went looking for this week’s film. So I typed “chocolate” in the National Film Board’s (NFB’s) search, and only one film came up. One? I thought. They should make many, many more! After watching How Do They [...]
(Read the full article at Life As A Human.) Let me set the scene for you. It’s summer 2001. I’ve just moved to Vancouver in (what turns out to be a failed) attempt to do some higher education stuff. After rent and damage deposits and tuition and bus passes I’m totally broke. Like I can’t [...]
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