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New Raindance Canada Workshops and Events!

April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 kingpinlei Film, filmmaking, movie, moviemaking, pitch, Raindance Canada, screenwriting, scripting, workshop2 Comments

Want to start making a film but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck! Raindance Canada –the Canadian arm of Raindance U.K.– is offering a new round of workshops for the budding screenwriters and filmmakers. I’ve attended practically all of their workshops and can tell you, the information they offer in their seminars are invaluable to anyone wanting to write, direct, or produce their own films. The cool thing is that their workshops are taught by industry professionals from the U.K. and abroad. And to top it off, they…

Enter the ViewPoint Film Challenge #3

April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 drsquid Challenge, festival, Film, Filmmaker, indie, short time, Toronto, VFC, ViewPoint1 Comment

The Toronto based ViewPoint Film Challenge gives filmmakers the challenge of creating a short film based on the same script. After the success of the first and second challenges, in 2008 and 2009, the third edition of this unique film event returns – after the script is released on May 1st the directors only have 1 month to complete their film! The ViewPoint Film Challenge is all about sharing the same pages of dialogue that we provide, allowing you to focus on your own unique point of view and compare…

District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp’s TEDxVancouver video

February 5, 2010February 5, 2010 drsquid District 9, Film, Neill Blomkamp, Oscars, TED, TEDx, VFS16 Comments

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a foundation known for its conferences devoted to what it calls ‘ideas worth spreading’. Along with the regular TED event, held in Long Beach CA, and the TED Global conferences (held in different cities each year), there are now independently organized TEDx events happening around the globe. In November 2009 TEDxVancouver took place at the Electronic Arts Burnaby campus. The event’s theme was ‘Forever Young’, and one of the invited speakers was Neill Blomkamp, South African born Canadian, and Vancouver Film School trained, director of…