#FilmimgCrew - #FilmCamera team with 2 PAs on the side. Shooting outdoor scenes at #Songhees Wellness Center.
#BCFilm #FilmCanada #FilmWork #FilmIndustry #WomenInFilm #VictoriaBC #YYJFilm #IndieFilm #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #IndependentFilm #MonochromeMonday #BWphoto #monochrome #WorkPhotos #BehindTheScenes #crew #Esquimalt #ViewRoyal #OnLocation
I met Harold Joe, a #Cowichan based #Indigenous knowledge keeper/teacher, actor & film producer, in 2015. He had come to Victoria to audition for a lead role in the Telus Optik webseries that I worked on for a few years. We casted him.
He's now co-owner & producer at Orca Cove Media with my old film production executive producer, Leslie Bland.
There's two #IndigenousFilm screenings at #UVIC in March with 2 films from Ocra Cove.
https://events.uvic.ca/finearts/event/106012-film-screening-the-great-salish-heist
https://events.uvic.ca/finearts/event/106018-film-screening-sweet-summer-pow-wow
Check out these public #FilmScreenings if you're interested in watching more #NativeFilms & you can meet the producers at the screenings too.
#YYJFilm #IndigenousBC #IndigenousCanada #FirstNations #FilmDiversity #InclusionInFilm #VictoriaBC #Saanich #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #CoastSalish #IndigenousActors #IndigenousMovies
Me & the Kotts at Famaso pizzeria for a PhD documentary film production wrap party in 2015.
I'm friends with half of their #Czech family. I met the Kotts on a feature comedy film production in 2012. They hired me as their production manager, art director & crew supervisor for their documentary film project that we shot at UVIC campus.
The Kotts are also fellow #WarRefugees. They lived in #Yugoslavia before the collapse. They fled, while Aja was pregnant. They were turned away by several countries & their journey from Yugoslavia to Canada is an epic real life experience.
Their daughter, Tyna, is a friend. I got her hired as a wardrobe stylist on film production, years back. She's an international model. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tynakottova
#FlashbackFriday #FilmCrew #Director #ExecutiveProducer #ProductionManager #FilmWrapParty #YYJFilm #DocumentaryFilmmakers #monochrome #BWphoto
#FlashbackFriday 2016.
#HotelZed location walk through with director, DOP, art director & a PA, before principal filming for Ollie & Emma #webseries #FilmProduction. I was the #AssociateProducer #LocationsManager & #ProductionManager on this #multicultural #RomCom #Canadian #filming production.
We filmed this webseries for #TelusOptik & that's where it first streamed. It's available on Tubi too.
Watch it for free on Tubi :
https://tubitv.com/movies/678306/ollie-and-emma?startPos=0
#BCFilm #FilmCanada #FilmWork #FilmIndustry #WomenInFilm #VictoriaBC #YYJFilm #IndieFilm #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #IndependentFilm
Tomorrow at #UVIC #Cinecenta.
https://www.cinecenta.com/calendar/aishas-story-2/
Aisha’s Story
October 2 at 7:00 pm
Regular Passes Not Accepted – All Seats $8.00.
Aisha Azzam and her husband started their family grain mill in Baqa’a refugee camp, Jordan, 35 years ago. She treasures her role in safeguarding culture by milling the wheat and herbs essential to Palestinian cuisine and passing on her knowledge to the next generation. Through food, Aisha traces the story of Palestinian displacement and rebuilding family and community in a refugee camp. Harvesting, milling, cooking, and feasts ground the film’s arc of displacement, longing, and resistance. In Aisha’s words, “Food is what keeps us together as Palestinians.”
#Filmmakers in attendance – Q&A to follow #FilmScreening with #Palestinian guest.
Aisha’s Story intimately explores the loss, beauty, and steadfastness that define Palestinian lives.
Best Feature #Documentary – Toronto International Women’s Film Festival
Offical Selection: #HotDocs & #DOXA
#BIPOC #Decolonization #FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #MiddleEast #DocFilms #CulturalConnections #Arabs #Muslim #HumanRights #Resilience #Survivors #StopGenocide #Refugees #Diaspora #Resistance #VictoriaBC #YYJFilm #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #DecolonizeYourMind #ColonizerCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity
#BehindTheScenes shots from 6 different #indie #filming productions that I've worked on in the past. I usually managed productions & wore multiple crew hats during my past work in film.
#FilmProduction #WomenInFilm #VancouverIslandFilm #Filmmaking #FilmProducers #YYJFilm #BCFilmIndustry #IndependentFilm #Cinevic #WorkMemories #BTS #FilmManagement #AssistantDirector #ArtDirector #AsianMastodon #FilmCrew #AsianDiaspora
2016. After wrapping the last shoot on Ollie & Emma #TelusOptik #webseries #FilmProduction at the Village Foods grocery store in #Sooke.
Me & the lighting crew were the last ones to clock out. I was always the last crew to leave sets because I was also the locations manager. We goofed around with wigs & accessories props from my costumes tickle trunk. I provided several props for the production filming from my own personal collections.
I was on contract with Less Bland Productions in #VictoriaBC at the time.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5966078/
https://orcacovemedia.com/project/ollie-emma/
#FilmCrew #RomCom #FilmProducer #LightingCrew #ProductionManagement #filmmaking #YYJFilm #VanIsleFilm #BCFilm #WomenInFilm #FilmWork #ThatsAWrap #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #YYJ #Wigs #Playful #Weirdos
Ollie and Emma: With Michael J. Bell, Chehala Leonard, Angela Mercy Bower, Jonathan Mason. An embarrassing blunder in the school library brings together Ollie and Emma, two wide-eyed, first-year university students. They connect instantly, while their rambunctious companions collide like freight trains from opposite ends of the Canadian Pacific cultural spectrum. Emma is a smart, determined, First Nations woman on a mission to support her community; Ollie is a white guy just trying to figure out his place in the world. Their opposing perspectives become increasingly apparent as friends and families eagerly interfere with explosive results. But are Ollie and Emma really so different? Will social expectations and peer pressure ruin a perfectly awkward love story?
#FlashbackFriday #FreakyFriday
2010.
#Filming a #zombies comedy skit in Chinatown at my friend's old kung-fu club. With the former Skits for Brains crew.
#Filmwork #FilmProduction #WomenInFilm #HorrorComedy #YYJFilm #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #horror #Filmmaking #IndieFilm #BehindTheScenes #SFXMakeup #FilmExtras #Actors
Chuckling at old filming behind scenes photos. When we shot at UVIC. I stood on a lot of different tables & ate a lot of pretzels 🤣
#AsianMastodon #FilmProductionManager #FilmingMemories #BehindTheScenes #WomenInFilm #YYJfilm #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #UVIC
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