Vancouver Actor's Guide Newsletter - January 12, 2015
Published: Mon, 01/12/15
INDUSTRY NEWS
BOYHOOD, MOMMY WIN TOP PRIZES WITH
VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS
The Canadian awards slanted toward Quebec once more, with Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu dors Nicole, Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and director Denis Villeneuve claiming glory.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF VANCOUVER'S VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY LOSES ITS TAX CREDIT?
B.C.'s video-game industry, while not booming, is in a
relatively stable position. That all could change if a critical tax credit disappears in next month’s budget.
As the controversial film continues to make headlines, there is an increasing amount
of buzz for up-and-coming Vancouver-based actress Diana Bang who plays as Propaganda Minster Sook Yung Park.
SOCIAL MEDIA HAS
POSITIVES, PITFALLS FOR ACTORS, PRODUCERS
Social media is giving television stars and creators a more direct relationship with fans and, as actor Joseph Morgan of the CW’s “The Originals” can attest, requires a thick skin.
FOREST WHITAKER: IT'S IMPORTANT FOR BLACKS TO TELL THEIR OWN STORIES WITHOUT FEELING LIMITED
Despite the resurgence of black films in theaters, some black filmmakers, like Forest Whitaker,
feel that it’s important for blacks to be able to tell their own individual stories, but should not be limited by any one specific race or culture.
Whether its fear, money, discipline, time, or anything else, take a red marker and draw a line through it and write over it the best
way to remove the obstacle to free yourself and to move toward your goal.
Come join Vancouver Young Actors School in our upcoming term! VYAS is the elite training school for young professional actors in Canada. Our programs are committed to offering the most advanced form of training possible for young actors in a state of the art facility. We offer improv, on camera audition and Voice over classes for students from 4-17 years old.
Our Spring term is filling up fast, please contact Lisa at 604 568 5449 for more information or to register.
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 Rockwell, Joel Edgerton, Bob Odenkirk, Martin Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, etc. You can trust him too! Tony is Vancouver's #1 dialect coach, recommended by agents and casting directors. Learn with confidence the most requested dialects and accents required for the Vancouver market. Book that role! Contact: 604-418-1192, tonyalcantar@icloud.com
THE PREPARED ACTOR - PILOT SEASON PACKAGE
10am - 2pm, January 26/27/28/29, 2015 (available on live-stream webinar)
9am to 6pm January 31 & Feb 1, 1015
The Vancouver and Toronto film and television markets are hot. Pilot, Series, MOW, Feature, and animation production are all at their highest levels. Productions are looking for new faces. Work is waiting. It’s not enough to be exceptional at the craft. An actor
needs to be intelligent in the business of acting. Matthew Harrison of The Actor's Foundry will help you forge your way forward in this arena to make 2015 a most productive year.
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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.
From an Ottawa childhood, to her studies at Canada's National Theatre School in Montreal, to
her award-winning work on the long-running TV drama Grey's Anatomy, Oh has carved a place at the heart of pop culture. Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, will sit down with Sandra Oh at TIFF's very first In Conversation With… event in Vancouver.
Contemporary films from the past two to three years are merged with Italy’s rich patrimony of classic avant-garde, and neo realism cinema, and presented to the public every January during a one-week run at the Vancity Cinema located at 1181 Seymour Street in Vancouver.
VTFF is an international platform for Turkish
filmmakers to showcase their work and also to bridge the cultural and artistic gap between Canada and Turkey by bringing together cineastes and cinephiles from both countries.
