Vancouver Actor's Guide Newsletter - December 15 2014
Published: Mon, 12/15/14
This will be the final Vancouver Actor's Guide newsletter for 2014. For updates on industry news during the next few weeks, please visit our Facebook Page. The weekly newsletter will return on January 12, 2015.
INDUSTRY NEWS
B.C. FILM, VIDEO-GAME INDUSTRIES FLY
HIGH, FALL HARD BEFORE STAGING COMEBACK
In the past 25 years, two trades that represent the most lucrative entertainment industries in Vancouver, video games and film/television, experienced rises (one meteoric, the other steady), then falls, before levelling off in 2014.
The community has spoken, and STORYHIVE, a community-powered funding program from Telus, has announced the 15 winning projects to receive $10,000 grants.
ACTOR JANET SUZMAN CRITICISED FOR CALLING THEATRE ‘A WHITE INVENTION’
One of Britain’s most distinguished actors sparked controversy on Monday by claiming that “theatre is a white invention” and it is in the DNA of white
people, but not of other people
'BRIGHT STAR': VANCOUVER-BORN DANCER, TV PERSONALITY KILLED IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the bodies of Stephanie Elyse Moseley, 30,
and her husband, rapper Earl Hayes, 34, were found in a room in their apartment building just after 7:30 a.m. Monday.
THE VOICE OF DORA THE EXPLORER, FATIMA PTACEK, IS A BUSY TEENAGER
As the voice of the cross-cultural cartoon icon Dora the Explorer, Fátima Ptacek, 14, spends her week racing from classes at Avenues: The World
School, in Chelsea, to Hyperbolic Audio studios in Midtown, where she tapes Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer.”
Casting people to play apes can be a
refreshing change of pace, but “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” casting director Debra Zane had to ask some questions before she could dive in.
DIALECT COACHING | TONY ALCANTAR Hollywood producers trust Tony Alcantar with their stars: Oscar-winners Halle Berry, Billy-Bob Thornton plus A-list stars Stellan Skarsgard, Sam
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OUR ACTORS LEARN BY DOING. New Image College has one of the finest acting film acting programs in the country. We are a project based school. Our curriculum includes, Stunt Acting, Acting for T.V. and Film , Theatre, Text Analysis, Actors Movement, Voice. Our Core Acting Classes Methodologies are: Meisner,
Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Moss, Cohen, Lewis, Adler, and Chubbuck. What makes our program different is we produce both theatre and film. Everyone of our students are tested on a film set and on the theatre stage.
THE
SHORTEST DAY 2014 December 21 The three programs of entertaining and humorous Canadian shorts screening in our Vancouver celebration include many award-winners, festival picks, and audience favourites. Among the selections are the Oscar nominees The Cat Came Back and My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, the Oscar winner The Danish Poet, and the great NFB classic The Sweater. http://www.thecinematheque.ca/the-shortest-day-2014
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