The Director's Guild of Canada filmmaker funding program, Kick Start, which funded 5 films (15 min) every year, had their last screening at the Ridge Theatre in Vancouver last week. I say "last" intentionally, as the DGC has sadly discontinued the program indefinitely. But I'll leave that for another post.
I was Production Designer / Art Director on one of the films, the wonderful WW2 fantasy drama "Henry's Glasses", a story about an 8 year old Japanese Canadian boy growing up in a 1945 Japanese Internment Camp in British Columbia. The short was written, directed, co-produced and lensed by my buddy Brendan Uegama, whom I have huge respect. The film turned out absolutely stunning - his cinematography (shot on the indie darling, the Red) was flawless and the performances were pitch perfect. Im biased, but whatever. lol The movie rocked.
The other short films also turned out awesome, and you could see every filmmaker pored their hearts and souls into their creation. My friend, DOP Lindsay George also filmed one, the film-noirish black comedy "Voodoo" - wonderful job with a black and white palette.
All in all, the Kick Start shorts really proved that with a modest but decent budget (every filmmaker gets 20,000 dollars + services), the bar is raised and world-class films can be written and produced with local talent, which we have plenty of! w00t!
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