FILM INDUSTRY STILL UNFRIENDLY PLACE FOR LGBT PEOPLE, SAYS VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The artistic director of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, says the film industry
still has a long way to go in terms of providing access and opportunities for marginalized people in the business.
FROM CHICAGO TO VANCOUVER: A CONVERSATION WITH MARCI T.
HOUSE
Decide honestly with yourself what you actually want. Do you want to be an actor or a celebrity? I have no advice in pursing fame or celebrity. If you’re pursuing the art, the craft of acting, allowing it to consume your life, it must, or this world is not for you. Love it. Nurture it. Respect it. Find your tribe and
hustle.
VANCOUVER FILMMAKER RYAN SIDHOO TALKS GRIZZLIES, RAPTORS AND CAPTURING A DIFFERENT KIND OF CANADIAN
CULTURE WITH BASKETBALL DOCUMENTARY TRUE NORTH
The same thing that has inspired millions of Canadian kids to chase the dream of playing professional basketball motivated Ryan Sidhoo to make a film about it.
LOCALS WEIGH GOOD AND BAD OF MONTREAL’S FOREIGN-FILMING
BOOM
While the filming boom has given them plenty of work, it doesn’t come without certain downsides. Big-budget American productions have pushed the price of location rentals so high that Quebec’s homegrown French-language film and TV sector can barely afford to pay
them.
When Stephen McNeil's government closed the books on the 2017-2018 fiscal year last month, it marked the official end of Nova Scotia's film tax credit. The final $5.3-million payout shows up as a single line item on page 297 of a 349-page document issued by the Finance Department, called Volume 3, Supplementary
Information.
But it doesn't stop people from asking him the same
questions. The actor talks about being a focal point for Asian-American representation and why nobody wanted him to do his new movie Searching.
You’re not in there to get it right. You’re in there to show them what your understanding is of what’s right. You’re not in there to get the job. You’re in there to win the entire room for the bigger picture. An audition is an opportunity to perform, to act, to do what you do—not to
please.
Acting is acting is acting, right? In some ways, that’s true. In other ways, there are some crucial adjustments that need to be made when making the leap from stage to screen or vice versa. Don’t show up for your first day on-set without having these tips
down.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
VANCOUVER LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
August 23 – September
2
The 2018 VLAFF is by far the most diverse and dynamic ever. The guest region is the Andean, focusing on emerging film industries in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. For the first time we have also included a Spotlight on Black Cinema and a program of Queer Latinx shorts.
The festival features a young company of 38 emerging theatre artists who will direct, design, stage manage, tech, produce, and perform in
three hot contemporary Canadian plays: Selfie by Christine Quintana, Tiny Replicas by Dave Deveau, and Theory by Norman Yeung.
